Tutorial: "The Zen of Agile Management"
Time: Tuesday 09:00 - 16:00
Location: Westminster Suite
What is the essence of agile management? How do you create a culture of continuous improvement? With light touch, empowerment, delegation, high levels of trust, and focus on the correct leverage point to drive maximum advantage. Learn the Zen of agile management! A set of techniques developed by David J. Anderson over the last 8 years through his experience managing teams at Fortune 100 companies such as Motorola and Sprint using Feature Driven Development, Microsoft Solutions Framework (and Team Foundation Server) and his latest work at Corbis using Lean ideas such as kanban.
This full-day workshop dives into the heart of how to manage with queues using kanban boards, cumulative flow diagrams and application of wider ideas in management science, to software development process. Through David's experience as senior director of the software engineering function at Bill Gates' private company, Corbis, you will learn how to scale Agile and Lean techniques enterprise-wide.