Agile Quicktalk: Product Agility with Joanna Tivig and Peter Monkhouse

This session will highlight things we’ve learned and done along that way and share some experience and insights on how to blend product-thinking, technology, and process to achieve agility within your organization, not just "doing agile." This talk will challenge, and tune your way of working so you can improve product impact and customer satisfaction.

About the presenters:

Peter Monkhouse is an experienced speaker, educator, and consultant with over 40 years of experience leading teams and organizations to deliver value through projects. Peter is currently co-founder of NewGenP, a training organization focused on strategy implementation and execution. Peter has been a keynote speaker around the world and delivered courses at Ryerson, the University of Toronto, and the University of Calgary. Peter recently co-authored the bestselling book Gen P: New Generation of Product Owners who Care about Customers and has given successful presentations and workshops based on the book. Peter is an active volunteer with PMI for over 20 years serving on the PMI Board of Directors for 6 years and was the Chair of the 2012 PMI Board and the PMI Educational Foundation Board of Directors.

Joanna Tivig has been an instructor for the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies for over a decade, teaching courses of product and agile project management. Joanna is currently Co-founder of NewGenP, a training organization focused on product management courses. She is also a bestselling co-author of the recent book Gen P – New Generation of Product Owners Who Care About Customers. Joanna has been speaking at various events and has organized Toronto Agile Conferences in 2018 and 2019. She has over 15 years of corporate experience, leading Agile software development initiatives in financial services, with focus on product development and management.