Agile20Reflect: Free Your Managers to Innovate and Fulfill the Agile Promise

As we celebrate and reflect on 20 years of Agile, LeanInAgile is proud to offer and facilitate increased diversity within our community.

LeanInAgile (LIA) is a community service organization, founded by Leila Rao and Padmini Nidumolu, to increase the value and visibility of women within the Lean and Agile communities. The hallmark of Agile servant leadership is based on stereotypically feminine attributes such as empathy, collaboration, and effective listening. Yet, there is a significant gap in the number, recognition, and compensation of women at the higher levels of Agile leadership.

LIA works to narrow this gap by empowering women to celebrate, learn and grow together through initiatives such as Spirals, LIA100 and LIANextGen. We believe that an actively inclusive and diverse community will generate better outcomes for us all and help to realize Agile values and mindset in our workforces and in our communities.

For the Agile20 Reflect Festival, we bring to you none other than Johanna Rothman!

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can then decide how to adapt their product development.

With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. Her most recent books are the Modern Management Made Easy series, From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams (with Mark Kilby) and Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver.

See all her books, blog, and other resources at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.

Theme of the presentation:

Free Your Managers to Innovate and Fulfill the Agile Promise

Description:

Many managers and teams think that if they use an agile framework, they’ll reap the agile benefits. Too many frameworks ignore the whole idea of corporate culture. However, no one can fulfill the agile promise without culture changes. Instead of starting with frameworks, let’s start with managers, the people who create and reinforce the culture.

In the past, much of the agile community didn’t think to start with management. Do we need managers? Yes, we do.

Managers offer two valuable services to the organization. First, managers can support everyone as each person learns to lead—regardless of their role or title. Second, managers create and refine the agile (or not) culture. And, because managers create and refine the culture, they can work across the organization to create a culture of business agility.

Learn to invite managers to change their behaviors to fulfill the agile promise. Create your agile culture and enable business agility.

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Agenda for the entire session:

6:00 - 6:15 Virtual mingle, connect to Zoom
6:15 - 8:00 Opening | Presentation & Discussion

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Looking forward to seeing you soon!