Addressing Organizational Impediments

Our Agile & Scaled-Value Project Management Meetup hour in June is scheduled for Wednesday, June 26th, 2024.
Time: 12:00 pm PDT / 2:00 pm CDT / 3:00 pm EDT
Topic: "Addressing Organizational Impediments"
Our Guest Speaker: Chris Sims Agile Coach, CST

An introduction to the meetup:

Scrum teams encounter impediments that slow their progress. Some of these impediments are caused by the structures, policies, politics, and culture of the greater organization. What’s a scrum master to do when facing one of these organizational impediments? In this session, we will examine some dysfunctional organizations. We’ll practice diagnosing the problems and formulating intervention plans.

Takeaways:

1. Learn to identify the root cause of an organizational impediment.
2. Be able to plan an intervention to remove an organizational impediment.
3. Know how to evaluate situations when transparency, inspection, and adaptation are not working effectively.
4. Recognize common patterns of dysfunction in organizations.

Our speaker:

Chris Sims is a certified scrum trainer, agile coach, and recovering C++ developer who helps organizations improve their productivity and happiness. Chris is the founder and product owner of Agile Learning Labs and the co-author of two best-selling scrum books: The Elements of Scrum and Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction. More of their writing can be found on the Agile Learning Labs blog. Before starting Agile Learning Labs in 2007, Chris made a living in roles such as scrum master, product owner, engineering manager, project manager, software engineer, musician, and auto mechanic.