Flight Levels in Action with Craeg Strong (5/1 from 12-12:30pm ET)

Introductory "Lightening Talk" on Flight Levels from Master Teacher & Enterprise Coach Craeg Strong

Described by its originator Klaus Leopold as a "thinking model" that enables org-wide alignment and business agility, Flight Levels has emerged as an elegant and cost-effective way for organizations to become more adaptable, innovative, and responsive to changes in customer needs and market opportunities.

Join Flight Levels Guide Craeg Strong for a lively 20-minute talk to learn more about how he's using Flight Levels with his clients to:

• Activate org-wide collaboration
• Visualize and optimize cross-team coordination of work
• Connect daily operational work to business strategy
• Increase the organizational flow of "vertical communication" to realize the economic gains of business agility

You'll exit this session with a fresh and invigorating way to view your organization and improve the way that work is defined, developed, and delivered to your customers.

SESSION SCHEDULE (all times ET)
12:00pm - 12:20pm: Lightening Talk from Craeg
12:20pm - 12:30pm: Q&A / Closing

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Craeg Strong is the CTO of Ariel Partners, an IT consulting firm based in Times Square, New York City. His company works with both US federal agencies and commercial companies. As a Flight Levels Guide and Kanban coach and trainer, Strong recently trained 1200 personnel at the US Air Force in Agile fundamentals and designed a governance framework for Agile projects for the Social Security Administration, enabling the government to make 12 major recommendations for a $750M portfolio. This report was published by GAO and sent to the US Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means. Strong recently led a successful transformation of a major FBI Criminal justice program from a traditional waterfall life-cycle and manually intensive processes to lighweight agile processes and full DevOps automation. He is currently helping NYLife catalyze business agility.