Finance Agility & Agile Portfolio Management

This month John Okoro and Lisa Duty will will be speaking about how Agile can be used in Finance. We will also look at how Agile is used in Portfolio Management of Products, and Programs. Concepts will include Finance with an Agile Mindset, CapEx / Opex, Accounting, Budgeting and Cost Management, Managing the Business eco-System, and Agile Portfolio Management.

7:00-7:30pm Registration and Pre-event Networking
7:30-8:45pm Presentation
8:45-9:00pm Q&A
9:00-9:15pm Close

About the speakers:

John is the Head of Agile Practice for Orbium, and founder / creator of Auspicious Agile, based in Singapore. John has founded Agile services practices for Rally Software in Asia and for a mid-sized US management consultancy. John is also a contributor to InfoQ on Agile & DevOps, and an author of the ebook “ A Guide to Distributed Agile Framework”. John has two decades of leadership and process improvement knowledge in technology related projects, and over ten years of experience with Agile methods and coaching. John has led corporate Agile training, executive education, & Agile certification sessions publicly and privately in the US & Asia.

John is a frequent speaker at Agile and industry conferences. He has also taught several university courses in the business and technology space (including Enterprise Agile Scaling at National University of Singapore, and for the Singapore Skills Future government initiative). John has proven success in numerous roles as an Agile leader. He has worked in the telecommunications, entertainment, real estate, information services, financial services and professional services industries with numerous Fortune 500 & Global 1000 companies including Disney, JP Morgan, Allianz, Toyota, and Accenture. John has experience with start-up and entrepreneurial ventures and working with government clients.

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Lisa is an Enterprise Agile Coach, Business Agility Strategist and GM of EPiC Agile Singapore. As a passionate, culture-first agilist she helps clients from team to board level embrace the mindset, culture, practices and delivery to continually transform their organisations, disrupt markets and create exceptional experiences for customers and teams.

Lisa has more than 14 years of top tier management consulting, agile coaching and industry experience across UK & EMEA, APAC and global roles based out of Singapore, Sydney, London and Melbourne. She has experience in enterprise, scale up, start up and M&A environments with clients across banking, financial services, insurance, technology, professional services, energy & resources, government, life sciences and FMCG.