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Featured
speaker - Giora Morein - Founder, Principal Agile Consultant: Big Visible
Mapping
the Change Battlefield

As the number of organizations piloting and adopting Agile
projects rapidly increases, most initiatives focus solely on delivery
and
execution while ignoring the impact that such a radical change may have
on an
organization – and how that impact may affect the project and product
itself. Most projects view
organizational change as a distraction or are likely to simply disregard
it. Furthermore, by definition, it
is the responsibility of the project manager or ScrumMaster to shield
the team
from such distractions rather than leverage them as enablement tools.
Human nature tends to reject and resist
against change – as a way to avoid the associated discomfort. In
Agile Enablement terms, this
resistance takes the form of individuals who are either do not buy into
the
Agile value proposition, or simply view it as a threat that needs to be
opposed. By leveraging the
military metaphor, it is possible to make use of a simple, light-weight
technique of mapping direct and indirect forces and influences acting on
a
project. Participants will be
introduced to this battle-mapping technique as a way to better analyze
the
organizational environment to identify potential project hazards and
risks as
well as learn how and where to respond.
Spending just minutes a day using this simple technique can be
the
difference between the beginning of an Agile transition or the end of an
Agile
project.
Bio
Giora Morein is a Principal Agile Coach and co-founder of
BigVisible Solutions. He is also a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST). He
specializes in rapidly ramping up new Agile and Scrum teams through
practical training coupled with hands-on mentoring and coaching. He has
been highly successful in helping organizations scale their Scrum
initiatives both in size and distributed location. Over the past five
years Giora has focused exclusively on helping large organizations with
their enterprise Agile transition efforts. He has extensive experience
coaching, training and guiding large, multi-team projects. Giora has
had extensive experience consulting in large, Fortune-class companies,
including: Aetna, Fidelity, Harvard Pilgrim, John Hancock, State Street,
Cessna Aircraft, Bell Helicopter, McKesson and GE Healthcare. He is
also Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) and a certified Project
Management Professional (PMP).
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