agile in business

Project Manager’s Conference – Hemsley Fraser

London Nov 24 16

I am delighted to join Hemsley Frasers conference this November in London as a guest speaker

Leading Change using an Agile Mindset (Belinda Waldock – Guest speaker)

All teams need to manage change in order to improve and grow. Agile is a mind set and methodology for managing change and uncertainty. From project management to business model transformation taking an agile approach is proven to be highly effective route to delivering value and creating productive, happy teams during challenging and volatile conditions.

This session will explore how and why agile works and the key concepts and tools to adopt an agile mind set. Belinda will share case studies from teams using agile to identify and implement their growth strategies, deliver successful products and services on time and in budget, and create dynamic and innovative high performing individuals and teams.

Understand the importance of being agile as well as doing agile for successfully leading and navigating your change projects.

To lead and navigate change successfully in today’s rapidly evolving and uncertain business environments requires agility. Agile is a mindset, method and tool set for leading and managing business change and growth.

Agile Values & Beliefs

THE AGILE MANIFESTO values:

  • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  • Working solutions over comprehensive documentation
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  • Responding to change over following a plan

Leading Change tips

  • Use agile methods and tools to improve visibility and communication
  • Use the Pareto principle to identify the 20% of the effort that will deliver 80% of the value
  • Create a Minimum Viable Product early to validate and test assumptions and impact
  • Release early and then continuously deliver and improve over time
  • Make small incremental improvements based on feedback and metrics
  • Enable projects to pivot early if necessary
  • Build in slack for change and learning into projects and teams
  • Enable and empower teams to be dynamic, self-managing and self-organising

Leading Change using an Agile Mindset

  • Embrace Change
  • Build in Learning
  • Deliver Incrementally

Biography

Belinda helps teams and businesses find and hone their agility to support growth and improvement. She is author of Being Agile in Business, an introduction to agile working for the whole business, a professionally qualified ILM Coach and Mentor in business, and a Computer Science graduate.

Working with a diverse array of businesses she supports the development of growth strategies through technology, teams and leadership using agile methods and practices.

Belinda is part of the organising committee for one of the world’s leading agile conferences, Agile on the Beach in Cornwall. She has helped to develop and grow the conference and is a regular speaker at conferences sharing her experiences of adopting and using agile beyond the software sector. She is also co-founder and director of Software Cornwall, a high growth tech cluster and community

Project Manager’s Conference

Autumn 2016 – The Autumn Project Manager’s conference will take place in the stunning etc.venues Victoria – One Drummond Gate.