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Event Type: PMO Branch, Corporate Partnership Portfolio

Event Topic: Agile Transformation Forum

Synopsis:
Agile management methods first entered the corporate world at the grassroots level in IT organizations.  Over the past decade, agile management techniques have moved beyond IT into other areas of the business where senior management struggles with the challenges of adopting agile techniques across the enterprise. 
  
In this fascinating keynote, Canada’s top agile expert, Kevin Aguanno, reveals the early warning signs that agile projects within the portfolio are heading in a bad direction and what both project managers and senior managers can do to turn things around.  Aguanno will also share research on the common obstacles faced by organizations adopting agile management methods. 

Ned Kremic, has been a member of Agile Enablement and Agile Transformation teams at several largest Canadian, US and Fortune 500 companies, that have performed all-in, enterprise wide agile transformations, with ambitious goal to transform every fiber of the enterprise and achieve flexibility, adaptability and ultimately agility of a lean start-up. He will present the key layers of the large scale enterprise transformation, with the focus on PMO role becoming Agile PMO. 

Is your company on the right path to create effective and efficient Lean/Agile organization? 
Come, listen, learn and share your experience at this insightful event. 

Attendees will leave this session with the following learning: 
1. Early warning signs of trouble & how to govern portfolio of agile projects 
2. Root causes of agile transformation challenges 
3. Key layers to large scale enterprise agile transformation 
4. PMO transition to Agile PMO

Bios:

Kevin Aguanno: 
Globally-renowned keynote speaker, trainer, and award-winning university professor Kevin Aguanno is perhaps best known as one of the early pioneers in the agile movement.  In fact, he coined the term “Agile Project Management” and created the Agile PM methodology in the early 2000s, and has been teaching other agile methods since the late 1990s, before we even called them “agile.”  Today, he brings his extensive experience helping large organizations adopt agile methods and auditing agile projects to reveal to us the common warning signs agile projects are headed for trouble. A leading researcher on agile management topics, Aguanno’s presentations are packed with data and evidence-based practices.   He has too many degrees, certifications, and awards to list – but suffice to say, he is a highly-respected project manager whom many of you already know personally or perhaps you have read some of his many books.

Ned Kremic:

Ned Kremic is an Agile/Lean Transformation Consultant, Agile Coach and international speaker.  His mission is to help progressive organizations seeking high-impact results, radically improve productivity, time-to-market and quality for software delivery. 
With a stunning statistic revealing that 87% of the Fortune 500 firms in 1955 are gone today, large corporations are now operating under conditions of extreme uncertainty, where the battlefield between the large vs. fast, has now shifted dramatically in favour of fast. 
With over 15 years experience creating and coaching high-performance agile teams, both with startups and with some of the largest corporations in the world, Ned is in the unique position to comprehend and merge both worlds, and help large enterprises transform into high-performance organizations, by creating the most optimal end to end delivery value-stream pipelines in order to achieve flexibility, adaptability and ultimately agility of the lean start-up.

Agenda:
5:30 PM - Registration with light snack & refreshments 
6:00 PM - Announcements & introductions
6:10 PM - Presentation starts
7:30 PM - Panel discussion
8:30 PM - Event closes

Fees: (subject to HST)
PMI-SOC Members (please login prior to registering) - $15
Non-Members and Guests - $25.00

PDU: 2.5 (Technical)

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