Calendar of Events

Date: Thursday July 15,2021
Topic:  Agile for Everyone – An exploration of Agile Outside of IT
Speaker: Brian Levy
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
PDU Category: Strategy / PDU (Professional Development Units): 1.5

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Introduction

Studies show that there is wider use of Agile OUTSIDE of IT than there is within IT.

• “R&D (83 percent)

• Production and operations (82 percent)
• Customer service and support (79 percent)
• Marketing and communications (79 percent)
• Sales (78 percent)
• HR, finance, and administration (78 percent)

(reference Survey Data Shows That Many Companies Are Still Not Truly Agile - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CA TECHNOLOGIES (hbr.org) ).  Over a quarter (27.4%) of manufacturing organizations rely solely on Agile, whereas 56.6% rely on “a combination of methodologies.” (Source: LiquidPlanner).

Learning Outcome

• Understand the use of agile outside of IT
• Learn techniques for agile use in everyday life
• Understand the best ways utilize agile in everyday work situations
• Explore how to advocate agile use by your organization

Presenter Biography

Brian Levy is the President of BridgePort Digital, an organizational optimization firm specializing in bridging the gap between strategic goals and strategic execution. While others in the industry have avoided metrics, Brian has been able to consistently improve productivity by over 30% within 3 to 6 months of operation verified with predefined metrics by aligning an organization’s performance management processes to the appropriate strategic approach. He’s accomplished this by coaching executives through strategic planning and the pioneering techniques of Agile Strategy Management. As an avid fan of continuous improvement, Brian often takes the time to engage in executive coaching personally in order to learn new skills to transfer to his employees. However, his real joy is in putting his Scrum@Scale Trainer status to use in the classroom and

training others in the techniques which lead to organizational optimization. That joy is most often utilized via training underrepresented minorities in careers related to software development and using his 10-year old daughter to explain Management by Acceptance concepts.

Cost: Member: Free/ Non-member: Free