Making a Difference: Are you ready to learn about Agile?

 

So we are all here at #PMICon17!

Are you ready to learn about Agile?

If so, here's a tour guide throughout the conference on sessions that may be of interest to you (besides coming and talking to me one-on-one during the Ask the Experts sessions).

Let's start at the top with Sir Tim Berners Lee on The Future of Tech.  Agile approaches are all about helping us understand solving complex adaptive problems. Sir Tim will set the stage on that one as he talks about The Internet of Things, Future of Artificial Intelligence, The Next Web Paradigm Shift, The Power of Data, Impact of Security and Privacy on the Web and Business, and into the real transformative impact these technologies are having and will have in the years ahead.

Here is a list of sessions to continue your journey - I show the session ID and title. I chose them on the basis of not pushing a proprietary tool or method, and of not being as close to pure agile topics as possible. I start all of my classes on agility with a slide about the fact we sometimes need to unlearn old things in order to learn new ones properly. This means my list does not contain any waterfall-agile hybrid sessions. I like to keep it clean!

1. Saturday 337 W183A - Red Pill/Blue Pill: Design Thinking applied to Project Management
2. Saturday 340 W185a - Balanced Project Management with Kanban: Maximum Control, Higher Productivity, Less Stress
3. Saturday 358 W183a and Sunday 403-EXH - Hands-on Lab: Deep Dive into the Agile Practice Guide
4. Saturday 362 W175 - Evolving Agile Leadership at Riot Games: A story of Challenging Convention
5. Sunday 413 W175 – Winning! Using Improv Games to improve facilitation with teams
6. Sunday 417-EXH – Planning and Delivering Value with an Agile PPMO
7. Saturday 420 W183b – Six Agile Experts walk into a bar…Hours later what emerges?
8. Sunday 426 W175 – How to use Agile Program/Portfolio Tools to Increase Project Health
9. Monday 507 W183a – I see what you are saying: How to communicate better Visually
10. Monday 510 W176 – Agile and Design Thinking, the perfect pairing for a successful project
11. Monday 513-EXH – Hands-on Lab: Shaping Agile Transformation
12. Monday 522 183c – Is the future of Project Management #NoProjects?
13. Monday 527-EXH – Hands-on Lab: Writing Business Objectives and Quantifying Future Value

If you’d like to talk strategic intent, adaptive strategy, back-casting over forecasting, outcomes over outputs, any of the agilities, or pretty much anything you think I may be able to help you with in making a difference in your world, here is my availability during the conference:

• Saturday the 28th from 1:30 to 4:30 - FULL
• Sunday the 29th from 3:00 to 5:00
• Monday the 30th from 9:00 to 10:50

You can sign up here

You can also connect with me at:

•     https://twitter.com/cooperlk99
•     https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrencekcooper
•     www.TheAgilitySeries.com