Sept 19th [South]: Business Agility Portfolios – Selecting the highest business value

Sep 10, 2019 | Meeting Announcement

South Meeting

Where: IntraEdge (Google Map)
5660 W Chandler Blvd #1
Chandler, AZ 85226



Agenda:
6:00 Registration Food and Drink
6:25 Announcements
6:30 Begin the Meeting
8:00 Closing Messages and Announcements

Description:  Business Agility Portfolios - Selecting the highest business value

Now that most organizations are in some stage of their Agile Transformation journey, many have found the need or have already attempted to scale Agile throughout their organization.  As most have found out, there are a number of scaling frameworks to choose from, different approaches, different theories, and more than anything; full of challenges to do so effectively in their organization. 

The conversation and workshop is about using agile portfolio practices to enable stakeholders, product owners, scrum masters, UX, architects, and Dev Team to collaborate and select the highest business value that will receive investment dollars.  What If we also spent some energy aligning business strategies to an investment portfolio?  The investment portfolio would be comprised of value delivery outcomes.  As organizations position themselves toward great business agility, strategic positioning helps to steer product development toward customer delight and a thriving business.

The workshop will include hands-on practices to simulate the in-take activity and discussions.

At the conclusion of this presentation the attendees will be able to:

  • Triage requests for investments to determine readiness for business review
  • Select the highest priority investment requests using WSJF
  • Create transparency into the progress of an in-flight initiative
  • Share the story with the organization

Speaker Bio: Dr. Dave Cornelius

Dr. Dave Cornelius is a Servant Leader at KnolShare.org.  He is an entrepreneur, coach and trainer, and serves his community.  His mantra is Helping People Achieve Awesomeness.  Dave has helped Fortune 500 to Fortune 50 companies deliver over one billion dollars in customer value throughout his career using software and technology platforms. He is also an advisor at Tech Launch Arizona, a University of Arizona initiative focused on commercializing UA-created technologies and innovations.  Dr. Cornelius is the founder of 5 Saturdays Agile Education, a program that enables high-school students to pursue a career in technology and business. 

He is the author of the books: 1) Elastic Minds: What are you thinking?,  2) Transforming your leadership character: The lean thinking and agility way, 3) Prayers to my Abba Father God, and 4) Deliver Value.  You may listen to his podcast “KnolShare with Dr. Dave” on iTunes, Google Play, and Spotify as well as on GrokShare.com (https://GrokShare.com).