Being Agile in Business Belinda Waldock Being Agile @belindawaldock In this session Belinda will share her reflections on introducing agile to businesses within and beyond the software sector. The session will explore what ‘Being agile in Business’ really means, how it changes the people and the culture of a business, why it works and dealing with resistance. In order to become a truly agile organisation its people must embrace and apply agile thinking at every level of the business. The primary driver for successful agile adoption within a business is the level of buy in achieved amongst its people. It is not enough to implement agile structures and tools into day to day practices, the organisation (and its stakeholders) must learn to listen to what agile is telling them and act upon it in order to sustain buy in to both to the method and their commitment to the ambitions of the business and the creation of great products. Belinda shares her experience of introducing agile to an array of businesses for project management through to improving the strategic agility of their business models to evoke growth. The session will report on their journeys of adoption and the impact upon people and interactions within those businesses. She will explore what worked well, what could work better, what barriers they faced and the outcomes achieved. Belinda Waldock is an Agile Business Coach, professionally qualified ILM Coach and Mentor in Business Management and a Computer Science graduate. Over the past 15 years Belinda has worked with small to medium sized businesses in the UK and over the past 5 years has specialised in Agile and Lean methods for business development and improvement. Belinda works with a broad range of high growth businesses from community social enterprises to specialist software providers to adopt agile practices as highly effective methods for managing projects, empowering teams and creating a positive culture of organisational agility. Belindas adaptation of the agile methodology enables all business professionals to take advantage of Agile to springboard their growth strategies and manage change. Belinda has adapted and developed agile project management and other tools including Innovation Games, Collaboration Games, Business Model Canvas, Planning Poker and others to be usable by any business. Belinda is part of the organising committee for Agile on the Beach, Belinda has helped to develop and grow the conference over the past 4 years to be self-sustaining and is a regular speaker sharing her experiences of adopting and using agile beyond the software sector. She also manages Software Cornwall, a small high growth cluster network of software development companies and is a Young Enterprise Advisor and Sandander Business Mentor A two day conference on the Cornish coast with a beach party in between, perfect to evoke creative and technical thinking, enjoy time with the UKs leading thinkers in agile adoption and evolution. Agile on the Beach is a leading annual conference in Falmouth, Cornwall. Exploring the latest agile and lean thinking in software craftmanship, teams and business. Including ample networking opportunities such as the beach party this conference brings together 300 people to explore, evolve and find out what it means to be truely agile in business, from its culture to product development practices Software Craftsmanship: For the professionals, there’s plenty of technical innovations on offer. Software developers will be guided through the latest techniques, for two days Cornwall will be the epicentre of global Agile technology. Teams: The Agile approach is not just about the business of software. It’s about the business of your approach. The conference will ask managers, directors, or indeed anyone leading a team to re-assess the way they work. Learn about high performing and innovative teams and find out what they do differently and how to create and manage your own. Agile on the Beach is the perfect environment to take some time to re-design the approach you take to your team. Business: The business stream will explore how a business can adopt agile beyond software development and its impact on wider business activities. Including the latest models for product development and agile marketing. Product: The product stream explores developing agile products and how Product Development align with UX and other practices and how these can be improved. www.agileonthebeach 1-2 September 2016 Cornwall UK

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