Business Agility – Midwest is less than a week and a half away! Jesse Huth and I spoke at the inaugural Business Agility conference in New York City a few years ago and since then Evan Leyborn and the Business Agility Institute have basically gone viral, hosting conferences and workshops all over the world. Seriously, I don’t know when Evan sleeps, but he’s done an amazing job on growing this body of work.
Our Talk
On November 6, I have the pleasure of giving the opening keynote for the Business Agility – Midwest Conference with Sanjiv Augustine of Lithespeed, a man I have enjoyed working with since we first ran the agile transformation at National Geographic together. All of the credit of getting me on-stage goes to Sanjiv who secured the slot and then decided to talk about something he and I have been kicking around for a little bit.
Our talk is called “3 Sparks for Business Agility”. Business Agility doesn’t start or exist in a vacuum. There needs to be multiple areas of the business working together towards a common goal of agility. If any of you know my talks well, I tend to get really tactical and this talk is no exception. The main points will be on leveraging Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to meet your business goals, forming a Product Council, and managing value with an Agile Value Management Office.
Tickets
If you’re in the Midwest, please join us in Columbus, OH November 6-7. There are still tickets available and they’re very reasonably priced. In addition to Sanjiv and I you’ll hear from Fin Goulding and Haydn Shaughnessy on Flow, Mik Kersten, Maureen Metcalf, Tamar Williamson, Dan Manges, Sam Rassekh, and a whole host of other wonderful speakers.
See you there!