I just returned from the Global Agility + Innovation Summit, a one-day leadership conference in DC hosted by Sanjiv Augustine and his team at LitheSpeed. It was a day packed with sharp thinking, great conversation, and the kind of energy that only happens when a room...
Madison's got a world-class agile conference that's in its second year running: Scrum Day Madison. Speakers came from all over to our little corner of the world and I was lucky enough to be one of those speakers. I met some amazing people and learned quite a lot about...
Scrum Day Madison is a month away! Even though Madison is a smaller town, this conference draws speakers from all over the world and it's in my backyard. I had a blast attending last year, showcasing my book and appearing in one of the conference's many panel...
There's an exciting new event coming up on September 14, 2023 at the Alliant Energy Center: Scrum Day Madison! Mary Iqbal has been doing an amazing job attracting speakers from all over the world to our little corner of it. I'm really looking forward to the...
On June 1st, I was able to attend and speak at ProdCon in Brookfield, WI. This was my second time speaking at the conference, which is hosted by NVISIA. This year there were over 500 attendees from the greater Milwaukee area and broader WI areas. I always meet some...
I'll be speaking at ProdCon this Thursday, June 1st about my class and the upcoming book. Steve Lueck, SVP, Director of Data Management from Associated Bank will join me to talk about his team's experience with the class last fall. It's going to be really good! The...
In December, I joined a panel during NVISIA's 2020 Virtual Tech Showcase discussing how to create and maintain "safe-to-fail" work environments. The panelists were: Jennifer Drangstveit, CUNA Mutual's Senior IT ManagerAdam Karl, VP of Development at ZywaveAmber Field...
The inaugural Business Agility - Midwest conference in Columbus, OH was a resounding success and I’m so glad I got to be a part of it! Bart Weaver, Brian Link, and Charles Kennedy did an amazing job - you’d never know this conference was in its first year. I only...
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...
InfoQ posted our video and slides from the TED-style talk we did at the Business Agility conference in February. Check them out! Since then, we have spoken at several meet-ups in the Washington, DC area. We’ve run or supported two successful events on teams in Capital...
Last week, Jesse Huth, Co-Founder of O2 Agility and I gave a TED-like talk about self-selection for a sold-out audience of 320 people at the Business Agility 2017 conference in New York City. This was Business Agility’s first year and it had an...
Thanks to everyone who came out on Monday to watch our talk on Self-selection at AgileDC! We hope we piqued your interest in the topic! Click this link to download a PDF of the Self-Selection slides with speaker notes. Amber & Jesse speaking...