Value Innovation: And the Mindset of an Agile Engineer
2014 CHAPTER OFFICER ELECTION MOVED TO FEBRUARY, 2014 — SEE NOTICE AFTER MEETING SUMMARY & SPEAKER BIO
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— organizational change, accelerating complexity, sustainable value creation, enterprise value model, value strategy
Speaker: Pat Reed, Agile Consultant and Adjunct Professor, iHoriz and UC Berkeley
Meeting Date: Thursday, February 6, 2014
Time: 6:00 PM: Registration & Informal Networking, 6:30 PM: Management Forum / Guided Networking, 7:00 PM: Dinner, 7:30 PM: After Dinner Presentation, 9:00 PM: Adjourn
Location: RAMADA Silicon Valley – 1217 Wildwood Ave Sunnyvale, CA
Summary:
Management Forum / Guided Networking: Bring Your Management Challenge; Arrive by 6:30 PM to join this exciting Management Forum. Following informal networking is a guided discussion typically related to the topic of the evening’s after dinner talk, or of general Technology Management interest.
Light Dinner: This month we’re continuing with our light dinner format — typically sandwiches, salad, drinks, and cookie or similar light dinner.
Presentation: Value Innovation: And the Mindset of an Agile Engineer
As the pace of organizational change and complexity accelerates, it’s critical that we find a way to move out of the “Do More with Less” mindset and build our competitive edge at truly doing less to create more time and space for innovation and sustainable value creation. It’s equally important to understand our unique value proposition and the critical mindset changes that are vital to mastery as an Agile Engineer. This session will introduce a framework to shatter several paradigms:
From: “more is better” To: “less is best”
“do more with less” “do less and achieve more”
……….”increased output” “decreased output and increased outcomes”
This 2 hour highly interactive workshop will introduce some practical tools to create a culture of Value. We introduce concepts of value drivers which is a technique to clarifying enterprise priorities and provide a clear-line-of-sight to enable everyone in the organization to understand how they create value. Next we will interactively facilitate a deeper understanding of how to apply these concepts to your organization, develop an Enterprise Value Model and drill down to one or two of the value drivers and develop value stories and a Value Strategy Map.
This workshop will provide foundational concepts and practical tools to apply immediately in your enterprise to measure and manage an optimum flow of value and make value informed portfolio, program and project level decisions. We’ll wrap the session by exploring how to understand and leverage your unique value proposition.
What can you expect to learn?
- Understand how moving from a fixed to an agile mindset amplifies the value that Engineers create for an organization
- Understand the business case and benefits of creating a culture that’s razor focused on optimizing customer value
- Learn key building blocks and management practices that are critical to aligning the organization around a shared focus on value
- Practical techniques for alignment and clear line of sight on how everyone in the organization and deliver optimal value
- Understand and explore ways to introduce value modeling, value engineering and value management in your organization
- Pat Reed has been solving technology problems, designing and delivering cutting edge solutions, developing leaders and driving transformational change for over 35 years. Throughout her career leading Business Technology Solutions, Pat has leveraged Lean Agile Project Management and Software Development principles and practices in the Mental Health, Criminal Justice, Criminal Intelligence, Entertainment & Retail Industries. For the past 8 years, before co-founding iHoriz, she led IT Strategic Planning, Global PMO, Portfolio Management, Risk and Vendor Management and IT Finance at Gap and her accomplishments include developing an Agile Portfolio Management capability, an Agile Accounting model and world class value management and adaptive career management frameworks.
- Pat is a thought leader in addressing some of the key challenges that block large scale Agile Enterprise adoption, such as Agile Accounting, Budgeting and Compliance; and directs the Agile Accounting Program for the Agile Alliance to support organizations address these challenges.
Bio:
Prior to relocating to the Bay area, Pat worked for 15 years as Executive Director of IT at Walt Disney Pictures and Television where she developed and delivered cutting edge applications and systems for the Motion Picture Group and Feature Animation, followed by 5 years at GE/NBC/Universal Studios in Motion Pictures Production where she also served as CIO at Gameworks as a joint venture between Universal, Sega and Dreamworks. Pat started her career as a behavioral psychologist and after 6 years in community mental health, transitioned to Criminal Intelligence at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation designing and developing criminal intelligence and forensic systems until she was recruited by The Walt Disney Company.
Pat has a passion for teaching technology, systems analysis, agile development, artificial intelligence and process improvements courses with over 35 years of experience as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver (DU), Woodbury University and UC Berkeley Extension where she developed a certification program in Agile Management. She introduced Ohio State University to Agile methods and inspired them to incorporate Gap’s Agile Methodology into their computer science curriculum. She also co-founded PMI’s Agile Community of Practice.
Pat serves as a Director on the Agile Alliance Board and co-chaired the 2011 Agile Executive Forum with Jim Highsmith. She serves on the Executive Council on the Agile Leadership Network and is a frequent keynote speaker. She has earned an MBA & BS in Psychology (from the University of Illinois) and is active in PMI and the Bay Area Project Leaders Network, teaching at UC Berkeley Extension and consulting as principal agile management consultant with iHoriz.
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2014 CHAPTER OFFICER ELECTION NOTICE
- The Technology Management Council Chapter of Santa Clara Valley / San Francisco will hold our officer elections at the February 6, 2014 chapter meeting.
- There are four officer positions: Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer, and Secretary.
- Those interested in running for any of the officer positions, or volunteering with the chapter in another capacity, are invited to contact the current Chair (John Delaney) or Secretary (Perry West). Nominations (including self-nominations) should include name, the office, a daytime email address, and a daytime phone number of the nominee. Interest in volunteering in another capacity is also welcome.
- Officer candidates must be an IEEE member as well as a member of one or more of the Member Societies at the time of the election to be able to hold an officer position. Volunteer positions are open to everyone.