Thursday, May 2, 2024 Virtual Conference

Peter Palmér, LPPDE and Juha Tammi, Lean Association of Finland - Welcome and Instructions

Peter and Juha represent the two organization who organize these virtual online events and will moderate the Virtual Summit.

Emanuel Tunbjer, Founder, Partner & Senior Advisor / Trainer at We Are Movement – Perspectives on Lean and Agile in Product Development – From the Factory Floor all the Way to the Portfolio

In this presentation we will discuss why we benefit from the cyclic learning between the two siblings Lean & Agile, how we ended up with Lean-Agile scaling frameworks, and what demands a Lean Portfolio collaboration puts on the organization as a whole.

Emanuel Felix Tunbjer is a senior Agile coach and advisor with close to two decades of experience in working with and coaching and training people in Agile values and practices. He has supported and advised numerous large organizations from all kinds of industries and sectors on their Lean and Agile transformation journeys, as an independent consultant.

Emanuel started working with Agile at the time of the manifesto. Since then, he is passionate about guiding organizations, teams and leaders towards succeeding to create a system where work can happen in a more creative manner, reaching an Agile mindset that stimulates experimentation, innovation and a continuous flow of value.

With his experiences in management, strategic planning, product development, lean portfolio management and organizational development based on Lean & Agile, Emanuel is a highly skilled and appreciated trainer and advisor.

Matthew Skelton, CEO and co-author at Conflux and Team Topologies – The benefits of Team Topologies in terms of customer outcomes, budgets, and organizational health

This presentation runs through the benefits of Team Topologies focusing on terms of; customer outcomes, budgets and organizational health

Matthew Skelton is co-author of the award-winning and ground-breaking book _Team Topologies_, and Founder & Principal at Conflux. The Team Topologies book was rated one of the ‘Best product management books of all time’ by Book Authority and is widely used by organizations worldwide to transform the way they deliver value.

Matthew is one of the foremost leaders in modern organizational dynamics for fast flow, drawing on Team Topologies and related practices to support organizations with transformation towards a sustainable fast flow of value and true business agility.

A Chartered Engineer (CEng), Matthew brings together principles and practices from multiple disciplines for a holistic approach to digitally-enriched operating models. He combines his experience as a leader and software architect in multiple contexts (GOV.UK, ecommerce, financial services, telecoms, pharma, retail, robotics, etc.) with a strong interest in the human side of organizations for a compassionate and humanistic approach to organizational effectiveness.

Robert Snyder, Director Sales Force Effectiveness and Founder at TransUnion and Innovation Elegance – A Modern Manifesto

The Agile Manifesto was published in 2001 as a reaction to generally accepted software development practices in the 1990s. Twenty-three years later, the original text remains a guiding light for many.

But Agile has evolved. The Agile community saw Disciplined Agile, Scaled Agile, and most recently Business Agility. When Agile simply doesn’t fit, Hybrid is not a crime.

One strength of the manifesto is that its word choice and sentence structure are conducive to small adjustments. Twenty-three years of lessons learned have piled up. Could we rewrite the manifest here in 2024, and again in 2047?

One person tried. This session presents his writing exercise. He welcomes your feedback.

Takeaways

1. Is your status quo acceptable or even attractive?
2. Is there sufficient value in this exercise?
3. Does anything not Agile simply qualify as rigid?
4. What would you rewrite?
5. Is this rewrite superficial or profound?

Robert Snyder is the founder and president of Innovation Elegance, LLC. Robert’s thirty-year career spans roles such as developer, project management, change management, sales enablement, and the performing arts. His career path includes corporate roles, consulting roles, startups, PMP, and Agile certifications. He has performed in numerous vocal, dance, and theater ensembles. Robert earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and his MBA in Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Robert published his first book on New Years Day titled: “Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace.” His second book, “Innovation Portfolio: Five Verbs Shape Your Team’s Legacy,” is due in April.

Fredrik Viljesjö, We Are Movement – Continuous Industrialization - Increasing the Speed of Innovation by Integrating Product and Production Development

Why do we often treat product development and production system development processes as separate phases? In this talk, we start to uncover what we can learn from how Lean; Agile and DevOps methodologies have integrated the full flow from an identified customer need to a finished improved product. While there are differences between physical and digital products, we need to challenge common “truths” to keep up with competition from new companies like Tesla and other digital natives. We will discuss tradeoffs like flexibility, procurement, design lead times, functional silos and more. We will go deeper in this subject during the full-day workshop, on May 15.

Fredrik Viljesjö is one founder of We Are Movement and works as an Advisor, Enterprise Agile Coach, and DevOps/Architecture Coach with a broad and deep skill set. With 15 years of experience in development, coaching, and management, he has worked with multinational companies in Stockholm to guide them through their Lean / Agile journey.

Guiding and training development organizations to deliver value. From overall strategy and portfolio to individual development teams. He knows the whole chain of activities required for DevOps and Agile work, from getting people to collaborate better to implement a CI/CD pipelines.

Final reflections and remarks

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By Juha Tammi & Peter Palmér

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