This is the story of Jamie, VP of ITS at SIP Com International who was looking to transform her team’s operations and delivery by adopting Agile practices in support of the company’s strategy. We’ll hear the challenges they faced when long time acquired habits, like central decision making, were preventing them from achieving the levels of efficiency they had been expecting for a while. And how they started making gradual changes to their ways of communicating and working, establishing clear boundaries and rules of engagement.

This is the Story of Gary a recently appointed VP of innovation and his boss Jeremy, and how they start their agile transformation journey, without even calling it an agile transformation. Instead they start by focusing on accelerating innovation introducing the concept of lean startup with a 5 step approach: 1. Validate understanding of strategic priorities, present and upcoming ones. 2. Identify the top five money-makers or highest value products and prioritize them from the lowest investment required to the highest. 3. Create a benefit hypothesis with a brief economic analysis and metrics based on leading indicators to evaluate it. 4. Build the startup team, including people from all levels in the organization 5. Establish a team cadence understanding key market dates and existing commitments

This is the story about Sally a divisional VP of a growing mid-size transportation services company who was facing one of the biggest challenges of her career and how she embraces Lean-Agile principles and Organizing Around Value to lead her division out of a trouble.

Jane Creed, Agile transformation coach and solution manager at DXC Technology, tells the story about the transformation their Insurance Software business went through following Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Lean Portfolio Management