program selection system

Do you feel overwhelmed by the number of sessions to choose from? Would you like to get a bit of help in finding your way around? Would you like to get a bird’s eye overview of what the Culture stage has to offer?

In this session, we will give you some guidance by introducing the Culture stage and providing an overview of the good stuff that will be happening there. There will also be time for your questions about the conference and how to make the best of the time you have to spend in the sessions.

The growing trend of companies to widely adopt agile across their organizations has created change far beyond what happens at the level of the team. This panel examines issues surrounding enterprise agile adoption. We will explore topics such as agile transformation and initiation, leadership, culture change, hiring, incentives and technology. Experts from diverse large companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Salesforce.com, The Gap and Barclay’s Global Investors will discuss these issues, grounded by their experiences.

Great software comes from getting the best ideas into the product. Jim McCarthy, who led the legendary turnaround of the Visual C++ group at Microsoft, left Microsoft in 1996 to create a team dynamics laboratory to figure out how to always create a create a high performace team. His lab has focused on this challenge, and has produced 11 protocols for making unanimous decisions, supporting quality thinking, strengthening design iterations, and incorporating feedback, emotions, nobility, and passion into products. Learn about an entirely new class of tools.

MyBoeingFleet.com is one of the leading portals operated by Boeing, and an industry leading e-commerce site in both data volume and revenue. Considering the risk-averse environment of Aerospace, how does a group change process to something more Lean and Agile, and still attain CMMI level 3?