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London Leadership Summit

The London Leadership Summit on November 7, 2006 was a big success!

 

See below for the presentations, experience reports, and Think Tank results from the summit.

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Tutorials

What is an Agile Leader by  Todd Little, Senior Development Manager, Landmark Graphics.  In this presentation, Todd discusses the concept of an Agile Leader by examining the Declaration of Interdependence, including a history of its creation.  To get a copy of the presentation with all of the film clips included, download this zip file.

How to Be an Agile Leader, by Pollyanna Pixton, President, Evolutionary Systems, presenting practices that support Agile leadership principles. Presenting a leadership model based on collaboration to unleash innovation in companies and organizations, she provides examples from the development of the Swiss Electronic Stock Exchange and other projects.

Guardrails - Aligning Agility and Collaboration With Strategy,  by Niel Nickolaisen, CIO, Headwaters, Inc. Does agility imply chaos? Can we create a context that allows for focused collaboration? In this session, Niel Nickolaisen will present strategic planning models that provide strategic "guardrails" for the agile enterprise. These models provide a pragmatic, aligned framework for making the numerous and dynamic decisions required for organizational and project success. This presentation uses real-world case studies so that the models can be immediately applied.

Experience Reports

Agile Teams Deliver and Succeed while Enterprise Agile Declines into ‘a la carte’ - Barbara Wilders - Karas, CC Pace

A Winning Bet: Communication Processes at the Core of Agile Pilot Projects - Robert Laman Harrah’s; Dannielle Read Harrah’s; Andy Takats, Sapient

Growing Agility in a Large and Distributed Enterprise - Erik Gottesman, Sapient

Using an Agile Approach to Free the Organization from “R&D Paralysis” - Jonas Hult, Bekk Consulting AS

Think Tank Results

During the Think Tank portion of the Summit, participants came up with the following two strategies for Agile Project Leadership:

Dream Team

Excellent Customer Involvement