Broza Gil – Agile New England

What can we do to deliver better results?

Shashi Kiran Pilli — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:10:14 +0000

When you think about delivering better results, what options do you consider: upgrading the deployment pipeline, prioritizing the backlog better, restructuring teams, or something else entirely?

To achieve meaningful and sustainable improvement, you must work across the entire value delivery system, from idea to production.

Based on work with over 100 client organizations, Gil Broza has identified 10 strategies that optimize a system’s fitness for purpose (how well it helps the company achieve its mission and objectives). In this session, you’ll use a quick, process-agnostic way to determine your value delivery system’s fitness level. You’ll learn about the strategies and which to apply in your current situation. You will walk away with a practical model that respects human systems’ tolerance for change without being philosophical, touchy-feely, or prescriptive.

About the Speaker:

Gil Broza helps tech leaders deliver far better results by upgrading their organizations’ Agile ways of working. He also provides guidance to non-software managers on how to create real business agility in their teams. Gil has helped over 100 organizations achieve real, sustainable improvements by focusing on mindset, culture, and leadership in each enterprise’s unique value delivery context. He is the author of four highly acclaimed books: Deliver Better Results, The Agile Mind-Set, The Human Side of Agile, and Agile for Non-Software Teams.

How to Make Real Collaboration Possible

Danni Emriss — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 01:56:18 +0000

Collaboration is supposed to be a key principle and strength of Agile. Yet, most Agile teams – even those that seem to work well together – don’t collaborate nearly enough, and thus don’t reach their full potential. It takes intention and effort to make real collaboration possible, let alone appealing and practical! In this interactive talk, the author of “The Human Side of Agile” explains the not-so-short list of not-so-simple factors at play, and shares a process you can use to determine what actions can establish or increase collaboration in your team.

About the Speaker:

Gil Broza is founder of 3P Vantage and the firm’s principal enterprise coachand trainer. He helps companies increase organizational agility and team performance with minimal risk. Dozens of companies seeking transformations, makeovers, and improvements have relied on his pragmatic support for customizing Agile in their contexts. He has trained hundreds of managers up to the SVP and CIO levels on practical Agile leadership. Gil is the author of two acclaimed books, The Agile Mind-Set and The Human Side of Agile, and the forthcoming Agile for Nonsoftware Work. Get a taste of his approach at OnTheWayToAgile.com.

Being Agile: Having the Mindset that Delivers

Danni Emriss — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:29:09 +0000

Are you excited about adopting Agile? Have you realized the promised benefits: happy customers, quality product, reliable delivery teams, and faster releases? If your honest answer is “some,” “inconsistently,” or “only at first,” then you’re not alone. Most organizations experience disappointments due to Agile implementations that are mechanical, rigid, or driven by tools and so-called “best practices.”

Agile is first and foremost a mindset that should permeate your actions. Without the mindset, the practices don’t matter.

In this talk, Gil Broza will guide you through an exploration of the values, beliefs, and principles that define Agile thinking. You’ll learn how to choose the Agile methods, processes, and practices that fit your needs and context. By understanding what makes Agile work, you’ll be able to support mindful implementation and the necessary culture change.

About the speaker:

Gil Broza helps software organizations build and lead engaged, solid, high-performance Agile development teams. He guides teams and their leaders in creating effective, humane, and responsible work environments so they truly delight their customers and make a positive impact. Gil’s recent book, The Agile Mind-Set, helps practitioners become truly Agile about their work. His earlier book The Human Side of Agile is the definitive practical guide to leading Agile teams. He is a regular contributor and three-time track chair for the Agile series of conferences, and one of the Agile writers at ProjectManagement.com.

Gil Broza and Johanna Rothman will be leading the Influential Agile Leader Workshop April 6-7, in Boston.

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The Human Side of Agile Management: What It Takes to Grow Great Teams

Danni Emriss — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:21:40 +0000

For best results from Agile, you need a solid team. If you belong to, manage, or lead an Agile team, you’ve probably seen that process alone doesn’t translate to great results – and that having a cross-functional group of 7 +/- 2 “resources” doesn’t either. Instead, what makes Agile come to life is the team’s motivated, engaged individuals who communicate, collaborate, and respond effectively. In many organizations, teams rely on their leaders and managers to help them grow and become stronger.

But how do Agile leaders and managers help their teams? What should they do, and not do? What does valuing “individuals and interactions over processes and tools” look and feel like? Come to the interactive presentation by the author of “The Human Side of Agile” to learn all about the skills and attributes of servant leaders. You’ll discover what makes great Agile teams tick. You’ll get a view, free of hype and cynicism, of how Agile managers and leads contribute to their teams’ success (or hold them back). And you’ll receive practical tips and develop insights into three vital skills for supporting your team’s journey to greatness: communication, coaching, and facilitation.

About the speaker:

Gil Broza has been bringing effective, humane, and responsible Agile software development to companies for a decade. Relying on his vast experience in programming, management and organizational development, he helps professionals implement non-dogmatic Agility that truly works. He is the author of The Human Side of Agile: How to Help Your Team Deliver, the definitive guide for Agile leaders who want to build outstanding teams.

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