Description
Shawn Belling is a globally-experienced technology executive and project management speaker and instructor. In a career spanning 30 years, he has held executive and leadership roles in higher education, software, consulting, bio-pharma, manufacturing, and regulatory compliance, and is currently the Chief Information Officer at a large regional technical college. As a member of the Project Management Institute, he has spoken regularly at conferences and seminars since 2008, including multiple presentations at PMI Global Conferences in the US and APAC. Shawn teaches at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in Engineering Professional Development and the Center for Executive and Professional Development, at University of Wisconsin-Platteville in the Master of Science – Project Management program, and at the University of Southern California in the Master of Science – Project Management program. Shawn is certified by PMI as a Project Management Professional and Agile Certified Practitioner, is a Certified Scrum Professional and Certified Scrum @ Scale Practitioner, and is certified in Organizational Change Leadership from University of Wisconsin – Platteville. Part One – Agile Hybrids Chapter 1 – Defining Agile Hybrids . The continuum – where we really work . Hybrid examples o AgileFall o ScrumBan o Waterfall plan – Agile execution o Mixed environments . Case studies o Practical desperation – trying agile o The health insurance company o SAP and ecommerce – bio-pharma and cement o DNA software o The beverage companies o Salesforce Chapter 2 – The Continuum Revisited . The continuum revisited – where are you? . Evaluating hybrid models . Assessing projects . Assessing the organization . Assessing the culture . Identifying roadblocks Chapter 3 – Building Your Agile Hybrid . What do you know? . What do you have? . What do you need? . Where do you start? Part Two – Learning Agile Chapter 4 – Agile History . Roots of Agile . Roots of Scrum . Formation and Emergence . The Manifesto . Adoption and Expansion Chapter 5 – Agile Values and Practices . Agile Values . Agile Lifecycles . Agile Practices Chapter 6 – Agile Teams and Challenges . Dedicated Agile Teams . Cross-functional Teams . Co-location and Remote Team Scenarios Chapter 7 – Agile Servant-Leaders . The Scrum Master . The Agile Project Manager . Servant Leadership Defined Chapter 8 – The Product Owner in Agile . Product Owner Responsibilities . Product Owner Relationships and Issues . Impacts of Product Owner Performance Chapter 9 – The Agile Coach . Coaching New Teams . Coaching During Sprints . Coaching In Sprint Reviews . Coaching at Releases Part Three – Advanced Topics In Agile Chapter 10 – Design Thinking with Agile . Defining Design Thinking . Shared Concepts – Agile and Design Thinking . Alignment – Design Thinking and Agile . Practical Examples Chapter 11 – The Executive Leader in Agile . Misconceptions and Mistakes . How Leaders Influence Agile Benefits . Impediments – Remove, Don’t Create . Ruthless Prioritization . Agile Governance . Agile Decisions . Executive Servant-Leadership in Agile Chapter 12 – Implementing Agile . Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) . Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) . Scrum @ Scale . Scaling in Hybrid Environments . Are You Ready to Scale? Chapter 13 – Approaches to Scaling Agile . Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager . Story Sizing and Estimating . Product Owners . Senior Leaders . Agile Coaching . Agile Teams . Demos
