Tere Given
Business Agility Advocate,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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Tere Given (she/her/hers) is an agility advocate passionate about connecting teams to solve business challenges through technology. She believes that at the heart of Agile is a humane approach to work, fostering creative problem-solving and empowering teams to achieve great things.
With over 25 years of experience in IT, Tere enjoys mentoring, coaching, and speaking on topics central to her journey. She has been a vocal advocate for professional development and Agile coaching ethics, often sharing her insights on the Women in Agile podcast. Currently, Tere is involved in the Agile Alliance’s Product Management initiative and mentors veterans through the American Corporate Partnership group.
Tere coaches Global Systems & Technology within the investment management industry and holds an MBA in Organizational Management and Project Management. In her free time, she enjoys cheering on her kids at their sports activities.
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Team Driven Experimentation during your Retrospective
One of the best ways to help your Scrum team improve is during the Retrospective event. Unfortunately, this event is often an afterthought with low to no participation or rarely produces meaningful change. Structuring improvement efforts into experiments can help overcome these problems.
Join us we walk through how to identify areas of improvement (Sooner), structure the experiment (Safer), and track the outcomes (Better). Together we'll create a sample experimentation canvas; including evaluation metrics and setting the experiment duration.
Additionally, we will discuss how you can use this as a strategy to promote an experimentation culture and answer "How is your team getting better?" We will share with you several tools we use to coach Scrum Masters, teams, and leaders to more meaningful practices.
Learning Objectives
1. Uncover the opportunities (Liberating Structures, value stream analysis, data and metrics)
2. Work together to identify the kaizen action
3. Create hypothesis driven experiments to impact effectiveness
4. Plot your experiments with a Celebration Grid to promote psychological safety
5. Break your learning silo and tell the story of the team's effectiveness journey
Middle Managers in a Big A, Big T Transformation: Stuck between a Mandate and a Mob
Congratulations middle managers! You're about to, or already are, undergoing an Agile Transformation (big A, big T)! Is your senior leadership filled with endless excitement and optimism? Are your teams sharing their consternation and confusion? Doesn’t feel fun being stuck between a mandate and a mob… We’re here to help!
Join us as we explore your purpose in this ecosystem. What defines you as a great manager and a better leader? How does that show up for your teams?
Together we will look at:
• What change looks like for you, the manager
• Your invaluable contribution and its impact on curiosity, motivation, and effectiveness
• Some things to consider as you complete performance management activities
• What resources (tools and relationships) are available to help you
Your Product Operating Model Needs Developers
There exists an unnecessary chasm between product communities and agile communities and a persistent misunderstanding that Agile is exclusively for the use of delivery, dismissing its benefit to product discovery. Our goal is to dispel this myth and encourage Developers/Creators to engage in Product Management principles and practices.
Key Points:
1. Alignment with Business Goals: Developers can better align their work with the organization's strategy, ensuring features satisfy customer needs.
2. Collaborative Decision-Making: Involvement fosters a collective ownership culture, breaking down silos between departments and improving experimentation and decision making.
3. Customer-Centricity: Awareness of customer feedback and market dynamics leads to more user-friendly and valuable products.
This talk will highlight the benefits of integrating development teams into the product operating model and offer practical strategies for change.
Tere Given
Business Agility Advocate,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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