Daniel Gagnon
PMI-ACP®, PMP®, CDAC, CDAI, CKP, SPC4, LSSYB, PSPOI, PSD, SPS, PSMI, CSM
Montréal, Canada
Daniel Gagnon is a Senior Organizational Agility Advisor with close to three decades of diversified consulting, training, project management and IT experience. For the past ten years, he has specialized in Agile at Enterprise scale, initially within the Enterprise Project Management Office at TD Bank Group and more recently as Enterprise Agile Practice Lead for Desjardins, North America’s largest credit union, from February 2017 to July 2018.
He has received the Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) and Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and is one of fewer than 40 Certified Disciplined Agile Coaches (CDAC) worldwide. He also holds the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification from the Scrum Alliance, 4 certifications from Scrum.org (Product Owner, Scrum Master, Scrum Developer and Scaled Professional Scrum I.e. Nexus) as well a being a SAFe Program Consultant, Certified Kanban Professional and Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt. Over the years, he has provided training to over 1,200 individuals in Scrum, DA, SAFe, PMI Montreal’s ACP prep course as well as a bespoke 40-hour agile project management class at McGill University. He describes himself as a passionate servant leader and ethical disruptor.
“I am primarily interested in strategic, wide-spectrum transformative and evolutionary assignments involving a triathlon approach (Business, Delivery and Operations working together as a single athlete) as opposed to siloed efforts where IT alone (for example) are trying to achieve local optimization. In terms of specific approaches, I am a systems thinker with an overall approach that is “Method Agnostic”: Trained and certified on the major “Enterprise Scale” agile methodologies and approaches by their creators, and through years of leading, advising and training disparate groups of widely varying size, maturity and business domain, I have learned that One Size Fits None. The important thing is to take a mix-and-match, pragmatic and context-driven approach to every situation. You can’t buy your way out of the need to think, and you can’t think your way out of the need to experiment.”
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Beyond Agile: Applied Antifragility
Agile practices and frameworks have now been around for the same amount of time (25 years) that the Waterfall approach had been when XP and Scrum were first formalized. It is high time to shine a critical light and ask ourselves just how much real progress has been achieved in terms of increased productivity. This session takes a hard look at the documented results of following prescriptive frameworks and asks a crucial question: have we reached the point where semantic diffusion has rendered the term "agile" obsolete and if so, what could we do about it? We believe that one viable option consists in moving towards an Antifragile stance (as first described in the work of Nassim Nicholas Taleb). The presentation outlines what, exactly, constitutes an "Antifragile stance" and offers actionable, real-world advice on how organizations can move beyond agile in order to position themselves to benefit, rather than suffer from, volatility and disruption.
Agile DNA
What does it really mean to be agile? What mechanisms underly it, and how can these mechanisms help us transcend agile as we know it?
In this session, we will use live computer simulations to model and measure individuals and teams pursuing goals. These simulations represent the pursuit of any complex goal, such as winning market-share, shipping a new product, or changing a company's culture.
During the session, we will measure and chart these virtual teams' performance as we adjust simulation parameters that represent key factors such as psychological safety, trust, cross-functional teaming, and more. The goal is not just to see that these things matter, but to grasp the underlying mechanisms that make them work.
From these experiments, you'll leave with deeper insights into the DNA of agility, and a fresh perspective to guide your continued pursuit of agility—and beyond.
Daniel Gagnon
PMI-ACP®, PMP®, CDAC, CDAI, CKP, SPC4, LSSYB, PSPOI, PSD, SPS, PSMI, CSM
Montréal, Canada
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