TRANSFORM YOUR PROCESS
You might be battling the organizational culture, dealing with inconsistent processes and practices between teams, or struggling with failed or poorly performing transformations.
Metagility is a new, patented framework that can be tailored to your organization’s needs to help you drive change quickly, and with better results than other methods. This new process synthesizes 10 years of Agile research on how successful technology development organizations dominate the market.
LIVE WORKSHOPS FOR AGILE PRACTITIONERS
Join Agile Worx for one of our upcoming training events for real-time advice on how to better integrate agile practices into your organization with less conflict, more impact, and full buy-in from leadership and staff.
Each course offers a certificate of completion and approximately 14 PDUs (Project Management Institute PMI, Professional Development Unit).
We’ll help you:
- Align your business and IT teams, so you can deliver greater value to the company.
- Increase delivery speed and product quality, so you can Improve customer (or user) satisfaction.
- Manage changing priorities with ease, so you can be more productive.
- Improve team management and morale, so they’re always on task and motivated.
DR. DAVID A. BISHOP, FOUNDER OF AGILE WORX®
Dr. David A. Bishop is the founder of Agile Worx and the creator of Metagility, the first patented, research-backed approach to successfully implementing agile transformation. He is a technologist, consultant, researcher, entrepreneur, and instructor with over 25 years of experience in telecommunications, transportation, government, and utility industries.
David’s work experience includes companies such as BellSouth (AT&T), Delta Airlines, and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG). David holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MBA with a concentration in IT management, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Georgia State University. He is an author of numerous books and articles and a frequent contributor to IEEE’s Engineering Management Review, and also holds several U.S. patents.
David is a member and committee chair for the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) based in Geneva Switzerland, a member of ANSI, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and the Association for Computing Machinery. He is also a founding chair for the Atlanta chapter of the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society.
UPCOMING DATES
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
Day 1:
- Agile Methods today: What has changed and Why
- Performance and Limitations with Agile Development
- Agile Frameworks: What does the business research say about how they perform?
- Developing Devices vs. Software: How agile is implemented differently.
- Hybrid Agility: Determining the Right Approach for your Organization.
- The Agile Business Vortex
- Understanding Agile Vortices
- Managing Market Pressure
- Product Genesis: Determining what to build
Day 2:
- Devices: Managing Embedded Systems development with Hybrid Agility
- Determining if and when to use waterfall
- Customer Management
- Dealing with complexity in Agile
- Interconnections and Interactions
- Dealing with dependencies
- Metagility Measurements
- Fine Tuning: Optimizing collaboration, scope,and resources
- Kaizen Culture
- Outlook: The Future of Agile Development
Our Objective: This dynamic training is structured to not only provide you with great information to formulate new strategies, but will send you away with ideas you can immediately implement to provide business value that reduces expenses, boosts revenue, improves the quality of your work.
Metagility Book Reviews
“This is the best guide available for leveraging agile principles across the entire organization to maximize business value. It’s a must read!” — Hank Caughman, Director of US Development, Urjanet
“Dr. Bishop’s book offers tremendous value to executives tasked with improving speed to market. Lessons drawn from a number of organizations are thoughtfully deployed to create a toolkit that can be used to develop and leverage agility.” — Nathan Bennett, Ph.D., Author, Academic Advisor to Chief Operating Officers Circle
“Whether your organization is in the midst of an agile transformation, or you are looking to become more agile than you already are, this guide clearly shows how to achieve both within today’s most challenging situations.” — Dr. Neda Barqawi, Founder of Knovalytics and Serial Entrepreneur.