Connecting strategy to execution with Agile methods | Tuesday, 28th of June | Virtual

CIO WaterCooler

Where IT Leaders Share Ideas

  • Connecting strategy to execution with Agile methods

  • Tuesday, 28th of June
  • 3.00 to 4.30 pm
  • Location: Virtual

  • Registration Closed

Aligning IT and business is still a struggle in many organisations. Creating a real-time connection from strategy to execution, working out whether to pivot or double down on an investment, is a critical topic in the boardroom agenda.
The most innovative companies are driven by an Agile mindset. Emerged a quarter century ago as an iterative software development methodology, Agile methods and tools later transformed project management and then business in general.
Join us in this Digital Boardroom and learn how to
  • scale Agile across teams, programs and the organisation
  • reduce time-to-value through improved team collaboration
  • connect people, work, time and outcomes with Agile tools

Our Keynote Speakers

Arie van Bennekum, Agile Strategist and Thought Leader at Wemanity Group

Arie is an Agile thought leader and co-author of the Agile Manifesto with over 30 years of experience in implementing Agile / Lean. He has been lecturing on multiple universities in the Netherlands and across the globe and has worked with a wide range of businesses in various spheres, including retail, the energy sector, regional and national government, the tech industry and Fintech.

Dean MacNeil, Global Head of Agile at Valiantys

Scaling Agile to build the connected enterprise

As an Atlassian Certified Consultant and Enterprise Agile Coach, MacNeil has helped companies of diverse sizes and verticals, including some of the world's largest and fastest growing companies, to improve business agility and outcomes. In 2019 he joined Valiantys where he builds and runs an industry-leading, global practice centered on enabling business agility at all levels of scale. He is the author of ‘Scaling Agile with Jira Align: A practical guide to strategically scaling agile across teams, programs, and portfolios’. MacNeil also writes about music and is a lifelong musician living in Los Angeles.

Tom Hoyland, Senior Agile and DevOps Lead at Sky Betting & Gaming

Metaphors, Modes and Micro-Scaling

How we think about delivery has a profound effect on how we deliver, the methods we select and what we measure, at a team, tribe and organisational level. Join me to hear about how we’ve been scaling down in order to scale up patterns that work across contexts and the useful recipes we’ve developed to balance deep collaboration with a drive to move fast.     With a background in engineering, product development and service transformation, Tom gets under the bonnet of products, teams and organisations to understand what makes them tick and how they could be better. He is currently an Expert Agile and DevOps practitioner, coach and mentor at Sky Betting & Gaming. Previously Tom has led Agile and Digital Transformations at the UK Home Office and across UK Police Forces.

Event Chair: Heather Payne, Director of Digital Technology at Sky

Heather Payne is Director of Digital Technology at Sky. Throughout her career she has driven Technology Change and Transformations utilising the magic triangle of People, Process and Technology for DMG media (Daily Mail Group), Avon, Thomas Cook Group and Ford to name a few.