BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anguilla X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anguilla BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3783271:Event:55344 DTSTAMP:20260502T130705Z SUMMARY:Ken France on Changing a Culture DESCRIPTION:Agile & Organizational Transformation: Creating Optimal Co nditions for Sustainable Agility\r\nGetting a few projects to use agil e practices can be challenging, but it is not nearly as hard as it is to get an entire organization to change from a waterfall culture to an agile one.\r\nKen France will present key organizational transformat ion practices that have helped many of our clients successfully adopt agile, not just as a project methodology, but as an organization-wide philosophy.\r\n \r\nThe biggest impediments to going agile are changi ng culture, fighting town hall, educating practitioners, proving an RO I for agile, increasing collaboration, and getting real resource commi tment. Join us to discuss reusable practices to overcome these recurri ng obstacles, that have worked well for our other clients.\r\nYou will learn reusable organizational change practices including:\r\n\r\nRepe atable Change,\r\nSkill Growth Gamification,\r\nCommunities of Practic e,\r\nProcess Improvement Requests (PIRs),\r\nExecutive Sponsorship,\r \nPilot Projects, and\r\nCoaching.\r\n\r\n\r\nBIO of Ken France\r\nAs CEO of Blue Agility, Ken France helps develop and implement corpora te strategy, identifies and secures key partnerships, provides executi ve level coaching for our clients, and works with and across all Blue Agility departments to ensure overall Client Success.\r\n\r\nHe has mo re than 22 years’ experience helping large-scale organizations adopt iterative and incremental development practices, such as RUP, Agile a nd SAFe. In his work at leading companies like IBM, Rational Software and Number Six Software, and now Blue Agility, he brings a pragmatic a pproach to the adoption of new practices. Ken is also an SPCT, the f irst in the US certified by Scaled Agile Academy (SAI) to deliver the Implementing SAFe 4.5 w SPC4 Certification courses. Much of his career has been spent directly coaching Agile teams and their management cha in on how to drive the change necessary to become successful at the en terprise, while recognizing the uniqueness of each environment and wha t trade-offs need to be made to achieve that success.\r\n\r\n\r\nUpcom ing Classes in the fall have a 10% discount code of SAFemail \r\n\r\nT he New York class coming up Oct 10-13\r\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/ implementing-safe-45-w-spc4-cert-training-new-york-ken-france-spct-tic kets-32465420948\r\nand the Washingtown DC class Dec. 5-8:\r\nhttps:// www.eventbrite.com/e/implementing-safe-45-w-spc4-cert-training-washing ton-dc-ken-france-spct-tickets-36663236728\r\n\r\nFor directions, go t o the website and click on Directions under the menu Events and Direct ions\r\nUpon arrival, ask for the SET ROOM\r\nRSVP by Monday NOON 09/1 8 = EVENT IS NOW CLOSED.\r\n\r\nThe slides from the presentation are a t http://bit.ly/2xdT1MM \n\nFor more information visit http://www.agil ephilly.com/events/sept-19-meeting DTSTART;TZID=America/Anguilla:20170919T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anguilla:20170919T203000 CATEGORIES:meeting, ken, france LOCATION:Cerner WEBSITE:http://bit.ly/2xcrg4i URL:http://bit.ly/2xcrg4i CONTACT: ORGANIZER;CN="John Voris, Lead Coordinator":http://www.agilephilly.com /profile/JohnVoris ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/1678288018?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="John Mar ino":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnMarino ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Michael Kushner":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/MichaelKushner ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Sheena G ladden":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/SheenaGladden ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Christop her Bawduniak":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/ChristopherBawduniak ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Bill Eng ard":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/BillEngard ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Ed Maher ":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/EdMaher ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Bob Mari ni":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/BobMarini ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Gregory Turnbull":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/GregoryTurnbull ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Tiffany Powley":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/TiffanyPowley ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Glenn Be rman":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/GlennBerman ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Shyam Ad danki":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/ShyamAddanki ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Deborah Kandebo":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/DeborahKandebo ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="David Lo oby":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/DavidLooby ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Dwaraka Ganesan":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/DwarakaGanesan ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Aseem Kh arbanda - 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