Agile Enterprise in a Lean Startup Way
Did you recently try to buy a paper atlas in a bookstore? A few years ago you would prefer a GPS to a paper map. Today, smartphones replaced GPSs with their navigation functionality providing more convenience at a fraction of the cost. Does it mean that the business is disrupting itself over and over again? What does it mean for large well-established enterprises? What is the right way for established businesses to use technological advancements to their advantage, and how to integrate innovation in business success?
Lean Startup is a popular concept because it provides a way for large established enterprises to survive disruption in a modern fast pacing world. Lean Enterprise is a popular topic that needs to be demystified and translated into action. In the talk, we will uncover how agile, lean, lean startup, and design thinking create a new framework for large enterprises to avoid disruption and delight their customers.
The talk aims at demystifying the way of market disruption to large businesses to allow for their survival in a modern economy. This practical advice comes from years of experience, containing both success and major failures.
Outline/Structure of the Keynote
I plan to approach the session in three steps:
1. Why lean startup for an agile enterprise? In the first section, I will collaborate with the audience in identifying pain points of a large enterprise in a modern rapidly disrupted economy.
2. How change agents affect the transition for a corporate structure to a lean and highly adaptable culture? In the second section, we will cover the role of change agents in the proposed framework of building enterprise agility - from mission and vision to the team-level execution.
3. What are the common patterns and anti-patterns? In the third section, we will discuss ways to success and signs to watch for - the good, the bad, and the ugly. Along the way, I will be sharing “horror stories” and common anti-patterns from my real-life experience with nine enterprise-level agile journeys in a fun and engaging way.
Learning Outcome
In this highly practical talk, I am going to share the good, the bad, and the ugly of enterprise-level adoption of lean startup practices (what I call a “lean corporation”). I will propose step-by-step instructions on how to build a “lean corporation” and avoid common traps. Building experience on Steven Blank and Eric Ries’ “lean startup” framework, this talk takes these concepts to the next level by providing step-by-step guidelines for building a culture and a structure that embraces innovation, promotes creativity, provides specific ways of welcoming disruption rather than "dealing" with it.
Target Audience
All change agents and agile practitioners in large companies who want to serve their customers
Prerequisites for Attendees
I hope that participants will be curious about disruption, innovation, adopting change at scale, and bringing an agile mindset to a corporate setting - from an enterprise-level vision to the delivery of end result to the customer. No knowledge is required, just a desire to bring positive change to a corporate setting.
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Mariya Breyter brings 20 years of leadership experience to the Agile and Lean community. Her passion for creating high-performance teams and delivering superior products to clients through efficient, lean processes had produced success after success in companies ranging from Big 4 consulting and Fortune 100 insurance and financial services firms to mid-sized educational and media businesses.
Mariya has a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics followed by a Post-Doctorate at Stanford University. She has built her career optimizing and improving software delivery and instilling Agile and Lean values at multitudes of companies while keeping the primary focus on the people within those processes. She is a frequent presenter at Agile conferences, from Agile Games in Boston to Big Apple Scrum and Agile Camp in New York and Agile Development Conference in Orlando, FL.
Mariya is a frequent presenter at Agile and Lean conferences. In 2017, she presented at Agile Games 2017, World Lean and Six Sigma Conference in Nashville, Lean IT Summit in Paris, Big Apple Scrum Day in New York, and Agile Camp 2017 in New Jersey. In 2016, Mariya presented at Agile Development East 2016 in Orlando on Scaling Agile Anti-Patterns and introduced her new creativity game at Agile Games 2016 in Boston. Mariya has presented at every Big Apple Scrum Day in New York since it was established in 2015. After her presentation on scaling Agile at the New York PMI Agile Chapter, she was invited as a panelist to discuss the topic "What does Being Agile Mean to You?" by PMI.
Her presentations consistently get a high rating from the audience. At Big Apple Scrum Day 2015, Mariya's presentation "Agile Coaching is Dead" was referenced by the audience as a highlight of the conference. The feedback that she received from Agile Games participants was: "Best session of the day - very relevant to how we can take ideas back and use them in everyday work."
Her articles and interviews were published by Planet Lean, Agile Connection, and InfoQ. As of 10/1/2017, Mariya has 2,242 followers and several hundred views of each article she posts on LinkedIn. Her former employer posted her profile and interview on Muse to promote its brand. Her twitter handle is @mbreyter. Her blog (www.agileleantransformation.com ) receives consistent positive feedback directly on the site and via Facebook.
Mariya is passionate about Agile and Lean and uses personal Kanban at home with her family.
