Salah Elleithy
Agile Coach & Facilitator
SparkAgility
location_on United States
Member since 5 years
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Salah Elleithy
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I am a Leadership, Co-Active, Agile Coach and Learning Facilitator on a mission to spark courageous curiosity with a twist of play. I help individuals, teams and leaders learn faster and become better one day at a time.
I also lead and facilitate Agile NOVA, a community dedicated to lifelong learning. My passion is to bring play into organizations with the motto of play for purpose and progress.
Website: http://sparkagility.com
Blog: https://medium.com/@selleithy
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Twitter: twitter.com/selleithy
Leanpub: leanpub.com/flashlight
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Agile Indicators: Start with Questions!
45 Mins
Workshop/Game
Intermediate
Most teams hate the idea of tracking or sharing metrics with managers or leaders. When the teams are asked to share metrics like velocity, burn down and other output driven metrics, teams hear what are you "busy" doing? So, the team starts to focus on showing how busy they are which drives the wrong behavior and stifles their opportunity for learning and growing and using metrics for good.Since, the essence of agility is continuous improvement via inspect and adapt. We want to reframe the conversation around Agile indicators that start with questions! What questions are you asking your team? How are you helping them to learn and grow? What indicators are you looking at?In this session, we will be providing insights around using Agile indications with questions in order to embrace a different mindset. A mindset that encourages more learning, growing and less judgment. A curiosity mindset that encourages organizations to move from “busy work” or output focused metrics to outcomes focused using questions. -
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Launching your first Agile team into success
Salah ElleithyAgile Coach & FacilitatorSparkAgilityKen HortonScrum MasterSocial Security Administrationschedule 5 months ago
45 Mins
Case Study
Beginner
So your organization is going “Agile” now and you are overwhelmed with all this terminology like backlog, user stories, sprint, daily stand ups, etc.
Where do you start?
What does it take to kick off your first Agile project?
How do you setup your team for success?In this talk, we will explore the essential elements for kicking off your first Agile team and possible options to setup your team and project for success.
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Mobbing for learning!
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
“We don’t have time for learning but we want to deliver value fast. And by the way, we need to develop new skills and attract talent but we have limited to no budget!” Huh!Does that sound familiar? If it does, you are not alone! This is one of the most prevalent patterns we have seen in organizations. We see this almost everywhere. Leaders and Managers demand that teams deliver value fast with no time to learn new skills. It's an oxymoron or may be a paradox!It's difficult (dare I say impossible) to attract talent if your organization keeps doing what it has always done. And if your organization needs to develop new skills internally, how will it be able to do that without dedicating time for deliberate learning?! A vicious cycle to say the least not to mention the impact on morale.I am not a mind reader but I could imagine you looking at us with a puzzled look and a thought that goes like, "Ya think!" It would be a valid response, I say, as I am sure you have seen or experienced this vicious cycle in many places. You may be even experiencing it right now!In this session, Salah and Ganesh can help you explore concrete ideas for experimentation on balancing speed and learning using concepts from Mob Programming. We can't promise any silver bullets however we do believe in experimenting and learning fast!Questions to explore:1. What is Mob Programming (or Mobbing)?2. Where to find talent/skills currently in your organization?3. How to introduce Mobbing to accelerate the learning?4. What does it take to amplify the good? (or as Woody Zuill puts it "turn up the good!")5. What is mobbing for learning and how does it help solve this problem?At the end of this session, you will be able to introduce Mobbing to your organization (perhaps even with a demo), attract developers who really want to shake things up and start finding places to "turn up the good!". -
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Mobbing for learning!
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
“We don’t have time for learning but we want to deliver value fast. And by the way, we need to develop new skills and attract talent but we have limited to no budget!” Huh!Does that sound familiar? If it does, you are not alone! This is one of the most prevalent patterns we have seen in organizations. We see this almost everywhere. Leaders and Managers demand that teams deliver value fast with no time to learn new skills. It's an oxymoron or may be a paradox!It's difficult (dare I say impossible) to attract talent if your organization keeps doing what it has always done. And if your organization needs to develop new skills internally, how will it be able to do that without dedicating time for deliberate learning?! A vicious cycle to say the least not to mention the impact on morale.I am not a mind reader but I could imagine you looking at us with a puzzled look and a thought that goes like, "Ya think!" It would be a valid response, I say, as I am sure you have seen or experienced this vicious cycle in many places. You may be even experiencing it right now!In this session, Salah and Ganesh can help you explore concrete ideas for experimentation on balancing speed and learning using concepts from Mob Programming. We can't promise any silver bullets however we do believe in experimenting and learning fast!Questions to explore:1. What is Mob Programming (or Mobbing)?2. Where to find talent/skills currently in your organization?3. How to introduce Mobbing to accelerate the learning?4. What does it take to amplify the good? (or as Woody Zuill puts it "turn up the good!")5. What is mobbing for learning and how does it help solve this problem?At the end of this session, you will be able to introduce Mobbing to your organization (perhaps even with a demo), attract developers who really want to shake things up and start finding places to "turn up the good!". -
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Can Design Thinking accelerate an Agile transformation?
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” ~Proverb
You might have heard of IDEO. IDEO is known as a pioneer of human-centered design or putting people at the center of their work. This approach has come to be known as Design Thinking. Design Thinking in a nutshell is about empathy, experimentation and learning fast.
When we think of an agile transformation, we don’t necessarily think of human-centered design. Most agile transformation I have seen begins with an enthusiastic leader (most likely in Technology) who is trying to change the culture and shift the mindset to improve product delivery and time to market. In the quest to do this, the leader might mandate certain practices for the organization to start doing. This can cause a lot of pain and heartache in the process and usually lead to mere results and disengagement.
What if there was a way to unlock creativity and critical thinking across the organization? This is where design thinking can help in accelerating an agile transformation.
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Can Design Thinking accelerate an Agile Transformation?
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” ~Proverb
You might have heard of IDEO. IDEO is known as a pioneer of human-centered design or putting people at the center of their work. This approach has come to be known as Design Thinking. Design Thinking in a nutshell is about empathy, experimentation and learning fast.
When we think of an agile transformation, we don’t necessarily think of human-centered design. Most agile transformation I have seen begins with an enthusiastic leader (most likely in Technology) who is trying to change the culture and shift the mindset to improve product delivery and time to market. In the quest to do this, the leader might mandate certain practices for the organization to start doing. This can cause a lot of pain and heartache in the process and usually lead to mere results and disengagement.
What if there was a way to unlock creativity and critical thinking across the organization? This is where design thinking can help in accelerating an agile transformation.
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Our Business Pipeline is Broken
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
Our delivery team may be focused on continuously tuning their CI/CD pipeline but who is focusing on the business pipeline?
If your delivery team is not always producing new functionality at the rate you want, the bottleneck might not be in the way they’re working. Imagine a software development factory that can’t get the raw materials it needs in time to keep production humming.
The Theory of Constraints (ToC) adopts the idiom of “a chain is no stronger than its weakest link”. Delivery teams need the right requirements (chunks of work) at the right time.
“What?” you say. “I’m already working as hard as I can to provide them with complete requirements specifications.” I believe you. Participants will be introduced to some issues that might have escaped your attention and will address those issues in ways that may save them some work.
Questions that may be helpful to consider are:
- What makes it so challenging to provide the information the delivery team needs at the time they need it?
- What causes our business pipeline to be broken? In manufacturing, identifying bottlenecks may be obvious but what about knowledge work?!
- What’s hidden that could cause delays and create a state of learned helplessness?
This presentation will explore the challenges that stems from the discovery and explore ideas to consider for building a healthy business pipeline. At the end of this session, you will be able to identify the bottlenecks using the drum buffer rope and learn about the 3 amigos and clarification through examples (acceptance scenarios) and techniques to alleviate the bottlenecks.
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The Data Greenhouse: DevOps Measurement at Scale
Salah ElleithyAgile Coach & FacilitatorSparkAgilityDante VilardiPrincipalTurning Partners LLCschedule 4 years ago
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
Most agile teams focus on following a delivery process and overlook finding ways to improve the process. The essence of agile is focused around the idea of continuous improvement via inspect and adapt. In this session, we will be providing insights around evolving your measurements using data in order to embrace a different mindset. A mindset that encourages more facts and less judgment. A mindset that encourages organizations to move from “performance” to decisions, behaviors, outcomes, external evaluation to “Let’s figure this out together”, proof to evidence, answers to questions, precision to speed and from objective to subjective (but with lots of facts!)
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Uncovering agility enablers and sustainers
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
The first statement in the agile manifesto is “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. The keyword here is uncovering. The question is not whether government should try agile or not? The real question is what does agile government really mean? Is it a methodology that is applied across the board for different agencies or is it enabling and sustaining agility using a set of practices that is suitable based on constraints and reality?
Every government agency has different core competencies as well as a different environment. Identifying a set of practices that don’t align with those core competencies can cause a failure in agile implementation. This may conclude that agile in the government has failed when in reality, it was a failure of certain practices that don’t align with the core competencies.
In this session, we will explore the core competencies and how they align to the adoption of certain practices in the government. They will share stories on how to assess those core competencies as a model that has been used in large scale implementations.
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