Event Description

Is, “you can’t manage it if you can’t measure it” true for Agile?  Metrics definitely drive behavior, and in the Agile process team members undergo significant behavioral change. Appropriate selection of driving metrics is therefore one of the most important jobs for the agile management team. Without an appropriate set of Agile specific metrics, adoption efforts are likely to fail due to the mismatch between what we are measuring and how we actually want people to behave in this new environment. In this presentation, Sanjiv Augustine and Roland Cuellar of LitheSpeed, LLC discuss Agile appropriate metrics at the customer, portfolio and project levels.

Speaker Bios

Sanjiv Augustine, President, LitheSpeed
An industry-leading agile and lean expert, Sanjiv has assisted several leading clients adopt Agile methods over the past decade.  He is the author of several publications including Transitioning to Agile Project Management: A Roadmap for the Perplexed, The Lean-Agile PMO: Using Lean Thinking to Accelerate Agile Project Delivery and the book Managing Agile Projects (Prentice Hall 2005); and the founder and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile Project Management discussion group.  Sanjiv is also a founder and advisory board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI)’s Agile Forum Steering Committee.   As an in-the-trenches practitioner and trainer, he has personally managed Agile projects varying in size from five to over one hundred people, trained thousands of agile practitioners via public classes and conference presentations, and coached numerous project teams.  For more information, see Sanjiv’s website: www.sanjivaugustine.com.

Roland Cuellar, Vice President, LitheSpeed
Roland has years of Agile Project Management and Lean expertise - he is a leader in helping enterprise level clients to adopt the use of both agile and lean in their organizations. Roland has helped executives prepare their organizations for agile transformation by identifying challenges and opportunities related to agile and lean implementation and developing action plans and risk mitigation strategies to insure that agile and lean initiatives are successful. Roland has prior experience leading large software development projects for IBM, Lockheed Martin, and DHL. Roland has a B.S. in Computer Science, an MBA, and is a Certified ScrumMaster and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.