Join NAAAHR New Jersey for our May Members, Supporters and Friends Meet-up as Sharon Bussey, MBA, MS, PMI-ACP, PMP, owner of BTII Institute in West Orange, NJ shares how Lean-Agile principles and practices can support all HR disciplines in building smart, cost-effective and equitable people practices.

According to the 14th Annual State of Agile Report, 95% of employers surveyed are using Agile practices. Agile is a set of values and principles which empower teams to work in highly collaborative ways to deliver the highest value and highest quality work in the shortest amount of time. Although Agile was originally created for Software Development, other departments of businesses recognized the vast benefits and began to adopt the Agile principles organically leading to the recent major shift to Organizational Agility. In this presentation you will learn how HR can play a vital role in achieving Organizational Agility including how it will:*Impact your industry & employer

*Improve team dynamics, productivity and outcomes

*Change the way HR professionals perform their work

*Impact DEI practices, talent planning, & learning and development

About Our Presenter:

Sharon Bussey is the Managing Director of BTII Institute / BTII Global, a training and consulting firm specializing in Agile and Waterfall: Portfolio/Program/Project Management as well as Business Intelligence/Data Analytics. Prior to BTII, Sharon was the Director/Lead of Organization Process Alignment at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals where she led high-performing teams of more than 100 professionals. In this role she used Agile and Waterfall methodologies to lead organizational process reengineering and software development initiatives including: 1) Executive Dashboards to enable leadership to make more insightful data driven decisions, 2) Performance Management Systems to track and enhance employee performance and development and provide KPIs for compensation, and 3) Knowledge Management Systems to ensure that organizational knowledge is captured, expanded and consumed. Prior to Pfizer Sharon was a Senior Management Consultant at Deloitte Consulting where she led large healthcare IT implementations using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Sharon holds an MBA in Marketing and Operations from the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania and an MS in Computer Science from Pace University.

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