Over the last four years Silicon Prairie Solutions has been involved in a number of enterprise wide initiatives to bring more Agile|Lean practices to various organizations. During the same time there has been a significant amount of maturity in the collective body of knowledge around what processes and ceremonies can be used to help organizations scale Agile | Lean from a few teams to the enterprise. This maturation has resulted in a growing number of frameworks to choose from; SoS, SAFe, DAD, and LeSS to name a few. All of these approaches have been developed by smart, capable thought leaders and have been used in real world organizations with demonstrable success (and failures). A common theme that is missing from these frameworks is ‘What about the people?’ Every organization has a different ways of communicating, power hierarchies, vocabulary; in short different cultures. How can a single framework fit all the variations of organizations in the market place? In this session we’ll explore what this might mean and how one might go about gaining a better understanding of your organization’s people and cultures.
Principal, Silicon Prairie Solutions
Silicon Prairie Solutions Martin Olson is a Principal with Silicon Prairie Solutions. Silicon Prairie Solutions helps organizations and their associates grow and adapt more Lean|Agile abilities through training, coaching and mentoring. Drawing on over twenty years of IT experience, Martin helps individuals and organizations define and execute a roadmap to improve their process. Focusing on continual improvement and metric based decision making, the resulting roadmaps are sustained by the teams that are implementing them, leading to true lean leadership. Martin founded the Agile KC ( www.agilekc.org ) group and continues to lead it after twelve years. In addition he has been a founding member of the Agilehood KC ( http://kc.agilehood.org/ ) who’s mission is to ‘Connect groups and communities to foster collaboration’ in the Kansas City Metropolitan area. He holds an MBA from the University of Kansas and the following certifications: PMI-ACP, CSM, SPC, SPCT. Martin is also a member of the International Coaching Federation and graduate of Organizational Relationship and Systems Coaching (ORSC). You can reach Martin at molson@siliconprairiesolutions.com .