Webinar: Connecting your Business and IT Transformation

For effective and successful Lean and Agile IT and Application Development Transformation, it needs to be fully grounded in and driven by the business and digital transformation strategies.

In this webinar you will:

1. Learn how to develop and internally communicate your business and competitive strategy using Business Model and Process Visualization Tools and techniques
2. Understand how to best use Lean Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and Value Chain Analysis to identify key transformation initiatives and target speed and quality metrics to show the direct impact on value delivered to key customers and stakeholders
3. Be able to link your Scaled Agile SAFe^® and Lean Transformation initiative and the Agile Trains and Scrum teams’ backlogs to the most valuable and lowest risk, prioritized opportunities that can directly impact value delivered to customers

Panel of Experts                                                                                                                

Hamid Nouri – Mr. Nouri is AgiLeanIT and NAI Managing Principal and Executive Advisor, and the Global Transformation Services Practice Leader. He was previously a senior executive at Gartner responsible for Strategic Business and IT Consulting offerings and delivery in Americas and Asia Pacific. He has been an Advisor and Management Consultant to senior business and IT executives for over 20 years across a variety of industries. His core areas of expertise include Business and IT Strategic Planning, Strategy Visualization, Business and IT Transformation, and Emerging Digital Technologies. He is a senior Lean and Agile Transformation Coach and Scaled Agile SPC (SAFe^® Program Consultant), an ITIL/ITSM Master, ISO 20,000 Consultant, CISSP, and a highly accomplished Enterprise, Business, and Technical Architect.

Dan Madison – Mr. Madison is an AgiLeanIT Lean Transformation Coach and Senior Business Advisor with over 20 years of experience in Lean, value stream mapping and analysis, process mapping, process metrics, process management, and process redesign across a wide variety of industries and organizations. He was an early pioneer, architect, and thought leader for process design principles which have revolutionized the creation of highly efficient and effective processes and customer value for numerous clients. He is the author of highly successful and frequently cited book “Process Mapping, Process Improvement and Process Management”, one of the highest ranked books on Amazon on the topic. Mr. Madison was one of the key thought leaders and original contributors to the Association of Business Process Management Professionals Body of Knowledge. His book is widely used as the main text at various universities in process and value mapping and continuous improvement.

Prakash Bettadapur – Mr. Bettadapur is an AgiLeanIT Managing Partner and Executive Coach. He has over 20 years of engineering leadership, product development, organizational change leadership, and management consulting in various technology sectors. He has been in senior leadership roles managing multiple large teams of over a hundred people each in various locations in the USA, Canada, India, and Russia. His work in Bell-Northern Research, Nortel Networks, Cadence Design Systems and in Cisco Systems enabled his employers and clients to achieve leadership excellence in global software engineering. He led Cisco’s highly successful Lean and Agile Transformation initiative between 2012 and 2017 and was responsible for the on-time development and delivery of Cisco’s next-generation IP Platforms and Systems offerings. Mr. Bettadapur is a Certified SPC (SAFe® Program Consultant) and Enterprise Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Product Owner (CSPO) and Certified Scrum Professional (CSP).