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John Halberstadt from Lithe Speed - Topic: Agility requires Diversity (diversity, equity, and inclusion)

Title:
Agility Requires Diversity (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - DEI)

Abstract:
Agile approaches, irrespective of framework, foundationally rely on collaboration and communication within and beyond our agile teams.

Diversity, in the broadest sense of the term - including cultural, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, neurodiversity and beyond - is an essential, and often underappreciated, aspect of well performing teams and ways of working. Supporting diversity isn't just the right thing to do ethically or the right thing to do to support our team members, it also helps us better build and deliver solutions.

In this discussion, we will review why more diverse teams are more collaborative, engaged and effective. We also will discuss practical techniques to ensure that we can build and support highly diverse teams and combat conscious and unconscious biases in our processes and practices, whether day-to-day meetings and ceremonies to hiring and promotion.

John is Lithespeed’s Director of Agile Consulting, as well as an Enterprise Agile Consultant, Coach and Trainer, leveraging more than two decades of executive leadership experience as a CIO, CTO and Vice President of Technology, transforming enterprises’ ability to deliver value through agile and lean approaches. John has led successful agile transformation efforts extensively in the Finance and Insurance domains since the mid-2000s. He additionally has helped guide organizations in additional industries as diverse as Healthcare, Retail, Utilities and Artificial Intelligence on their path to greater agility and value realization from their technology investments.John’s most recent focus has been assisting organizations define and implement strategies for ongoing product development and delivery at the portfolio, program, and team levels. He has also built and led product management, software development, user experience, technical support, and data center operations teams during the last two decades. John has been a leader of Agile development teams since 2006 and has led software development program teams since 1997. He holds multiple Agile certifications, and is the founder/co founder and leader of multiple Agile and Lean practitioners groups throughout the West Coast.

President, Chattanooga PMI is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: July 2022 Monthly Luncheon Meeting
Time: Jul 21, 2022 11:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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