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Better Value Sooner Safer Happier - Jon Smart
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Better Value Sooner Safer Happier - Jon Smart

DOES19 London — Do you want to increase organizational agility and flow across your large, old, bureaucratic, regulated, traditional enterprise? Do you want to or are you doing an Agile or DevOps Transformation? In this talk, Jon will share anti-patterns and then success patterns in adopting better ways of working, sharing lessons learnt the hard way, previously leading Ways of Working across a large, old, traditional, organization (80,000 people, 40 countries, 329 years old) and now working with many horses, not unicorns, on this topic. "Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility" By Jon Smart (with Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie, and Simon Rohrer) —Learn more about the book here: https://soonersaferhappier.com/ Better Value Sooner Safer Happier Jonathan Smart, Partner, Enterprise Agility, Deloitte Jon leads Deloitte’s Enterprise Agility practice in the UK, helping organisations to deliver Better Value Sooner Safer Happier, through the application of agile, lean and DevOps principles and practices, organisation-wide. Previously, Jon was leading on Ways of Working globally across Barclays Bank, which is 328 years old, with 80,000 colleagues in 40 countries. After three years, teams are on average delivering three times as much in a third of the time with 23x fewer production incidents and the highest ever employee engagement scores. Jon has 25 years’ experience of taking and leading an agile approach to change. He and his team is the winner in the category of “Best Internal Agile Team” at the Agile Awards 2016. Jon is the founder of the Enterprise Agility Leaders Network, is a member of the Disciplined Agile advisory council, a member of the Business Agility Institute advisory council, a member of the Programming Committee for the DevOps Enterprise Summit, a guest speaker at London Business School and talks at 6-7 conferences a year. DOES19 London DOES 2019 EUR DevOps Enterprise Summit https://events.itrevolution.com/eur/
SEACON:UK 2019 What are you optimising for? (Jon Smart)
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SEACON:UK 2019 What are you optimising for? (Jon Smart)

SEACON 2023 takes place on Thursday 19th October in-person (The Oval, London) and live-streamed. Join 30+ amazing speakers and 400+ like-minded attendees by getting your ticket via https://www.seacom.online/seacon-2023 Video from SEACON: UK 2019 Conference 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗖𝗢𝗠: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 We help enterprises succeed by maintaining the ability to rapidly adapt to their environment and customer needs, whilst staying true to an authentic purpose. The speed at which we can adapt to changing economic, social and environmental climates determines success or failure, survival or extinction Like our content? Subscribe to our channel www.seacom.online What are you optimising for? Today, what is your organisation optimised for? Is it optimised for deadlines determined at the time of knowing the least? Is it optimised for assuming the future is fixed and that change is knowable? Is it locally optimised for people grouped by job role? Is it optimised to withhold learning in order to be promoted and paid more? Is it optimised for distance from the customer? Is it optimised for employee engagement? Is it optimised for under-promising? Is it optimised to a one size fits all risk appetite of the lowest common denominator? Is it optimised to be better to say no and to follow the outdated policy rather than try something new which might have more control, sooner and add more value? Is it optimised for needing to run every decision up the chain of command? Is it optimised for late learning? Is it optimised to not act on others learning? Is it optimised for order givers and order takers? Is it optimised for not asking questions, for nor experimenting? Is it optimised for a person who OWNs the damn product? Is it optimised for Water-Agile-Fall? Is it optimised for Masters of framework who are responsible for “promoting and supporting the framework” over better end-to-end outcomes? Is it optimised for the Age of Oil and Mass Production in the 1900s or is it optimised for the Age of Digital today and for the next 50 years? Is it optimised for capital ‘A’ Agile in IT only or is it optimised for Better Value Sooner Safer Happier outcomes end to end? Is it optimised to compete with disruptors who are eating your lunch? Is it optimised to retain and attract people? Is it optimised for society and for the climate? Is it optimised for survival? Does it need to be? Is survival mandatory? Is it better that organisations reinvent themselves, re-training colleagues, to remain a going concern, rather than societal upheaval of collapses Is the talk going to be a never ending list of questions? You’ll have to come along to find out. In this talk Jon is going to share lessons learnt and experiences on the pivot from project to product, from milestones to outcomes, from role tribes to value tribes, from learn slow to learn fast, from old ways of working to new ways of working across organisations, from survival anxiety to survive & thrive. Bio Jon assists organisations to deliver Better Value Sooner Safer Happier, leading on enterprise agility at Deloitte. Prior to this, Jon was leading on better ways of working across Barclays, with 80,000 colleagues in 40 countries. Jon has 25 years experience of taking and leading an agile approach to change, starting out as a developer on the trading floor in the early 90’s. He and his team is the winner in the category of ''Best Internal Agile Team'' and runner up for ''Most Valued Agile Professional (UK)'' at the Agile Awards 2016.
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