Darren Wilmshurst - Using Lean-Agile to deliver Enterprise Transformation - Agile Tampere 2022
Channel: Agile Finland
Date: 2022-12-22

Using Lean-Agile ways to deliver Enterprise Transformation Execution

This talk is all based on the work we have done with a Radtac Team in a Military Organisation in the UK that wanted to adopt Lean-Agile ways of working and the various experimentations we have run. So, this is practice not theory! The organisation wanted us to enable transformation and not have it ‘done to them’ i.e. teach them how to fish and not to fish for them! They didn’t want a traditional SI approach to change.

So, in an effort to ‘drink our own champagne’ we wanted to implement change in an agile way and create an organisation that could sustain their change going forward.  So, I am going to talk about how we have used the work from John Kotter and how we applied them to an Enterprise Transformation Execution.  In particular doing Transformation Execution in an Agile way and yet, time after time I see organisations undertaking change (in particular agile change) in a waterfall way! They design everything upfront, create a beautiful but completely fictitious plan and then set up a number of siloed workstreams to implement the plan!

The irony of trying to improve the effectiveness of an organisation but setting a change organisation that is itself siloed never fails to escape me!

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Darren Wilmshurst
Director Cprime Ltd, SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) and SAFe Fellow

Darren has a background in commercial management, being an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers following sixteen years in Retail Banking. His final role was as a Senior Personal Banking Manager at Lloyds TSB.

A career change into IT in the late 1990s has led to a number of roles within IT including three Head of Department positions covering the complete spectrum of IT delivering complex programmes, business transformations and an impressive record of negotiating and implementing multi-million pound contracts including Outsourcing, Off-shoring and ERP systems. He is also a Chartered IT Professional.

Darren is now a Director of Radtac (a Cprime Company), a Global Agile Consultancy Business based in London. Darren is also a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT), one of only c.120 worldwide and recently recognised as a SAFe Fellow. He is also a contributor to the SAFe Reference Guide 4.5 and founder of the London SAFe Meet-up Group.

Finally, he is the Treasurer of BCS Kent Branch and co-founder of the Kent Scrum User Group. Also, a co-author of the BCS Book “Agile Foundations – Principles Practices and Frameworks”, a contributor and reviewer of “The ART of avoiding a Train Wreck”, and a reviewer of “Valuing Agile; the financial management of agile projects”.