S2E16 Pre requisite for Agility with Wolfgang Hilpert & Simon Powers
Channel: Pierre Neis
Date: 2020-08-06

If you are running a business, on a leadership team, or a senior manager, it is highly likely you have heard about agility. It is also highly likely that some people at your organisation are already working or trying to work using agile tools and processes. You may have heard that Agile doesn’t work or that it is impossible to implement.

Maybe you are an agile coach or in an organisational change role, and you have been working with an organisation to help them embrace the challenges that they face and find yourself frustrated with how difficult it is.

It is a small comfort to know that you are not alone in finding organisational change hard. However, in sharing there is learning. Wolfgang Hilpert and Simon Powers have put together a comprehensive map of all the pre-requisites you need to start the journey. If you don’t have these, you will get stuck later on, and that can be time consuming, costly, or even worse totally sap your organisation of energy.

You can use the information presented in this workshop to assess your next client, decide if you are ready in your organisation, or create a program of how to get ready and maximise your chance of success.

Attendees to this presentation can expect to have a wide picture of what is needed and to dive deep into some of the most common pre-requisites that are missed. You can expect to smile as you see familiar challenges and see other pre-requisites that you had not thought of before.

The outcome will be that you have a much better chance of success through considering a wide range of needed building blocks to make the change work and be able to determine when and how the change will stall by seeing what is missing. This can then be used to fill in the gaps and re-start stalled or failed change programs.

About Simon Powers
Simon is the founder and CEO of AWA, and has over 20 years’ experience helping very large organisations to thrive in the market and to be better places to work. He works with the board of directors or senior managers to transform the way that they see themselves, each other, and their organisations. The results are better organisational design, better processes, more engaged staff, and an organisation that is customer focused and more successful. Simon is also an authorised trainer for ICAgile and a member of the ICAgile Expert – Enterprise Agile Coaching certification committee and is one of the first people in the world to hold the ICAgile Expert in Enterprise Coaching certificate.

About Wolfgang Hilpert
Wolfgang has led product and technology organisations over the last 25 years. He evolved from co-founder of a startup company to executive leader at some of the leading global tech companies such as IBM, Microsoft and SAP, and some midsize companies. In his most current position, he has been leading the Agile transformation at HERE Technologies as VP Business Agility.
Over the past 12 years Wolfgang developed a strong passion for Lean and Agile methods, principles and mindset. He is determined to help other individuals and organisations benefit from his experiences.