Category: DC Organizational Agility Practitioners
Product Management: A Lost Art or the Holy Grail?
In the adoption of agile, organizations are transitioning from a project approach to a customer centric product delivery model. Now, teams faithfully participate in agile ceremonies: Testers dive deeply into automation scripts; Product Owners (POs) shuffle stories up and down the backlog; Business Analysts worry about story readiness; Program Managers…
Leadership’s Role in Creating Conversations for Performance and Change
Pliant Solutions would like to extend a huge Thank You! to all who attended our first Agile Innovation Series session at the Booz Allen Hamilton Innovation Center! “Inspiration, mentor, and ‘Marsha groupie’” are just a few terms used to describe Marsha Acker’s influence and the impact she’s had on those…
Integral Agile Series–Spiral Dynamics
Deliver impactful lasting change through mindful awareness of people and organizations. Spiral Dynamics is the first model we will explore in our Integral Agile series. Spiral Dynamics presents us with a series of “memes” illustrating levels of maturity and complexity in human consciousness. Many of us have heard of “Teal.”…
What is Coaching?
Abstract: The presentation is about coaching. It introduces the audience to coaching from sport coaching through personal coaching to group coaching and then to agile coaching and beyond …. Speaker bio: William Strydom is an Agile Coach working in the Federal space. He was the Vice President of Technology at…
Product Management: A Lost Art or the Holy Grail?

In the adoption of agile, organizations are transitioning from a project approach to a customer centric product delivery model. Now, teams faithfully participate in agile ceremonies: Testers dive deeply into automation scripts; Product Owners (POs) shuffle stories up and down the backlog; Business Analysts worry about story readiness; Program Managers…
Leadership’s Role in Creating Conversations for Performance and Change

Pliant Solutions would like to extend a huge Thank You! to all who attended our first Agile Innovation Series session at the Booz Allen Hamilton Innovation Center! “Inspiration, mentor, and ‘Marsha groupie’” are just a few terms used to describe Marsha Acker’s influence and the impact she’s had on those…
Integral Agile Series–Spiral Dynamics

Deliver impactful lasting change through mindful awareness of people and organizations. Spiral Dynamics is the first model we will explore in our Integral Agile series. Spiral Dynamics presents us with a series of “memes” illustrating levels of maturity and complexity in human consciousness. Many of us have heard of “Teal.”…
What is Coaching?

Abstract: The presentation is about coaching. It introduces the audience to coaching from sport coaching through personal coaching to group coaching and then to agile coaching and beyond …. Speaker bio: William Strydom is an Agile Coach working in the Federal space. He was the Vice President of Technology at…