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Highlights about the AgileCamp Dallas Edition 2017

Hello Everyone!

2017 has been a great year full of good challenges! New clients, several sessions (design thinking, innovation, agile workshops), new countries, new cultures, new friends, talkings and approximately 600 people whom have attended those cool events I was part of but prior to year´s end, I want to share great memories from the AgileCamp that took place in Dallas by December 1st.

This is a special event to me not only by its dimension and level of importance within the innovation and agile global community but as well as milestone in my personal life in sharing the stage and meeting such amazing people that I admire such as Scott Ambler, Ahmed Sidky and David Marquet.

In this opportunity, I did talk about #innovation #agility practices and the agile mind set in driving a culture of innovation mixing up my background in music performance and composition.

InnovationAgilityThe focus was in to incorporate such practices and use them in a disciplined way to create possibilities, take actions, get results and hopefully generate new beliefs in an iterative way.

I had the great pleasure to meet Ahmed Sidky, Head of Development Management, Rio Games. Mr. Sidky has delivered a great talking about Evolving Agile Leadership at Riot Games. Amazing story of challenging convention. This is the legendary game company behind the League of Legends which by the way I am an addicted player!

Scott Ambler has presented about How to Overcome the Challenges of Adopting Agile in Established Enterprises. I follow Scott´s work for years and he is one of the creators of DAD – Disciplined Agile Delivery along with Mark Lines. Unfortunately, I could not attend Scott´s talking as I was presenting at the same time but glad we were able to catch up and share the same table during lunch!

Finally, but not least, the great Stacey Louie, AgileCamp Founder and Managing Director at Hyperdrive Agile Leadership. I loved the event´s format! Thanks for having me in to share my experience and thoughts.

Thanks to the volunteer´s team and special thanks to David Tochukwu and Arnel Cayabyad! Long live to the AgileCamp future editions!

Take care! Raf!

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Highlights about the Congreso en Direcíon de Proyectos Guadalajara 2017

I know it has been a while since I have talked about #innovation #agility practices in this wonderful conference organized by the PMI Guadalajara Chapter but I could not let it go without sharing some highlights from amazing talkings that I was blessed to hear!  Special thanks to my friend Miguel Castañeda for the invitation to be part of this remarkable event!

By September 29th, the day was beautiful and I have arrived one hour earlier at Auditorio Pedro Arrupe ITESO. I did register myself and set a couple of things prior to my talking. I did grab some coffee, hanged out with my friends from IBM México and meet folks from the PMI Guajajara Chapter: Mario Muñoz and Jose Luis Gomez

Regarding the first talking of the day, Alecia Hoobing did a great job in sharing cool stories about her experience within product management area. She has presented the 10 Core Values for Building Innovative Products and walk us through each powerful value and how to put it into action starting with ourselves! If you handle innovation in your work I do recommend you to print it out and attached it to the wall!

Secondly, Dr. Roberto Osorno Hinojosa, researcher and project manager at ITESO Jesuit University has presented in a very funny and graceful way about Open Innovation: Lessons from focusing on clients.

Dr. Roberto has shared great insights about the benefits of the open innovation. In general, we thought that innovation is related with the latest tech buzz thing but Roberto´s approach in showing how to do it using real local examples was quite impressive. Pretty much the same way as described in the Open Innovation Garage website: Effective, easy and affordable. Long live to the Open Innovation Garage!

The next talking was about Digital Era and how to manage such transformation presented by my friend Victor Hugo Estrada. What has caught my attention was how Vic did walk us through how the digital era and most importantly how to mix it all up nicely: Digital transformation, Design Thinking, Lean UX, Agile and Lean Optimization. Nice way to “fusion” it all together!

After Victor, I did present my thoughts on Innovation Agility practices in driving incremental and disruptive innovation. I have shared some approaches using real examples from the Relativity Theory, Frozen Food to the Ipod eras as well about how to shit your mind to looking for good problems instead of generating ton of new ideas without focus. In such scenario, collaboration is a must and you should distinguish where your organization are in terms of Collaboration vs Cooperation practices. It is big deal!

Then, how to apply some innovation agility practices in your day to day activities to unleash your creativity in order to generate positive impacts to your team, organization and your community.

And finally, I am glad I was on the stage prior to Mr. Kumamoto because he just rocked the place down! 🙂

What a great and powerful message about team working, collaboration and courage! Mr. Pedro Kumamoto is an activist, culture agent and he does represent the District 10 at the Congress of Jalisco Estate. He is the first independent candidate to win an election via popular representation. He is also an activist and culture.

Pedro has shared great stories about his journey until became a congress man. He talked about how his team used free online tools to manage pools, engage the community and the importance of having an engaged team that are willing to move mountains for a good cause. By the way, although Pedro Kumamoto did not mention about it, a ton of agile values and practices were presented as key aspects for a new agile way of working.

Stay tune for the next PMI gathering!Take care! Raf