Ian Maple | SpeakerHub

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Ian is a renowned technology leader, trainer, agilist, and keynote speaker with a wealth of experience in leading and collaborating with technology teams and organizations of all sizes across the globe.

His career achievements include leading significant enterprise agility initiatives at top Silicon Valley tech companies like Intuit and Workday. Ian’s method skillfully combines consistency with flexibility, allowing teams and organizations of various sizes and types to adopt and advance agile, design, and innovative methodologies effectively.

Ian is committed to empowering leaders and team members, having mentored and trained thousands. He has fostered a new era of agility, innovation, and business success. His contributions have not only furthered corporate goals but have also made a lasting impact on the individuals he has mentored, aiding them in reaching new professional heights.

Ian's leadership goes beyond mere team guidance; it's about inspiring change and nurturing the next generation of technology innovators and business leaders.

Current position (1)

CEO and Founder

AgilityZen

Degrees (1)

Computer Science

University of Auckland

1989

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Beyond the Agile frameworks - Adapting and accelerating agility for your organization

In the 20 years since the Agile Manifesto and principles were crafted, companies and organizations world-wide have embraced Agile as a more effective way of working.
Companies rushed to adopt frameworks like Scrum and Kanban—and more recently scaled frameworks like SAFe and Nexus—believing that doing so would make them Agile and all would be good.

Although frameworks definitely have benefits, they are only a starting place. To get the full benefits of agility, organizations must do more than apply the frameworks in a prescribed way: they must adapt the frameworks to their own unique ecosystems. This is the essence of the difference between ‘doing Agile' (following a script or recipe) and ‘being Agile' (understanding principles and adapting to the needs of the situation).

Measuring Awesome Agility! Stop the weaponization of metrics and focus on what matters!

Agile is best form of software development, since everything else we have tried. But how do we know?
What should we be watching to ensure that we are delivering the awesome agility outcomes that Agile promises?
Measuring Agile is not simply about watching velocity and sprint commitments. In an increasingly customer obsessed and data driven world, teams and organizations must have a much more holistic view of the metrics needed for successful outcomes.
If you are picturing a sea of metrics that need to be turned green then you have the wrong picture. What is needed is a surgical focus on the metrics that matter by our teams that deliver the customer value.

What am I in Agile? Forget about roles and focus on responsibility clarity

High performing teams, at any level, share many characteristics but one of the most important is ‘Who is responsible for what?’. Getting a clear picture of this is often challenging and can lead to unnecessary finger pointing and stress if not done right, or not done at all.

This is especially true as we move to more integrated teams with representation from various disciplines. This is often true of senior leadership teams.

Teams are made up of individuals with unique skills and passions. Visualizing and optimizing these is key to team health and performance.

Join us in this session to learn how to effectively map any team to the new roles needed, including ‘technical owner’, for a high performing Agile team, regardless of current roles or job titles.

Beyond Planning Poker - Why we fail at estimation and what to do about it!

Agile is a team sport and estimation with planning poker is a perfect example of how we embrace that, but let’s face it, many teams are not great at providing reliable estimates.

Unfortunately, traditional planning poker can focus on the question of ‘how big is it?’ and can skimp on the question of ‘what is it?’ and even more importantly ‘why is it?’.
To provide accurate estimates and maximize team outcomes such as productivity, quality, speed, and predictability, all these questions need to be considered.

This session will introduce Beyond Planning Poker which extends traditional planning poker to ensure we are focusing on the correct, ‘what’ and ‘why’, and also even considering the ‘should’, as in ‘should we even do this’?

Innovation at Intuit - Designing for Agile Delight

Are you unsure how to innovate effectively in an Agile environment? Are your customers or internal teams less than delighted with the products and solutions you provide them?

Come and learn how Intuit applies an innovation culture and their own Design for Delight process. Integrating Design Thinking with Agile to deliver and enhance their world-class enterprise agility program.

We will be covering the outline of the Design for Delight (D4D) process including customer-driven innovation, deep customer empathy, go broad to go narrow and rapid experiments with customers. We will also walk through an example of how we applied the D4D process to solve a key customer problem for our internal Agile program, i.e. drinking our own champagne.

Don't just deliver features, delight your customers!

Are we really a team? How teams with agile flight crews go faster with higher quality and more fun!

Imagine delivering your user stories with the same extreme quality and consistency standards of a commercial flight. The Flight Crew technique shows how teams can be truly integrated and deliver user delight together in a highly consistent fashion that allows them to predictably deliver exceptional agility outcomes in a way that’s more engaging and fun

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