Alan Shalloway

Alan Shalloway

Al Shalloway is considered a thought leader in several areas including Lean, SAFe, Kanban, Scrum, design patterns, Acceptance Test-Driven Development, Lean-management, value creation networks, Lean product management and more. Al is the creator of FLEX (FLow for Enterprise Transformation) which is the core of the Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant workshop - PMI’s premier Agile at scale approach.  

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Alan Shalloway's Talks
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An Agile Developer's Guide to Lean Software Development
Date    August 25, 2009
Time    104 min
This webinar explains what Lean is from the perspective of Agile development, including the seven principles of Lean Software Development.
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An Introduction to Kanban for your Team and Organization
Date    November 22, 2011
Time    69 min
This webinar with Alan Shalloway introduces Kanban as a method to introduce change into organizations as well as a way to understand the basics of product development flow.
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Lean-Agile Software Development: Where to Start
Date    December 2, 2011
Time    87 min
This webinar shows how Lean Principles can guide Agile development.
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The Four Reasons 68% of Development Projects Will Not Succeed This Year
Date    April 5, 2012
Time    69 min
In this webinar, you will learn the 4 reasons that more than 2/3 of software development projects do not succeed and you will receive an unbiased view of which Agile methods can actually address your problems.
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Integrating Systems Thinking into Enterprise Agile
Date    March 21, 2013
Time    81 min
Systems thinking - the process of understanding how things influence one another within a larger whole - can provide insights on overcoming challenges related to Agile.
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Understanding the Scaled Agile Framework
Date    March 25, 2014
Time    44 min
This webinar outlines how to start and prescribes practices at various levels.
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Lean-Agile Development: The 3rd Generation of Agile
Date    July 21, 2015
Time    81 min
This webinar introduces the lean-agile mindset and how one can select which of Scrum’s or Kanban’s practices best work in a given situation.
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Decisions to Make About What to Do-- NOT What Process to Implement
Date    June 16, 2016
Time    62 min
This webinar will teach you how to cherry pick from different methodologies and best practice approaches, so that you are not limited to one single methodology or another.
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Using Guiderails to Tie Business with IT
Date    January 25, 2017
Time    71 min
This webinar will explain the concept of Lean-Agile Guiderails: 7 agreements made across an organization to speed the delivery of business value and increase predictability and quality.
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A Lightweight Framework for Agile at Mid-Scale
Date    April 26, 2018
Time    87 min
This webinar will help you understand what must be done to achieve agility in a mid-sized technology group (100-500 people).
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Value Realization Stream Management: Increasing Business Agility
Date    March 5, 2019
Time    68 min
You should be reducing the cost of risk - not avoiding risk. This webinar discusses a holistic method for such an approach.
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The Third Decade of Agile (Enterprise Agile and the Realization of Value)
Date    April 15, 2020
Time    90 min
With Agile going to the enterprise it must both scale across, up and down the value stream, from strategy to realization of value. This webinar discusses the shift in Agile from "developing software" to "realizing value".
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Why Frameworks Look Good but Are Actually Traps: How to Get Out of Framework Prison
Date    January 6, 2021
Time    72 min
This webinar will introduce a few key concepts and theories that can help adopters of Scrum and SAFe avoid failures.
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Inherent Simplicity – How to Deal With Complexity in Knowledge Work in a Simple Way
Date    September 8, 2021
Time    76 min
This webinar discusses how the concepts of Inherent Simplicity provide us with nine factors for efficient value streams in knowledge work.
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Why We Need to Focus On Success and Use an Engineering Approach to Achieve
Date    January 25, 2022
Time    75 min
This webinar explores why so many organizations are not achieving success with Agile and outlines an approaching for remediating these common problems.
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A Simple, Effective Way to Start a Team With Agile That Can Adapt to Most Any Context
Date    June 17, 2022
Time    72 min
This webinar presents a different way to get started with Agile at the team level. It presents a decision framework that is used to create a starting point and a method for selecting appropriate practices.
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Why Pattern Languages Are the Future of Agile
Date    January 19, 2023
Time    59 min
Most companies adopting Agile do so with a framework. Frameworks provide necessary structure and quick starts. But they also lock people into solutions that may or may not fit them.This talk discusses how pattern languages can provide the needed structure while keeping solutions flexible. They also increase focus on our real problems and not just improving a framework adoption.