The Agile Mindset: Principles for Collaborating and Innovating with Agility

Time: 8:30 AM ET | 7:30 AM CT | 5:30 AM PT
Duration: One hour and fifteen minutes

Speakers:
Adrian Cho, IBM


 

What is the one thing that can truly enable individuals and teams to collaborate and innovate with agility? Technology companies claim that you need the latest and greatest tools while consultants will say you need a rigid process of best practices. These things will make a difference but they are useless without a culture that promotes the right principles. Much can be learned from successful teams in other domains such as jazz, basketball, and even special forces military units. In all of these fields, multi-disciplined teams integrate innovative contributions from highly capable individuals into group and individual behaviors. They improvise and act with true agility when the path forward is unknown or unexpected challenges arise. To ensure success, they apply key principles: employ just enough rules to support autonomy while avoiding chaos, establish a groove to maintain momentum and synchronize efforts, act supportively and transparently to cultivate trust and respect, and exchange ideas to realize the benefits of diverse skills. Jazz musician and software development manager Adrian Cho describes the ways in which software developers can learn from jazz musicians and great performers in other domains.

About the Presenters:

Adrian Cho, IBM

With twenty-three years in consulting, research and development, finance, and intellectual property, Adrian Cho helps teams deliver innovative solutions on time. As the development manager for IBM’s Collaborative Lifecycle Management project, he manages the global development of multiple products. As a jazz musician, bandleader, and conductor, he has been described by press as “a cool guide to hot jazz” and “a musical missionary.” His book, The Jazz Process: Collaboration, Innovation and Agility, has been endorsed by a diverse collection of thought leaders while reviewers have praised the book as “a deep exploration of collaborative know-how” and “a concept of leadership and teamwork that’s well suited for the Google-age workplace.”

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