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The Agile Mindset - Getting There One Step At A Time

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    Description:
    Do you want your team or organization to be more agile but don't know how?  While there are many ways to travel the road to agility, you don't have to adopt an entire framework at the start. This webcast explores how you, as a leader, might use some of "The Agile" concepts to help your team or organization increase their agility and take the first small steps towards an agile mindset. 

     

    Who can benefit from this webcast:

    Any individual team member, colleague, supervisor, or leader of a team or organization that seeks to become more agile and is looking for a lightweight way of reaching that goal.  


    The Leading Acquisition Series:
    This Series, on the first Wednesday of each month, will help you grow as an acquisition leader.  Building team success; working effectively through others; or spanning team, functional, and organizational boundaries—all will be covered.  DAU's faculty will share the latest thinking on what it means to lead, with practical defense acquisition examples and suggestions on how to apply what you learn at work.  Time in each session will be set aside to answer your questions.


    Speaker:


    Dr. Ann Wong, Learning Director, Executive Programs & Prof, Executive Acquisition Management

    Dr. Ann Wong the Learning Director for Executive Programs and Professor of Executive Program Management at DAU, where she works closely with the executive-level members of the DoD acquisition workforce.  She trains in change management, agile, and software curriculums with a program management focus, and provides consulting services to organizations who are considering transformation, and wanting to improve their agile implementation.  She is firm believer that agility is a mindset supported by practice and, therefore, agile and lean practices can be applicable to project domains beyond just software.  Ann is a Certified ScrumMaster and a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultant (SPC).  She is also certified in organizational change management.

    Prior to joining DAU, Ann served a 24-year Air Force career in a variety of acquisition management and engineering roles.  She has experience in a variety of domains, to include software, information technology, aviation, logistics, space systems, command and control, modeling and simulations, wargaming, military exercise support, and homeland defense/security.  She was also in a small start-up before becoming active duty.

    Ann holds a Doctorate of Engineering Management (The George Washington University), MS in Systems Engineering (Air Force Institute of Technology), MS of Project Management (Golden Gate University), and a DS in Electrical Engineering, Microcomputers Concentration (University of Virginia). She is DAWIA Level III certified in Program Management, Engineering, and Science & Technology Management.

     

    DAU FY21 Webcasts
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