Speaker Profile
Hillel Glazer, Performance Jedi
Entinex, Inc.
About
Hillel Glazer is a career-long pathfinder who's been reframing how organizations perform for over two decades. He wrote the first peer reviewed article on the intersection of agile and CMM in 2001 and became the authority on blending lean, agile, and modern development techniques with CMMI, ISO, and other world-wide standards. He lead the writing of the SEI's white paper: "CMMI or Agile: Why Not Both!?" He's spent six years as a Visiting Scientist with SEI and is a three-time program chair of the Lean Kanban North America conference series and is the author of the 2012 book, "High Performance Operations: Leverage Compliance to Lower Costs, Increase Profits, and Gain Competitive Advantage".
SPEAKER PRESENTATION
Conference Track: High Maturity
When agile development practices were introduced they were a major revolution in how software was made into products. Most agile adoption focuses on sets of practices. What do you do when you run out of practices? What do you do when conditions on the ground shift out from under the practices? Once those practices are in place, there's not much else left. "Second-Generation Agile" are *advanced* product development concepts, collectively called "Flow." Flow principles promote agility, are inherently resilient to changes in circumstances, and add an economic decision-making nervous system that beginner agile practices alone didn't include. Flow principles are a path (but not a shortcut!) towards CMMI high maturity. Meanwhile, CMMI's other practices solidify Flow principles and extend agile.
Conference Track: Practical Guidance
Mark Andreessen wrote a 2011 OpEd in the WSJ "Why Software Is Eating The World." He posited that every company will have to become a software company. In a 2019 interview he affirms this statement and adds that "The best software company will win." He then describes a trend in business where software and the companies that make it are treated much in the same way that VCs look at investment opportunities—using economics and probabilities. What does that mean to us as CMMI practitioners? It means OPPORTUNITY. But only if we bring ideas that support where the market is heading. Product Development Flow is one such idea that also paves a way for high maturity CMMI and competitiveness.