Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility

About Jonathan Smart

Jonathan Smart has been leading an agile approach to change as a business technologist for nearly thirty years starting out as a developer on the trading floor in investment banking. Today Smart leads Deloitte's Business Agility practice helping organizations deliver better value sooner safer and happier through the application of agile lean and DevOps principles and practices organization wide. Previously Smart led Ways of Working globally for Barclays Bank where after 4 years teams were delivering on average three times as much in a third of the time with twenty times fewer production incidents and the highest ever employee engagement scores. He and his team won the Best Internal Agile Team award at the Agile Awards in 2016. Smart is also the founder of the Enterprise Agility Leaders Network a member of the Programming Committee for the DevOps Enterprise Summit a member of the Business Agility Institute Advisory Council a guest speaker at London Business School and speaks at numerous conferences a year. Myles Ogilvie has led supported and coached change initiatives within large and small enterprises for over twenty-five years. An advocate of no-nonsense problem-solving he seeks to build transparency improve collaboration and enable outcomes that produce Better Value Sooner Safer Happier During 2016 when leading ways of working for a major UK investment bank during a period of intense regulatory and controls scrutiny Myles applied lean and agile principles to risk management in the product development process. He is now a passionate advocate of patterns that can help foster a safer leaner and more innovative controls culture. Zsolt Berend is a business agility practitioner coach and trainer. He helps global organizations on their journey to achieving Better Value Sooner Safer Happier. He began his early career as a research fellow in astronomy and then spent twenty years across industry sectors in various roles applying agile and lean practices mainly in telecom healthcare financial services and consulting. He was the global chair of the Agile Community of Practice at Barclays with more than 2500 members and with the Ways of Working Center of Enablement team won Best Internal Agile Team at the Agile Awards 2016. He writes on Medium and is a speaker at conferences and meetups. His passion is data measurements insights and the creation of learning organizations.Simon Rohrer has been a hands on practitioner across both software engineering and enterprise architecture for over twenty-six years and has had a passion for agile software development since picking up the eXtreme Programming white book in 1999. He's passionate about an eclectic and pragmatic approach to modern ways of working incorporating lean agile systems thinking DevOps and other principles and practices at the right pace and in a human context in enterprises typically with a legacy of existing technology and a drive to do things better.