The Power of Self-Managing Teams

Joint Virtual Meeting
IIBA Palmetto, DC Metro, and Cleveland Chapters

Wednesday, January 17, 2024 

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM EST (UTC - 5 hours)

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Free time to log in and network

Agile approaches such as Scrum and Kanban emphasize the use of self-organizing, self-managing teams.  But does the concept really work?  Can teams really perform efficiently without constant oversight and interference from management? If you’ve ever been on a high-performing team, you know the answer is yes.

For those of you who haven’t had that opportunity, or who may need to convince others in your organization of the value….let’s play a game and experience it firsthand!

Led by Kathy Claycomb, teams of participants will perform simulated work in a series of five iterations, with time provided between iterations for reflection and improvement.  At the end of the activity, participants will clearly understand the key benefits of self-management.

Learning Objective: To understand the key benefits of self-management

• Allows leadership to emerge from within the team
• Improves the ability to estimate work and meet delivery commitments
• Improves workflow management by limiting work in progress and eliminating bottlenecks
• Establishes a level of output that is highly productive yet sustainable over the long term

Education Hours:  1.5 CDUs for IIBA Recertification

Location: Online via Zoom

Price: F R E E

Agenda:

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM  Free time to log in and network
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM  Chapter Announcements & Presentation/Game

Speaker:  Kathy Claycomb, CBAP
[LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathyclaycomb/]

Kathy Claycomb brings over 35 years of experience to the classroom. She has participated in all phases of solution development using everything from agile to waterfall methodologies (and quite a few in between). Before joining B2T (https://b2ttraining.com), her career spanned roles from application developer to Senior Director of Services at various organizations. Kathy has a broad industry background, including transportation, manufacturing, insurance, energy, healthcare, and banking. 

Kathy’s first love is teaching, and throughout her career, she has always managed to spend a portion of her time instructing. She has an engaging, highly interactive teaching style that ensures students leave the course with a thorough grasp of the material. Her students consistently praise her teaching abilities and her talent for drawing on her personal experience to enhance their learning.