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Business Sponsor Engagement | Glossary

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Definition:

Having someone on the business side who has the time and inclination to work with the team is critical. Adopting agile methodologies, scrum requires changes on the business side of the development, not just the technical side.

An engaged business sponsor can help the team if it needs to push against entrenched business process, departments, or individuals in delivering valuable outcome to gain competitive advantage in the era of disruptive market. Business Sponsor, is the one who understand the market needs so as he is the person who promotes the success of the project who gets what is expected. Business sponsor accepting and giving positive feedback to team saying present project delivered more than past project will work wonders and help in getting more sponsors.

Further Reading:
Book:SUCCEEDING WITH AGILE Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn

Kanban Management Professional (KMP-II) with Alexei Zheglov on 24-25 September 2018

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INNOVATION ROOTS announces a Kanban Management Professional (KMP-II) Workshop with Alexei Zheglov on 24-25  September, 2018. Alexei Zheglov is a Canadian management consultant, specialising in the Kanban method and Enterprise Services Planning (ESP). He started his career in the 1990s as a software engineer and soon began to notice all kinds of problems modern companies run into as they try to produce and deliver complex intellectual products and professional services to their customers. He tried to “do something about it” and that gradually (by 2010) brought him to Kanban, its power in simplicity, and its pragmatism that is changing people and companies.

The two-day Lean Kanban University-certified Kanban Management Professional (KMP II) class is the second stage of training required to attain the Kanban Management Professional (KMP) credential. This KMP II class, running just after the Lean Kanban India 2018 conference, is your unique opportunity to take this training with Alexei Zheglov, one of the top Kanban experts worldwide (and a Keynote Speaker at Lean Kanban India), It’s an opportunity for deeper learning and getting your difficult Kanban questions answered.

In this workshop, participants will learn Kanban practices to sustain evolutionary improvements, also enhance this workshop with practical guidance on several topics such as: the lead time metric, non-IT Kanban applications, and the secrets of STATIK. How to identify and approach emotional and rational sources of resistance to change. Participants will learn to deal with bottlenecks in high-variability creative processes

Click here to know more and register.