Guest Speaker, Robert Snyder
Robert Snyder is the founder and president of Innovation Elegance, LLC. His thirty-year career spans roles such as developer, project management, change management, sales enablement, and the performing arts. His career path includes corporate roles, consulting roles, startups, PMP, and Agile certifications. He’s performed in numerous vocal, dance, and theater ensembles. Robert earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and his MBA in Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Robert is publishing a series of books on innovation methodology.
“Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace” (available now)
“Innovation Portfolio: Five Verbs Shape Your Team’s Legacy” (available now)
“Elegant Leadership: Distinguishing the Good, the Bad, and the False” (targeting 2025)
1:00pm Room 130
A Modern Manifesto: Rewriting The Agile Manifesto in the Style of the Agile Manifesto, for this Decade (Find Session Material Here)
The Agile Manifesto was published in 2001 as a reaction to generally accepted software development practices in the 1990s. Twenty-three years later, Agile has evolved. One strength of the manifesto is that its word choice and sentence structure are conducive to small adjustments. Twenty-three years of lessons learned have piled up. Could we rewrite the manifest here in 2024, and again in 2047? One person tried. This session presents his writing exercise. He welcomes your feedback.
2:00pm Room 125
What AI Buzzwords Teach Us About Good Old-Fashioned Teamwork
Even in a flood of AI, we continue to learn about humanity. We’ve learned new vocabulary such as LLM, prompt engineering, and hallucinations. We apply this vocabulary to interactions with websites such as Midjourney, Jasper, and ChatGPT.
But the world is screaming for empathy and wants us to be people-centric. What’s a girl to do? A person with AI buzzwords won’t replace you, but a person who knows how to apply AI buzzwords to improve teamwork might replace you. This session applies the AI fundamentals we learned over the past two years to our true performance and profitability bottlenecks: teamwork.
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