Steven Granese

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Vice President of Transform Practice, AgileThought

Steven Granese has been building innovative software teams and solutions for his entire 18 year career. His expertise lies in transforming organizations to reach new levels of effectiveness, customer satisfaction and employee engagement by adopting agile principles and practices. Steven is responsible for leading the Transform Consulting Practice at AgileThought, where he serves as its Vice President. He leads a team of the top agile coaches, DevOps consultants, and product consultants in the Southeastern United States. Prior to his current role, Steven worked as a consultant at Tribridge for six years where he worked both internally and with clients to evangelize and coach agile ways of working.

Recognized as an expert on Agile, Steven is an avid speaker for companies, conferences and user groups. He is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) and a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) from the Scrum Alliance, and an Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) from the Project Management Institute. He holds a Masters of Science Degree from Carnegie Mellon University in the field of Electronic Commerce, a Masters of Arts from Georgetown University in Communication, Culture and Technology, and a Bachelors Degree from Wake Forest University in Psychology, where he lettered for four years in baseball.

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Conferences

AgileCon at CapitalOne

I spoke at CapitalOne’s private conference called AgileCon on the subject of “Follow the Money – How to Speak to Executives About Agile”. Here is a link to the program agenda.

Agile2018 by the Agile Alliance

I spoke at the global Agile Alliance conference in San Diego with a talk title “Everything I Learned About Agile Coaching, I Learned in Little League Baseball”. See the program agenda here.

ScrumGathering 2017 by the Scrum Alliance

I spoke at the Scrum Gathering in April 2017 with the topic of “Ensure Sprint Success with Stories that are Ready”. Here is a link to the program agenda.

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Everything I Learned about Agile Coaching, I Learned in Little League Baseball
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Follow the Money: How to Talk to Executives about Agile
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Follow the Money: How to Talk to Executives about Agile

When agile initiatives fail, too many agilists are quick to blame leaders by saying “they just don’t get it.” Unfortunately, not enough IT workers appreciate that executives speak a fundamentally different language and typically care about very different outcomes. In this session, I will share what I have learned from interacting with executives, including what has worked and what has failed. I will tell stories about executives who were motivated by the prospect of bonuses, career advancement, and shareholder value, which took priority over adopting agile transformations. Rather than criticizing these executives, I will emphasize the need to have empathy for executives and partner with them to build trust before ever talking about the benefits of agile.

Attendees of this session typically realize that they do not communicate effectively with executives. They have tried to explain agile (and other topics) from their own perspective, using their own language, and describing benefits about which only they care. I detail the mindset that is required to have empathy for executives and learn to speak the language of business. I also explain how attendees can use agile practices to deliver measurable business results as a more effective approach to educating executives. My goal is to have attendees leave with a whole new appreciation for what executives typically care about, so that they can learn how to communicate agile benefits in terms that executives understand.

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