170. Is being Agile the same as knowing Scrum?

Johannesbourg, South Africa

Specialising in building digital age capabilities in organisations using an innovation and business agility method called ADapT. Johann’s focus is practical skills development, using workshops, training, coaching, and consulting to enable people to transform organisations. He helps organisations solve problems, grow people, facilitate difficult change, dream, scheme, and most importantly do. 

He is one of the lead authors of VeriSM™ Unwrapped and Applied and the architect of Agile ADapT™ - was also involved in  the development of COBIT5, ASM, ISO20000 and ISO38500. Awarded itSMF Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. Selected as top 25 Thought Leaders by HDI in 2021. Seleceted at Top 25 Thought Leaders in Agile and in Customer Experience by Thinkers 360 in 2021.

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Dierk Söllner helps his clients with the vision of "strengthening people and teams - empathically and competently" as a trainer and coach. As a certified business coach, he supports teams as well as specialists and managers with current challenges through professional business coaching and training. Combined with his long-standing and comprehensive professional expertise in IT methodological frameworks, makes him a competent and empathetic companion in personnel, team and organisational development. Dierk runs the German speaking business podcast "Business Akupunktur”, has a teaching assignment on "Value Stream based Design for IT Organisations" at NORDAKADEMIE Hamburg and also has published the reference book "IT Service Management with FitSM". Dierk's clients range from DAX corporations to medium-sized companies to smaller IT service providers. 

• DASA DevOps Ambassador for Germany
• Book author of: IT-Service Management mit FitSM (German) which will be available in English in 2024 by TSO 

Dierk's proudest achievement is working successfully for more than 13 years as a self-employed consultant and trainer for a wide range of companies.

Although partly retired, Adrian is Head of Governance and Trustee of MyMelanoma, a new cancer research organisation. He is author of various works, notably the book Agile Beyond IT, adviser, coach, visiting lecturer and writer on organisational and project management agility.

Adrian is a 35 year project professional in 11 commercial industries and the public sector, in the UK and abroad.

Now a Fellow of the Association of Project Management, he has been an active member since the early ‘90s, especially in programme, portfolio and stakeholder management, governance, agility and a diversity champion.

• Fellow of the Association of Project Management
• Author of Agile Beyond IT and Agile Beyond IT LinkedIn newsletter
• Co-author of the Gower Handbook of programme management management (1st Edition)
• Co-author of APM Guides on Directing Agile Change and Agile assurance
• Lead author for programme management for APM BoK7
• Contributor to UK government standards for programme and portfolio management and PMOs. 

Adrian's proudest achievement is publishing Agile Beyond IT which brings together over a decade of research, 35 years of experience and learning by himself and others into the adaptation of agility to the project profession as a whole.

Shola is highly recognised as a leading Training Consultant and Executive Director at Training Creatively. Shola has facilitated training courses for over 5,700 delegates worldwide and has participated in management consultancies for hundreds of well-known organisations in the Financial Services, Process Manufacturing, Media and Insurance Industries. Shola has also been awarded Masters in Business Administration.

Shola is a proud trainer for many certifications such as Change Management, Agile Project Management, Agile Business Analysis, Benefits Management, PRAXIS, BRM, Shola has extensive experience in delivering value to his clients. 

Richard is responsible for developing and delivering the Agile Business Consortium's portfolio of products that advance business agility. The Consortium's products help organisations respond more effectively to the complex and volatile world in which we operate. As the professional body for business agility, the Consortium's products help individuals grow their competence in the application of agile principles. Richard has spent his career working in the advanced technology sector, in a mix of commercial and product management roles in the communications, defence, finance, and transportation sectors.

Richard's proudest achievement includes being a passionate ecologist, technologist, and practical problem solver. He has designed and built two houses with strong ecological credentials.