160. How to achieve an Agile Mindset

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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Germany and The Netherlands

on behalf of APMG Stephan is working with Channel Partners and Trainers in the education space. He achieved business growth in the region and has used many of his capabilities in the IT Service Management and Project Management environment to engage with the community and to improve the relationships with his customers. Prior to his career with APMG Stephan has been the Managing Director of a training and consulting company. From his studies in law and communication sciences he started his career with IBM and a Germany based systems integrator.

Stephan is a member of the BPUG and a board member of itSMF. His engagement in the community helps him to contribute to a variety of topics in the industry. He is certified in IT Service Management, Project Management and is a Business Relationship Management Professional.     

Malini is a highly experienced Business Relationship Manager who specialises in nurturing high-performing BRMs and teams. She is regularly invited to deliver keynotes and presentations at professional and academic forums in Australia, USA, UK and India. Her personal BRM story titled 'Walk Fast, Walk Far' has been described as "the most impactful presentation" at BRMConnect 2017, Sydney. In her spare time she writes about food, culture and relationships.

Malini facilitates APMG accredited Business Relationship Management certification courses through ITSM Hub.  

• Featured in the BRM Institute’s global list of Top Business Relationship Managers in 2019 and 2020
• 5 Global Excellence Awards, BRM Institute
• Service Excellence Award, Department of Health & Human Services, Victoria Australia

Malini has written Begin the day with a tomato - Creating connection and belonging within a team and one of her proudest achievements in recent times has been supporting her team to achieve six Hall of Fame inductions in 2021! 

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.

Sachin has 20+ years of ERP transformation experience from the Client, Prime Integrator and Tier Supplier perspectives .  He is a member of the Association of Cost Engineers' (ACostE) Southwest Regional Board, Nuclear Institute's Digital SIG (DIGSIG), and Institute of Risk Management (IRM) Risk & Complexity SIG, Sizewell C Consortium member, and AI for Nuclear (AI4N) Working Group.

 He is also an expert in Project Management Methodologies, Tools, and Product Development Lifecycle(s): MAPM, MIRM, IVM and Six Sigma certified. Sachin is a skilled user of tools to support agile delivery management including being a (Jira, Confluence, Kanban boards, Waterfall, RPA, and Scrum) Deltek Partner, Oracle Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner, AXELOS P3M3 Consulting Partner (ACP).

Awards and Nominations - 

Listed below are Sachins past conference presentations, and publications:

• Project Controls 2020 Expo Speaker “Moving Towards Agile Project Delivery for Large Infrastructure Projects”
• Project Controls 2021 Expo Speaker “Using Power Platform to create an autonomous Project Controls office on Transport for London’s (TFL) Piccadilly Upgrade programme”
• Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE) 2022 Conference “Digitising your Commercial & Project office”
• PM World Journal “How I learned to stop worrying and love risk”

Sachins proudest achievement includes: 

Developing an ISO9001 certified and Cyber Essentials certified consultancy service which has delivered PMO, Programme Delivery and Transformational Change on major ERP projects, and Infrastructure projects across EMEA, and APAC regions, via framework contracts tendered, and won under our own name, through Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

Sachin's Digital Bages :

• Project Controls Expo Speaker (2020, 2021, 2022)
• Deltek Acumen Fuse and Cobra Certified
• Member of the Association of Cost Engineers (MACostE) [Roll No: 7214]
• The Association of Controls Management
• 2019 PMO Global Trends Conference Speaker  [Blockchain ID: 598972]
• Certified Member of Institute of Risk Management (CMIRM)  [Credential ID 1964]
• Six Sigma Certified (Green Belt)
• Member of Association of Project Managers (MAPM)
• Application Associate, Project System with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP
• Past AXELOS P3M3 Assessor and ACP Consulting Partner