An Agile and Iterative Approach to R&D
Brian “Ponch” Rivera
Author, TEDx Speaker, and Organizational Performance Coach, Co-creator of The Flow System
Want to know more about Scrums and Kanban? On Thursday August 13, the ACS-GHS will host Brian “Ponch” Rivera from Hyperdrive, as we launch Virtual Tech Talk series with focus on an agile iterative approach to R&D. There will be time for questions at the end.
Thursday, August 13th
11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT
via Zoom Meeting
Meeting link will be sent to registrants by email.
Speaker Bio:
Brian “Ponch” Rivera is the co-creator of The Flow System™, founder and CEO of AGLX Consulting, a former U.S. Navy F-14 instructor and demonstration team member and current Captain (Select) in the Navy Reserve. He is a Cynefin Foundations Trainer and often co-leads complexity workshops with the co-creator of the Cynefin framework, Dave Snowden. “Ponch” has worked with the co-creator of the Scrum framework, Jeff Sutherland, and the co-creator of Lean Kanban University, and has led several high-profile digital transformations. He often speaks at global Agile, Scrum and Performance conferences on the topics of High-Reliability, Leadership, Teamwork, and Complex Adaptive Systems.
Following the 2017 U.S. Navy incidents at sea, “Ponch” put his civilian career on hold and volunteered to be a member of the 2018 Strategic Readiness Review Industry Best Practice and Learning Culture team where he led engagements with academics and executives on the topics of complexity, leadership, teamwork, safety, and culture. As a result of his combined civilian and U.S. Navy expertise, in early 2019 he was asked by U.S. Navy leadership to help transform the Naval Safety Center using the same concepts propelling the DevOps movement.
Ponch’s recent (past six months) speaking engagements include:
Sensemaking: Silicon Valley Leadership Network
High Reliability and The Flow System: Undisclosed FORTUNE 50 Company
The Flow System: Scrum Day Colombia
5th Generation Warfare (Disinformation): Webinar
Safety as an Emergent Property of a Complex Adaptive System: FEDGOV Complexity Webinar
Design for Flow: TEDx Budapest
OODA loop and the Cynefin Framework: NATO Innovation Conference
Mission Command: AgileCamp Dallas
Effective Retrospectives: Webinar
Advance Cynefin Workshop With Dave Snowden: Toyota Motors
New Ways of Working: Nexxworks, Dreamforce (Salesforce)
bLU Talk: Harvard Business School
