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David M. Wennergren, Assistant Deputy Chief Management Officer, Department

of Defense

Dave Wennergren has over 30 years of leadershipexperience in information technology and change

management across the Department of Defense andfederal government. Currently he serves as the

Department of Defense Assistant Deputy ChiefManagement Officer, where he is the principal deputy to

the DoD Deputy Chief Management Officer and champions

the Departments efforts to better synchronize, integrateand optimize DoD business operations to improve

effectiveness and increase efficiency. He previouslyserved as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for

Information Management, Integration andTechnology/Deputy Chief Information Officer, where he

led the information technology and information management efforts for theDepartment of Defense. In addition to these duties, Mr. Wennergren served forfive years as Vice Chair of the U.S. Governments Federal CIO Council, and has

also served as Chair of the Committee for National Security Systems and Chair ofthe Department of Defense Identity Protection and Management Senior

Coordinating Group.

International Keynote

Combat Identification Server: How Agile Helped the MoD With Critical

Capability Identification (CIDS)

Brian Wernham, Agile Project Management Consultant, UK, and Author, AgileProject Management for Government

Steve Messenger, Software Engineering Manager for Napp Pharmaceuticals, UK,

and Chairman of the DSDM Consortium

Brian Wernham has more than 30 years experience inadaptive change program leadership. He is an

independent consultant and works in both the public sectorand the private sector. He has extensive international

experience in the USA, UK, Canada, Hong Kong, Germanyand offshore development in Bangalore.

About the Book

Agile Project Management for Government

The indispensable guide to agile leadership for the public

sector

The US Department of Defense canceled a Human

Resources project after 12 years of wasted effort: $1bnwas written off, costing every US taxpayer $100. The UKgovernment terminated an emergency fire services

project, and 469m was written off in a single year. Justone failure amongst many

Large government technical development projects

self-destruct on a regular basis despite intense politicalscrutiny and detailed audit.

This book explains how agile leadership reduces the risks

of failure in Government. It is essential reading forleaders in central, federal and local government and for

senior managers in companies with government clients.

Highlights include:

Reasons why many large change projects have failed and how to ensureyours doesnt

The 9 Agile Leadership Behaviors for success!The low-down on US and UK government rules, regulations and strategiesHow to lead successful projects using Scrum and DSDM

The first 75 attendees to arrive at the workshop will receive a copy of Brian's book

courtesy of the DSDM Consortium and the book's publisher.

Sponsored by

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Steve Messenger is Chairman of the DSDM Consortium and a

leader in agile development. Steve is Software EngineeringManager for Napp Pharmaceuticals and has been involved in Agile

since its inception, DSDM being one of the signatories of the AgileManifesto, and was also pioneering iterative approaches tosoftware development from the mid 1990s. As well as managing

many Agile projects, Steve has implemented DSDM into the highlyregulated pharmaceutical industry. Steve is a Certified DSDM

Practitioner, Trainer and Examiner and has co-authored papers onDSDM and PRINCE2, applying DSDM in an offshore environment and using DSDM

with PMBOK.

About the DSDM Consortium

The DSDM Consortium is a not for profit organisation.

Mission statement

The mission of the DSDM Consortium is to develop andpromote best practice and learning for successful Agile

projects.

DSDM is all about scalable Agile delivery of projects and programmes with the rightamount of governance and control that enables innovation.

Visit the web site.

DAU Speaker

Scaling Agility - Agile Systems Engineering

Dr. Matthew R. Kennedy, Professor of Software Engineering, Defense AcquisitionUniversity (DAU)

Matthew R. Kennedy is a Professor of Software

Engineering at Defense Acquisition University (DAU).Previously he was the Associate Director of Engineering at

the National Cancer Institutes Center for BiomedicalInformatics and Information Technology (CBIIT).

He served in the U.S. Air Force as a network intelligence

analyst and has more than 13 years of experience inInformation Technology. He has a Bachelors and Masters

degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Computer

Science and Software Engineering.

Closing Keynote Speaker

The Management Revolution that is Happening Today: How the era ofRadical Management has already begun

Steve Denning, Management Consultant, author ofThe

Leader's Guide to Radical Management:

Re-inventing the Workplace for the 21st Century

Steve is the author of the award-winning books, The

Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Re-inventing theWorkplace for the 21st Century (Jossey-Bass, 2010), TheSecret Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2007) and

The Leader's Guide to Storytell ing (Jossey-Bass, 2005).

From 1996 to 2000, Steve was the Program Director,Knowledge Management at the World Bank where he

spearheaded the organizational knowledge sharing

program.

In November 2000, Steve Denning was selected as one of

the worlds ten Most Admired Knowledge Leaders (Teleos)

He now works with organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asiaand Australia on leadership, innovation, business narrative

and most recently, radical management.

His most recent book, The Leader's Guide to Radical

Management, can be found on Amazon.

About the Book

A radical new management model for twenty-first

century leadersThe principles described by award-winning author Stephen Denning simultaneously

inspire high productivity, continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and clientdelight. Denning puts forward a fundamentally different approach to management,

with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation: focusing the entire

organization on delighting clients; working in self-organizing teams; operating inclient-driven iterations; delivering value to clients with each iteration; fostering

radical transparency; nurturing continuous self-improvement and communicatinginteractively. In sum, the principles comprise a new mental model of management.

Learn more about Steve's writings and work by visiting his web site.

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