Sue McKinney, VP of Business Transformation at IBM, Somers, NY

Transitioning 25,000 developers to agile development processes is a challenge on its own—and making the transition during a global recession is even more ambitious. Join Sue McKinney as she discusses her experiences leading the move to agile at IBM, how their agile teams often struggled, and ways leaders provided support and understanding at many levels. Learn specific leadership approaches you need to support distributed teams as they adopt and deliver using agile methods. Discover the tools you can use to inspire and motivate change in a large organization steeped in tradition or a small one stuck in its ways. Find out the new leadership skills that teams must encourage and nurture to build a successful agile enterprise.

About Sue

Currently responsible for development transformational activities with IBM’s software development group, Sue McKinney’s major emphasis is driving adoption of agile and lean principles into the mainstream of software development. Prior to this assignment, Sue was a Vice President of Development for the Lotus Division where she led worldwide development for Lotus Domino, IBM Sametime, and WebSphere Portal. In addition to driving transformational activities within IBM, Sue works with large clients to share IBM’s experience and help them scope opportunities for their own transformational activities.