Thursday, March 5, 2020

Presenting at IACP Conference 2020


I’m excited to announce that I’ll be presenting at the IACP Annual Conference & Trade Show on May 6 in Ames on the Iowa State University campus.  The Iowa Association of Community Providers represents approximately 130 community-based organizations who support individuals in need of mental health and disability services. 


In Iowa, most providers of community-based services are small not-for-profits.  Finding information about change management as it relates to their industry can be difficult.  I know, I work for one of them.  There’s an abundance of information about project management and agile as it relates to software development, IT operations, manufacturing, and even human resources.  But information on the unique world of community-based providers?  Not so much.  Which is why I’m excited about this presentation and panel discussion.

The presentation is an interactive retrospective of what we’ve learned at Candeo during the past seven years on our journey from traditional project management to agile mindset and practices.  I’ll be joined by a panel of some of our key stakeholders and product owners: Marcy Davis (CEO), Nancy Baldus (Director of Quality Enhancement), and Steve Gilroy (Employment Services Administrator).  We’ll look at why we started working with project management, and why agile became a better fit for our organization.  We’ll discuss our successes, learning opportunities, and many surprises along the way. 

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