Alumni Discussion Club event with Krists Avots: Agile @ Enterprise - a not that short journey to shorten the time-to-market

Krists Avots (Class of 2013) is the Director of Digital Transformation at Tet, the leading telco & media company. Additionally, he is a Supervisory Council member for LMT and a Board member at Overkill VC – an early-stage venture fund. His professional interests include forming and facilitating agile teams for new product & solution development. Previously, he led the New-bets business division at Tet.

He holds an MA in Digital Management from Teesside University (UK) & Hyper Island (Sweden), Scaled Agile certifications – SAFe 5.0 LPM, PM/PO, and has completed executive education programs on innovation management at the Berlin Academy of Arts and Telia Company. 

In this session, Krists will discuss:

• Reasons for enterprise companies to put the agile way of working on top of the management agenda beyond purely IT organizations.
• Different agile frameworks and their applicability. 
• How agile goes together with other frequently used methodologies like lean and design thinking. 
• A case study of Tet company - how the role of agile methodologies there has evolved over a longer time period.
• Practical considerations for the introduction of agile methodologies in enterprise organizations, including possible risks and mishaps.