Ahmed Sidky Speaker Biography
Global Thought Leader on Agile and Business Agility
Ahmed Sidky, Ph.D, is a well-known thought-leader in the Agile community and is also known by many as Dr. Agile. Ahmed combines over seventeen years of software development experience, with research from his Ph.D. in Agile transformation and agility assessment to help leaders and knowledge workers achieve measurable and sustainable organizational agility by being Agile not just doing Agile.
Riot Games
Currently Head of Business Agility at Riot Games, he builds the strategic capabilities and agile systems that advance Riot’s aspiration to be—and stay—the world’s most player-focused game company. Earlier, as Chief of Staff to the CEO, Ahmed operationalized Riot’s vision through major strategic projects and companywide transformations. Ahmed first joined Riot Games as Head of Development Management, leading a team of 80 agile coaches and delivery leaders to keep Riot agile as it grew exponentially.
Clients
Dr. Sidky helps guides enterprise agile transformations in Fortune 100 companies as well as small to medium companies, and educates people on the agile mindset and how to create lean, high performing, teams, starting from CEOs to junior developers in companies around the world such as: Verizon Wireless, Caterpillar, Nationwide Insurance, ConAgra, Cisco, Siemens, Blackboard, ITWorx, Riot Games, Oracle, Booz Allen Hamilton, Vodafone, and several agencies in the US Government.
Book
Dr. Sidky is the co-author of a top-rated Agile adoption book Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World. Becoming Agile discusses the cultural realities of deploying Agile and how to deal with the needs of executives, managers, and the development team during migration.
Affiliations
Ahmed is President of the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile),and also co-founder of the Business Agility Institute.
Keynote Speaker
He is a frequent invited speaker at numerous Agile Conferences around the world and divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing.
Ahmed Sidky Speaking Topics
Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World
Many people discuss Agile from a theoretical or academic perspective. Becoming Agile takes a different approach and focuses on explaining Agile from a case-study perspective. Agile principles are discussed, explained, and then demonstrated in the context of a case study that flows throughout the speech. The case study is based on a mixture of the author's real-world experiences. Becoming Agile also focuses on the importance of adapting Agile principles to the realities of your environment. In the early days of Agile, there was a general belief that Agile had to be used in all phases of a project, and that it had to be used in its purest form. Over the last few years, reputable Agile authorities have begun questioning this belief: We're finding that the best deployments of Agile are customized to the realities of a given company. Becoming Agile discusses the cultural realities of deploying Agile and how to deal with the needs of executives, managers, and the development team during migration. Dr. Sidky discusses employee motivation and establishing incentives that reward support of Agile techniques.
Emerging Innovations in Agile Software Development
Emerging Innovations in Agile Software Development focuses on the use of agile methodologies to manage, design, develop, test and maintain software projects. Emphasizing research-based solutions for contemporary software development, this publication is designed for use by software developers, researchers, and graduate-level students in software engineering and project management programs.
Ahmed Sidky Books
Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World
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Ahmed Sidky Speaker Testimonials
Ahmed's message on agile is a refreshing perspective that includes putting people first. His passion shows through his message with simple logic that exposes the heart of many organizational problems. Dr. Sidky truly understands the challenges that many organizations face in agile transformation and provides an approach that ensures a long-lasting mindset change.
- Chad Moore |
Ahmed has rich experience working with a range of organizations with deep experience in being agile, not just doing agile. He challenged a lot of my pre-conceived notions, entertained me, and gave me a range of practical tools and techniques that we're already working on applying back in the workplace.
- Tennielle Press |
Ahmed was fantastic, with a pragmatic view of Agility—quickly cutting to the chase on how your organization might best achieve true end-to-end agility. A refreshing departure from the more theoretical practice-focused courses.
- Nick Cahill |