March 21, 2023: Anup Deshpande - Creating a Value Delivery Office (VDO) for Extreme Business Agility

 Anup Deshpande - Creating a Value Delivery Office (VDO) for Extreme Business Agility

Presentation Abstract

Does your organization strive to achieve laser focus on planning the right set of projects and delivering at a predictable pace? Do you want to learn from the successes (and failures) of Extreme Agile Implementation at a Corporate to attain a sustainable business model? Then hope isn’t a plan! It takes more than a year to get into a regular rhythm, with about 1,000 people interacting with the model. If you want to learn directly from the people who’ve made it work, this session is for you.

Expected Takeaways -
- How to set up the Org to bring in Extreme Business Agility
- Pointers to transform PMO into Value Delivery Office
- Knowledge of Org Level Value Realization Metrics

Speaker Bio

Anup Deshpande has been instrumental in Agile Transformation at the enterprise level and has over 25 years of program management, business operations, and security experience in the Software Industry. He has served at the PMI San Francisco Bay Area Chapter as a President, a Chief Governance Officer (CGO), and a Board Member. Anup served as the PMI Silicon Valley Chapter president in 2012 as well. He has been on the Agile Advisory Board and taught as an Adjunct Faculty at UC Berkeley Extension for various Agile and Project Management curricula.

He currently works at a Fortune 100 Healthcare organization as a Sr. Director of Program Management, Business Operations, and Security and has tremendous energy to drive audacious goals for the company. Before this, he worked at various companies, including Yahoo, Visa, and Broadcom, where he spearheaded multiple cross-organizational plans to successful completion.

He has bootstrapped two software product startups successfully. Anup focuses on building Trackegy, one of his young startups, where they prepare the students for the exams and take their confidence off the roof, making them successful in taking on further career advancements. The product also helps lead generation and evaluation for businesses.

Connect with him on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/anupdeshpande