Chapter Meeting: How to implement AGILE in a training environment

Training organizations that hope to remain relevant, must mirror what’s important to the businesses that they support. This means demonstrating product innovation through frequent updates and refreshes to their offerings. Cutting edge businesses have adopted Agile development as a means to meet this end. Training organizations, that want to remain relevant, must do the same. Learn step by step how to transition your current training development approach into an agile model.

• What is Agile?
• The Agile process
• How to implement agile in a training environment

A “fresh voice among the usual author/guru crowd...” who “...brings the credibility of someone who makes a living DOING, rather than TELLING,..” is how Kevin Kurse (The e-Learning Guru) describes Kaliym Islam.

This pioneer in the application of business and technology trends to learning programs has the unique ability to identify the connections between business trends, technology and learning, and to facilitate the organizational change required to implement the required solutions.

Teams under Mr. Islam’s direction have won International STC awards for innovative learning content, been cited by Josh Bersin as a best practice learning organization, and named finalists in the Chief Learning Officer Learning Elite program.

Mr. Islam is the author of two books – Developing and Measuring Training the Six Sigma Way and Podcasting 101 for Trainers, a contributing author to The Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management, Prussience in Six Sigma DUNDU, and The German e-Learning Handbook, and a featured blogger for Training Industry Inc.

He is currently the Vice President of the customer learning organization for the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) where he is responsible for all global customer facing learning activities. Mr. Islam can be reached at kislam@kaliym.com or you can follow him on twitter @thetrainingpro.

Specialties:Thought Leadership… Strategic Planning… Operational Excellence… Change Management... Innovation

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