Matt Anderson, Angela Metoyer & Glenn Watson | 01:45 – 03:00
Abstract
The path to agile is more of a journey than a destination. At Grange, this has definitely been the case over many years. Join us as we discuss OUR reality of an agile transformation; the beginnings, the successes, the challenges, and the future. We won’t be sharing ‘best practices’, secret sauces, or silver bullets. We will share an honest overview of the Grange journey, including what has and hasn’t worked, the ups and downs, the victories and the defeats.
Speakers
Glenn Watson is Associate Vice President, IT Application Development at Grange Insurance.
Matt Anderson has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services and Insurance industries, with several years in management consulting. He has held various leadership positions in both IT and operations, supporting systems development ranging from day-to-day support to enterprise integration efforts across mission-critical platforms.
Matt is passionate about the intersection of agile, complexity, and leadership in today’s organizations.
Angela Metoyer is a leader within the PMO organization at Grange Insurance. She has 30+ years in both the business and technology delivery areas. In her role, she has oversight for project management, agile and business requirements functions. Angela leads the Commercial Lines business unit through their strategic and operational priorities from planning through execution.
Over the last 5 years, Angela has focused much of her time, energy and passion leading the PMO, IT and QA teams through transformation from traditional development methods to agile. “My passion for leveraging agile for software development is driven from my belief that empowerment enables innovation and high performance”.
Glenn Watson is Associate Vice President, IT Application Development at Grange Insurance.
In his role, Watson oversees all personal and life application development. Over the past several years there has been a growing focus on leveraging agile principles. He has been practicing agile techniques for over the past 10 years. He has developed his IT leadership skills during a long career in insurance.