Removing the Barriers to Organizational Agility

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Summary: Recording of a GW Tech Alumni panel discussion on removing the barriers to organizational agility in government and enterprise environments.

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Recorded at The George Washington University Tech Alumni Group Federal Executive Round Table, November 4, 2010.

Photo of the panelists at the event

Panelists Steven Bucci, William Kirkendale, Brian Moran, Mark Rosenfeld, and Mariano Tan / Photo: GW Tech Alumni Group

(The audio files are no longer available here)

Round Table Participants

  • Hamid Ouyachi, Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Department of Labor
  • Steven Bucci, Cyber Security Lead, Global Leadership Initiative, at IBM & former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense & Defense Support of Civil Authorities
  • William Kirkendale, Chief Information Officer, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency
  • Mark Bryan Rosenfeld, Associate Partner, Public Sector CRM Call Center Optimization, IBM Global Business Services
  • Mariano Tan, President, TeleTech Government Solutions

Moderator

  • Brian Moran, President, GW Tech Alumni Group; CEO, Nester Consulting; & former Director of IT Services, U.S. International Trade Commission

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I'm Ben Balter, and I write here about developer platforms, product and engineering leadership, open source, and showing your work. I spent a decade building developer platforms at GitHub: five years as a product manager for trust and safety, shipping 500+ features and the API endpoints behind them to 50M+ developers, plus a bottom-up rewrite of GitHub Pages and the open source library behind GitHub's license detection. My open source projects have hundreds of millions of downloads. I wrote Open and Async, the playbook for remote and distributed teams, and shipped an MCP server alongside it so agents can query it directly. At GitHub I was also Director of Hubber (Employee) Enablement, owning the internal platform 4,000+ GitHubbers use to get their work done, Chief of Staff for Security, and the company's first Government Evangelist. Before GitHub: attorney, Presidential Innovation Fellow, and member of the White House's first agile development team. More about the author

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