Chris Howard Manager, Delivery Coaching, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Chris Howard has been working hands-on with agile product teams for over 12 years, focusing his craft on delivery, team leadership and coaching. Having worked in Australia and the UK in large companies and for award winning digital product agency ustwo. Chris currently leads a team of Delivery Coaches within ABC Digital Products.

Chris has a passion for creating engaging, high performing working environments that encourage people to be human and to bring their best self to work, every day.

with Brendan Marsh – Product & Org Adviser, Organa

Empowered product teams sound simple, until you scale. In large orgs, strategy often turns into huge amounts of planning and process, with little room for uncertainty & discovery. So how do you align tens or hundreds of teams to big outcomes without SAFe-style control? Drawing on over a year of experience addressing this challenge at ABC Digital, we’ll demonstrate a lightweight model for turning strategy into coordinated action. You’ll learn where key decisions belong, how to think about strategic bets, and how to balance alignment with autonomy.

with Brendan Marsh – Product & Org Adviser, Organa

A special opportunity to dive deeper on the topic of flight levels and strategic bets in a small group setting. Come with your questions ready to have a relaxed conversation with Brendan and Chris.