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Webinar: How Southwest Airlines’ Agile Transformation Helped Them Adapt to Unpredictable Challenges

Agile Velocity

According to Airlines for America, U.S. passenger airlines incurred $35B in net losses in 2020 because of the pandemic. For the past few years, Southwest Airlines has been building Agile capabilities within their organization to adapt to any challenge thrown their way. Director, Technology at Southwest Airlines.

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Your Ultimate Guide to Agile Transformation

Agile Velocity

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Agile Transformation involves all levels of the organization and applies Lean-Agile principles to business processes, practices, tools, operations, and culture.

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Core Values and Agility Move Southwest Airlines Through the Good & Challenging Times | Emily Beatty & David Hawks

Agile Velocity

There have been many times in Southwest Airlines history where times were great. Historically at Southwest, the tough times focus around the core values of the organization: Warrior Spirit, Servant Leadership, and a Fun-Luving Attitude. Focused initiatives and dedicated Teams are created to deliver on key projects… Agile-like.

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TEI 310: Product managers emerge stronger through adversity – with Joseph Michelli, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

He talked with over 140 global business leaders, includes leaders at Google, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Feeding America, United Way, Verizon, Southwest Airlines, and many more. They were agile beyond agile, and for a lot of brands that’s just not part of their DNA. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:47]

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Going from College to Product Manager

The Product Guy

At Hewitt, I was a Business Analyst on the TWA (Trans World Airlines) and Nalco Team. As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. More About The Product Mentor.

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Barry O’Reilly: Learning to Unlearn

Mind the Product

He says the idea of unlearning is beginning to take hold in the region and Asian business leaders are starting to understand that they may have to adapt their leadership: “There’s strong interest in how they can start to do that.”. Although he’s now based in San Francisco, Barry has worked in Asia and has current clients in Japan and China.

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Locked-In Syndrome: What we can learn from Boeing’s 737 Max decisions

Radical Product

Airlines knew the product well and bought it year after year. US based airlines such as JetBlue had Airbus fleets. Boeing was having to play catch-up and was at risk of losing their major client, American Airlines, to Airbus. The 737 was Boeing’s best-selling product. Pilots were comfortable flying it. Boeing had to react.