How to Introduce Agility in Public Sector Organisations?

Webinar and Launch of the first Finnish-language Enterprise Agility Handbook

Date: Monday, 11 November 2024, 3–4 PM

Agile methodologies have transformed the operational culture of many organisations, but how can agility be applied in the public sector? What are the concrete benefits and opportunities?

We warmly welcome you to our free webinar, where you’ll have a unique opportunity to hear how the Finnish Tax Administration (Verohallinto) and the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela) have adopted agile ways of working and what results they have achieved. Through these concrete examples, you will learn how the agile model can function in the public sector.

In addition, WikiAgile's Maarit Laanti will share practical experiences of introducing agility into public sector organisations and present the newly released first-ever Finnish-language Enterprise Agility Handbook. The book, authored by Maarit Laanti and Nora Bäckman, is a comprehensive guide to the basics, history, and future of agile practices.

Agenda:

• Opening: The History of Agility in Finland and Its Importance for the Public Sector – Maarit Laanti (10 min)
• The Agile Journey of the Finnish Tax Administration – Katja Sene (20 min)
• The Agile Journey of Kela – Paula Vesterinen (20 min)
• Q&A and Discussion (10 min)

Join us for this free webinar to hear from pioneers of agility in the public sector!
Reserve your spot and come learn and discuss how agile methodologies can bring flexibility and efficiency to public sector organisations.

About the speakers:

‍Paula Vesterinen is a professional in strategic portfolio management and an agile transformation leader. She has served as the change leader for Kela’s agile transformation. Together with her team, she has defined a business-driven agile development model and the necessary conditions for its implementation at Kela. She also established Kela’s portfolio management function and currently serves as a portfolio manager. Paula has a solid background in IT development tasks for large international companies, including IT capability development, line organisation management, and IT architecture leadership. She holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems Management and is certified in SAFe and ITIL. Paula’s Master’s thesis on lean and agile portfolio management, awarded Best Thesis of the Year in 2015, can be accessed here.

Katja Sene has over 10 years of experience at the Finnish Tax Administration, working in both electronic services and business development roles. Most recently, she has been instrumental in building the operating model for the Product Management Unit and supporting both the unit and product teams in their transition towards more agile ways of working. Her expertise allows her to work smoothly across departments, with a focus on creating a more customer-centric and agile Tax Administration.

Maarit Laanti (WikiAgile Partner, PhD, SPCT, SAFe Fellow) has been working on agile transformations in organisations since 2006. Recently, she has focused on agile hardware development, publishing studies on what agile transformation means in practice in the hardware field and how it can benefit companies. Maarit has an extensive background in international product development.

She is a pioneer in scaled agile methodologies, having completed her PhD on the subject in 2013. Since then, she has continued to publish scientific papers on agility and scaling. In 2013, she co-founded Nitor Delta and introduced the scaled agile framework (SAFe) to the Nordics. She is a contributor to the SAFe model and a SAFe Fellow. Maarit has been named one of the top 100 IT influencers by Tivi magazine for the past three years and is listed among the 100 women who have done the most to advance agile and lean models worldwide (LIA100). In October 2024, Maarit and Nora Bäckman will release their Finnish-language Enterprise Agility Handbook.