Dmytro Yarmak

Experienced Leader, Organisational, Agile and OKR Coach with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry.

14 years in IT with software development background and 10 years of leadership for more than 30 teams in Ukraine, Denmark, Germany and Italy. Led product development departments of 120+ team members. Led Agile and IT Transformations, OKR Implementations in big Enterprises.

Designed, launched and led long-term training programs in leadership, facilitation, product owner and scrum mastery topics.

A True Story of Agile Coaching in Ukrainian Armed Forces

I will share a true story of how a Ukrainian Agile Coach dramatically changed his role and became a military officer in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a company lead of 150 soldiers. Imagine you are suddenly responsible for the well-being and lives of 150 people. People that you haven’t chosen, you didn’t have interviews with, people that you cannot change or fire, you’ve got what you have got, and you need to lead them into the successful execution of the battle tasks during war.

What leadership style to choose to lead 150 armed men? How to build a strong and cohesive unit? How to make people trust and listen to you? Can you and your officers, sergeants and soldiers benefit from your Agile Coaching experience? It turned out that yes, definitely!

I will share how instead of traditional Command and Control style I have consistently moved To Enable Leadership On Every Level of the Company. Examples of how knowledge of Cynefin, Management 3.0, Daniel Pink’s motivation theory, values of empathy, scrum, trust, and transparency have helped to build a very strong company unit that was an example for others.

My story shows that true belief in Agile values and principles and People first approach can make a huge difference in any industry, if it is an enterprise organisation, start up or military unit in the war.

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