Beyond Agile & PPM: Rethinking the Operating Model for the AI Era

Discover why faster delivery alone is not enough and how leading teams build the decision-making muscle to adapt with AI.

Enterprises spent years and millions making delivery faster. Agile and PPM made work visible and teams accountable. But leaders still feel the organization move too slowly, especially as AI raises the stakes. Boards funded Agile, and now they’re funding AI, yet decisions still lag.

This isn’t about changing strategy every quarter. Strategy is still a three- to five-year hypothesis; the real challenge is the system underneath it, people, process, and culture, that turns it into daily trade-offs about time, money, and AI.

In this fireside chat, you’ll hear from Sudhanva Ramesh, Vice President and Office of Agile Tools Lead at Synchrony Financial, and Dana Hernandez, GigaOm analyst and former enterprise transformation program leader, who have each spent decades driving large-scale transformation across complex organizations. They are joined by Atlassian's Monica Girolami for a fireside chat to examine where delivery-focused transformation plateaus, why visibility is a symptom, and how to build an operating model that works as a decision system, not just a delivery engine.

You'll walk away with:

  • Why “ship faster” stopped being enough, and what leaders feel beneath the visibility problem
  • How to connect strategy to daily trade-offs: what gets done, why, and what stops
  • What the fastest-adapting organizations do differently, and why it is not more re-planning
  • Where AI helps in planning, and the governance questions boards are asking

 

Sprekers

Sudhanva Ramesh

Vice President, Office of Agile Tools Lead, Synchrony Financial

Sudhanva is Vice President, Office of Agile Tools Lead, with deep expertise in enterprise agile tooling strategy and enablement. Currently focused on governing, scaling, and maturing the Atlassian toolset and broader agile tools ecosystem across the organization, Sudhanva brings a strong understanding of the challenges faced by large financial institutions as they optimize tooling to support agile delivery, portfolio management, and governance at enterprise scale. An Advanced SPC (ASPC), Sudhanva has driven the successful rollout of agile tools across numerous Agile Release Trains, empowering technology teams with the right tools, processes, and best practices to deliver with speed, consistency, and control.

Dana Hernandez

Subject Matter Expert

Dana Hernandez is a dynamic, accomplished technology leader focused on the application of technology to business strategy and function. Most recently, she spearheaded technical teams responsible for implementing and supporting all applications for Global Sales for a major airline, owning the technical and business relationship to help drive strategy to meet business needs.

Monica Girolami

Head of Product Marketing, Strategy Collection, Atlassian

Monica Girolami is een transformationele marketingmanager met een passie voor het helpen van bedrijfsteams bij het afstemmen van strategie op uitvoering. Bij Atlassian leidt ze de wereldwijde productmarketing voor de Strategy Collection. Met meer dan 15 jaar B2B-ervaring bij Cisco, Salesforce, NewVoiceMedia en Symantec, brengt zij diepgaande expertise in het ontwikkelen van schaalbare go-to-marketstrategieën die het succes van klanten stimuleren.