Neil Fasen

Neil Fasen has been an agile evangelist and practitioner for many years at Target. He worked on Target's first mobile teams and saw amazing results from the application of agile principles to their working model. Neil later worked on the “social savings” program and was part of a small group who were empowered to re-set the effort in order to improve it’s effectiveness. The result was the Cartwheel product team, which has been arguably the most successful Target product team to date in terms of the effectiveness of the working model as well as the results. Over the past couple of years in his role as “Agile Orchestrator,” Neil has been working across all of the Target.com and mobile app product teams focused on both evolving their product model and agile practices while also trying to keep the teams aligned and working together. Through this role, Neil has been a strong advocate for valuing outcomes over output and has been championing the OKR planning model as a means to drive cross-product alignment while fostering team level autonomy.