Upcoming Agile Events
Agile Arizona 2019 is happening!!!
Upcoming Monthly Meetings:
August 6th [North/South combined] - Objectives and Key Results - Connecting the Outcomes and the Output. This is a combined North/South meeting with venue and food hosted by Workiva.
September 3rd [North] - AgileCoach - Who do you serve?, Brian, Joe, and Phil. (Hosted at IntraEdge, with food by IntraEdge - Thank you!!!) This month's sponsors include IntraEdge for venue and food, Axosoft for venue and Solutions IQ for food.
Please remember, we'd be in a parking lot - hungry and thirsty if it weren't for our sponsors! :-)
*** NEW: Looking for slides? See our new shared directory (sort on name column to get most recent to top).
[North] March 1st: SAFe’s Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Where: Axosoft (Google Map)
13835 North Northsight Boulevard #205
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Agenda:
6:00 Registration Food and Drink
6:25 Announcements
6:30 Begin the Meeting
8:00 Closing Messages and Announcements
Description: SAFe’s Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Speaker Bio: Charles Maddox
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[South] Feb 15th – Design Studios: Unleashing Your Teams Creative Potential!
Where:
IntraEdge (Google Map)
5660 W Chandler Blvd #1
Chandler, AZ 85226
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Agenda:
6:00 Registration Food and Drink
6:25 Announcements
6:30 Begin the Meeting
8:00 Closing Messages and Announcements
Design Studios: Unleashing Your Teams Creative Potential!
The early stages of product discovery and development can crucially influence the success and direction of any product. Yet these stages tend to be fuzzy, highly politicized, and under-documented. Design studios address this challenge by bringing the team together and allow ideas from various perspectives and insights to percolate within the team.
Design Studio methodology provides a collaborative, pragmatic process of illumination, sketching, presentation, critique, and iteration, leading to a shared vision and hopefully a more coherent and elegant solution.
This highly interactive session will showcase how teams can use Design Studio technique to explore opportunities and innovate products to better serve customer’s needs.
Speaker Bio: Kalpesh Shah
Kalpesh is a Culture Hacker, Speaker & Enterprise Agile and Product Coach with experience in creating and working with different shapes and sizes of Agile teams. He is invited to industry leading regional and global Agile conferences and has presented his ideas and experiments in over 13 conferences in Asia, Europe, Africa and Americas.
He has worked with organizations ranging from Fortune 50 companies to startups, helping them make the transition to Agile way of working, implementing Agile at Scale, employ Lean Product Development approaches and instill Lean Startup mindset.
His latest passion is Culture Hacking through continuous experimentation which will promote innovative thinking, extend openness, embody rationality, and bring design thinking into teams.
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[North] Feb 6th – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of Paired Programming
The slides from this Feb 6th meeting have been posted – See them here!
Where:
Nationwide (Google Map)
9200 E Pima Center Pkwy
Scottsdale, AZ 85258
Agenda:
6:00 Registration Food and Drink
6:25 Announcements
6:30 Begin the Meeting
8:00 Closing Messages and Announcements
Description: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of Paired Programming
Come and hear about one of Nationwide’s agile team’s journey to adopt pair programming. “Pair Development?! Critics judge it does not work, it slows teams down, plus the teams do not fundamentally want to work in pairs. Here is the story of one of Nationwide’s agile teams journeys to adopt pair programming. A story of a successful implementation of dev/test pair development with metrics and proof it works.
Speaker Bio: Heather Salcedo
Heather Salcedo is a Scrum Master for Nationwide Insurance, where she is currently leading a lean/agile team implementing a cloud based software solution for Nationwide Private Client (one of the companies within Nationwide). She has been with Nationwide Insurance for 16 years. She has worked on many major Nationwide initiatives over the years and was instrumental in using Test Automation on a legacy platform as well as creating automation frameworks for mainframe systems. In addition to her IT knowledge she holds insurance licenses in both the personal and commercial lines sectors.
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[South] Jan 25: Cultivating Culture in a New Development Team
Where:
IntraEdge (Google Map)
5660 W Chandler Blvd #1
Chandler, AZ 85226
Agenda:
6:00 Registration Food and Drink
6:25 Announcements
6:30 Begin the Meeting
8:00 Closing Messages and Announcements
Description: Cultivating Culture in a New Development Team
In this discussion, we will look at some of the lessons learned while growing an agile development organization from 6 people to 26 people in less than one year. As a group, we’ll discuss what types of behaviors are desirable, why they are desirable, and ways to get those behaviors. You will leave with ideas and techniques for encouraging behaviors which are in line with company and agile cultures and how to discourage other behaviors.
Speaker Bio: Diana Sherwood
Diana Sherwood is an Scrum Master/Agile Coach at Solera Health. She has a diverse background. She’s worked in software development for 10+ years including a recent development effort on the iPhone. She has worked as a software developer at General Dynamics, Motorola, and for Electronic Data Behandeling (EDB) in Norway. EDB basically means “IT” and she worked in their consulting team. Outside of technology, Diana has been a facilitator of team-building rock climbing classes as well as a business and life coach. Currently, she works closely with the leadership at Solera Health to cultivate a supportive and collaborative development environment.
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