Upcoming Agile Events
Agile Arizona 2019 is happening!!!
Upcoming Monthly Meetings:
June 20th [South] - Agile Coach - Who do you serve?, Jeremy Wood.
(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.
Remember, we'd be in a parking lot - hungry and thirsty if it weren't for our sponsors! :-)
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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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[NORTH] DEC 5th: Agile at Play – Using Lego Serious Play to accelerate the value cycle
The slides from the Dec 5th meeting have been posted – See them here!
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: Agile at Play – Using Lego Serious Play to accelerate the value cycle
Whether your team develops hardware or software three elements are crucial to successful value creation:
- Communicating effectively – both externally with stakeholders and end-users and internally among the design team members.
- Making informed design decisions – i.e. testing assumptions through prototyping.
- Matching methods with the type of knowledge task – ensuring that incentives and activities support your goal.
In this session you will learn about a novel model for understanding knowledge-driven value creation processes called The Wheel of Knowledge (WoK), which provides a framework for navigating the development process and a language for discussing next steps for accelerating the value cycle. The different stages of the model reflect how all knowledge-based value originates from tacit knowledge (e.g. and idea). Next, the challenge is to make the knowledge explicit so that it can be shared between individuals and developed into a solid solution. Finally, once a satisfying solution has been reached it is time to bring it to scale and to market. Different facilitation methods serve different purposes that are conducive to high engagement in different stages of the process. Knowing which type of approach to prescribe to a given knowledge conversion challenge is a key contribution of Dr. Jensen’s research.
Next, you get to be playful! Dr. Jensen will demo different LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® activities that can help accelerate the different stages of the value creation process. In the debrief you will be encouraged to share how challenges your teams face map to the Wheel of Knowledge.
Speaker Bio: Camilla Nørgaard Jensen, PhD
Camilla Nørgaard Jensen, PhD, is an innovation scholar and process consultant certified in the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) facilitation method. Since leaving her career in Industrial Design Engineering to return to graduate school and complete her dissertation, “Constructive Conversations: Serious Play Approaches for Creating, Sharing, and Mobilizing Tacit Knowledge in Cross-disciplinary Settings”, she has dedicated her career to enable cross-functional teams to work well together while tackling complex problems. In 2013 Jensen landed a grant from the National Science Foundation to introduce LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® in a cross-disciplinary class at Arizona State University. She has since worked with several industry clients, contributed to the book “Serious Work”, and served twice as the invited keynote speaker at the annual LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® conference for the Americas and Oceania.
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