[South] March 16th – Don’t be a Backlog Lumberjack!

Mar 12, 2017 | Meeting Announcement

South Meeting
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:  Don't be a Backlog LumberJack!

As agile movement sweep across the industry many organizations and teams have started practicing different agile frameworks. As they go through these agile transformations, quite often the focus is purely on implementing the different elements of framework  and using measures like velocities, story points and burn down charts to measure the progress of the teams and forget the core purpose on why they switched to agile way of working in first place turning these teams into user story machines and their team members into backlog lumberjacks. A successful agile team is not about how many stories they can finish or how frequently they release to production but rather more about hypothesis validation and learning from the users and their behaviors. In this talk our speaker Kalpesh Shah will talk about the real essence of going agile and how not to turn your teams into backlog lumberjacks.

Speaker Bio:  Kalpesh Shah

Kalpesh Shah is a Agile Coach, Trainer, Cross Pollinator and Public Speaker. 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. As a monk on a spiritual journey, he is also on a journey of discovering, learning and implementing different agile techniques to create happier teams which in turn create better products, his version of enlightenment! His latest passion is Culture Hacking through continuous experimentation which will promote innovative thinking, extend openness, embody rationality, and bring design thinking into teams.