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The Theme: PEOPLE AND INTERACTIONS
Expect a
great day of learning from
everyone attending, including:
Jean Tabaka of RALLY, Steven "Doc" List
of Thoughtworks, Johanna Rothman of Rothman Consulting Group,
Amr
Elssamadisy of Gemba Systems, Dan Mezick of New Technology Solutions,
Jochen Krebs of incrementor, Christopher Avery...and more !
Examine the Learning Objectives for this Event
Join the Agile Boston user group as
we gather for AGILE BOSTON OPEN SPACE 2010 on Thursday September
16 2010, at the WESTIN HOTEL in Waltham Massachusetts.
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the WESTIN HOTEL in Waltham MA
This is a full day of learning with a keynote
and additional sessions in the AM and then even more Open Space
sessions in the afternoon.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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AGENDA &
ABOUT OPEN SPACE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER JEAN TABAKA BIO & SESSION
BREAKOUT SPEAKER DAN MEZICK BIO & SESSION
BREAKOUT SPEAKER AMR ELSSAMADISY BIO & SESSION
BREAKOUT SPEAKER JOHANNA ROTHMAN BIO & SESSION
OPEN SPACE FACILITATOR STEVEN "DOC" LIST BIO
NOTE: All of these AM speakers plan to convene Open Space sessions
in the afternoon !!
.....in addition, the following domain
experts are committed to convening Open Space sessions in the afternoon:
OPEN SPACE CONVENER DAN LEFEBVRE BIO....domain
expert in Agile and Scrum coaching
OPEN SPACE CONVENER MIKE COTTMEYER BIO...domain
expertise in enterprise Agile solutions
OPEN SPACE CONVENER JOCHEN "JOE" KREBS BIO...book
author and domain expert in coaching, Scrum, and teams
OPEN SPACE CONVENER CHRISTOPHER AVERY BIO...book
author and domain expert in personal responsibility
OPEN SPACE CONVENER MICHAEL DE LA MAZA BIO...domain
expert in Agile games, Scrum, teams
OPEN SPACE CONVENER HUGH BEYER BIO...domain
expert in User Experience and Agile teams
OPEN SPACE CONVENER DAMON POOLE BIO...domain
expert in Agile tools, Scrum, Kanban
OPEN SPACE CONVENER SHIVANI CARROLL BIO...domain
expert in Non-Violent Communication (NVC)
OPEN SPACE CONVENER JAY VOGT BIO...book
author and domain expert in Grounded Visioning, a team vision creation
technique based on Appreciative Inquiry
SPONSORS & HOW TO SPONSOR
Come and learn the latest techniques and trends
in Agile, Lean, Kanban and Scrum. Come and learn from experts
on all of these, plus organizational learning, collaboration
via
facilitation,
and more!! We have dozens of great speakers lined up for a great
day of
community learning,
socializing and fun.
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES FOR THIS EVENT:
The theme of this event is "People and
Interactions". Both people and interactions are at the core
of the Agile Manifesto. Teams focusing on practices can miss
the
mark--
if a corresponding focus
on the people and their interactions is missing. Attending
this event means you are sure to learn about the following:
0. Learn techniques to help scale
Agile 'up' from set of teams... to the larger enterprise
1. Learn why engaging a Coach is essential
as you climb the Agile learning curve. How to select a Coach
2. Learn how to migrate traditional
Project Managers to genuine Agile ways, inside your organization
(it's do-able!)
3. Why a focus on people and interactions reaps IMMEDIATE benefits for your Agile adoption
4. Learn how to properly groom a Product
Backlog; how to select and be an excellent Product Owner
5. Learn how specific healthy
interactions you can implement NOW are at the root of successful
Agile practice
6. Learn how to spot leverage
points-- and risks-- in your specific situation BEFORE you adopt Agile
practices
7. Examine with Agile experts, at this
event: how your current HR policies can derail
your best Agile efforts
7a. How to craft HR & compensation
policies to match your intentions for successful Agile
adoption
8. Learn about team authorization
in Scrum,
the "secret sauce" for hyper-productive teams
9. Examine with experts at this event:
How systems
thinking can
help you debug your hardest Agile problems
10. Learn how to tailor Scrum to your
exact requirements and situation
11. How clearly specified, agreed-upon
and adhered-to VALUES can help your teams quickly
self-organize
12. Learn specific techniques
and tools for identifying your current obstacles to
Agile, and how to eliminate them
13. Learn exactly how Agile frameworks
like Scrum encourage highly productive, self-organizing teams
14. Discover how clearly defined constraints
and boundaries create potential for very high team productivity
15. Learn how to use automated
tools for testing and test-driven development
16. Discover how to reach the next
level in your adoption of Agile by leveraging your Project
Managers
17. Learn about 10 specific things
you can do RIGHT NOW to prepare for adopting authentic
Agile in your organization
Who Can Benefit Most from Attendance:
Decision Makers, Managers, Developers
and Project Sponsors who are NEW TO AGILE
Experienced Agile Scrum Masters, Product
Owners and Coaches
PMP-certified and other project managers
who want to extend their Agile knowledge & skills
Developers and Testers and others who
are affected by Agile and Scrum initiatives at work
This festive event includes
great speakers, great food, great socializing, and
great Agile authorities-- including Jean Tabaka of RALLY, Steven "Doc" List
of Thoughtworks, Johanna Rothman of Rothman Consulting Group,
Amr Elssamadisy of Gemba Systems, Dan Mezick of New Technology
Solutions, Jochen Krebs of incrementor...and more !
However, these speakers are not the star
of the show-- YOU are.
Pic: Open Space session from the 4/28 event
ABOUT OPEN SPACE
This is an OPEN SPACE event!!
If you have never attended an Open Space event, you are in for
a lot of fun !
For this event, the morning
agenda is fixed, and the invited speakers present sessions,
in a standard classroom-style
format.
But then after lunch, the
agenda for the rest is self-organized by the attendees,
with guidance and assistance from
our World-class facilitator:
Steven "Doc" List.
The Open Space format provides you with an
opportunity to talk about the topics that are important to you.
You will
create the agenda, and in doing so you will have the chance
to focus discussions on the things you care about, want to learn
about, and want to share.
Whether you're new to Scrum and want
to learn more, or experienced in leading Agile teams and
want to learn what's working for others, bring it here and propose
and "convene" a session.
Open Space is a working example of self-organization
and community ownership in action. The format is being used
throughout the world to facilitate group decision making in organizations
of all sizes.
Learn more about
the OPEN SPACE conference format via these links:
The History of Open Space by Open Space originator
Harrison Owen
Open
Space California- Web Site of the annual event hosted by
Bay APLN in SanFrancisco CS
Open
Space World - Open Space Conference format
described
Working in Open Space- A Guided Tour
Pictures of Open Space conferences
The Open Space User's Guide by originator
Harrison Owen
For our event here, the OPEN SPACE event
occurs after lunch.
In the morning we have Jean Tabaka giving
the keynote, followed by several concurrent instructor-led
breakout sessions from noted authorities like Amr Elssamadisy
(author of the book AGILE ADOPTION PATTERNS) ..... Then lunch--
and the OPEN SPACE event !!
The speakers from the AM sessions
are committed to participating in the OPEN SPACE as students,
as teachers
and
as community members.
A convened session, from Agile Boston
Open Space
on 4/28/2010.
his promises to be a great event !
Examine the Learning
Objectives for this Event
Our Sessions and Speakers: Click
here to view all sessions
JEAN TABAKA
(KEYNOTE) on: A COMMUNITY OF THINKERS
AMR ELSSAMADISY on Scaling
Up by Scaling Down: A (re)Focus on Individuals and Interactions
JOHANNA ROTHMAN on: IT'S THE PEOPLE,
ALWAYS THE PEOPLE
DAN MEZICK on: SEVEN
SIMPLE THINGS YOUR ORGANIZATION CAN DO RIGHT NOW TO GO AGILE
NOTABLE OPEN SPACE CONVENERS:
MIKE
COTTMEYER- noted authority on scaling
Agile and a popular blogger at www.LeadingAgile.com
CHRISTOPHER AVERY- Responsibility Guru
DAMON POOLE- CTO of Accurev,
Kanban presenter at Agile Boston, all around good (Agile) guy
DAN LE FEBVRE- Highly skilled Agile coach
serving the Boston region
JOCHEN KREBS- Noted Agile trainer and coach,
and leader of the AgileNYC usergroup
MICHAEL DE LA MAZA- Scrum coach and trainer
and leader of the SCRUM IN SCHOOLS initiative
NOTE: WE HAVE LIVE MUSIC with acoustic
guitar during the lunch break
Please
patronize our Sponsors !!
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and entire enterprises
Rally- absolutely
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and more agile
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to IT Talent and Careers
Telerik-
Comprehensive Testing Tools for Agile Teams using .NET and Visual
Studio
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SCHEDULE AND AGENDA: AGILE BOSTON
OPEN SPACE on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
NOTE: You have access to
a VERY rich day of learning here. You are attending at least
2 sessions in the morning and at least
3 in the afternoon! The event includes lunch !
08:00AM Doors open, check
in, socialize
08:15AM Welcome; Conference
Opens (Dan Mezick of Agile Boston)
08:30AM Keynote by Jean Tabaka
of RALLY
09:45AM BREAKOUT SESSIONS
from Amr Elssamadisy, Dan Mezick, Johanna Rothman
11:00PM LUNCH. Live
music. Socializing over some good food & beverages.
NOTE: Please be sure to check out the SCRUM
IN SCHOOLS display by the vendor area. Learn more about SCRUM
IN SCHOOLS initiative here.
12:30PM AGILE
OPEN SPACE EVENT: OPENING & ORGANIZATION with Facilitator
Steven "Doc" List.
We build an agenda in 1 hour, populating 3 timeslots with 8
sessions each, running concurrently. The Law of 2 Feet applies!!
The Open Space format ground-rules allow
you to
move around,
and experience each session as you see fit!!
01:30PM OPEN SPACE
Part 1 (minimum of 8 sessions available)
02:30PM OPEN SPACE
Part 2 (minimum of 8 sessions available)
03:30PM OPEN SPACE
Part 3 (minimum of 8 sessions available)
NOTE: There are 24 sessions (3 timeslots each
with 8 sessions) available to you during the afternoon Open Space
segment !!
04:30PM AGILE OPEN
SPACE EVENT:CLOSING THE SPACE with everyone, facilitated by our
Open Space facilitator Steven "Doc" List.
05:30PM DONE-DONE.......and
time to head over to the Westin Hotel bar !!
Examine the Learning
Objectives for this Event
A convened session at the Open Space held
on 4/28/2010
AGILE BOSTON OPEN SPACE 2010 SPEAKERS
JEAN
TABAKA-
Our Event Keynote Speaker
JEAN TABAKA (KEYNOTE) on: A COMMUNITY
OF THINKERS
Jean Tabaka, Agile Fellow
with Rally Software, is continuing on her 30 year path of learning
about software development principles, processes, and practices
for people. She seeks a humane approach to bringing high value
to our communities of creators and consumers. Agile, Lean and
Kanban are, for her, a natural progression in her thought expansion.
Jean holds a Masters in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.
 |
Jean is the author
of “Collaboration
Explained” and a variety of articles on Agile, organizational
change, team dynamics, systems thinking, Lean thinking, and
other peripheral topics. Jean blogs at www.rallydev.com/agileblog
and can be followed on twitter as @jeantabaka. When home
in Boulder, CO, she’d invite you over for some wine
and some music while gazing across her backyard over a Flat
Iron Mountains sunset. Meanwhile, you can find her at jean.tabaka@rallydev.com |
STEVEN "DOC" LIST- Facilitator of the Open
Space
Steven “Doc” List (generally
known as Doc) is currently a principal consultant with ThoughtWorks,
a highly respected international technology consulting company.
Doc’s focus is on organizational transformation and agile
adoption.
Doc teaches agile and Scrum and delivers
agile coaching for ThoughWorks.
In this role, he has facilitated Open Space conferences all over
the world and
in
recognized as
an
expert
in facilitated
group decision-making. Doc is active in helping lead the Agile
community, most recently as the Stage Producer of the New
To Agile Stage of the Agile2009 conference held in Chicago
last August.
Doc's experience includes a software technology
career spanning three decades.
He has worked on
all types of
hardware
and operating systems, multiple languages and environments.
NOTE: Doc is facilitating the
Open Space during the entire day.
AMR
ELSSAMADISY-
Session Presenter in the AM
Amr Elssamadisy,
a partner at Gemba Systems is a software development practitioner
who helps
his clients build better software that is more
valuable to their organizations. Amr and his colleagues
at Gemba Systems help both small and large development teams
learn new technologies, adopt and adapt appropriate
Agile development practices, and focus their efforts to maximize the value they bring to their organizations. Amr's
technical background and experience in C/C++, Java/J2EE, and
.NET, allows him to appreciate the problems of and support development
teams 'in the trenches'.
NOTE: Amr is running a special,
in-depth 1-Day Workshop on PERSONAL AGILITY in Waltham on Tuesday
September 14. Learn more here.
One of Amr's books: Agile
Adoption Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success
....at the same time, Amr teaches
that most problems - even in software - are "people
problems", and therefore are not solved by tools and technology.
Therefore, Amr and his colleagues at Gemba Systems are focused
on helping their clients build better software within their
organizations by focusing on issues such as personal agility,
team-building,
communication, feedback, and all of the other
soft skills
that distinguish excellent teams. Amr is also the author of
Agile Patterns: A Roadmap to Organizational Success, and Patterns
of Agile Practice Adoption:
The Technical Cluster. He is the lead
editor for the AgileQ at InfoQ and a frequent presenter at
software
development
conferences.
JOHANNA
ROTHMAN
Johanna Rothman of Rothman
Consulting Group works with companies to improve how they
manage their product development--to maximize management and
technical staff productivity and to improve product quality.
Johanna is a prolific author on project management topics.
Johanna is a leader in the Agile community.
She is most recently the Chair of
the Agile2009 conference (http://www.agile2009.com/).
In her role as Chair of Agile2009, she is responsible for collaboratively
leading a mostly-volunteer workforce, consisting of hundreds
of people, to produce what is arguably the most important Agile
conference in the world. Agile2009 drew 1350 attendees in 2009.
NOTE: Agile2009 was held August 2009 in Chicago
IL. The 2010 conference in
August in Orlando, FL.
Johanna is the author of Manage
Your Project Portfolio: Increase your Capacity and Finish
More Projects
Johanna most recently gave a keynote at the
BETTER SOFTWARE CONFERENCE/AGILE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES confierence
event held in June 2009 in Las Vegas. She is bring that session
to you in her breakout session. Session description.
DAN
MEZICK- Breakout Session Presenter and Event Organizer
Dan Mezick is an organizatonal
change advisor, Agile coach, and the
organizer of both Agile Boston and this event.
Dan is a trusted adviser
to executives, directors and managers seeking guidance on organizational
change and genuine expertise on Agile, Lean, Scrum, and Kanban.
He is an invited
speaker to Agile2007, Agile2008, Agile2009 and Scrum Gathering
2010 (Orlando)
At Agile2009 he
organized the [Manifesting
Agility] stage, where group-level Psychology and Cognition
were granted formal, authorized space at the Agile conference
for the very first time. Dan's articles
on agile topics appear in Agile Journal and the Scrum Alliance
web site. His session 'Team Intimacy and the Hyper-Productive
State' was selected for presentation at the 2010 Scrum Gathering
in Orlando.
Dan provides Agile coaching throughout the
USA, focusing on New England and NYC. Dan's Agile coaching clients
include The Hartford insurance company,
Travelers
Insurance,
the Red
Cross,
Dun and Bradstreet, and
several mid-market enterprises located throughout MA, CT and
RI.
See
Dan's Scrum Alliance profile here, and his more
detailed profile here.
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BOSTON OPEN SPACE 09-16-2010 SPONSORS
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Session Descriptions:
EVENT KEYNOTE: JEAN TABAKA of RALLY
SOFTWARE on: A COMMUNITY OF THINKERS
KEY NOTE ADDRESS: "A COMMUNITY OF THINKERS"
“I am a member of a community
of thinkers.” This
is the first line of a statement Liz Keogh, Eric
Willeke and I crafted last December in Boulder. It came
about as a result of a day of reflection, introspection, challenge,
and “
futurespection” about our lives as software professionals.
When we each posted articles containing the statement
on our separate blogs, we invited others to take
our text and publish it on their own blogs. Our intent was to assert
the power of cooperation in inventiveness versus the derision
of escalation that we were seeing in our Agile world.
Right now,
we here today are laying the rockbed of our profession’s contribution
to the 21st century. Join me in a journey of how we can and must
act as a community of thinkers in creating our future. I would
like to explore with you how we are a community
of truly indispensable creators with individual
strengths and immeasurable collective wisdom. I’ll
share some direct professional experiences
of my own about this work of community and thinking. I will share the power of collective visioning and
I will contrast
the destructive nature of a confrontational or escalation approach
to thought leadership. I’ll also warn you about the slow
death of complacency.
Believing in the power and necessity
of a community of thinkers, I request your
willingness to embrace the truth of how you personally can
and must be willing to play an integral
role in the elevation of our 21st century craft. And not just in this wonderful day of Open Space. Creating
and maintaining
this community of thinkers, I ask you to accept the richness
of your genius self. Doing this enriches the
community, enriches our craft, and enriches our
contribution to the world. As Nelson Mandela said in his Presidential Inaugural address: “You do not serve the world by being
small.” I am a
member of a community of thinkers. So are you.
Reference Link: http://www.rallydev.com/agileblog/2009/12/a-community-of-thinkers/.
Keynote Learning Objectives:
- Our growth in Agile relies heavily on our
willingness to take on personal growth; I provide
my perspective on what that growth and commitment looks like
- Agile asks us to move out of command-and-control
environments; I describe what I believe are important
practices to consider in order to move to a more intrinsic
motivation organization
- Our best chance at growth in any of these
Agile areas is as a supportive and growth-oriented community:
I describe what I believe such a community must look like...
and what it must commit to doing, in order to
move Agile forward mindfully and with intention
Morning Breakout
Session: AMR ELSSAMADISY on: Scaling Up by Scaling Down: A
(re)Focus on Individuals
NOTE: Amr is running a special,
in-depth 1-Day Workshop on PERSONAL AGILITY in Waltham on Tuesday
September 14. Learn
more here. If you like the sound of this session and want
to go deeper, you want to seriously consider attending Amr's
class on September 14,
two days before this big event.
Have you ever seen a successful pilot
of agile techniques followed by miserable failure in wider
adoption or
scaling? The current focus for scaling Agile seems
to be on practices, process, and tools. I assert that the
success of any Agile adoption
effort depends first on the individuals, their interpersonal
and self-leadership skills, and the organization’s
support of these skills.
Over the years I’ve come
to believe that the number one reason for the success of any
agile adoption effort are the individuals, their skills and their
personalities. All other aspects of agile adoptions – that
is the teams and their “gelling”, and the software
development practices themselves are functions of individuals
and their interactions. This does not mean they are not important – they
are – but they are not primary. I’ll go further by
saying that agile methods were so successful in the early days
because they self-selected individuals with the proper skill
set and pushed them to grow these skills.
This session is a mix of a survey and a
tutorial. I plan to present a few models quickly and use them
to pose questions
and setup simple exercises.
WHAT YOU LEARN IN THIS SESSION:
* Understand and explain the essential
connection between ownership behavior and agility. Recognize
why and how people avoid ownership, and why and how
people take it.
* Learn the fundamental relationship between
a team and their assigned task. Discover why your group will
not function
as a team if their task is too small.
Learn how scaling and distribution can either help or hurt this issue.
* Distinguish between responsibility and accountability,
and understand the
role of each in high performance product development teams.
* Recognize the essential role of peer accountability
in a high performance software development team, what prevents
peer accountability, and what
you can do about it.
* Discover specific skills you can acquire individually which can
transform your team or organization.
NOTE: Amr is running a special,
in-depth 1-Day Workshop on PERSONAL AGILITY in Waltham on Tuesday
September 14. Learn more here. If
you like the sound of this session and want to go deeper, you
want to seriously consider attending Amr's
class on September 14, two days before this big event.
NOTE: Amr intends to participate
fully in the Open Space in the afternoon
Morning Breakout
Session: DAN MEZICK on: SEVEN SIMPLE WAYS ... TO GET GOING
NOW WITH AGILE
For typical organizations, getting started
with Agile is rather difficult. New, unfamilar
ways of working
create collective uncertainty. The new, unfamilar Agile
habits are hard to establish, while the ineffective old habits
seem
downright comforting
in
the face
of all the worries about how to 'do Agile' right--
and what the actual Agile payoff is "going to be".
Implementing genuine Scrum practices is
not simple, as people in organizations who try Scrum can
tell you. Implementing Lean principles is even more
difficult. Almost all organizations have cultural beliefs, values
and behavior that create very real resistance to effective
adoption of Agile practices.
In
the face of this, as a typical organization, what can you do
now- to get some good results?
What if you could do some very simple things
now, that cost little or nothing-- and get great results?
What
if you could immediately do a few key things now, that are
"low effort" -- and make a very big impact?
What if, instead of starting with Scrum, you
could start in an even simpler way-- and get immediate results?
Take a step back. Attend this session
to find out about:
1. Why getting to genuine and authentic Scrum
is a culture shock
2. How your culture is in conflict with the
Agile Manifesto-- and Scrum Values.
2. Why your Agile and Scrum efforts can go
off the rails fast
3. SEVEN ACTIONS you can DO RIGHT NOW to
get ready for Agile.
4. Why you care about the SEVEN THINGS-- and
how they work.
5. How to GET GOING NOW with Agile without
Scrum teams and trying to do Lean
6. How the SEVEN SIMPLE THINGS are related
to and directly support Agile, Lean, and Scrum
Morning
Breakout Session: JOHANNA ROTHMAN: IT's THE PEOPLE, ALWAYS
THE PEOPLE !!
Why do we insist on calling people “resources”? If software projects were a factory, people would be fungible—interchangeable
equipment just like desks and computers. Because software development
is highly creative work and not a manufacturing factory, we need
to manage people as human beings, not as tasks or resources.
Johanna Rothman describes how to find and
develop the right people for your teams and projects—people who fit your culture,
share your values, and will become integral parts of your team.
She explores what skills make a team great and how great managers
model those skills and reward people who use them to help the
project. Find out how to empower your team, including protecting
it from bad influences, making sure the team has what it needs,
and helping team members learn to be accountable to each other.
It’s the people working in teams—and not their managers—who
make software projects successful. Learn more about Johanna Rothman
NOTABLE
PARTICIPANTS AND 'CONVENERS' IN THE OPEN SPACE EVENT:
DAN
LEFEBVRE, DCL Agility LLC
Dan LeFebvre is the founder of DCL Agility,
LLC, a provider of agile and Scrum coaching, training, and transition
services. He is the first Certified Scrum Coach in New England
with over twenty years in software product development as a developer,
manager, director, and coach. He has been applying agile practices
to successfully deliver products since 2003.
Dan spent two years
as the internal agile coach for Kronos, a Boston-based Software
Company, where he coordinated and implemented
Scrum within the 700 person engineering organization across
all sites including Massachusetts, Atlanta, Chicago, Oregon,
Montreal,
British Columbia, Belgium and India. This resulted in increased
visibility into the development process and a reduction in
defects by 60% in 18 months.
Dan holds a Master’s degree
in Computer Science from Boston University. He is a Certified
ScrumMaster, Certified Scrum Professional,
and Certified Scrum Coach. He has presented at the Scrum Gathering
and local user groups and has contributed articles to the Scrum
Alliance and Boston SPIN.
Dan plans to attend the Open Space as a convener
and participant.
MIKE COTTMEYER
Mike Cottmeyer is an outspoken
and prominent member of the Agile community. He has a background
in traditional project management but has worked
primarily with agile methodologies
for the past four years. Mike's passion in Agile at the level
of "enterprise". He is an expert on Kanban, a visual
management method from Japan that is getting traction in the
Agile community. A certified PMP Project Manager and a Certified
ScrumMaster, Mike
co-created
the DSDM
Agile Project
Leader certification and holds Foundation, Practitioner, and
Examiner level certificates. He was recently named an honorary
member of the DSDM consortium. Learn more about
Mike via this InfoQ video.
(NOTE: This picture may be from 1999-- or
earlier !)
JOCHEN "JOE" KREBS
Jochen (Joe) Krebs (http://www.jochenkrebs.com)
is an agile coach, trainer and consultant. In
2005, Joe founded Incrementor (http://www.incrementor.com), a consulting company specialized
in helping
organizations with the successful adoption of agile processes
(Scrum, XP, Lean and other iterative-incremental
processes) either on a corporate enterprise-level
or team-level. His programs are characterized by a unique blend
of knowledge transfer with hands-on work. In 2008/2009 he
transformed AOL from waterfall to agile project management with Scrum which impacted the daily life of 3,000 employees around
the globe.
Joe is the author of Agile Portfolio Management and
the RUP Reference and Certification
Guide and
he speaks occasionally at local chapter events as well
as conferences. He also published numerous articles in magazines
about agile practices and processes. In 2007,
Joe started AGILE NYC (http://www.agilenyc.org),
th Agile local user group in NYC. Agile NYC is also the organizer
of the
upcoming AGILE DAY 2010 on September 15th, a 1-day conference
day from New Yorkers for New Yorkers.
AGILE PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT by Jochen Krebs
Joe plans to convene and participate in Open
Space sessions during the afternoon.
MICHAEL de la MAZA
MICHAEL de la MAZA is an
is Agile coach and trainer whose clients include Intuit,
EMC, and Verizon Wireless. According to Dan Mezick (and many
others)
, Michael is a true innovator in the world of Agile training
and is a leader in the development and leveraged use of Agile
learning games.
Michael is the Agile Practice Lead at Knowledge
United, and developed the nineteen course KnowAgile curriculum
which is taught throughout the country. Prior to becoming an
agile coach, Michael was VP of Corporate Strategy at Softricity,
co-founded Answerfriend (now Inquira), and was a member of the
technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He holds a PhD in
Computer Science from MIT. Get more detail
on Michael here.
NOTE: Michael plans to convene an Open Space
session on Scrum
in Schools, an initiative he leads to bring
a high-quality, free curriculum to educators worldwide. He is
also available to answer questions at the Scrum-in-School table,
during lunch in the sponsor area.
CHRISTOPHER AVERY
CHRISTOPHER AVERY is a popular
speaker, author, and international business advisor on responsible
leadership, teamwork, and change. He wrote
the popular classic Teamwork Is An Individual Skill for
everyone at work who thinks they must put up with bad teams.
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Christopher is a Senior
Consultant with the IT and Agile Project Management practices
of the Cutter Consortium,
a Boston-area think tank. He co-founded the Agile Project
Leadership Network dedicated to connecting, developing, and
supporting great project leaders. Christopher earned his
Doctorate in the Communication of Technology from The University
of Texas at Austin where he occasionally lectures. He is
a Visiting Scholar at Capella University. The author of hundreds
of articles and commentaries about individual and collective
performance at work, Christopher
is a popular
source for the media and has been featured or quoted in Investors
Business Daily, the Chicago Tribune, Training+Development magazine,
HR Executive, NPR, ABCNews.com, HR.com and USAToday.com among
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Christopher is planning to convene sessions
during the Open Space segment in the afternoon !
DAMON
POOLE
Damon Poole is Founder and
CTO of AccuRev, a leading provider of Agile Development tools.
Damon is a methodology and process improvement expert specializing
in helping companies discover and implement their ideal process.
His twenty years of experience spans the gamut from small collocated
teams all the way up to 10,000-person shops doing global development.
Damon is President of the Agile Bazaar in Boston and is a Certified
Scrum Master. He writes frequently on the topic of Agile development,
is the author of the web book "Do It Yourself Agile," and
a pioneer in the area of Multistage Continuous Integration. Damon
has spoken at SD Best Practices, Software Test & Performance,
Q-Con, Deep Lean, Agile 2008 and 2009, and Agile Development
Practices and has also consulted with numerous companies including
Ford, Intercall, ITA Software, Orbitz, Texas Instruments, and
Verizon Wireless. He earned his BS in Computer Science at the
University of Vermont in 1987. His "Do It Yourself Agile" blog
is at http://damonpoole.blogspot.com .
Damon plans to participate in the Open Space
event.
HUGH BEYER
HUGH BEYER says: "I plan
to convene an Open Space session on the relationship between
user
experience
groups
and agile development teams--how agile teams can leverage the
skills and experience of UX team members to better meet agile
goals. I'd like to see UX people describing their world view
to agile developers and vice versa, to foster a better understanding
of what effective collaboration might look like."
Bio: Hugh Beyer has more than 25 years of
experience building and designing applications, systems, and
tools. He is co-founder
and CTO of InContext Design, a company bringing user-centered
design to development teams since 1992. Hugh was one of the pioneers
working with Agile teams to bring a strong user interaction design
focus to Agile development efforts, reconciling careful UX design
with the fast iterations and minimal up-front planning core to
Agile approaches.
Before co-founding InContext, Hugh acted as
lead developer and architect in a range of systems at Digital
Equipment Corp. His
domains of experience include object-oriented repositories,
databases, and integrated software development environments.
Since starting
InContext, Hugh has overseen the design of applications from
desktop to web to mobile, and from enterprise to small business
to consumers in the wide variety of industries supported by
InContext. He holds a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from
Harvard.
SHIVANI CARROLL
Shivani Gail Carroll is a Nonviolent Communication
Trainer: Shivani Gail Carroll lives in Watertown, MA. Nonviolent
Communication
is a communication model based on the work of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg. – also
sometimes called Compassionate Communication or Authentic Communication.
After a few years of NVC study and practice, Shivani attended
and graduated from BayNVC's Intensive leadership program. She
began teaching NVC as part of that program in 2006. Along with
teaching NVC, she has a private practice in the Boston area,
offering individual clients and couples NVC empathy and mediation.
She was drawn to NVC as a strategy to bring authenticity, clarity
and compassion into her professional and personal relationships.
Her background also includes over two decades as a line producer
in film and TV production. She also deeply values her practice
of meditation.
NOTE (from Dan): Shivani
plans to convene at least one session on NVC. Agile practices
are useless without
efficient and effective communication by
and
between
members.
While agile frameworks like Scrum encourage such communication,
there is no guarantee. Communication techniques like NVC are
a natural fit with Agile. People-- and interactions-- are the
theme of this event.
JAY
W VOGT
Jay W. Vogt is an organizational
development consultant with over twenty-five years of experience
working
mostly with fast growth businesses and nonprofit organizations.
He founded Peoplesworth, his private practice, in 1982.
Jay is
an accomplished facilitator, mediator, trainer, management
consultant and coach. He is a master at facilitating large groups,
having
led over one hundred events averaging over one hundred participants
each. He holds a master's degree in counseling from Antioch/New
England and a B.A. from Hampshire College.
Jay is the author
of Recharge Your Team: The Grounded Visioning Approach,
a new book by Praeger on his visioning work with clients.
NOTE from Dan: Jay's Grounded
Visioning technique is a fast-foward method for helping a team
develop a shared vision
based on previous team experience and a focus on team greatness.
The method is built upon Appreciative Inquiry. Jay's work is
all
about 'people
and interactions". I am very much looking forward to the
small-group sessions Jay is planning to convene in the afternoon
Open Space
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SUMMARY
This event is attended by local, regional,
and nationally recognized experts who are very deep in Agile
expertise. This *SECOND* AGILE BOSTON OPEN SPACE event
promises
to be
a very
significant
event
for
the
Boston
agile
community. Those of you who attended on 4/28/2010 can expect
a larger and even more vibrant event.
We have invited thought leaders from the
Lean community, and other communities
of practice that
are Agile-related and strong in the Boston area.
If you have
never experienced an Open Space event, you are in for a big
surprise.
If you know the Open Space format, like on
4/28/2010, you know how much FUN these events are !!
I look forward to seeing you there !
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