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MEETING
VENUE: MICROSOFT offices in WALTHAM. REGISTER
NOW for this meeting
DIRECTIONS
TO MICROSOFT WALTHAM.
Sept 23, 630PM
to 830PM
JOHANNA ROTHMAN on: AGILE PORTFOLIO
PLANNING
NOTE: This meeting features live music
from DAN HERMES
Seating is limited. You must
RSVP !!
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 the last week in
August in Chicago IL. Next
year's
conference
is planned for August in Nashville, TN.
Johanna is the author of Manage
Your Project Portfolio: Increase your Capacity and Finish More Projects
INTERVIEW:
What exactly is Agile Project Portfolio Planning?
Read this interview
with Johanna and find out !
Summary: This is a great
topic from an authoritative speaker on a topic of interest to
executives, IT directors and line management. ANYONE with a project
portfolio needs to attend this session to learn how to apply
agile techniques to the critical portfolio planning task.
PRESENTATION
Transparent Decisions: Managing the
Project Portfolio
Even if you’ve been doing the technical
part of agile for a while, you might not have realized all the
benefits that agile can provide. That’s because when agile
starts with projects, managers don’t always realize they
need to adopt agile or lean approaches for project portfolio
management.
When you think of project portfolio management, do you think
of dog-and-pony shows? Or, when you explain, “We don’t have enough people to staff
this project” all you hear is “Multitask.” Do you see value-less
pet projects that you would like to eliminate?
Project portfolio management can help, especially
if you use agile and lean approaches to managing the project
portfolio.
In this presentation, Johanna will show you
how an agile and lean approach to the project portfolio can help
both technical staff and management see
what’s
going on, how to apply agile and lean to the project portfolio, and how to collaborate
to make great portfolio decisions.
Topics include:
o How
to provide transparency for what everyone is doing
o How to
apply agile and lean approaches to the project portfolio
o Key principles
of collaboration for applying to the project portfolio
o DISCUSSION on Johanna's
key points and concepts presented
MEETING AGENDA:
6:30 PM: AGILE ORIENTATION: Scrum as described
by Dan
Mezick of New Technology Solutions
7:00 PM: Food and networking time.
WITH LIVE MUSIC, from: Dan Hermes
7:15 PM: MAIN EVENT: JOHANNA
ROTHMAN: AGILE PROJECT PORTFOLIO PLANNING
8:25 PM: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION OF MEETING
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