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MEETING
VENUE: MICROSOFT offices in WALTHAM. REGISTER
NOW for this meeting
DIRECTIONS
TO MICROSOFT WALTHAM.
We have a great meeting planned with TWO great
speakers: Jean Tabaka of RALLY Software and Steven "Doc" List of
Thoughtworks. This promises to be an astoundingly great meeting
!!
NOTE: This meeting is free to members, includes
food, and follows the day-long AGILE
BOSTON OPEN event on April
28 !!
This meeting features TWO fantastic speakers:
First up is Jean Tabaka of RALLY software:
WEDNESDAY April 28 2010, 630PM
JEAN TABAKA on: TWELVE AGILE ADOPTION
**FAILURE** MODES
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. She
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
Presentation: JEAN TABAKA on
TWELVE AGILE ADOPTION
**FAILURE** MODES
Twelve Agile Adoption FAILURE Modes
Agile methodologies such as Scrum take some
heat when they appear to have failed to deliver expected benefits
to an organization. In fact, Agile initiatives very often backslide
and bring about abandonment of the adoption due to this perceived
correlation of methodology and failure.
Back in 2007, I wrote
an article for Better Software Magazine entitled “Twelve
Ways Agile Adoptions Fail.” In my travels worldwide as
an Agile Coach then and since, I have continued to contend that
Agile practices don't fail—rather the variations on Agile
adoption fail. And regrettably, these failures seem to come back
to a core set of usual suspects all too frequently.
In this session,
I present my latest top twelve seemingly ubiquitous failure
modes. See which ones may (still) be painfully familiar to you,
and
which other ones you personally have experienced in your
organization.
Next up is Steven "Doc" List of THOUGHTWORKS:
WEDNESDAY April 28 2009,740PM
DOC LIST on: Successful Facilitation Patterns
...and Antipatterns
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, including
coaching, assessment, and training. Doc is an
experienced software technology professional with a career spanning three
decades. Doc has worked on all types of hardware and operating
systems, multiple languages and environments.
Doc maintains a long-term focus on the core skills
and strategies of management, leadership, team-building, and individual
growth, and is an experienced presenter and public speaker, business and
agile coach, and trainer and workshop leader. Doc is also a recognized expert Open Space facilitator.
PRESENTATION: Successful Facilitation Patterns
...and Antipatterns
Facilitation skills are
essential for anyone. In fact, everyone facilitates whether they
know it or not!
Do you work on a team, manage an organization,
or otherwise work with others? The opportunity
to facilitate will come up.
Steven “Doc” List
will lead you to explore the successful patterns & nasty
"antipatterns" that
come up in facilitation, for the facilitator and the participants.
We'll have some fun by taking on roles,
and exploring the behaviors that work and that don't work.
The session will include some time on specific activities
and techniques that can be used for effective
facilitation.
The first third of the session is
be a short presentation about the fundamentals of facilitation
and an introduction to Doc's Patterns and Antipatterns work.
The
next third of the session is spent in discussion/interaction.
Attendees will be grouped randomly, and each
group will hold a discussion. Before the discussion,
each group member will be given a pattern/antipattern to represent, and
they will be expected to behave as their pattern/antipattern
in terms of motto, beliefs, behaviors, and
characteristics. The rest of each small group will then be encouraged
to identify each other group member's pattern/antipattern by
name at the end of the discussion.
The remaining time will be spent reviewing specific
activities that can be used and how they apply. Sources
will include Agile Retrospectives by Diana Larsen and Esther Derby and Collaboration Explained by Jean Tabaka.
MEETING AGENDA:
NOTE: Please note the agenda change....JEAN
TABAKA speaks at 6:30PM. Please arrive promptly!!
6:30 PM: JEAN TABAKA on Twelve Agile Adoption
**FAILURE** Modes
7:20 PM: Food & socializing & networking
time
7:40 PM: DOC LIST on Successful Facilitation
Patterns
8:25 PM: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION OF MEETING
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