WEBINAR – The Different Agile Approaches: First (XP, Scrum) and Second (Lean/Kanban) Generation Methods
Get an overview of Agile approaches starting with eXtreme Programming (XP) & Scrum and then hear about Lean-Agile and its team oriented Kanban for software process.
Early Agile methods have been overly-team centric and have eschewed management. While second generation Agile methods build on a decades old history of Lean thinking and have extended agility in three ways that are not only required for an enterprise engagement but also for creating synergies that improve Agile at the team level:
- Extending the Team to across the Enterprise
- Extending Individual skill sets to Systemic Thinking
- Extending the Worker to include Management
Webinar Recording can be listened to click here
TOPICS DISCUSSED will include:
- How the new Agile team methods of Kanban and Scrumban fit into the larger picture of enterprise, management and systems.
- Why the low success rate at the business level is a direct result of first Agile generation methods’ focus on the team while eschewing systems thinking.
- The different Lean-Agile Methods
- Lean-Agile and Kanban address many of the issues that late adopters to Agile have intuitively felt are necessary for a mature organization. While many of these have been sometimes ridiculed by early agile methods, these concerns are a part of Lean-Agile / Kanban.
SPEAKER: Alan Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With almost 40 years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in Lean, Kanban, Scrum, Design Patterns, and Object-Orientation. Alan has developed training and coaching methods for Lean-Agile that have helped his clients achieve long-term, sustainable productivity gains. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide. He is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility and is currently writing Essential Skills for the Agile Developer. He has a Masters in Computer Science from M.I.T. as well as a Masters in Mathematics from Emory University.
PDU’s: 1…….(PDU info is provided in the recording)
COST: Free
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Agile Project Management – FREE Webinar Series by VersionOne
Learn how Project Managers are involved in Agile Software Development Projects. Take 5 FREE webinars by VersionOne to get a great introduction to being an Agile PM.
1. Agile Project Management for PMPs [request recording]
This presentation by Michele Sliger is specifically aimed at traditionally trained software project managers who are new to Agile, and who would like to be able to relate the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) best practices to their equivalent practices in Agile. By associating new Agile ideas to things that are already familiar, you can begin your Agile journey with a new shared lexicon and knowledge of general Agile concepts. In addition to the mapping some of the PMBOK Guide® knowledge areas to Agile practices, there is also focus on how the job of the traditional project manager is re-defined into a new – and often more important – role in the Agile development process.
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2010 Trends in Project Management
2010 brings with it multiple trends for Project Management. It is not surprising that many of these trends will help mature the world of project management as we know it today. Just as businesses must be flexible with market conditions – Project Management professionals and organizations must also adapt accordingly.
In talking to industry leaders in Project Management – several trends stand out.
Economic conditions have changed – Companies are changing – and project managers must understand these changes to be the leaders needed in 2010.
Trend 1 – Enterprises continue to look for Efficiencies in Process & Technology
Agile Project Managers Earn More Money !
Version One, an industry leader in Agile tools, teamed up with ASPE-SDLC and released its “first annual Agile Salary survey” today [PDF download]. The survey had almost 3000 respondents from 89 countries, and reveals some interesting findings – such as:
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“Salary Trends are looking very positive for Agile professionals”
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All size companies are using Agile – from 10 to 10,000+ employees.
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The Business Driven Software Development webinar series
Business Agility enables an organization to respond quickly to external forces (such as new market opportunities and competitive forces) as well as to respond quickly to new insights attained internally.
While many organizations have achieved the local optimizations of more effective teams, few have achieved agility at the organizational level. Even when team agility has been achieved, if improvements to how the business is selecting their product enhancements isn’t done, overall return on investment of software development may not have significantly improved.
This series is organized around “roles” - Executives to Team Leads – so each person in an organization can be introduced to what “they” need to know to achieve business agility.
FREE Webinar Series – 7 sessions:
- Session 1 – An Overview
- Session 2 - Product Portfolio Management
- Session 3 – Where to Start Your Agile Transition
- Session 4 – Team Agility: Scrum or Kanban?
- Session 5 - Essential Skills for the Agile Developer
- Session 6 – Acceptance Test-Driven Development: Bring the Customer, Developers and Testers Together to Understand Requirements Up-Front
- Session 7 - The Role of Management in Lean-Agile Transformations
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VIRTUAL WORKSHOP – Identify, Scope, & Prioritize Features using Agile (On-Demand)
Available On-DEMAND…
We always need to define the scope, duration, and costs of a project quickly.
Sponsors want as many details as possible before providing total funding. The team wants to understand the scope of the work they will be pursuing. Everyone wants to know what the major risks to the project are.
In this virtual workshop we will show you how to scope a project when information is low and requirements are still evolving. You will quickly define an overall project/release plan, and while doing so you will identify risks, prioritize features, and bring the project team and customer together with a common project vision.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Use a powerful Agile planning tool – The Feature Card
- Perform the correct level of planning – based on the information available
- Work with the customer to understand and scope project features
- Identify feature attributes that allow you to quantify value, risk, and uncertainty
- Involve the project team during feature scoping and sequencing
- Identify the minimal marketable feature set
- Deliver a project/release plan early, when requirements are still evolving
YOU WILL TAKE AWAY:
- Templates, Examples and Guides to use in your workplace after the workshop.
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
- IT Project Managers
- Business Analysts
- Product Managers
- Program Managers
- Product Owners
- PMO executives or managers
- Anyone who works on software projects (developers, analysts, testers, DBAs, architects)
INSTRUCTOR: Greg Smith is a Senior Project Manager, ScrumMaster, and Agile coach with ten years of experience leading project teams to a more agile process. Greg has received numerous awards for his work in helping start-ups establish good software practices, and for helping enterprises overcome bureaucracy and deliver urgent projects. Greg has worked for companies including Philips Electronics, The Seattle Times, R.R. Donnelley, Washington Mutual, and JP Morgan Chase. Greg has been teaching Agile Project Management at Bellevue College since 2005. Greg is also a co-author of the top rated agile adoption book, Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World.
PDU’s: 1.5
COST: $27
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WEBINAR – Becoming Agile for Project Managers
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Learn WHEN, WHERE & HOW project managers can leverage and actually use Agile techniques to deal with…
- compressed schedules,
- changing requirements,
- risk,
- and much more…
…in order to deliver what the customer actually needs !
PDU’s: 1
COST: Free………….
VIDEO – Learn SCRUM in Under 10 Minutes
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Learn the SCRUM software development methodology in less than 10 minutes.
By the end of this fast-paced video, you’ll know about:
- burn-down charts,
- team roles,
- product backlogs,
- sprints,
- daily scrum
- and more…
Agile Distributed Development Done Right Using Fully Distributed Scrum
A “must listen” Presentation & Recording…
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Agile and distributed development seem to be at odds with each other. One is about close communication and short feedback loops, the other is about being effective with people in a different location. This talk discusses a number of patterns common for setting up Agile Distributed Development and will show the results that can be achieved once you get into a good Fully Distributed Scrum that Guido and Jeff Sutherland (co-creater of Scrum).
Topics include:
- The Distance Problem – Offshoring
- Mindspace needed
- Distributed Models
- How to implement for yourself
- and more….
presented by Guido Schoonheim at QCon on Oct 23, 2009
Guido Schoonheim is an Agile fanatic (doing everything Agily) with a specific focus on Scrum, organizational patterns and distributed development. In the past Guido has worked as project manager, architect, agile adoption coach, scrum master, product owner and of course as JEE developer. He believes very strongly in the combination of Agile and Offshoring to get the best of both without compromising on either.
presented by Guido Schoonheim at QCon on Oct 23, 2009
FREE Scrum Training (ie. Scrum for PMP’s)
Do you want to learn more about Scrum or get better at it?
Danube’s Scrum Core Training Webinars are led by five Certified Scrum Trainers–offering regularly scheduled webinars on the fundamentals of Scrum, from roles and terminology to its best practices.
Special Event Webinar Topics include:
- Scrum for PMPs
- Estimation: STory Sizes and Related Topics
- Explaining Scrum to Management
- Introcution to Scrum
*** See Danube’s lineup of ScrumCore Webinars at http://danube.com/scrum/webinars/scrumcore
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