Mar 10, 2010

11 – 12 pm  PST

Introduction to SCRUM

Scrum in 30 minutes:  Spend a half-hour learning about the history of Scrum and its basic principles and practices. We will go over the basic roles, meetings and artifacts along with a brief discussion of what makes Scrum different, and a Q&A at the end of the presentation.

Mar 12, 2010

11 – 1 pm PST

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: Adapting to Change throughout an Agile Project

What do you do when your customer changes a requirement?  How do you keep going when a team member is pulled away for a production issue?  What happens when you start coding and realize a feature is much bigger than anticipated?  You will learn how to deal with these issues and more in this virtual workshop.

We will follow our case study, Acme Media, as they encounter issues and constraints in the middle of an iteration.  We will also join them at the end of the iteration and see how they adapt and replan based on acceptance testing, team throughput, technical discoveries, and changes in the business environment.

We will also answer common questions about adapting in an Agile environment:

1. Can we adapt at any time during a project?
2. If we adapt all of the time, how do we get any work done?
3. What is the process for adapting at the end of an iteration?

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Understand the most common issues with software projects.
• Learn multiple options for dealing with each issue type.
• Using a tradeoff matrix to drive triage decisions.
• Learn how to demonstrate and drive acceptance testing at the end of an iteration.
• Learn how to replan and prepare for the next iteration.

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Mar 16, 2010

10 – 11am PDT

Leveraging Requirements Visualization – An Agile Case Study with a Biotechnology Company

A BSA from the company shares her personal experience in working with visualization to improve the usability of a physician’s portal.  By leveraging visualization with iRise, Susanna was able to bring together a diverse set of stakeholders to gain valuable clinician feedback in short bursts of review time enabling the team to launch this project on time and on budget.

Mar 19, 2010

11 – 12 pm PST

Story Writing Basics

Danube will review basic requirements writing with rationale for that technique, followed by a discussion of how to incorporate more complex acceptance criteria.

Mar 24, 2010

9 – 10 am PST

Team KANBAN in a Waterfall Environment

While much of the software world recognizes the need to transition to agile methods, it is more difficult in some places than others. This is especially true when critical resources are constrained or true teams do not exist because people are on multiple projects at the same time. Kanban can be a solution here because of its ability to be implemented in a smooth, gradual manner. This webinar will describe the basics of Kanban and how you can fit it on top of an existing workflow in a way that leads to quicker delivery and higher quality.

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PDU: 1

COST: Free

Mar 29, 2010

9 – 10 am  PDT

WEBINAR SERIES – Business Driven Software Development

Session 3 of 7 – Where to Start your Agile Transition

Many organizations start their agile transformation with a pilot project – that is, taking a single team agile. This fails to achieve enterprise success most of the time for several reasons. Amongst these are the team is often not the major impediment to business agility. Furthermore, team based methods such as Scrum provide little insight into how to correct the organizational structure and business issues that impede business agility. Teams may start Scrum, have problems but be unable to align management to help them. Knowing where to start means being able to understand where your organization is impeded and having more than one approach available to you so you can start your transition appropriately.* The four areas that commonly impede business agility
* What to do if you don’t have teams
* How to determine where to start your lean-agile transition

Primary audience: Executives to Team Leaders.
Also useful for: Anyone interested in starting a lean-agile transition.

PDU: 1

COST: Free

Apr 2, 2010

9 – 10am  PDT

Scaling Agile – Multiple Team Dynamics

As more organizations begin to adopt agile on multiple, interdependent teams, how do we ensure that the success within a team can translate to success at the enterprise level?  What are some key considerations to make enterprise agile successful?

Scaling agile methods to the enterprise requires a flexible, pragmatic approach that:
- Carefully preserves the self-organizing capability of individual teams, while
- Overlaying just enough program management to coordinate track the work across projects or teams, and
- Provides for basic portfolio management, including project identification and selection, in addition to
- Ensuring a level of consistency in approach to avoid redundancy and waste.

Learn about the essential, practical techniques necessary to customize agile for enterprise adoption with multiple project teams.  Learn how multiple agile project teams are organized, and how work is prioritized, divided, coordinated and tracked among them.

Apr 2, 2010

11 – 12 pm PDT

Build a Better Product Owner

How do you choose a project with which to pilot Scrum in your organization? Certified Scrum Trainer Angela Druckman reviews choosing the right project to try Scrum on.