The
next Agile KC meeting will be a breakfast meeting at the KC Federal Reserve.
If you plan on attending please visit www.agilekc.org to register.
You will need to register to attend. Space
is limited for this meeting, so if you plans change, please cancel your
reservation via Eventbrite.
Date\Time
Friday
December 5, 2014 from 8:30 - 10:30 AM
Location:
KC
Federal Reserve
1
Memorial Drive
KCMO
64198
Meeting
Topic:
Tactics for merging an Agile
process in a waterfall business environment
Meeting
Learning:
The introduction and incorporation of
Agile practices in an organization that has been utilizing waterfall practices,
can often lead to a variety of challenges. This session will help call
out some of the challenges that members of the group have experienced and also
how they were addressed
Meeting
Description:
The benefits of agile
development are widely documented and have been witnessed in seemingly every
market sector and organization size, from startups to Fortune 50. Faster
time to market, maximized value delivery, better alignment, and happier people
are only a few of the noted outcomes of a well-functioning agile process.
However, as just about everyone that has been through an agile transformation
can attest, the benefits don’t come without some cost and effort. The
shift to focusing on self-directed teams is often at odds with a system that
has been built to manage specific roles in independent silos. The
necessary daily collaboration between business and IT is another challenge that
has to be addressed. There are countless others.
Join us at the Federal Reserve to hear some experience reports and best
practices about utilizing and Agile approach in a waterfall business
environment, share your thoughts and experiences with the group, and do some
brainstorming on how you might further the journey in your organization.
Speaker's
Bios:
Scott Robinson is an Agile
Coach and Change Agent with Silicon Prairie Solutions. Scott has
extensive experience working with large and small organizations; helping them
introduce Agile|Lean practices and evolve their culture.
Paul is an Agile Coach and Scrum Trainer for Commerce Bank. Paul is an
Agile enthusiast with a passion for transforming teams and growing
agility within the enterprise. He teaches the following workshops:
Agile Scrum Boot Camp, Product Visioning and Story Mapping. He has had
over 400 attendees through these courses. He is married with 6 children
(a nice size scrum team with a 9 month old impediment) and enjoys roller
coasters and water parks.
Steve Toalson is an Agile Coach at Hallmark Cards. Involved in their
first experimental Agile project, Steve has fully embraced the agile principles
and continues to spread the good word of Agile at Hallmark. Steve
has worked with several different teams on their Agile journey and is also one
of two Hallmark Agile Trainers.
Tami Flowers is a Senior Project Manager at the Sunflower Group. She has held a
variety of technical roles including developer, project manager and enterprise
architect. She is a PMP, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), and Certified
Scrum Master. After a particularly painful 4-year long, multi-million dollar
project with multiple restarts, Tami helped transition the organization from
Waterfall to Agile and in doing so was an Agile coach, active participant, and
Scrum Master. She believes Agile practices, kept lightweight and tailored for
the organization, can help deliver quality technical solutions that provide
customer value.
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