October Meeting - Embrace a Growth Mindset

October Meeting - Embrace a Growth Mindset

When: October 11, 2018  (Second Thursday) 

Networking: 6:00 - 7:30 pm (networking starts at 5:30 pm)

Embrace a Growth Mindset

Do you have a growth mindset. More importantly, does your organization have a growth mindset? How does this impact an organizational transformation? Organizational learning happens when people begin questioning the way things are done, they begin trying out different ideas together and share those learnings. Join me as we explore what it means to have a growth mindset.

About Diana Williams

Diana Williams is an experienced Agile Coach and Trainer with Project Brilliant. She has worked in both the public and private sectors, providing enterprise level Agile coaching. She is a passionate learner and teacher. Diana oversaw systems that had several billions of dollars’ flow through them. Her teams have recognized significant productivity gains, improved quality, and better predictability. She is empathic with her teams and stakeholders, helping them achieve things they did not realize were possible. She has received numerous praise from her clients and teams. When Diana is not coaching teams or leading projects, she is very family focused. She especially loves spending time with her grandchildren. As a mother and grandmother, she is an advocate for women working in technology.

Agenda

  5:30pm: Doors open - Registration, Networking, Food

  6:00pm: Welcome and Intro (Lightning Talk optional)

  6:15pm: Featured Speaker

  7:15pm: Wrap-up and Raffle

  7:30pm: Adjourn - Post meeting networking

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September Meeting - Achieving More with LeSS: Alignment and Agility using Large-Scale Scrum

September Meeting - Achieving More with LeSS: Alignment and Agility using Large-Scale Scrum
w/ Darren Terrell

When: September 13, 2018  (Second Thursday) 

Networking: 6:00 - 7:30 pm (networking starts at 5:30 pm)

Achieving More with LeSS: Alignment and Agility using Large-Scale Scrum

Being Agile at scale is tremendously difficult to achieve. Many times, the practices used for aligning an organization using Agile impede the delivery of real value. In this session discuss how Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) can help your company have awesome alignment without sacrificing agility. LeSS is a lightweight framework that enables empiricism such that teams and organizations can inspect and adapt based on their own experiences. We will walk through the basics of the LeSS and LeSS Huge frameworks during this session. Your guide for this journey will be the experienced and certified LeSS Practitioner Darren Terrell. He is knowledgeable in multiple scaling frameworks and transforming businesses.

About Darren

Darren Terrell is the VP of Enterprise Agile Coaching for Project Brilliant. As a senior transformation specialist, he helps organizations and teams to focus on and deliver more real business value. Darren is a proven management consultant that has coached senior leadership to improve business agility. He has also trained and mentored scores of managers/ to better engage their employees and improve their effectiveness as leaders.

During his career, Darren has technically architected enterprise solutions for industry leading companies. He has overseen large software development and data sections, including systems that had over $16 billion in revenue flowing through them annually. Darren built an Agile consulting practice from the ground up for a global professional services company.

Darren has obtained numerous Agile certifications, is a licensed Agile Fluency Facilitator and conference speaker. He is a board member and conference coordinator for the Agile Cincinnati and Agile Indy User Groups.

Agenda

  5:30pm: Doors open - Registration, Networking, Food

  6:00pm: Welcome and Intro (Lightning Talk optional)

  6:15pm: Featured Speaker

  7:15pm: Wrap-up and Raffle

  7:30pm: Adjourn - Post meeting networking

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August Meeting - Playing it SAFe: Don’t knock it ‘til you’ve tried it

August Meeting - Playing it SAFe: Don’t knock it ‘til you’ve tried it

When: August 9, 2018  (Second Thursday) 

Networking: 6:00 - 7:30 pm (networking starts at 5:30 pm)

Playing it SAFe: Don’t knock it ‘til you’ve tried it

 

"Playing it SAFe: Don’t knock it ‘til you’ve tried it"" with Rita Santos Emmons, CSM, PSM I, SPC4 The Scaled Agile Framework, when introduced in 2011 sent the Agile Community into series of framework debates. Seven years later, SAFe continues to garner its fair share of supporters and critics. Regardless, SAFe remains the most popular scaling framework used for Agile at scale. Despite this, the question remains, what is it about SAFe that manages to be both appealing to some and displeasing to others. In this session, we will begin by walking through the key elements of the Scaled Agile Framework.
Then we’ll take a look at a case study from a Fortune 200 organization that implemented SAFe. Finally, we’ll discuss some pros, cons, and myths related to the Scaled Agile Framework. 

Agenda

  5:30pm: Doors open - Registration, Networking, Food

  6:00pm: Welcome and Intro (Lightning Talk optional)

  6:15pm: Featured Speaker

  7:15pm: Wrap-up and Raffle

  7:30pm: Adjourn - Post meeting networking

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July Meeting - Agile Lean Coffee

July Meeting - Agile Lean Coffee w/ AgileCincy Staff

When: July 12, 2018  (Second Thursday) 

Networking: 6:00 - 7:30 pm (networking starts at 5:30 pm)

Agile Lean Coffee

Come join us an AgileCincy Lean Coffee meetup... the best learning community Cincinnati has to offer! We'll use the lean coffee method of agenda-free, democratic conversation: bring your topics and ideas for discussion and engage in conversations about Agile, people, and the ways we work together! The concept is kind of like Open Space: a group of people gather and have a structured, yet agenda-less meeting. The outcome: ideation that truly originates from the employees. This format is very popular in other Agile communities and we’re bringing that style here for the evening. For more information on Lean Coffee: http://www.leancoffee.org

Agenda

  5:30pm: Doors open - Registration, Networking, Food

  6:00pm: Welcome and Intro (Lightning Talk optional)

  6:15pm: Featured Speaker

  7:15pm: Wrap-up and Raffle

  7:30pm: Adjourn - Post meeting networking

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