December Meeting - Improving Outcomes with Evidence-Based Management with Mark Wavle

December Meeting - Improving Outcomes with Evidence-Based Management with Mark Wavle

When: Thursday, December 9th, 2021

Where: Online (Meeting link will be emailed prior to event)

Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm 

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Improving Outcomes with Evidence-Based Management with Mark Wavle

We strive to make good decisions as we work to deliver amid change and uncertainty. Still, it's easy to lose sight of the deeper goals - improving outcomes, reducing risks, and optimizing investments. What should we measure? Are our goals still valid? Are we still headed in the right direction? And, how can we do this at the organizational level?

Through a set of interactive exercises, you learn about the elements of Evidence-Based Management (EBM) and how they improve decision-making in complex situations. Using discussion and the online whiteboard tool Mural, Mark guides your discovery of EBM and its value to you.

In this session, you:

- Learn four Key Value Areas (KVAs) and the balance needed for sustained success

- Explore how empirical loops can be applied to strategic goals

- Re-frame measures as empirical evidence that enables deeper questions for better decisions

Come learn how to make better decisions and continuously improve toward strategic goals and objectives.

Agenda

6:00pm: Welcome and Intro

6:15pm: Speaker

7:15pm: Networking

7:25pm: Feedback & Wrap-up

7:30pm: Adjourn

About Mark Wavle

Mark Wavle is passionate about helping leaders and teams improve their work through individual professional coaching and highly engaging education. As a sought-out speaker and Professional Scrum Trainer, Mark has created and delivered high-impact training and presentations throughout the United States and Europe, and recently helped create Scrum.org’s new Evidence-Based Management course. Mark is the lead trainer and professional coach at Unstuck Careers.

 

November Monthly Meeting - Building Psychological Safety with Karen Kemerling

November Monthly Meeting - Building Psychological Safety with Karen Kemerling

When: Thursday, November 11th, 2021

Where: Online (Meeting link will be emailed prior to event)

Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm 

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Building Psychological Safety - the Foundation for High Performing Teams

In this session we will cover:

• What is psychological safety?
• Why does it matter to companies?
• What are the stages a team, group, company must go thru to build psychological safety?
  - This includes building psychological safety thru four stages: Inclusion, Learning, Contributing, and Challenging the status quo.
  - These are the stages to build a culture that encourages employees to bring their best self to work and the building blocks that empower innovative and thriving companies.

Agenda

6:00pm: Welcome and Intro

6:15pm: Speaker

7:15pm: Networking

7:25pm: Feedback & Wrap-up

7:30pm: Adjourn

About Karen Kemerling Ph.D.

Karen Kemerling is an energetic and inspirational Agile leader and coach passionately applying Agile principles to build confidence in individuals, empower teams, and generate a competitive advantage.

She is the founder of K2 | Leadership Development – a leadership coaching and organizational development company.

Karen is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), as well as a Certified Agile Leader (CAL) co-facilitating the Agile Leadership Journey coaching practice for global leaders on-line. She is a Neuroscience Certified Brain Based Coach and actively coaches executives to develop a growth-mindset.

October Meeting - Metrics for Product Teams with Brett Buchanan

October Monthly Meeting - Meeting Metrics for Product Teams with Brett Buchanan

When: Thursday, October 21st, 2021

Where: Online (Meeting link will be emailed prior to event)

Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm 

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Metrics for Product Teams 

To be a successful product manager, you need to determine the right set of metrics for your context. Everything from metrics that help you understand how users are engaging with your product to metrics that indicate the overall commercial health. In this meetup, Brett Buchanan will share some ways product managers can improve how they use metrics to make smart decisions and keep focused on the right things.

Agenda

6:00pm: Welcome and Intro

6:15pm: Speaker

7:15pm: Networking

7:25pm: Feedback & Wrap-up

7:30pm: Adjourn

About Brett Buchanan

Brett is the the Chief Product Officer of CarNext and the CEO of Pathfinder Product Labs, a Product Management consulting, training, and coaching company. 

September Monthly Meeting - Johnny Hermann

September Monthly Meeting with Johnny Hermann

When: Thursday, September 16, 2021

Where: Online (Meeting link will be emailed prior to event)

Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm 

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Simulated Forecasts - The Monte Carlo Way

Complex adaptive systems got you down? Estimates doubling or tripling when the rubber hits the road? Dog refuses to bark? Try simulated forecasts, even without estimates! People are poor at estimating, especially in absolute time or effort. But estimating is just one way to forecast. Discover forecasting via Monte Carlo simulations, based on empirical data.

Agenda

6:00pm: Welcome and Intro

6:15pm: Speaker

7:15pm: Networking

7:25pm: Feedback & Wrap-up

7:30pm: Adjourn

About Johnny Hermann

Senior tech leader, team builder, Lean-Agile coach, product & service delivery, process transformation.  Currently working in a part-time "fractional" model.  Transforming product & innovation delivery pipelines, processes, team building, etc., for multiple clients.