What: “Transitioning to Agile Product Development – Lessons Learned” Where: The Olympic Collection, 11301 W. Olympic Blvd. at Sawtelle Blvd. / West Los Angeles When: Weds, Nov 11th, 6-9PM
Members $35 in advance / $45 day of event. Non-members $45 in advance / $55 day of event. Students $30 with ID
Learn about the benefit of agile product development as well as the pitfalls and best practices from agile experts and practitioners about transitioning to an agile product development environment.
Other panelists include:
Scott Downey – Chief Scrum Master from MySpace.com Scott has been active in the Software Industry for more than 18 years, holding positions at nearly every level of organizations, and in a wide variety of organization sizes. He is currently the Head Agile Coach for MySpace.com and is a Certified Scrum Practitioner, a member of both the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance. He conducts regular Scrum Master Certification courses in Beverly Hills.
Scott Gilbert – President of Enthiosys Scott is an expert in Agile software product management, business planning, project management and business development. He has worked in a variety of high-tech sectors including enterprise software, aerospace and defense, satellite communications and interactive media as an independent contractor and co-founder of start-up companies. Scott holds BBA degrees in marketing management and international management from the University of New Mexico, received his ScrumMaster certification in 2006, and Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Practitioner certifications in 2008. He is a generous PDMA volunteer.
Ricardo Aguirre, Consultant Ricardo has over ten years experience creating, developing and delivering innovative web-based and mobile software application products featuring web 2.0 concepts and technologies using both traditional and iterative (Agile) methodologies. He brings experience from Sony, AT&T and Qualcomm to his current position as Sr. Product Manager with Trimble Navigation.
Dr. Jeff Sutherland and Scott Downey (Agile Coach @ myspace) will be hosting a class at The Tower, Beverly Hills on Monday and Tuesday, September 20 and 21.
The Scrum Alliance will soon require a written exam before certification is awarded, so this may be your last opportunity before testing begins in the Fall.
Also, check out DigitalLA.net and consider joining them on Monday night at Trader Vic’s for a panel discussion. Registration is required and available on the Digital LA site.
Gorilla Nation is hosting another ScrumClub event on 6/24/09:
Scrum and User Experience Design: Bringing Great Design into the Agile Process
Event summary:
Scrum provides us with a great framework for building our Scrum team, implementing the core agile practices and getting the inspect and adapt process started. But Scrum doesn’t provide much for the specific disciplines like programming, testing and User Experience. That’s where our coaches Paul Hodgetts and Patrick Neeman come in.
Join us as we explore how User Experience Design integrates with the Scrum process. We’ll see first hand how each type of activity fits into the Scrum cycles, and how our User Experience researchers, designers and artists integrate into a Scrum team.
High performance depends on the self-organizing capability of teams. Understanding how this works and how to avoid destroying self-organization is a challenge. Until you understand complex adaptive systems and how Toyota works it is difficult to improve team velocity.
Jeff will discuss three core topics:
1. Shock therapy as a strategy for booting up teams.
2. The Cosmic Stopping Problem, otherwise known as the choice uncertainty principle.
3. Punctuated equilibrium – how software systems evolve
In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, and Guido Schoonheim, CTO of Xebia, present an actual case of reaching hyper-productivity with a large distributed team using XP and Scrum.
Choosing the right features can make the difference between the success and failure of a software product. Mike Cohn presented ‘Prioritizing your Project Backlog (here)’ at Agile 2008 on how a project backlog should be organized and prioritized and non-financial techniques for prioritization such as kano analysis, theme screening/scoring, relative weighting and analytic hierarchy process.
In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Henrik Kniberg talks about 10 possible reasons to fail while doing Scrum and XP. Maybe the team does not have a definition of what Done means to them, or they don’t know what their velocity is, or they don’t hold retrospectives.
In this video, Jeff does a retrospective on Google’s first Scrum implementation. He visited Google to do an analysis of the first Google implementation of Scrum on one of their largest distributed projects. Their strategy for inserting Scrum step by step into the Google engineering teams showed great insight and provides helpful lessons learned for all Agile teams.
In this InfoQ presentation, Jeff Sutherland talks about how creating a successful Scrum team is only the first step on the road to an Agile company. In most enterprises today, you must create a successful product portfolio delivered by distributed/outsourced teams. Even then, to win in a market segment, an Agile approach to the enterprise product strategy is needed to dramatically improve opportunity for success.
