The first Lean Software and Systems SoCal meetup is organized by Pascal Pinck, on July 13th, at my company, CityGrid Media.
See you there.
Posts Tagged ‘Event’
Lean Software/Systems SoCal meetup: Feel the flow!
Posted by Christophe on July 8, 2010
Posted in Event, Kanban, Lean | Tagged: citygrid media, Event, Lean, meetup, socal | 1 Comment »
CIO forum @ Phoenician in Scottsdale
Posted by Christophe on September 13, 2009
I’m excited to go and running a workshop tomorrow at the CIO Forum in Scottsdale.
I will challenge CIOs on why they may be the cause for their challenged or even failing agile implementations.
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Agile Success Tour in Los Angeles
Posted by Christophe on March 27, 2009
The Agile Success Tour in Los Angeles, hosted by RallyDev, was a great event.
Zach Nies and Israel Gat blogged the event already, no need for dup info.
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Event: The CIO Forum – New York – April 2009
Posted by Christophe on February 15, 2009
The CIO Forum is specifically designed to provide senior level IT executives from mid-to-large enterprises the opportunity to take a step back from the day to day to network and learn from their peers, as well as investigate new ways to meet their current projects and demands with senior representatives from a select group of forward thinking vendors and service providers.
The venue of the Norwegian Dawn Ocean Liner provides a unique focused environment to promote maximum time-efficiency for two days and three nights.
Through small workshops and round tables attendees are able to share best practices, successful case studies, and receive opinions and suggestions from your peers. The entire conference is built around helping everyone become a more effective executive and opening doors to new perspectives and points of view.
I’ll be speaking at agile workshop on the role of leadership in transitioning the whole enterprise to agile, and the common pitfalls of management in the endeavor.
Conference program
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April 27
6:00 pm 7:30 pm
8:30 pm 10:00 pm April 28/29
7:45 am
9:00 am 1:15 pm 2:45 pm 6:30 pm
8:30 pm
10.00 pm
April 30
7:00 am |
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Opening Keynote Address
Speed Meetings & Welcome Reception Dinner
Networking in onboard bars & casino
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Breakfast
Conference Sessions / Business Meetings
Lunch
Conference Sessions / Business Meetings
Free time / activities / networking
Dinner Entertainment & Networking in onboard bars & casino
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Breakfast & Disembarkation
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Posted in Event, Leadership | Tagged: cio, Event, Leadership, new york, Norwegian Dawn | 1 Comment »
Scrum Club event 2/9/09
Posted by Christophe on February 10, 2009
Close to 100 people showed up to the scrum club event sponsored by rallydev tonight, including a bunch of CSTs/CSCs. Feed them, and they will come (thank you Amanda, Mine and Kris from rallydev for the fantastic organization).
The theme of the evening was “Boostrapping and agile team”.
George Schlitz, coach from BigVisible Solutions, talked about the need to put agile projects in the context of the organization – defining clear stakeholders roles, involvement and communication.
Scott Downey, coach at myspace, presented reasons for scrum implementations ot fail and provided the base for what he calls “the shock therapy” – the scrum coach sets the one by deciding on iteration length, usage of story points, meeting agendas etc… until the team earns the right to change these initial decisions.
I challenged everyone with the idea that initiating a transformation to agile without executive engagement, strong engineers and experienced agile coaches is very likely a waste of effort, i.e. not going to materially change the success of the business.
A video should show up sometime soon.
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SD West 2009
Posted by Christophe on January 15, 2009
The SD West 2009 conference is only 2 months away and only one more day to save up to $400! The Super Early Bird deadline ends Friday, January 16. Don’t miss out on your chance to save!
I’ll be presenting with Jean Tabaka…
Agile Leadership Recipes for the 21st Century
Speaker: Jean Tabaka (Agile Fellow, Rally Software Development)
Date/Time: Wednesday (March 11, 2009) 10:15am — 11:45am
Track: Agile Processes, People & Methods
Presentation Format: 90-minute Class
Audience level: Intermediate
Presentation Abstract
Christophe Louvion, CTO of Gorilla Nation and Jean Tabaka, Agile Fellow with Rally Software, bring their direct experiences in rolling out Agile adoptions in two different organizations. Our recipes for success reveal what worked in our two separate cases. Agile is growing and prescriptions can be dangerous, so don’t come looking for a prescription or a silver bullet! Still, we’ll share our challenges and audacious results of two 21st Century complex Agile adoptions. We’ll also warn you of 12 adoption modes we guarantee will bring you only failure. Mostly, we’ll provide straightforward practices and metrics to support our audacious claims for success from two different perspectives: a CTO and an Agile consultant.
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Upcoming Scrum club LA event – Bootstrapping an Agile Team
Posted by Christophe on January 15, 2009
This is an announcement that I will be hosting the next scrum club LA event at my company. A big thanks to my friends at rallydev who are making the event possible. No worry, this is not a timeshare scam turning into a sales pitch to get you buy rally.
When: Mon, Feb 9 – Mon, Feb 9 | 6:00:00 pm PST – 8:00:00 pm PST
Event title: Bootstrapping an Agile Team
Where: Gorilla Nation – Los Angeles
Event description:
Admission is FREE but you must RSVP since space is limited.
http://asc-gathering.eventbrite.com/
Please join LA Scrum Club and Rally Software for a special evening on Monday, February 9th with local Agile luminaries: Christophe Louvion, CTO of Gorilla Nation, Scott Downey, ScrumMaster at MySpace, and George Schlitz, Principal Coach at Big Visible Solutions. Admission is free of charge and wine, beer and appetizers will be provided.
At this unique event, you will hear from Agile experts as they discuss the benefits of moving from a waterfall or plan-driven process to Agile. You will learn how the Agile process can help you achieve faster time to market, increased productivity and higher quality. With an Agile implementation, you can also experience more effective collaboration and better cultural alignment between your IT team, the business and its customers.
This event will focus on:
- Starting an Agile software team
- Measuring your progress and success
- What makes some Agile teams more successful than others
- The organizational barriers and opportunities to Agile adoption that you should know about
- Cultivating our Agile community for knowledge sharing and interaction
Admission is FREE but you must RSVP since space is limited.
http://asc-gathering.eventbrite.com/
SPEAKERS
Christophe Louvion, CTO of Gorilla Nation in Los Angeles
Scott Downey, ScrumMaster and Technical Project Manager at Myspace.com in Beverly Hills
George Schlitz, Principal Coach at BigVisible Solutions in Irvine
Audience moderator: Tony Wong, President of Digital Onion Inc. in Marina Del Rey
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