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Nov-11-09: Panel at the PDMA LA: Transitioning to Agile Product Development – Lessons Learned –

Posted by Christophe on October 23, 2009

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I’ll be a panelist at the next PDMA LA event.

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

Register here

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.

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Scrum Club Event 6/24/09 in Los Angeles

Posted by Christophe on May 31, 2009

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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.

Get your ticket with a special discount for RunningAgile readers.

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Jeff Sutherland on Self-Organization

Posted by Christophe on March 17, 2009

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


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Upcoming Scrum club LA event – Bootstrapping an Agile Team

Posted by Christophe on January 15, 2009

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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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Jeff Sutherland: Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development Teams

Posted by Christophe on November 14, 2008

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.

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Mike Cohn on Prioritizing Your Product Backlog

Posted by Christophe on September 24, 2008

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.

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Henrik Kniberg on “10 Ways to Screw Up with Scrum and XP”

Posted by Christophe on August 20, 2008

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.

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Jeff Surtherland on “Lessons Learned at Google”

Posted by Christophe on July 6, 2008

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.

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Jeff Sutherland on “The Agile Enterprise: Real World Experience in Creating Agile Companies”

Posted by Christophe on May 31, 2008

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.

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Kelp us

Posted by Christophe on March 9, 2008

Kelp (kĕlp):

  • Kelp are large seaweeds that grow in underwater forests (kelp forests) [...] It is known for its high growth rate — as fast as 2 feet a day, ultimately reaching 1oo to 250 feet high.

Kelp is one of the fastest growing plant in the world. You won’t see it grow, but after one day, you can easily measure the change.

Agile teams are like kelp. They produce fast. Really fast. You won’t see it if you stare at them (micro manage), but after a few iterations, you can easily measure the improvement.

My experience is that a team new to scrum (coached and running under the agile principles) will double throughout (as defined by 100% completed stories accepted by the client) within 3 months, quadruple (at least) within a year.

I have documented 2 examples recently:

  1. a 80 people project done in 18 weeks (scrum of scrum framework), compared to another project of the same size executed by the same team (waterfallish process) in the 18 months. That’s a 400% throughput increase in a year and half.
  2. a junior team of 6 people doubled throughput in 2 months by switching from cowboy coding to scrum

Is your team throughput also soaring?

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