FREE EVENT: The Atlanta Agile Open
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Featuring Net Objectives’ Speakers: Scott Bain, Senior Consultant and Guy Beaver, Vice President of Enterprise Engagements and Senior Consultant
Hosted by: Net Objectives & ettain group
For more information call or email: guy.beaver@netobjectives.com
Guy Beaver, Vice President of Enterprise Engagements and Senior Consultant, at 704-516-6446
Two Tracks – Two Seminars – One Open Space
Going Agile? Managers and Agile Developers together will share an afternoon of Agile insight, knowledge and open discussion to learn how to positively impact their software quality and the bottom line.
Two Concurrent Tracks for Technical and Management Attendees:
- Technical Track: Avoiding Under and Over Design in Agile Projects
- Management Track: Driving IT Projects from Business Value using Lean, Agile, and Scrum
Join Net Objectives Authors and Enterprise Consultants in two presentations which will help you from start to finish in an Agile software development project. The first, Avoiding Under and Over Design In Agile Projects, shows you how to avoid 'complexity and rework' using the advice from Design Patterns coupled with the attitude of 'not building what you don't need' from Agile. The second presentation, Driving IT Projects from Business Value using Lean, Agile, and Scrum , will help you to understand the Lean principles upon which Scrum is based which will enable you to adapt it to and scale it more effectively in your enterprise.
Technical Track:
Avoiding Under and Over Design in Agile Projects
This talk is presented by Scott Bain. Scott is a Senior Consultant, and noted author of “Emergent Design".
This talk focuses on what developers must attend to when building systems with Agile methods. It discusses an alternative to the choices of:
- Design for the future which often results in overdesign
- Not designing at all which often makes code difficult to change
The mantra of the talk is “minimizing complexity and rework” and shows how to use the advice from Design Patterns, coupled with the attitude of not building what you don’t need from Agile. The talk is basically a compendium of the essential ideas Net Objectives believes that developers need to understand after learning the basics of Scrum or Agile process. At the end of the day, you are still writing code. This seminar is a first start in what you need to know in writing code in an Agile environment.
Attendees will learn:
- How Design Patterns give an alternative design approach to the common approaches of over and under design
- How decoupling modules from the start can often be done in a simple manner without requiring pre-cognitive abilities
- How the understanding of components written by one group and used by another can be defined better
Who Should Attend:
- Technical Managers and Software Developers who have a basic understanding of object-orientation and want to take their design, programming, and analysis skills to a new level.
- Architects who want to learn foundational design skills to enable emergent and incremental system design
- IT Managers who want to focus their technology teams on software that focuses on high ROI instead of unneeded features
Management Track:
Driving IT Projects from Business Value using Lean, Agile, and Scrum
Scrum has taken the industry by storm. Many teams have adopted it successfully, many others have not. As an industry leader in Lean-Agile methods, Guy Beaver has had an opportunity to see why Scrum has succeeded in some places while it failed in others. Learn from him and avoid the common pitfalls of common implementation.
While Scrum is actually a framework to ensure one is on track in building useful software and to improve the process within which it is built, Scrum has degenerated to a handful of practices to be followed by many who don’t understand the how or the why it works. Learn what principles Scrum is based on that can provide guidance to inexperienced Scrum practitioners and insight for sustainable excellence to experienced practitioners.
Guy Beaver will explain the paradigm of Lean and how Scrum evolved from it to improve software development. By understanding the principles of Lean, you can incorporate the necessary guidance for modifying your team’s Scrum practices for truly sustainable, value driven development. Without guiding Lean Principles you will likely sacrifice the most compelling benefits of Scrum.
Attendees will learn:
- How Lean principles are manifested in Scrum
- What Lean’s Value Stream Maps are, and why they are very essential
- How to use Lean thinking to coordinate teams across an enterprise that are using Scrum
- How to manage what projects get approved and how this affects Scrum teams.
- How an understanding of Lean is valuable in taking Scrum past the range of a team
- How using Lean principles can assist in the implementation of Scrum practices
- Scrum springs from the principles of Lean
- Why over 50% of IT Software Delivery activity is waste
- How to create an IT organization that is tightly coupled with, and driven by business value
- The financial case for Agility
- Why Departmentalized thinking is sub-optimal
- Why Economy-of-scale thinking is outdated
- Vision
- Release Planning
- The Portfolio view
- Right-sizing incremental work
- Fast, Flexible, Flow
- Pulling from Business Value
- Perfection
- Scrum, Sprints, Product Owners…
Who Should Attend: Senior IT managers and executives who:
- are considering the benefits of Lean, Agile, and/or Scrum approaches
- have Agile or Scrum pilots underway and need guidance on scaling
Also appropriate for product owners, analysts, team leads, managers and others who want to understand how an Agile team fits within the business, and how the business drives an Agile team.
Agenda
| 12:30-1:00 pm | Registration and Refreshments |
| 1:00-3:00 pm | Track 1: Avoiding Under and Over Design in Agile Projects Track 2: Driving IT Projects from Business Value using Lean, Agile, and Scrum |
| 3:00-3:15 pm | Break |
| 3:15-4:45 pm | Agile Open Space, facilitated by Scott Bain, and Guy Beaver Open collaboration and discussion: Topics will be selected with your feedback from sessions. |
| 4:45-5:00 pm | Wrap-up |
Venue/Registration Info
- Palisades Office Park
5909 Peachtree Dunwoody Road
Atlanta, GA 30328- Room/Location
- Suite 180 - Large conference room
- Map link
- Google Map
- Special Instructions
Space is Limited – Please Register Early for this Event
You may pass this invitation along to appropriate attendees – Agile team members and managers involved in, or seriously considering, Agile implementations should attend.
About Net Objectives:
Since 1999, Net Objectives has been assisting developers, teams and companies create better software with higher success rates. We have trained over 20,000 professionals in Lean-Agile principles, practices and processes and facilitated Lean-Agile initiatives from team level to the enterprise in both software product development and IT applications. Net Objectives delivers comprehensive assessments, consulting, training and coaching services worldwide. Practice areas include: Lean Software Development, Scrum Process and Analysis, Agile Architecture, Test-Driven Development, Design Patterns, Quality Assurance and more. Net Objectives is a diverse and talented team of Lean-Agile experts dedicated to your success.About ettain group:
ettain group is a privately held, award-winning IT Services firm that provides IT Staffing and Professional Services to companies throughout the Southeast. We have offices in Florida, Georgia, Washington DC and North Carolina. ettain group is comprised of over 100 dedicated full-time employees and more than 350 experienced consultants.Our IT Staffing practice was established in 1996 as an innovative alternative to the commodity based focus of the majority of staffing companies. Our focus on creating value and providing world class service to our clients and consultants has enabled us to sustain profitable growth and unparalleled excellence since our inception. Our emphasis on quality is supported by an in depth eQM process (ettain group Quality Management) and is encouraged by our clients.
Our Professional Services practice dates back to March of 2000 and has reached the distinguished title of Microsoft Managed Services Partner. By focusing our efforts on enabling our clients to improve and fully utilize the Microsoft Sharepoint Server capabilities, ettain group has been able to continue to add value to our growing base of clients.
An ever-expanding pool of talented IT professionals and a commitment to our clients and consultants has placed ettain group at the forefront of the IT Services industry.