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Alan Shalloway
With over 40 years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum and agile design. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in these areas. read more » Speaker(s)
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Seminar: Scaling Agile with Multiple Teams: Using Lean to Drive Business Value
This program will share newly uncovered Lean-Agile principles that guide both what to build and how to coordinate the teams that need to build it. We will cover how to apply these principles when there are several teams involved in creating software using either Scrum or Kanban development approaches.
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- Improving Enterprises
- 16633 Dallas Parkway
Addison, TX 75001 - Room/Location
- Suite 100
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Net Objectives Agile Mini-Conference for Microsoft
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The Net Objectives' Approach to Extending Scrum to Create an Agile Enterprise
The true essence of Agility is delivering business value incrementally, not merely having teams build software iteratively. This requires a holistic, business value focused perspective. There are three different scales of agility: the team, the product and the enterprise. For small organizations, these three might all overlap. Mid-size organizations may just need to concern themselves with a product and how multiple teams discern both what that needs to be and how to implement and deliver it. read more »
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Denver , CO
Fri, Mar 16
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Net Objectives Lean-Kanban Conference
Want to learn how to start a transition of improvement in your organization that includes business stakeholders, management and the development team? Net Objectives can show you how with its 1-day, 2-track conference on Lean, Kanban and technical practices. This conference is designed for executives, managers, developers, testers, leads, project managers, QA - virtually anyone interested in improving their software development efforts - whether as part of an IT organization or as a product development group.
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Please pass this invitation along to all of your associates. The first 10 folks who register for both days will get a copy of any Net Objectives Series book they choose at the conference. See our resources page for available books.
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.- Register for this Event
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BMT Session 4: The Four Reasons Only 32% of Software Development Projects Will Succeed this Year
Wed, 01/11/2012 - 14:34 — andreaThis webinar explores why so many software development projects fail. Unfortunately, most Agile methods do not address these reasons very well. To ensure success, you need to extend your methods to include the following:
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Seminar: Scaling Agile with Multiple Teams: Using Lean to drive business value and coordinate Scrum teams
This program will share newly uncovered Lean-Agile principles that guide both what to build and how to coordinate the teams that need to build it. We will cover how to apply these principles when there are several teams involved in creating software using either Scrum or Kanban development approaches.
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Agenda
| 6:30pm - 7:00pm | Networking and food |
| 7:00pm - 7:10pm | Meeting begins |
| 7:10pm - 8:20pm | Presentation |
| 8:20pm - 8:25pm | Drawing for Valuable Giveways |
| 8:25pm - 8:30pm | Meeting retrospective |
| 8:30pm | Meeting ends, we clean up, socialize |
Venue/Registration Info
- Vertafore, Inc.
- 11724 NE 195th Street
Bothell, WA - Map link
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Where & When
Bellevue , WA
Tue, Jan 10
5:30 pm - 8:45 pm PST
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Free
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Regular Registration:
Members: $35/person
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Low-cost Event: Evolution of Project Management and the Newest Trends
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| 5:30pm - 6:30pm | Social Networking |
| 6:30pm - 8:45pm | Dinner & Program (Earn 2 PDUs) |
Venue/Registration Info
- Bellevue Marriott Courtyard
- 11010 NE 8th Street
Bellevue, WA 98004 - Map link
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- Dinner progjram will begin promptly at 6:30 pm.
