Webinars and Workshops for anyone wanting to learn how to become more Agile & Lean.
Frameworks are great, and the Scaled Agile Framwork (by Dean Leffingwell) provides a great context for Agile at scale. One still needs to fill in frameworks with proven, established ideas. This webinar presents some of the basic principles of Lean that have guided the creation of proven methods that have worked at several large organizations (300-4000 person development organizations). It continues by presenting 4 case studies that illustrate these principles in action: 1. The value of cross-f...
Are you tired of the myth that Scrum, XP and Kanban do not scale to the needs of the larger software enterprise? Are you tired of the ideologies that prevent your enterprise from even trying to apply them? If the answer to either of the above is yes, this presentation is for you. Dean Leffingwell will finally dispel these myths and ideologies by describing the Scaled Agile Framework™, a public-facing set of practices which have been used to successfully scale Lean|Agile development to hundreds...
This webinar discusses the advances in enterprise scale Agility and present a framework that has been proven to scale to meet the needs of large product development organizations such as BMC, SalesForce.com, Google, John Deere and Nokia.
Highly effective leaders have discovered the secret is to manage commitments rather than people. Experience real-time coaching on issues that matter to you most. This is a unique opportunity to not just talk about accountability and integrity but to experience it on a deeper level. You’ll Discover in this Webinar … * How to manage commitments instead of people (this little ninja move puts the power in YOUR hands) * The secret language of requests (hey, it’s a secret if you don’t know and use i...
Communication and social dysfunctional relationships are often associated with project teams’ inability to meet their project goals and objectives. This all too often leads to project’s coming in over budget and/or schedule.The social and emotional skills of a project teams and individuals have been de-emphasized in favor of process and procedural fulfillment on part of the project profession. ; In some respects, this is leading towards the commoditization of project management. There’s a clea...
User Stories have become the bread and butter specifications for an Agile team, yet it is difficult to know how to do a good job of sizing them. In this Webinar we will answer some questions: Why split stories?Why will this make the team go faster?Why is splitting stories by architectural component bad?What is a better way of splitting user stories?We will start with a quick review of what user stories are and then learn why large stories often limit your team’s progress. Then we will learn ho...
Building highly innovative products that are both engaging and valuable (think iPhone, Kindle, Facebook) require deep knowledge about our customer’s world. Although Agile development has been successful in the construction of products it is very thin on the requirements gathering process. Our industry needs Agile methodologies for gaining deep domain knowledge by collaboratively working with our customers in their world. I will be speaking about some collaborative tools for gathering rich requ...
Misconceptions abound about how agile projects analyze and develop requirements. In practice, requirements are the basis for planning, developing and delivering agile projects. Agile requirements are congruent– they combine to form a sound and sensible union that drives successful delivery of business value.YOU WILL LEARN:The agile method of developing requirements and how ‘traditional’ requirements practices are adapted on agile projectsThe value of requirements analysis on agile projectsWays...
The Agilista PM interviews Robert Maksimchuk on a recent Software Development Project involving many sub-projects and teams. ; Bob shares how Agile Iterations...
Hear about a real life Large, Complex, and Distributed $5 million+ project at ; a very large corporation where Agile practices were desired to be used in a very Waterfall traditional environment.