RECORDING – Scaling Agile Across the Enterprise (and more Resources)
Agile software development has been gaining momentum and mind share in software development circles for well over a decade. Its emphasis on incrementally delivering business value by teams that are both cross-functional and self-organized has resulted in getting innovative products to market faster. However, most large enterprises have failed to embrace the Agile movement even though they have earnestly tried by sending scores of their people through Certified Scrum Master and similar Agile training programs. What has been lacking is an Agile framework that addresses the needs beyond the Team. In order to succeed, the Program and Portfolio levels of an organization must be fully engaged in building an Agile Enterprise.
This webinar will discuss “proven” 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.
SPEAKER: Armond Mehrabian (PMP, CSM, CSP) is the founder and President of Portofino Solutions, Inc. He is an Agile instructor and coach with a deep passion for innovation and continuous process improvement. He has been in the technology and IT industry for over 23 years. For the last four years he has worked with Fortune 1000 companies to implement large scale agile solutions. Armond is currently working with Dean Leffingwell and the Scaled Agile Partners (the creators of the Scaled Agile Framework™) and consults to larger clients on scaled Agile transformations. Armond lives in San Diego, CA and can be reached at amehrabian@portofinosolutions.com and @armond_m on Twitter.
Earn PDU: 1 ***PDU information is provided in the recording ***
COST: Free
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Learn SCRUM in Under 10 Minutes (in HD)
All new recording…in HD just released !
Learn Scrum in under 10 minutes. This video is an introduction to the Scrum software development methodology. By the end of this fast-paced video, you’ll practically be a scrum master. You’ll know about the follosing and will be ready to start implementing Scrum in your own team.
- burn-down charts,
- team roles,
- product backlogs,
- sprints,
- daily scrums
- and more…
Reference Materials: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Exam
PMI has provied a a list of publications that may be helpful when preparing for the PMI-ACP exam. A few of the books are:
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FREE WEBINAR: The Coaching Stance – Up Shifting Your Agile Coaching (2/15)
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 (9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET) – 1 hour
Curious to know why Agilists are talking about “The Coaching Stance” class? Want to know what Lyssa Adkins & Michael Spayd are up to now in transforming agile coaching? Longing to take your coaching to the next level?
Join Lyssa & Michael, co-founders of The Agile Coaching Institute (ACI), along with internationally recognized coach trainer Cynthia Loy Darst, in a free webinar about the first class in ACI’s advanced transformation curriculum. You’ll love meeting our friend and colleague, Cynthia. Plus, we want to share our excitement about this course and the Agile Transformation Coaching School. The Coaching Stance will be taught in March and April in Boulder, Boston, San Francisco and Stockholm. Come ask your questions to see if you should be there.
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PMI-Agile Webinar – “Does Risk Mgt have a place in an Agile Lifecycle?”
We often have questions about relating traditional PM practices to Agile practices. This is especially true in the area of risk. In this one hour webinar, Greg Smith (Author of Becoming Agile) and Donna Reed (The Agilista PM) will cover traditional risk management techniques and contrast them to the Agile risk management practices.
You will learn how to use traditional risk management in harmony with an Agile lifecycle and how to perform risk management at a level that minimizes waste and over-planning.
Areas covered include
- BURP (Big Upfront Risk Planning),
- daily risk management,
- and Team involvement in risk identification.
Hosted by: PMI Agile Community of Practice
Duration: 1 hour
PDU’s earned: 1
Discounted Lean-Agile PM and Kanban Classes (San Jose & Scottsdale)
Lean-Agile project management course
Kanban accreditation course
Instructor: Doctor Masa K Maeda. Charter Member of the Lean-Kanban University and Kanban Trainer-coachLeanGiving Certified ScrumMaster Training (Anaheim, CA) – 2/10
What are LeanGiving Workshops?
LeanGiving Workshops are for individuals looking to give back to their communities and charities as well as people under adverse conditions (unemployment).
Current Workshops
- 2-Day Certified ScrumMaster Workshop
- 1-Day Agile Product Management and Product Ownership
- 1-Day Retrospective Games and Lean Improvement Processes
- 1-Day Agile and Scrum Fundamentals
- Individual Life Coaching
Charity Certified ScrumMaster training – $700. 2/10 & 11 in Anaheim. Proceeds go to help orphanages, teachers, students in Uganda & Mexico. Each paid seat sponsors a $70 free seat for unemployed.
WEBINAR RECORDING – Different Agile Approaches: 1st (XP, Scrum) and 2nd (Lean/Kanban) Generation Methods
Get an overview of Agile approaches starting with eXtreme Programming (XP) & Scrum and then hear about Lean-Agile and its team oriented Kanban for software process.
Early Agile methods have been overly-team centric and have eschewed management. While 2nd generation Agile methods build on a decades old history of Lean thinking and have extended agility in three ways that are not only required for an enterprise engagement but also for creating synergies that improve Agile at the team level:
- Extending the Team to across the Enterprise
- Extending Individual skill sets to Systemic Thinking
- Extending the Worker to include Management
How To Implement Scrum in 10 Easy Steps
Scrum is not a hard concept to understand. But there are a lot of parts ot making it successful. I found a great article that explains how to implement Scrum in just 10 easy steps from getting your backlog in order to tracking progress through burn charts, and more… Thanks goes out to Kelly Waters, from All About Agile, who writes:
When I first encountered agile development, I found it hard to understand. Okay, I might not be the brightest person you’ve ever met! But I’m not stupid either, I think 
There’s a myriad of different approaches, principles, methods and terms, all of which are characterised as ‘Agile’. And from my perspective, all this ‘noise’ makes agile software development sound far harder, far more scientific, and far more confusing than it really needs to be.
Collaboration by Leveraging Better Problem Solving
Toyota Motor Corporation is famed for its ability to relentlessly improve operational performance. Central to this ability is the training of engineers, supervisors and managers in a structured problem-solving approach that uses a tool called the A3 Problem-Solving Report – that facilitates and improves knowledge sharing and collaboration.
The term “A3″ derives from the paper size used for the report, which is the metric equivalent to 11″ x 17″ (or B-sized) paper. Toyota actually uses several styles of A3 reports–for solving problems, for reporting project status, and for proposing policy changes–each having its own “storyline.”
The A3 Report is one of the most powerful tools in the lean toolset. Although it looks pretty simple, it is one of the most effective means of pulling together many of the tools used in problem solving and reporting. You can’t go wrong by learning how to use this tool and then implementing it within your organization.
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My Speaking Engagements …..
-Apr 18: TOYOTA HQ: Start Using Agile|Lean in your Projects Today
-Nov 10: HOW TO PLAN, MANAGE, and TRACK ITERATIONS (ProjectTimes)
-Dec 16: DEALING WITH THE TOP 10 ISSUES DURING & AFTER AN ITERATION (ProjectTimes)
-Jan 13: AGILE REQUIREMENT GATHERING & DOCUMENTATION - BEYOND USER STORIES (ProjectTimes)
-Feb 10: DEALING WITH THE TOP 10 ISSUES IN AGILE ADOPTION (ProjectTimes)
Some Agile User-Groups and Links…
