Nov 1 Meeting
Free and Open to the Software Engineering & IT Community
NOTE - New Location!!! And good news - Plenty of Free Parking!!
SolutionsIQ. 10785 Willows Rd NE, Suite 250, Redmond, WA [Map]
Food & networking from 5:45 to 6:15 (pizza, salad, soda )
Announcements from 6:15 to 6:30
Presentation from 6:30 to 7:45
Q & A from 7:45 to 8:15
Doors close at 8:30
Dollars and Dates Are Killing Agile
by Chris Sterling, VP of Engineering - Agile Advantage [ http://www.agileadvantage.com ]
Agile teams speak in points and iterations, but project and business managers think in terms of dates and dollars. This conceptual and language barrier makes strategic business planning, funding, and project status reporting a significant challenge for Agile teams. Because of these barriers, many successful Agile/Scrum initiatives are discontinued or never expanded.
Learning Outcomes:
- Agile Portfolio Management concepts
- How Agile development teams can identify cost, schedule, scope and quality issues quicker to reduce project risk
- How to bridge the “Points vs. Dollars” language barrier to address the needs of strategic planners and reduce the overhead of “managing up” in Agile environments
Bio
Chris has created and contributes to multiple open source projects. He speaks at many conferences and user groups on topics ranging from test automation to architecture to management. Chris has taught the “Advanced Topics in Agile Software Development” class at the University of Washington in the Agile Developer Certificate extension program. Chris has an extensive technology, process, and consulting background and brings his real world experience and deep passion for software development into Agile Advantage. Chris has supported the efforts of many teams and whole organizations in their adoption of Agile methods. Chris has recently published the book Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change with Addison-Wesley.
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