BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anguilla X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anguilla BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3783271:Event:48678 DTSTAMP:20260524T220709Z SUMMARY:Agile Philly Downtown Center City - Focus on Releases DESCRIPTION:The topic - Hop On To the Release Orientation Trolley\nOur speaker is Brian Barr of AgileTrailblazers, nationally known speaker at AgileDC and AgilePhilly's Agile Tour, will be covering this powerfu l way to move your organization forward into Agile thinking.  Brian c oncentrates on innovative thinking and training is many Agile areas.\n http://www.agiletrailblazers.com/services\nWe cover the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of Release Orientation:\n1.What does it mean to be a release-orie nted organization?2.Why should you move to release orientation?3.How d o you make the shift to become a release-oriented organization?\n \nW HAT: Project oriented organizations focus entirely on getting a relate d set of intent packaged into a container called a project and seeing that entire container move through from requirements generation to sof tware release. Release-orientated organizations are singularly focused on continuously getting releases out the door that maximize business value delivery without being constrained to only releasing related bus iness intent in the portfolio. To achieve continuous release , organiz ations must apply lean thinking and principles to their delivery frame works and minimize overhead associated with making releases. In this p ortion of the session, we will cover:\n■Agile organizational design and resource allocation to ensure maximum flow of shippable product to the release■Agile portfolio management, funding, and approval appro ach geared towards agile organizational design, smaller, incremental b usiness intent approval and prioritization. Moving towards a mindset o f customer value delivery in shorter iterations vs. delivering full pr ojects. Moving away from large project funding towards capacity fundin g.■Lean configuration management and branching strategies focused on continuous releases■Automation strategies for a continuous integrat ion, deployment, and testing model to allow scaling of a Release-Orien ted organization■Fixed release schedules that provide a known cadenc e to delivery within groupings of business value streams■Lean, real- time architectural governance for new and significantly enhanced syste ms■The importance of holding and prioritizing retrospectives at both the team and release levels.■Creation of key Release-Oriented teams to provide the “glue” for the release and provide agile change ma nagement, software packaging and release\nWHY: Release-orientation get s the entire organization to focus on the most important reason we exi st as software developers – maximizing business value delivery throu gh frequent, quality software releases. Moving the organization toward s release-orienting thinking provides an invaluable lens for wise orga nizational decision making. In this portion of the session, we will co ver:\n■Examples of decisions made when release-oriented vs. project- oriented■Key benefits realized when you have moved towards release-o rientation■Enablement for scaling of agile frameworks when release-o riented■Release-orientation budgeting reduces organizational churn f or resource allocation\n \nHOW: The move from project-orientation to release-orientation is both a mindset shift and a change in frameworks . We as software developers, IT shops, and businesses have been succes sful delivering projects.\nHow to sell the organization on the benefit s of release-orientation\nHow to transform your company from its curre nt organizational design to a structure that supports release-orientat ion – How to make release-orientation a long-lived, self-sustaining aspect of your software delivery framework.\nQ & A: The session will f inish with a brief questions and answers section.\n\nFor more informat ion visit http://www.agilephilly.com/events/agile-philly-downtown-cent er-city-focus-on-releases DTSTART;TZID=America/Anguilla:20150128T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anguilla:20150128T203000 CATEGORIES:meeting, downtown LOCATION:Comcast WEBSITE:http://goo.gl/maps/CsZiR URL:http://goo.gl/maps/CsZiR CONTACT:610 574-3813 ORGANIZER:Emily H.L., Greg Robinson, John Voris ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/1678280126?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Mark Wat son":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/MarkWatson ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Joe Camp bell":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JoeCampbell ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Daniel S inger":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/DanielSinger ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Brian Ba rr":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/BrianBarr ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Carl Mar cinik":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/CarlMarcinik ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="derek ke nney":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/derekkenney ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="David Mo skowitz":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/DavidMoskowitz ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Emily Ha ines-LaPenta":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/EmilyBahnick ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Todd Moy er":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/ToddMoyer ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Adam Gro tt":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/AdamGrott ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Ray Woel ler":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/RayWoeller ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Christop her Bawduniak":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/ChristopherBawduniak ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Warren W erner":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/WarrenWerner ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Amy Wass um":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/AmyWassum ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Matthew Bryan":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/MatthewBryan ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Dilip Le wis":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/DilipLewis ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="John Lac key":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnLackey ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Greg Rob inson":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/GregRobinson ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Jodie Ka ne":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JodieKane ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Greg Mes ter":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/GregMester ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Diane Ho od":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/DianeHood ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="John Vor is, Lead Coordinator":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Dee Gav lick":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/DeeGavlick ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Alex Ur evick-Ackelsberg":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/AlexUrevickAckels berg ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Angela Scott":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/AngelaScott ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Kristin a V.":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/KristinaV END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR