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:40042 DTSTAMP:20260524T081100Z SUMMARY:Agile Philly September 2014 Meeting DESCRIPTION:Our topic is . . . Dynamic Governance, or How to Structure your Organization so itself will be Agile.\n \nThe meeting will run a little long, as it is a workshop format.\nThe meeting location will be VERTEX Inc in Berwyn / Paoli\n \nOur Speaker  Sheella Mierson, Ph .D. presented this topic earlier this year at Agile Delaware entitled \"Dynamic Governance: A Method for Agile Organizations”\nLearn a sim ple process you can use immediately to tighten up your sprint planning meetings and your retrospectives.\nLearn also about a new strategy to scale up Scrum to an entire company – even outside the software dev elopment area.\nThe tool is Dynamic Governance (DG), a method of gover nance, decision-making, and project management, developed in the Nethe rlands based on cybernetics and systems theory.\nA key innovation is i ts structural approach to improving communication and decision-making. DG supports the broad implementation of Agile principles.\nThis sessi on will introduce you to the principles of DG, and give you hands-on p ractice with a new decision-making method. If you wish to read somethi ng in advance (optional), see The Creative Forces of Self-Organization or the links below\n\n( As this is a workshop, plan on 1.5 hours, not just a one hour talk )\n6:30 – 7:00 Mingle and Eat\n7:00 – 8:30 T alk and Workshop\n8:30 – 8:45 Q & A\nSheella Mierson, Ph.D. is princ ipal at Creative Learning Solutions, Inc., a partner in The Sociocracy Consulting Group LLC.\nShe helps companies implement Dynamic Governan ce in support of their strategic goals, and to create adaptive and eff ective organizations where all members’ voices matter.\"\nThis talk is geared mostly more toward leadership and management roles responsib le for Agile transformations. But will be of interest to all roles and levels.\nLinks\nhttp://www.meetup.com/Agile-Delaware/events/175336022 \nhttp://www.agilealliance.org/files/session_pdfs/Meet%20Scrum%E2%80% 99s%20Big%20Brother,%20Dynamic%20Governance%20v3.pdf  \n \nBest Dir ections . . . is still use Southbound Rte 202, not the PA Turnpike ( those directions are under Events > Directions To Meetings )\nThe best way to Vertex is the old standby Chesterbrook Blvd off of Rte 202.YOU WILL GET OFF BEFORE THE CONSTRUCTION.\nTake Rte 202 Southbound.  Aft er ValleyForge Road (Devon) and Rte 252 (Paoli),  Get off  at the Ch esterbrook Blvd Exit.\nLeft at the top of the ramp.  Left at the ligh t on West Swedesford Road Rte 252\nSlowly make the sharp Right onto Ol d Cassatt Road ( it looks like a Driveway )\nLeft into the Vertex Comp lex   \nDirections     http://goo.gl/maps/w1Ol1\n  \n\nFor mo re information visit http://www.agilephilly.com/events/agile-philly-se ptember-2014-meeting DTSTART;TZID=America/Anguilla:20140916T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anguilla:20140916T204500 CATEGORIES:meeting, governance, holacracy LOCATION:Vertex Inc WEBSITE: URL: CONTACT: ORGANIZER;CN="John Voris, Lead Coordinator":http://www.agilephilly.com /profile/JohnVoris ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/1678274553?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Michael Geiser":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/MichaelGeiser ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Ken Nice ly":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/KenNicely ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Mike Moy er":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/MikeMoyer 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="Tom Rupe rt":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/TomRupert ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Damian S tamm":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/stammer0815 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="Michele Eichhorn":http://www.agilephilly.com/profile/MicheleEichhorn ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Lynn L. 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