All Pages - Agile Philly2024-03-28T22:54:16Zhttp://www.agilephilly.com/page/?sort=mostRecent&feed=yes&xn_auth=noContacting AgilePhillytag:www.agilephilly.com,2020-02-27:3783271:Page:7269472020-02-27T18:56:01.116ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Contacting AgilePhilly</strong></span></p>
<p>Should you need to contact us</p>
<p>Send an email to</p>
<p><a href="Mailto:AgilePhillyCoordinators@YahooGroups.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mailto:AgilePhillyCoordinators@YahooGroups.com</a></p>
<p> or an email to</p>
<p>DefiningDone at Gmail dot Com</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Contacting AgilePhilly</strong></span></p>
<p>Should you need to contact us</p>
<p>Send an email to</p>
<p><a href="Mailto:AgilePhillyCoordinators@YahooGroups.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mailto:AgilePhillyCoordinators@YahooGroups.com</a></p>
<p> or an email to</p>
<p>DefiningDone at Gmail dot Com</p>
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<p></p> Lightning Talks on Agile in Non IT areastag:www.agilephilly.com,2020-02-17:3783271:Page:7077422020-02-17T18:43:17.427ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">John Voris showed <strong>Examples of Scrumy.com</strong> which is an Online Card Wall</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">which he once used for scheduling AgilePhilly meetings</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://scrumy.com/agilephilly2016" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://scrumy.com/agilephilly2016</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">So he added my own Headings (kinda)…</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">John Voris showed <strong>Examples of Scrumy.com</strong> which is an Online Card Wall</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">which he once used for scheduling AgilePhilly meetings</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://scrumy.com/agilephilly2016" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://scrumy.com/agilephilly2016</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">So he added my own Headings (kinda) <a href="https://scrumy.com/agilephilly2017" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://scrumy.com/agilephilly2017</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and then broke out the October All-Day Conference as a separate card wall <a href="https://scrumy.com/agilephilly2017october" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://scrumy.com/agilephilly2017october</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and he was still using it in 2018 <a href="https://scrumy.com/agilephilly2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://scrumy.com/agilephilly2018</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">then he went with a flat panel that shows what I am thinking of - and which resides on the AgilePhilly website next to the Directions to Meetings webpage <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/planning-our-meeting-schedule-for-the-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.agilephilly.com/page/planning-our-meeting-schedule-for-the-year</a><br></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">then he just went directly to creating placeholders for dates on the website and putting haiku's on them - so there is something to read there.<br></span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1678290564?profile=original" width="250"></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">= PRO =</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">FREE</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Very Flexible</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Is written in Java Script</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Backups of the page are just plain text copies</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">= CON =</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Not Secured, Security by Obscurity</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">And for scheduling meetings, the one URL that is needed during the year <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/2020</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Joel Chew's Slides on Agile At Home ( with his son Winston ) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="https://bit.ly/38FfPV6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://bit.ly/38FfPV6</a><br></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bob English - Personal Kanban </span></p>
<p> <a href="https://bit.ly/38DDg0S">https://bit.ly/38DDg0S</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sheena Gladden and D M A I C in a Manufacturing Environment using Scrum</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">( Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control )</span> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">which includes Experiments in a Sprint</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Shawn Daly - Examples of the forms used for driving DMAIC</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">-================================-</span></p> New Tabtag:www.agilephilly.com,2019-11-01:3783271:Page:5065062019-11-01T15:21:17.573ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVorisWomen In Agiletag:www.agilephilly.com,2019-11-01:3783271:Page:5062522019-11-01T15:19:26.025ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p><strong>Women in Agile Information</strong></p>
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<p> Please help us identify and spread news on:</p>
<p>How to get involved</p>
<p>How to hear about Events</p>
<p>How to Support the Movement</p>
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<p><strong>Groups and Contacts</strong></p>
<p><strong> Our own <em>Women in Agile</em> Chapter is chaired by Kimberly Davis and Sheena Gladden</strong></p>
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<p><strong>* Women in Agile - AgilePhilly Chapter</strong> ( usually meets in South Jersey )<br></br> RSVP's …</p>
<p><strong>Women in Agile Information</strong></p>
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<p> Please help us identify and spread news on:</p>
<p>How to get involved</p>
<p>How to hear about Events</p>
<p>How to Support the Movement</p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Groups and Contacts</strong></p>
<p><strong> Our own <em>Women in Agile</em> Chapter is chaired by Kimberly Davis and Sheena Gladden</strong></p>
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<p><strong>* Women in Agile - AgilePhilly Chapter</strong> ( usually meets in South Jersey )<br>
RSVP's <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Women-in-Agile-Philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.meetup.com/Women-in-Agile-Philadelphia</a></p>
<p> and the Linked-In group<br>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12199692" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12199692</a></p>
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<p><strong>Similar Groups</strong></p>
<p>Women in Data ( Vanguard in Malvern) <a href="https://technical.ly/company/women-in-data-philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://technical.ly/company/women-in-data-philadelphia</a></p>
<p>South Jersey Women in Tech <a href="https://www.meetup.com/jersey-shore-women-in-tech/events/264074615" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.meetup.com/jersey-shore-women-in-tech/events/264074615</a></p>
<p>Bucks County ( New Hope, PA) <a href="https://www.meetup.com/BucksCounty-WIT" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.meetup.com/BucksCounty-WIT</a></p>
<p>Women in Agile New York City <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Women_in_Agile_NYC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.meetup.com/Women_in_Agile_NYC</a></p>
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<p>Women Who Test <a href="http://womenwhotest.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">womenwhotest.com</a> </p>
<p>and a List of Resources from our local eZine ( Feb 2020 )</p>
<p><a href="https://technical.ly/delaware/2019/03/27/list-90-career-building-resources-for-women-in-tech-meetups-books-mentorship-delaware" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://technical.ly/delaware/2019/03/27/list-90-career-building-resources-for-women-in-tech-meetups-books-mentorship-delaware</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://technical.ly/philly/2019/07/01/lead-by-learning-conference-diversity-in-data-science-chop-women-meetup" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://technical.ly/philly/2019/07/01/lead-by-learning-conference-diversity-in-data-science-chop-women-meetup</a></p>
<p><a href="https://technical.ly/philly/2019/09/10/women-in-data-salary-negotiation-workshop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://technical.ly/philly/2019/09/10/women-in-data-salary-negotiation-workshop</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://technical.ly/philly/2019/07/11/learn-to-code-11-mostly-local-philadelphia-bootcamps-resources-meetups-courses-coding-programming-dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://technical.ly/philly/2019/07/11/learn-to-code-11-mostly-local-philadelphia-bootcamps-resources-meetups-courses-coding-programming-dev</a></p> Fall 2019 Conference Topic Descriptionstag:www.agilephilly.com,2019-08-21:3783271:Page:3711812019-08-21T16:15:06.568ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
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<p>A color-coded Session Grid of topics on Oct 21st is <a href="https://bit.ly/2kmqNed" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2kmqNed…</a></p>
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<p><!-- Table of Contents on this webpage <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2019-conf">http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2019-conf</a> <p--></p>
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<p>A color-coded Session Grid of topics on Oct 21st is <a href="https://bit.ly/2kmqNed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://bit.ly/2kmqNed</a></p>
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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: Helvetica, arial; display: inline-block;"><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 18px 27px; border-radius: 3px; text-align: center; color: #ffffff; letter-spacing: 0.07em; font-family: arial,sans-serif !important; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; box-shadow: 0px 2px 2px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.15); background-color: #e5422c; -moz-border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px;" href="https://agilephilly.ticketleap.com/" target="_top">THE TICKET WINDOW IS NOW CLOSED. Thanks to all who attended</a></div>
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<p>Copies of Presentations are:</p>
<p><a href="https://prod-kanbanuniversity-backend-store.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/case-studies/Vanguard_EU.pdf">David Hughes, Kanban @Vanguard</a></p>
<p> and check out David's ideas at <a href="https://dhughes-avc.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://dhughes-avc.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.axs2000.net/jvoris/2019/DarkLordsSuperHeroesFinal.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Dodge - Dark Lords SuperHeroes</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.axs2000.net/jvoris/2019/WhysWhatsProductDevelopment_AgileTour_2019_v7.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joel Chew & John Franklin Armstrong WhysWhatsProductDevelopment_AgileTour_2019_v7.pdf</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.axs2000.net/jvoris/2019/Are.We.Done.Yet.for.Agile.Philly.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robin Ratliff of CERNER = Are We Done Yet PDF</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/nogy34one2qyg8u/Parag-Deshpande_Agile%20Philly.pdf?dl=0">Parag Deshpande on Product Strategy and UX, How to Manage a Financial Product</a></p>
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<p>Tickets (still waiting for payment from some WaitListed People)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.axs2000.net/jvoris/2019/DarkLordsSuperHeroesFinal.pdf%3EMark%20Dodge%20Dark%20Lords%20Superheroes%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%3Ca%3ETickets%3C/a%3E%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="">agilephilly.ticketleap.com</a></p>
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<p><a href="#_Instructions">The early hour 8:30 am to 9:30 am is an hour set aside for Mingling or <em>Optional Sessions</em></a></p>
<p><a href="#_Instructions">(The Conference does not officially begin until 9:30 am so those people fighting the PA Turnpike have some leeway as to when they arrive. The sessions in the 8:30 am hour are <em>OPTIONAL</em>.)</a></p>
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<p>MEETING SPACE at CERNER</p>
<p>Auditorium A ( the big ballroom) = Coffee and Mingling. Remember that the Conference officially starts at 9:30 am</p>
<p>Auditorium B ( the smaller ballroom) = Kimberly Davis begins the Philly Chapter of Women in Agile</p>
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<p>Classroom 1 = Greg Mester with "Sharing IceBreakers for the Daily Standup"</p>
<p>Classroom 2 = John Voris facilitates "How can Male Members support the Women in Agile Sub-Chapter?"</p>
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<p>Auditorium A - is for those who just want Coffee and Mingling</p>
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<h4><a href="#_Instructions"></a><a name="_Instructions"></a>Instructions for the survey will include</h4>
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<p>If you are coming to one of the Optional Early-Hour Sessions, we will ask you which one</p>
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<p>Are you attending the optional 8:30 to 9:30 Hour ? Y/N</p>
<p>If yes, then indicate your interest ( pick only one ). . .</p>
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Women in Agile Kick Off Meeting, with Kimberly Davis _ I want to be included in this _ I want to help Kimberly run this Men supporting Women in Agile, facilitated by John Voris _ I am interested in seeing how this will improve my team _ Other IceBreakers with Greg Mester _ Daily Scrum Networking and IceBreaker _ ( or any other question or activity you want to insert here ) I'll just be mingling and drinking coffee _ Just Coffee for me I want to help with the conference and get emails from John and score me a nametag that says "Helper" _ I will come at 8:00 am and help with the Welcome Table. I have been to the conference before, so I know the routine. _ I am not a morning person. But I will help with cleanup afterwards. _ I have some really nice SWAG and will tell John about it. <br />
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<h2>SESSION DESCRIPTIONS</h2>
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<p>Table of Contents</p>
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<p><a href="#_Instructions">Instructions</a></p>
<h4><a href="#Women_In_Agile">Women in Agile - Local Philadelphia Chapter by Kimberly Davis</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#IceBreakers">Sharing IceBreakers for the Daily Standup by Greg Mester</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Supporting_Women">Supporting Women in Agile - The Men's Side - So what more is needed in the Workplace? by John Voris</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Dark_Lord">The Dark Lord Villains Thwarting Your Agile Superhero Teams and How to Defeat Them by Mark Dodge and Terry Harmer of Vanguard</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Kanban_At_Vanguard">Kanban at Vanguard: How enterprise services planning improves outcomes at the world's leading mutual fund company by David Hughes</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#5_Ways">5 ways Modern Agile can take SAFe out of a Rut by Helen Wassef of Deloitte</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Small_Batch_Sizes">Small Batch Sizes Enable Everything, even in the Government by Kimberly Davis</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Value_Stream_Mapping">Value Stream Mapping for Business Agility by Kimberly Davis</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Measuring_Success">Measuring Success for DevSecOps Adoption by Kimberly Davis</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Communities_Of_Practice">Communities of Practice for Enterprise Agility by Kimberly Davis</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Agile_Aggravations">Agile Aggravations by Tom Hendricksen</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Are_We_Done">Are We Done Yet? by Robin Ratliff</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Faces_Of_Courage">Faces of Courage in Agile Transformation by Bob Schatz</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Open_Mike_Coaching">Open Mic: Coaching Up by Jen Wright and Sally Vassalotti</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#5_Ways_Effective">5 Ways to be an effective change agent in an Agile Universe by Deepika Menon and Brenda Kenny</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Predicting_Resistance">Predicting Resistance to Change by Jorge Rivera and Arun Vinayagam of TD Bank</a></h4>
<h4><a href="#Lean_Startup_Snowflakes">Lean Startup Snowflakes by Andre Dhondt</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Agile_Product_Mgmt">Agile Product Management and Faux Turkey Dinner by Andre Dhondt</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#3_Simple_Rules">3 Simple Rules for Hyper-productive Meetings (and how to measure the Communication Coefficient) by Andre Dhondt</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Peer_Panel">Agile Philly - A Peer Panel of Common People addressing Common Problems by Scott Ocamb of RoadmapToAgile.com</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Daves_Not_Here">Dave's not here! (50 years of telework research and experience) by Daniel Gullo of Apple Brook Consulting</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#13_Strategies">13 Strategies for an Effective Job Search by Jason Biser of Apex Systems</a></h4>
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<h3><em>And in the Special track for UI/UX/Product Development</em></h3>
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<h4><a href="#The_Incredibles">The Incredibles (of an Agile Team) - The Scrum Master & The Product Owner by Deepika Menon and Brenda Kenny</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Product_Development">Product development for internal clients by Julie Press</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Managing_Wealth">Managing Wealth through Product Strategy by Parag Deshpande</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Collaboration">Collaboration in the Information Age by Andrew Evans</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Agile_For">Agile for Non-IT Teams by Craeg Strong</a></h4>
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<h4><a href="#Now_You_See_It">Now You See It! ... Observing Flow Using Kanban Boards by Craeg Strong</a></h4>
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<p>Auditorium A is just</p>
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<h4>Coffee and Mingling</h4>
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<p>Auditorium B</p>
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<h4><a name="Women_In_Agile" id="Women_In_Agile"></a>Women in Agile - Local Philadelphia Chapter</h4>
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<p>by Kimberly Davis</p>
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<p><br>
Kimberly Davis is starting a Women in Agile group in the area, and the 8:30am breakout will be the first instance of this group convening.</p>
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<p>This is likely to be a sub-group somewhat similar to the AgilePrinceton group.</p>
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<p>Come to this session to suggest what areas this new direction of AgilePhilly should pursue.</p>
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<p>Join your "Agilista Sistas" to reflect on common areas of interest.</p>
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<p>Classroom 1</p>
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<h4><a name="IceBreakers" id="IceBreakers"></a>Sharing IceBreakers for the Daily Standup</h4>
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<p>by Greg Mester</p>
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<p>Greg will cover his entertaining IceBreakers for your Daily Standup</p>
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<p>Since this is an interactive session, bring your own ideas and things tried and true - or just tried and floundered.</p>
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<p>Greg Mester is a long time AgilePhilly member, Phillies Baseball Fan, long-time blogger and recently partnered up with Clear Systems to bring ICP-ATF training to Philly These classes are usually scheduled for weekends at the Courtyard Philadelphia Valley Forge/King of Prussia.</p>
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<p>Classroom 2</p>
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<h4><a name="Supporting_Women" id="Supporting_Women"></a>Supporting Women in Agile - The Men's Side - So what more is needed in the Workplace?</h4>
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<p>by John Voris</p>
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<p>As managers, we men should be creating a workplace that is friendly, welcoming, even-handed and fair. We should be cognizant of what is upsetting or irritating in our workplace or to our co-workers. We may not know all they deal with, and we cannot address all concerns of gender in the workplace - but we should make attempts to understand the concerns of our staff.</p>
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<p>Working Agreements and Codes of Conduct can cover many logistical issues of the workplace, but they are not enough. At the end of this experimental discussion, we will develop a Manifesto (a Code of Conduct v2) that states what we as managers shall strive to do in our workplace. This is a facilitated discussion with frank and open talk to tackle ingrained biases.</p>
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<p>John Voris is a CSM and Lead Coordinator of AgilePhilly. As a member of many volunteer user groups, he has seen how some groups and his own workplace staff are slow to show concerns of changing 21st Century attitudes. The PHL Police Department has examples for us to talk about.</p>
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<h2>FIRST HOUR 9:45- 10:45</h2>
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<h4><a name="Dark_Lord" id="Dark_Lord"></a> The Dark Lord Villains Thwarting Your Agile Superhero Teams and How to Defeat Them</h4>
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<p>by Mark Dodge and Terry Harmer of Vanguard</p>
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<p>This talk is ...</p>
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<p>. An exploration of old-school traditional versus new-school "superhero" teams</p>
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<p>. An introduction of the 4 Dark Lord Villains thwarting agile team collaboration and the 4 agile team Superheroes you need to defeat them</p>
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<p>. and has interactive hands-on exercises to learn how to analyze and remedy real-world dysfunctional scenarios</p>
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<p>Mark Dodge is Senior Scrum Master at Vanguard. His certs are CSP, CSM, PMI-ACP, ICP-ATF, ICP-ACC, and his Agile journey started in 2006 with varied experiences as Product Owner and Dev Team Manager, and is currently a Scrum Master.</p>
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<p>Terry Harmer is a Senior Scrum Master at Vanguard, His certs are CSP, CSM, PSM, PAL, ICP-ACC, and he has worked as a Support Engineer, Developer, Manager and Coach across a range of industries and geographic locations for startups to Fortune 100's.</p>
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<h4><a name="Kanban_At_Vanguard" id="Kanban_At_Vanguard"></a>Kanban at Vanguard: How enterprise services planning improves outcomes at the world's leading mutual fund company</h4>
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<p>by David Hughes</p>
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<p>"Scrum-Stall" is a common symptom of dysfunction when knowledge work teams favor procedure over committing to evolutionary change.</p>
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<p>This experience report is about the successful experiments at Vanguard aligning the Kanban Method and Enterprise Services Planning (ESP) with its own enabling practices to improve key outcome measures. The theme of "Overcoming ScrumStall" by adopting the Kanban Method is covered, with evidence of dramatic and immediate improvement in the flow of business value after adopting Kanban.</p>
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<p>This Scrumm-Stall talk has been presented at Lean Kanban Global Conference 2019, Agile and Beyond 2019 Conference, and the Vanguard internal FinTech Summit.</p>
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<p>Dave Hughes is a practitioner of the Kanban Method, eXtreme Programming, and the Scrum Method. He has been a speaker at conferences for Lean Kanban, AgilePhilly, Agile and Beyond, the Project Management Institute, the Network for Women with Careers in Technology, the AICPA, the Software Engineering Institute, MITRE Corporation, and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center.</p>
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<p>Dave has taught professional development and technical courses to over 8,000 people world-wide. He has nearly four decades of business, engineering, and professional experience, including 22 years using Lean and Agile techniques. He originated Accepted Value Costing (AVC), the evolutionary approach to Lean-Agile costing and decision making.</p>
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<h4><a name="5_Ways"></a>5 ways Modern Agile can take SAFe out of a Rut</h4>
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<p>by Helen Wassef of Deloitte</p>
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<p>Points covered are ...</p>
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<p>. What SAFE is</p>
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<p>. What Modern Agile is</p>
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<p>. How a hybrid approach can accelerate journey to agility</p>
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<p>Helen Wassef is known to many at AgilePhilly for hosting the AgilePrinceton group at Deloitte in New Jersey, and for being one of the speakers at the Spring Conference on Definition of Done Day</p>
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<h4><a name="Small_Batch_Sizes" id="Small_Batch_Sizes"></a>Small Batch Sizes Enable Everything, even in the Government</h4>
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<p>by Kimberly Davis</p>
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<p>Lean practices teach us that small batch sizes optimize flow of value to market. Small batch sizes also enable organizations to focus on building quality into our systems by enabling the power of continuous integration, enabling faster feedback cycles, increasing our ability to debug, increasing our focus on simplicity, decreasing lead and cycle time, and decreasing snow plowing testing efforts.</p>
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<p>These things are critical for helping to build quality into our products. In the government sector, it also enables the alignment of traditional Earned Value Management constraints and Agile for project management tracking. Kimberly Davis, ASRC Federal's Agile Solutions Architect, will discuss how their work decomposition process has been a critical component in facilitating quality and alignment for their supported government agencies.</p>
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<p>Kimberly Davis works for ASRC Federal as an Agile Solutions Architect. She leads large Scaled Agile transitions for government agencies across ASRC Federal's enterprise, which also includes proposal support, client meeting support on enterprise Agility offerings, Scaled Agile certification trainings and powering an Agile CoP. Kimberly has a passion for Scaling Agile, Agile Transformations and Agile Culture and has presented at conferences in the Philadelphia area where she is also an AgilePhilly mentor. Kimberly is a Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC) giving her the ability to train and certify others in Scaled Agile practices. Additionally, she holds many Agile certifications as she believes it is essential to continuously improve in oneself: SA, SP, CSM, CSPO, CAL1, ICP-FDO, and PMI-ACP. Kimberly also has a background in software development and project management with a degree in Computer Science and an MBA.</p>
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<h4><a name="Value_Stream_Mapping" id="Value_Stream_Mapping"></a>Value Stream Mapping for Business Agility</h4>
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<p>by Kimberly Davis</p>
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<p>Agile is a mindset based off a set of core values and principles which strive for delivering incremental value delivery to consumers. While it was first derived for modernizing software development practices, those values and principles can be applied throughout an organization and any type of organization - not just one that produces software.</p>
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<p>All businesses are producing something valuable to market, so the concepts of Agility are universal.</p>
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<p>Kimberly Davis, ASRC Federal's Agile Solutions Architect, will discuss how using Value Stream Mapping will identify areas where application of Agile principles are needed to increase throughput of value to the market. The Value Stream Mapping process helps organizations understand all the steps needed to create deliverable value and where Agility can increase speed to market.</p>
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<p>Kimberly Davis works for ASRC Federal as an Agile Solutions Architect. She leads large Scaled Agile transitions for government agencies across ASRC Federal's enterprise, which also includes proposal support, client meeting support on enterprise Agility offerings, Scaled Agile certification trainings and powering an Agile CoP. Kimberly has a passion for Scaling Agile, Agile Transformations and Agile Culture and has presented at conferences in the Philadelphia area where she is also an AgilePhilly mentor. Kimberly is a Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC) giving her the ability to train and certify others in Scaled Agile practices. Additionally, she holds many Agile certifications as she believes it is essential to continuously improve in oneself: SA, SP, CSM, CSPO, CAL1, ICP-FDO, and PMI-ACP. Kimberly also has a background in software development and project management with a degree in Computer Science and an MBA.</p>
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<h4><a name="Measuring_Success" id="Measuring_Success"></a> Measuring Success for DevSecOps Adoption</h4>
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<p>by Kimberly Davis</p>
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<p>DevOps is supported by a culture based on "whole team" accountability that enables a Continuous Delivery pipeline of value to customers.</p>
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<p>DevSecOps adds an iterative focus on security into this culture which creates a shared responsibility for assuring the Value Stream delivers secure products. For several years, it is consistently reported that resistance to change is the number one reason for Agile adoption failures. Simply stated, culture that does not support Agile adoptions, does not support Agility in general which includes DevSecOps.</p>
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<p>Kimberly Davis, ASRC Federal's Agile Solutions Architect, will discuss a method for identifying a purpose for change to create a meaningful mission to support cultural buy-in, establishing incremental steps toward DevSecOps maturity, and a measurement model for baselining and showing growth towards full DevSecOps adoption. These components are essential for fostering a culture that supports any DevSecOps model.</p>
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<p>Kimberly Davis works for ASRC Federal as an Agile Solutions Architect. She leads large Scaled Agile transitions for government agencies across ASRC Federal's enterprise, which also includes proposal support, client meeting support on enterprise Agility offerings, Scaled Agile certification trainings and powering an Agile CoP. Kimberly has a passion for Scaling Agile, Agile Transformations and Agile Culture and has presented at conferences in the Philadelphia area where she is also an AgilePhilly mentor. Kimberly is a Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC) giving her the ability to train and certify others in Scaled Agile practices. Additionally, she holds many Agile certifications as she believes it is essential to continuously improve in oneself: SA, SP, CSM, CSPO, CAL1, ICP-FDO, and PMI-ACP. Kimberly also has a background in software development and project management with a degree in Computer Science and an MBA.</p>
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<h4><a name="Communities_Of_Practice" id="Communities_Of_Practice"></a>Communities of Practice for Enterprise Agility</h4>
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<p>by Kimberly Davis</p>
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<p>Organizations that have various entities building a multitude of solutions across the enterprise may end up with a number of Agile implementations. Autonomy is important for each entity, however, optimizing as a whole is essential for growing Agile maturity throughout.</p>
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<p>Having a centralized, enterprise Agile Community of Practice where all Agile Leaders have a place to learn, discuss and evolve creates harmonious growth that is independent of product solutions and technologies used. Kimberly Davis, ASRC Federal's Agile Solutions Architect, will discuss how their model for a light-weight Agile Community of Practice expedites Agile maturity throughout, including basic Scrum adoption to Scaled Agile with DevSecOps implementation across their enterprise.</p>
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<p>Kimberly Davis works for ASRC Federal as an Agile Solutions Architect. She leads large Scaled Agile transitions for government agencies across ASRC Federal's enterprise, which also includes proposal support, client meeting support on enterprise Agility offerings, Scaled Agile certification trainings and powering an Agile CoP. Kimberly has a passion for Scaling Agile, Agile Transformations and Agile Culture and has presented at conferences in the Philadelphia area where she is also an AgilePhilly mentor. Kimberly is a Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC) giving her the ability to train and certify others in Scaled Agile practices. Additionally, she holds many Agile certifications as she believes it is essential to continuously improve in oneself: SA, SP, CSM, CSPO, CAL1, ICP-FDO, and PMI-ACP. Kimberly also has a background in software development and project management with a degree in Computer Science and an MBA.</p>
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<h4><a name="Agile_Aggravations" id="Agile_Aggravations"></a>Agile Aggravations</h4>
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<p>by Tom Hendricksen</p>
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<p>This talk on Agile Aggravations addresses many of the struggles we encounter as agile practitioners.</p>
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<p>From beginner to expert we run into issues creating user stories, backlog bugaboos, and run-of-the-mill retrospectives.</p>
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<p>Tom Henricksen is an experienced technology professional with the chops to relate personally to this topic. He has worked in various roles in technology for over fifteen years.</p>
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<p>Tom's books include: Agile Basics in 60 minutes -and- Agile Project Management - A Beginner's Quick Start Guide to Mastering the Basics of Agile Project Management -and- Beyond Agile: What is the next big development paradigm? He has also created courses on agility and technical leadership.</p>
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<h4><a name="Are_We_Done" id="Are_We_Done"></a>Are We Done Yet?</h4>
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<p>by Robin Ratliff</p>
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<p>Consider the average American garage, basement or workshop: truly, it is easier to start a project than to finish one. This applies equally whether you are replacing a faucet or building a software solution.</p>
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<p>At work, a deadline introduces an additional wrinkle. Sometimes the deadline leads us to rationalize our project's doneness in the interest of progress. We may cope by changing the scope, changing the deadline, or worst of all - compromising quality.</p>
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<p>This session will tell the story of one or more complex projects (for example the construction of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5).</p>
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<p>We will survey a few typical reasons projects fail and what we can learn from the epic failures of others. Then we will look at a common sense, locally created, tool that can help ensure your project is "done done done" when you reach the deadline.</p>
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<p>This presentation builds on the areas covered in the AgilePhilly Spring Conference of Definition of Done.</p>
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<p>Robin will be sharing a project checklist used at Cerner which ensures team members are doing what's necessary during various phases of the project. A sample Project Initialization Plan is included.</p>
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<p>Robin Ratliff is a Senior Development Project Manager at Cerner Corporation in Malvern, PA. She is motivated by a strong preference for projects that achieve the stated objective within the allotted timeframe. When not at work, Robin enjoys the endless quest for completion of home improvement projects with her husband Eden and her 115 pound German Shepherd, Toby Keith Ratliff.</p>
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<h4><a name="Faces_Of_Courage" id="Faces_Of_Courage"></a>Faces of Courage in Agile Transformation</h4>
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<p>by Bob Schatz</p>
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<p>Courage is a commonly stated value in agile principles and values.</p>
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<p>However, only a small fraction of people in organizations can employ it in extremely limited circumstances. This makes transformation an ellusive target that can cause high levels of frustration at every level of an organization.</p>
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<p>Unlock the mysteries of what creates a great change agent and how they experience the consequences.</p>
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<p>This was part of my Doctoral Dissertation completed earlier this year.</p>
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<p>Bob Schatz is a 35-year veteran in the software/systems development profession. Bob is the Owner of Agile Infusion LLC, an agile training and consulting firm based in the Philadelphia area. He was an early pioneer in the practical application of agile practices and helped transform many organizations around the world.</p>
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<p>Bob is a Certified Scrum Trainer, and holds a Doctor of Management degree from Thomas Jefferson University.</p>
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<h4><a name="Open_Mike_Coaching" id="Open_Mike_Coaching"></a>Open Mic: Coaching Up</h4>
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<p>by Jen Wright and Sally Vassalotti</p>
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<p>The term "coaching up" traditionally refers to communication with a supervisor or person above you in the organizational chart.</p>
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<p>"Coaching up" strategies can be effective for all levels. Have you ever had a conversation with a boss, PO, Scrum Master or leader that did not go well? Is one of your teammates dropping the ball? When difficult situations do happen == or, better yet, when you anticipate them happening == can you let them know about the problem in a polite and helpful manner?</p>
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<p>Coworkers should appreciate your initiative. But often times, our instincts tell us to fight and go on the defensive which may result in the blame game.</p>
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<p>Jen Wright and Sally Vassalotti will share how to effectively interact with leaders throughout your organization. They will walk you through real-life scenarios they have used to "coach up" effectively. We will try these techniques in groups, so be prepared to share your real-life experiences with us.</p>
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<p>Jen Wright is an experienced product manager certified in Pragmatic Marketing (PMC-II) and CSPO with a history of working in the computer software industry. She has seven years of experience in product management using agile methodologies and has been managing and leading teams for over fifteen years. Jen is skilled in agile testing, technology needs analysis, agile methodologies, project estimation, and customer relationship management.</p>
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<p>Sally Vassalotti is a Scrum Master, Agile Coach and Project Manager with over 15 years of experience - and guides teams to implement and practice agile principles. Sally is passionate about helping teams improve in order to deliver value to clients and customers. Sally's certifications include PMP-ACP, CSM, CSP and Pragmatic Marketing(PMC-I).</p>
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<h4><a name="5_Ways_Effective"></a>5 Ways to be an effective change agent in an Agile Universe</h4>
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<p>by Deepika Menon and Brenda Kenny</p>
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<p>Change is the only thing that is constant and the term Agile reverberates change and our ability to embrace/adapt to change.</p>
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<p>We will have an interactive session on different organizational approaches to introduce change and how the work force will respond to it. Further, we will also explore 5 different ways in which ANYONE can act as a change agent regardless of their role in the organizational hierarchy.</p>
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<p>Deepika Menon is a Certified Scrum Master, who is passionate about human psychology and people dynamics at the workplace and how it can impact the success of any team/organization. He is a Cox Automotive employeeand Agilist at a philosophical level and likes to explore the further/deeper dimensions of agile in all walks of life.</p>
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<p>Brenda Kenny's 20 years of experience in growth-stage software development spans across the Automotive, e-Commerce, Pharmaceutical, Financial, and e-Learning industries. In her current role as a Senior Product Manager for HomeNet Automotive, a Cox Automotive Brand, Brenda collaborates with clients, team members and stakeholders to create and launch merchandising products that help dealerships save time and sell more cars.</p>
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<h4><a name="Predicting_Resistance" id="Predicting_Resistance"></a>Predicting Resistance to Change</h4>
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<p>by Jorge Rivera and Arun Vinayagam of TD Bank</p>
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<p>Change is the only constant in life- but resistance to change is natural. Struggling with modifications or transformations that alter your way of thinking, beliefs and even the status quo is hard. Individuals may even put up a wall when change is poorly introduced or when they don't see the need for it.</p>
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<p>Join us in an experiential session to explore what it takes to identify resistance early, and the steps to prepare your company's culture for change.</p>
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<p>We will cover:</p>
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<p>. What causes Resistance to Change</p>
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<p>. The neurobiology behind change</p>
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<p>. How to identify resistance early on</p>
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<p>. How to address Resistance to Change</p>
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<p>. Tips to introduce and manage change effectively from the start</p>
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<p>Jorge Rivera is a technology leader, transformation specialist and Agile Coach with a passion for building strong teams and valuable business outcomes. With 20 years in the financial and media services in various roles as Infrastructure Architect, Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer and Agile Coach, he holds Agile credentials that include CSM (Certified Scrum Master), CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner), ICA-ACC (Agile Certified Coach) and ICA-ATF (Agile Team Facilitation) certifications.</p>
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<p>Arun Vinayagam is a seasoned Agilist and Scrum Master with 13 years in Credit Cards, Payments and Home Lending and as Business Analyst, Quality Assurance, PMO and Product owner. He has been a key contributor on insourcing and regulatory projects going from traditional waterfall models to agile at six different financial institutions.</p>
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<h4><a name="Lean_Startup_Snowflakes" id="Lean_Startup_Snowflakes"></a>Lean Startup Snowflakes</h4>
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<p>by Andre Dhondt</p>
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<p>Andre Dhondt of Reach Escape Velocity has been helping executives for over a decade - increasing quality, reducing stress, and decreasing process time. Recently he's been applying these skills to Clinical Trial Management/Oversight organizations to help them reduce Study Set-Up Time below the 10-week average of the industry.</p>
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<p>Andre is also a Leader of Agile Philly and instrumental in bringing the International AgileTour to America.</p>
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<h4><a name="Agile_Product_Mgmt" id="Agile_Product_Mgmt"></a>Agile Product Management and Faux Turkey Dinner</h4>
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<p>by Andre Dhondt</p>
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<p>Andre Dhondt of Reach Escape Velocity has been helping executives for over a decade - increasing quality, reducing stress, and decreasing process time. Recently he's been applying these skills to Clinical Trial Management/Oversight organizations to help them reduce Study Set-Up Time below the 10-week average of the industry.</p>
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<p>Andre is also a Leader of Agile Philly and instrumental in bringing the International AgileTour to America.</p>
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<h4><a name="3_Simple_Rules"></a>3 Simple Rules for Hyper-productive Meetings (and how to measure the Communication Coefficient)</h4>
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<p>by Andre Dhondt</p>
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<p>Andre Dhondt of Reach Escape Velocity has been helping executives for over a decade - increasing quality, reducing stress, and decreasing process time. Recently he's been applying these skills to Clinical Trial Management/Oversight organizations to help them reduce Study Set-Up Time below the 10-week average of the industry.</p>
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<p>Andre is also a Leader of Agile Philly and instrumental in bringing the International AgileTour to America.</p>
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<h4><a name="Peer_Panel" id="Peer_Panel"></a>Agile Philly - A Peer Panel of Common People addressing Common Problems</h4>
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<p>by Scott Ocamb of RoadmapToAgile.com</p>
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<p>A standard part of the October Conference is the "Panel of Experts"</p>
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<p>This session will endeavor to have regular members of the monthly meeting discuss their common problems and build rapport for enhanced problem solving.</p>
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<p>Since members of Agile Philly are involved in agile software delivery at all levels of maturity, we should share among ourselves successful and unsuccessful ideas. Some members are fortunate enough to be involved with highly mature teams - while others (most likely most of the members) are involved with teams where the maturity level varies widely from low maturity to firms on a clear journey to a high adoption goal.</p>
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<p>As a group, we have tremendous experience implementing agile process. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss as peers the challenges we have and some of the success as well. We will use the outline below as a general guide to the discussion. (It roughly follows the Scrum process. And we hope to summarize on post-its the ideas generated.)</p>
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<p>. Estimation - discuss all things estimation related from story points to hours to no estimation at all.</p>
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<p>. Backlog Grooming - discuss how teams perform this important activity and challenges to making it happen. What happens when it is not done well.</p>
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<p>. Sprint Planning- discuss how the meeting is conducted and how teams commit to a sprint. Is velocity and or hour estimates used?</p>
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<p>. Sprint Execution - discuss challenges in sprint execution and how teams self-organize.</p>
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<p>. Standup - discuss how the meeting is kept short and examples about how they are conducted.</p>
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<p>. Sprint Demo - discuss how the meeting is conducted and the challenges that occur. Are features demonstrated prior to the meeting? What happens when a Product Owner is not fully engaged and perhaps misses the meeting?</p>
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<p>. Retrospectives - discuss how true value is achieved from this meeting and challenges to reaching that goal.</p>
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<p>. Release Schedule - most companies want some type of release schedule or product roadmap. Discuss challenges to meeting this goal and ideas that people use to achieve it.</p>
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<p>. DevOps - this has become an extension of the Agile process. Discuss challenges to performing frequent releases as well examples where it is done well.</p>
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<p>. Architecture - proper architecture is a true impediment to Agile especially when DevOps is considered. Discuss challenges to getting systems changed to support more vertical slices of features that are independent and examples of where it was done well.</p>
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<h4><a name="Daves_Not_Here" id="Daves_Not_Here"></a>Dave's not here! (50 years of telework research and experience)</h4>
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<p>by Daniel Gullo of Apple Brook Consulting</p>
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<p>There is a 50 year history of remote working. Learn what the research tells us, and what the future holds along with some opportunities for attendees to have share their thoughts and experiences.</p>
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<p>Daniel Gullo is a long-time member and sponsor of the October Conference. Located inn Wilmington DE, Daniel does training and consulting throughout the region.</p>
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<h4><a name="13_Strategies"></a>13 Strategies for an Effective Job Search</h4>
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<p>by Jason Biser of Apex Systems</p>
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<p>This was presented to overflow crowd at Code Camp in April 2019. A good session for anyone currently in the market.</p>
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<p>Jason Biser runs the Applications Recruitment Teams at Apex Systems.</p>
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<h4><a name="The_Incredibles" id="The_Incredibles"></a>The Incredibles (of an Agile Team) - The Scrum Master & The Product Owner</h4>
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<p>by Deepika Menon and Brenda Kenny</p>
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<p>This is a discussion on the impact this dynamic duo can have on building an incredible agile team.</p>
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<p>It is an exploration of the pitfalls that these roles need to avoid and advantages that these roles can leverage. Period.</p>
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<p>Deepika Menon is a Certified Scrum Master, who is passionate about human psychology and people dynamics at the workplace and how it can impact the success of any team/organization. He is a Cox Automotive employeeand Agilist at a philosophical level and likes to explore the further/deeper dimensions of agile in all walks of life.</p>
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<p>Brenda Kenny's 20 years of experience in growth-stage software development spans across the Automotive, e-Commerce, Pharmaceutical, Financial, and e-Learning industries. In her current role as a Senior Product Manager for HomeNet Automotive, a Cox Automotive Brand, Brenda collaborates with clients, team members and stakeholders to create and launch merchandising products that help dealerships save time and sell more cars.</p>
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<h4><a name="Product_Development" id="Product_Development"></a>Product development for internal clients</h4>
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<p>by Julie Press</p>
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<p>. Why is a process analysis important from a product owner perspective before requirement gathering?</p>
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<p>. Requirement gathering, user feedback</p>
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<p>. What does change management look like before releasing products for internal clients?</p>
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<p>Julie Press is a Leader of the Product Tank Meetup that AgilePhilly has been partnering with this year.</p>
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<h4><a name="Managing_Wealth" id="Managing_Wealth"></a>Managing Wealth through Product Strategy</h4>
<p></p>
<p>by Parag Deshpande</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>This talk will demonstrate the process used to turn a Vision into Strategy then into an actual Product for Wealth Managers and Advisors.</p>
<p></p>
<p>The team designed and developed a Wealth Advisory Ecosystem for Asset and Wealth Managers Client Advisors use at private banks for efficiently managing a client's investment portfolio. One interesting part of the process was how future planning and other models evolved for mangement to derive rule-based portfolio decisions.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Although this product is specific to one industry, the agile methodologies used in designing and delivering this product will be the focus as well as showcasing the close collaboration between product management, user experience, and the development team using agile methodologies.</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>Parag Deshpande is a Senior UX Designer with more than a decade of experience in solving complex and tricky problems through the process of product innovation, business strategy, and design.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Bridging business and design, the designer must bring creative solutions to the table, while one's MBA training brings forth the analytical reasons behind decisions.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Currently working at EPAM Systems, Parag has in the past worked at VMware Workspace ONE, at Cognizant, and has founded a startup.</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><br>
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<p></p>
<h4><a name="Collaboration" id="Collaboration"></a>Collaboration in the Information Age</h4>
<p></p>
<p>by Andrew Evans</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>Through the historic ages?-?from the Agrarian, to the Industrial, and our present Information & Technology Age?-?the speed and quantity of information has exponentially increased, and now vastly exceeds our feeble capacity to actually make sense of it. Resulting in overload. In light of this, how shall we collaborate? What does quality collaboration look like?</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>Andrew Evans is a Senior UX Designer at Frontline Education in Malvern.</p>
<p></p>
<p>A Philly design native by way of Temple U's Tyler School of Art, Andy has been practicing UX in agencies small, Comcast-large, and now Frontline Education for about 10 years. Residing in nearby West Chester, he is wrangling two young boys and a budding obsession for running.</p>
<p></p>
<p>This presentation was included as a 10 minute reduced version at Invision's January evening event. Obviously, this is the full version.</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><br>
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<p></p>
<h4><a name="Agile_For" id="Agile_For"></a>Agile for Non-IT Teams</h4>
<p></p>
<p>Why should IT have all the fun? This interactive workshop will explore how non-IT organizations are leveraging Lean and Agile principles to improve the way they work. We will explore how Kanban boards are being used in surprising and innovative ways to track things like insurance underwriting, sales funnels, and HR team workflows. We will have a look at how an agency leverages visual boards as they develop digital assets and new campaigns (i.e. "Discovery Kanban"). Finally, we will explore alternative board designs for managing portfolios of work (i.e. "Portfolio Kanban").</p>
<p></p>
<p>By reviewing and analyzing different examples across multiple disciplines, and developing your own alternatives, we hope to generate new insights and deepen our understanding of how to leverage the power of visualization in your own organizations.</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>Craeg Strong is the CTO of Ariel Partners, a small IT consulting company based in Times Square. He is currently teaching public Kanban classes and coaching teams to adopt and mature Agile/Kanban practices in the NYC area. He has 25 years of experience in information technology, starting at Project Athena during his undergraduate studies at MIT. Mr. Strong has successfully instituted Agile and DevOps practices on large and complex commercial and government software projects, helping them to obtain new capabilities and realize significant cost efficiencies.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Mr. Strong leverages his experience as a hands-on software architect, trainer and agile coach to help remove the barriers that prevent organizations from adopting new technologies== such as cloud. Mr. Strong led a successful transformation of a major FBI Criminal justice program from a traditional waterfall lifecycle and manual intensive processes to lighter weight agile processes and full DevOps automation.</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><br>
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<p></p>
<h4><a name="Now_You_See_It" id="Now_You_See_It"></a>Now You See It! ... Observing Flow Using Kanban Boards</h4>
<p></p>
<p>This is a two-part interactive workshop begins with a detailed look at how to interpret Kanban boards and ask thoughtful questions so that you can improve the work of your teams. I will briefly review the Kanban Method and then proceed through a series of several short exercises that will give you an opportunity to review and interpret various Kanban board configurations with other attendees at your table.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Part two of the session puts the attendees in the driver's seat to create their own board configurations. I will provide several business scenario exercises and ask the attendees how they would go about configuring their Kanban board given the unique system constraints for each scenario.</p>
<p></p>
<p>(This workshop is more likely to become a session for an evening monthly meeting, as it may be difficult to fit into the shorter time slots we have for the conference)</p>
<p></p>
<p>Craeg Strong is the CTO of Ariel Partners, a small IT consulting company based in Times Square. He is currently teaching public Kanban classes and coaching teams to adopt and mature Agile/Kanban practices in the NYC area. He has 25 years of experience in information technology, starting at Project Athena during his undergraduate studies at MIT. Mr. Strong has successfully instituted Agile and DevOps practices on large and complex commercial and government software projects, helping them to obtain new capabilities and realize significant cost efficiencies.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Mr. Strong leverages his experience as a hands-on software architect, trainer and agile coach to help remove the barriers that prevent organizations from adopting new technologies== such as cloud. Mr. Strong led a successful transformation of a major FBI Criminal justice program from a traditional waterfall lifecycle and manual intensive processes to lighter weight agile processes and full DevOps automation.</p>
<p></p>
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<p></p>
<p></p>
<h1>Last Years scheduling of Topics ( 2018 Grid Schedule)</h1>
<p></p>
<p>Pre-Conference Sessions are from 8:30 am to 9:30 am</p>
<p><strong>Official Start Time is 9:30 am</strong></p>
<p>Welcome Messages from 9:30 am to 9:45 am</p>
<p></p>
<p>9:45 - 10:45 First Morning Hour</p>
<p></p>
<p>11:00 to 12:00 noon Second Morning Session</p>
<p></p>
<p>12:00 - 1:00 Lunch in the Big Room</p>
<p></p>
<p>1:00 - 2:00 First Afternoon Session</p>
<p></p>
<p>2:15 - 3:15 Agile Terminology Raffle and Panel of Experts</p>
<p></p>
<p>3:30 to 4:30 Final Afternoon Session</p>
<p></p>
<p>-==========================================================-</p>
<p>Topic: Fun Daily Scrum Networking and ICE-BREAKER questions after introducing their name and company.. A great tool to get teams to realize how easy it is to hold a daily scrum and it is applied here as a social networking ice breaker, so people can create social and professional connections throughout the conference. Groups of 30 people take less than 10 minutes to ask the 3 questions:</p>
<p></p>
<p>1) What fun thing did you do last weekend?</p>
<p>2) What fun thing do you plan to do this coming weekend? and</p>
<p>3) What blockers do you have to having fun this weekend?</p>
<p></p>
<p>-or-</p>
<p></p>
<p>1) What new Agile technique/concept did you do last week or month?</p>
<p>2) What new Agile technique/concept would you like to learn today? and</p>
<p>3) What blockers do you have to trying a new agile concept and could you use some help of follow-up with AgilePhilly?</p>
<p></p>
<p>Bio: Greg Mester an Agile Cheerleader is currently transforming an organization of over 30 plus teams into an Agile organization. Greg loves to get teams to work at an enjoyable, sustainable pace, so they have time to enjoy life and produce timely customer solutions.. His career journey includes: engineer, independent business owner, project / program manager, Scrum Master and continues as an Agile Coach. Greg's 30 years of experience includes Agile and Scrum work with over 30 teams across 8 different companies in areas ranging from fighter jets and tanks to software in brick and mortar stores, entertainment, schools, health care, insurance, logistics and large corporate IT organizations.</p>
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<p>When we do surveys of topics, your choices do not bind you to any one session.</p>
<p>When you purchase your ticket, that is when we would like</p>
<p>you to commit.</p>
<p>The following list of topics let's us get a inkling on which is more popular. We do this so we can size the rooms properly. Even then, we</p>
<p>may be forced to make last minute changes on the day of the conference. But we are agile and all of us can adjust quickly.</p>
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<p></p> Fall 2019 Conference Detailstag:www.agilephilly.com,2019-08-21:3783271:Page:3709602019-08-21T16:13:52.996ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1678291624?profile=original" target="_self"> </a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Click for the most up-to-date Session Grid</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Link to the <a href="https://bit.ly/2kmqNed" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Session Grid for October 21 2019 at…</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1678291624?profile=original" target="_self"> </a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Click for the most up-to-date Session Grid</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Link to the <a href="https://bit.ly/2kmqNed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Session Grid for October 21 2019 at CERNER</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Directions to CERNER:</span></p>
<h2>Notes, Directions and Schedule For the AgilePhilly October 21st 2019 All Day Conference</h2>
<p>Our conference is part of the <a href="http://at2019.agiletour.org">International AgileTour</a> The AgileTour is a way for enthusiasts of Agile to spread the word about Agile practices and to share their experiences, both good and bad, within their local community.</p>
<p></p>
<p>This Year's Theme . . . StoryTelling - including Movies released in years ending in "9" with weird Philadelphia connections</p>
<p>Last Year’s Theme . . . Metrics and Measurements</p>
<p></p>
<p><b>Notes</b></p>
<p> All sessions must fit within one hour. This includes Q&A.</p>
<p> Lunch is provided free to speakers.</p>
<p> $30 Lunch is the total cost of the Ticket to the conference and for Lunch.</p>
<p> Bulk payment of tickets for an entire company or department are available</p>
<p> Sponsorships for the Conference are available for $100 ( There are no vendor tables, but the opportunity to hand our your special raffle prize and other SWAG)</p>
<p> A shuttle from the SEPTA train to the event is available. Two weeks prior, you must contact</p>
<p> <a href="mailto:AgilePhillyCoordinators@YahooGroups.com?Subject=Shuttle">Mailto:AgilePhillyCoordinators@YahooGroups.com? Subject=Shuttle</a></p>
<p> or use our Slack channel to connect with us and other attendees for rides.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>DIRECTIONS</strong></span></p>
<p><b>Location</b> of the Agile Philly conference is <b>CERNER</b></p>
<p>Cerner Health Services</p>
<p>55 Valley Stream Parkway</p>
<p>Malvern, PA 19355-1406</p>
<p></p>
<p>Google Maps: <a href="http://bit.ly/1PwBihn">http://bit.ly/1PwBihn</a></p>
<p></p>
<p>TRAVELLING WESTBOUND IN THE MORNING, THE PA TURNPIKE IS A PARKING LOT from BENSALEM to KING of PRUSSIA. INCLUDE TRAVEL TIME IN YOUR MORNING PLANS.</p>
<p></p>
<p>EXIT 320 on the Pa Turnpike is <b>EZ-PASS ONLY</b>. You cannot pay cash there. If you are without EZ-PASS, use the King of Prussia Exit instead.</p>
<p></p>
<p>If using the PA Turnpike EZPass Exit 320 at Malvern, you will go South on Rte 29</p>
<p></p>
<p>The directions when leaving the Turnpike are . . . LEFT at the light.</p>
<p>LEFT at the 3rd Light is Valley Stream Parkway.</p>
<p>Go 0.45 miles then make a LEFT into #55 Valley Stream Parkway at the sign for “ CERNER Healthineers “</p>
<p>Follow the Service Road around to the Parking Garage of Building III</p>
<p>The entrance and Security Desk with Welcome Table is on the ground floor of the Parking Garage.</p>
<p>so you can park anywhere in or near the parking garage.</p>
<p></p>
<p><br>
<b>Directions From Rte 202 when you are going north</b></p>
<p><b>( Suggested Route for people coming from New Jersey )</b></p>
<p>Exit off of Rte 202 at Malvern, home of Penn State Great Valley and Microsoft</p>
<p>The exit is labeled "Rte 29 NORTH ... GREAT VALLEY "</p>
<p>At the light on the service road Matthews Road, take a RIGHT. At the Super Wawa, Make the RIGHT onto Rte 29 North. </p>
<p>After going over Rte 202, make a RIGHT at the light onto Swedesford Road.</p>
<p>At the SECOND stoplight, make a LEFT onto Valley Stream Parkway</p>
<p>Enter at the THIRD driveway on your RIGHT = This is 55 VALLEY STREAM PARKWAY,</p>
<p>This is the service road that works around the parking lots.</p>
<p>The road will curve to the left to a parking garage in back of the Cerner buildings to your left.</p>
<p>The entrance and Security Desk with Welcome Table is on the ground floor of the Parking Garage.</p>
<p>so you can park anywhere in or near the parking garage.</p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>FROM DOWNTOWN</strong></p>
<p>If you are coming from the airport or Downtown Philly, then you will not take the PA Turnpike at all. The Turnpike will not be a concern. You will probably go North on the Schukyll Expressway and at King of Prussia, go to Rte 202 South. Pay attention to the lane directions at the merge-curve.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Or you will take the <a href="http://www.septa.org/schedules/rail/w/PAO_0.html">SEPTA</a> train from 30th Street Station to the Malvern Train Station and tell us if you want to use the shuttle from the Malvern Train Stn <a href="mailto:AgilePhillyCoordinators@YahooGroups.com?Subject=Shuttle">AgilePhillyCoordinators@YahooGroups.com? Subject=Shuttle</a></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong> DIRECTIONS FROM THE AIRPORT AREA . . . AND FOR PEOPLE FROM SOUTH JERSEY</strong> . . . AVOID THE PARKING LOT - PA TURNPIKE WESTBOUND in the MORNING</p>
<p>One option is to go I-95 North to the Schulkyll Expressway I-76 North to King of Prussia and then Rte 202 South.</p>
<p><strong>From South Jersey, I prefer</strong> the Commodore Barry Bridge to Rte 322 North to Rte 202 North</p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>LUNCH MENU</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Lunch Wraps , Salad , Soda and Cookies</strong></span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b>SCHEDULE OF THE DAY</b></span></p>
<p>We have Four Rooms ( Two big auditoriums and two training rooms ) x 3 slots = ( seats 100, 50, 20 16)</p>
<p></p>
<p>08:30 - 09:30 am Choice of three <em>optional</em> sessions: Women in Agile, Guys who Support Women in Agile, Icebreakers for Daily Scrum</p>
<p>09:30 - 09:45 am <strong>OFFICIAL START OF THE CONFERENCE & ANNOUNCEMENTS</strong></p>
<p>09:45 - 10:45 am Morning Session</p>
<p>10:45 - 11:00 am Break</p>
<p>11:00-12:00 noon Second Morning Session</p>
<p>12:00-1:00 Lunch</p>
<p>1:00-2:00 First Afternoon Session</p>
<p>2:15-3:15 The Raffle and Panel of Experts Discussion</p>
<p>3:15 - 3:30 Break</p>
<p>3:30-4:30 Final Afternoon Session</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">CERNER Rooms:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Auditorium A ( our Main Meeting Room )<br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Auditorium B ( next to Main Meeting Room<br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Training Room 1</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Training Room 2<br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CERNER staff are on-hand to direct you to the rooms.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There will also be signs of the sessions in each room showing any last minute changes</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">SPONSORS</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> And the AgilePhilly Code of Conduct for the Conference and for all our Meetings</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is the same one used by GDI.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/policy-statements" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.agilephilly.com/page/policy-statements</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.girldevelopit.com/code-of-%20%20conduct">https://www.girldevelopit.com/code-of- conduct</a></span></p> Agile Princeton Slides from Lightning Talkstag:www.agilephilly.com,2019-06-28:3783271:Page:2608552019-06-28T13:52:32.128ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p><em><strong>THE SLIDE DECKS form the LIGHTNING TALKS at Agile Princeton Meetup</strong></em></p>
<p>Rather than keep spread the slides throughout the event calendar,</p>
<p>we will put all the slides from all the AgilePrinceton Lightning Talks in one place.</p>
<p>These meetings are hosted by Ken Roberts and Helen Wassef.</p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>WEDS March 27 , 2019</strong> <strong>LIGHTNING TALKS</strong></p>
<p>John Voris has slides to his <em><strong>Lightning Talk on Definition of…</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>THE SLIDE DECKS form the LIGHTNING TALKS at Agile Princeton Meetup</strong></em></p>
<p>Rather than keep spread the slides throughout the event calendar,</p>
<p>we will put all the slides from all the AgilePrinceton Lightning Talks in one place.</p>
<p>These meetings are hosted by Ken Roberts and Helen Wassef.</p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>WEDS March 27 , 2019</strong> <strong>LIGHTNING TALKS</strong></p>
<p>John Voris has slides to his <em><strong>Lightning Talk on Definition of Done</strong></em> which looked at the differences of:</p>
<p>POC ( Proof of Concept ) vs. Prototype vs. MVP ( Minimal Viable Product )</p>
<p>Slides are here <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1708645224?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DOD Strategies powerpoint</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>And Andy Bala's Slides<br>
<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1709911933?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leadership Metrics by Andy.Bala.pptx</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Also, <strong>Diwali - Being Agile Grandma Style - Sandeep Chitre</strong> was a blast and a half. </p>
<p>We hope to get his slides soon.</p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>WEDS June 26, 2019</strong> <strong>LIGHTNING TALKS</strong></p>
<p>Helen Waffef presented</p>
<p>Modern Agile applied to SAFe</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3211781322?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ModernAgile_SAFe.pptx</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Phi Vu Nguyen presented</p>
<p>CI_CD AWS Lambda.pptx</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3277557437?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CI_CD%20AWS%20Lambda.pptx</a></p>
<p></p>
<p>Suvarna Kshirsagar presented</p>
<p>Testing in an Agile World</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3400805937?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Testing_In_Agile_World.pptx</a></p>
<p></p> Joeys Baseball Schedule in colortag:www.agilephilly.com,2019-04-25:3783271:Page:1450302019-04-25T13:26:53.517ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
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<td>A7-A9</td>
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<td>7-May</td>
<td>A1-A4</td>
<td>B9-B2</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B4-B1</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>8-May</td>
<td>A7-A3</td>
<td> </td>
<td>A9-A8</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>B2-B3</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>9-May</td>
<td>A6-A2</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B8-B6</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>MON</td>
<td>13-May</td>
<td>B4-B2</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B9-B1</td>
<td>A9-A5</td>
<td>A1-A8</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>TUES</td>
<td>14-May</td>
<td>A5-A3</td>
<td>B5-B1</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>A4-A7</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>15-May</td>
<td>A6-A9</td>
<td> </td>
<td>A1-A7</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>B8-B3</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>16-May</td>
<td>B6-B2</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>A8-A2</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>MON</td>
<td>20-May</td>
<td>A2-A3</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>A5-A4</td>
<td>A6-A1</td>
<td>B5-B2</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>TUES</td>
<td>21-May</td>
<td>A5-A7</td>
<td>B4-B3</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B5-B9</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>22-May</td>
<td>B2-B8</td>
<td> </td>
<td>A8-A4</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>B1-B3</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>23-May</td>
<td>A6-A3</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>A1-A9</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>11</td>
<td></td>
<td>A league (9 teams)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>MON</td>
<td>27-May</td>
<td colspan="7">MEMORIAL DAY</td>
<td></td>
<td>A1</td>
<td>HOPEWELL 1</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>TUES</td>
<td>28-May</td>
<td>A3-A9</td>
<td>B9-B3</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>A2-A8</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td>A2</td>
<td>ST MATTHEW</td>
<td>No W</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>29-May</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td> </td>
<td>A6-A4</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>A3-A1</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td>A3</td>
<td>GROVE</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>30-May</td>
<td>B4-B6</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B1-B7</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td>A4</td>
<td>PROVIDENCE</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td> </td>
<td>24-May</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>8</td>
<td>A5</td>
<td>CALV. CHAPEL </td>
<td>No W, no 6/24-27</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>MON</td>
<td>3-Jun</td>
<td>A6-A5</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B5-B6</td>
<td>A2-A1</td>
<td>A4-A3</td>
<td></td>
<td>A6</td>
<td>GATEWAY 1</td>
<td>Min Tu, min Fairview</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>TUES</td>
<td>4-Jun</td>
<td>B6-B3</td>
<td>B5-B4</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>A8-A7</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td>A7</td>
<td>ST. PETER</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>5-Jun</td>
<td>B2-B7</td>
<td> </td>
<td>A9-A7</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>B8-B1</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td>A8</td>
<td>CHRIST COMMUNITY</td>
<td>min TH, no 4/29-5/3, 5/14, 6/20, 7/3, 7/9, 7/23</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>6-Jun</td>
<td>A2-A4</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>A1-A5</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td>A9</td>
<td>ST. ELIZABETH </td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>MON</td>
<td>10-Jun</td>
<td>A8-A6</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B5-B3</td>
<td>A2-A5</td>
<td>B4-B7</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>TUES</td>
<td>11-Jun</td>
<td>A4-A1</td>
<td>B6-B8</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>12-Jun</td>
<td>B8-B7</td>
<td> </td>
<td>A4-A9</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>B2-B1</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>13-Jun</td>
<td>B6-B9</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>A7-A2</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td> B League (9 teams)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>11</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>MON</td>
<td>17-Jun</td>
<td>A2-A9</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B5-B8</td>
<td>B6-B7</td>
<td>A5-A8</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>TUES</td>
<td>18-Jun</td>
<td>A3-A5</td>
<td>B2-B5</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B1-B4</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td>B1</td>
<td>FAIRVIEW</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>19-Jun</td>
<td>B9-B7</td>
<td> </td>
<td>A3-A8</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>A7-A4</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td>B2</td>
<td>GATEWAY2</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>20-Jun</td>
<td>A9-A6</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B1-B6</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td>B3</td>
<td>HOPEWELL 2</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td> </td>
<td>15-Jun</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>12</td>
<td>B4</td>
<td>MORGANTOWN </td>
<td>No Wed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>MON</td>
<td>24-Jun</td>
<td>B2-B9</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B4-B8</td>
<td>B7-B3</td>
<td>A8-A1</td>
<td></td>
<td>B5</td>
<td>CALV FELL 1</td>
<td>No Wed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>TUES</td>
<td>25-Jun</td>
<td>A2-A6</td>
<td>B2-B4</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B1-B5</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td>B6</td>
<td>CALV FELL 2</td>
<td>No Wed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>26-Jun</td>
<td>A9-A3</td>
<td> </td>
<td>A6-A7</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td>B7</td>
<td>EAST BRANDY</td>
<td>No W in April/May, no Tu in June/July, no 5/13 & 16</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>27-Jun</td>
<td>B7-B8</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B9-B5</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td>B8</td>
<td>HOLY DOVE</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>11</td>
<td>B9</td>
<td>CHRIST CHURCH</td>
<td>no W until July</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>MON</td>
<td>1-Jul</td>
<td>A8-A9</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>A4-A5</td>
<td>B5-B7</td>
<td>B9-B8</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>TUES</td>
<td>2-Jul</td>
<td>A3-A2</td>
<td>B2-B6</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B4-B9</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>3-Jul</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td> </td>
<td>A1-A6</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>B3-B1</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>4-Jul</td>
<td colspan="7">FOURTH OF JULY</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>9</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>MON</td>
<td>8-Jul</td>
<td>A6-A8</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B6-B5</td>
<td>A4-A2</td>
<td>B3-B4</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>TUES</td>
<td>9-Jul</td>
<td>A7-A5</td>
<td>B6-B4</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B1-B9</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>10-Jul</td>
<td>B9-B7</td>
<td> </td>
<td>A9-A1</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>A3-A7</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>11-Jul</td>
<td>B7-B2</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B8-B5</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>MON</td>
<td>15-Jul</td>
<td>A3-A6</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B3-B5</td>
<td>A2-A7</td>
<td>A8-A5</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>TUES</td>
<td>16-Jul</td>
<td>A4-A8</td>
<td>B9-B6</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B8-B4</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>17-Jul</td>
<td>A9-A4</td>
<td> </td>
<td>A7-A6</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>B7-B1</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>18-Jul</td>
<td>B3-B9</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B8-B2</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13</td>
<td> </td>
<td>1-Jul</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>MON</td>
<td>22-Jul</td>
<td>B3-B2</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>A7-A8</td>
<td>A1-A3</td>
<td>B7-B4</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>TUES</td>
<td>23-Jul</td>
<td>A4-A6</td>
<td>B3-B6</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B1-B8</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>24-Jul</td>
<td>A5-A9</td>
<td> </td>
<td>A7-A1</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>B7-B5</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>25-Jul</td>
<td>A9-A2</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B9-B4</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>DAY</td>
<td>DATE</td>
<td>MANOR</td>
<td>WAGON</td>
<td>W SADS 1</td>
<td>W SADS 2</td>
<td>FAIRVIEW</td>
<td> YMCA 1</td>
<td>YMCA 2</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<td>PLAYOFF</td>
<td> </td>
<td>23-Jul</td>
<td>B DIV </td>
<td>B DIV </td>
<td>B DIV </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B DIV </td>
<td>A DIV</td>
<td>A DIV</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>MON</td>
<td>29-Jul</td>
<td>1st vs. 4th</td>
<td></td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>2nd vs. 3rd</td>
<td>1st vs. 4th</td>
<td>2nd vs. 3rd</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>results</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>TUES</td>
<td>30-Jul</td>
<td>4th vs. 1st</td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>3rd vs. 2nd</td>
<td>4th vs. 1st</td>
<td>3rd vs. 2nd</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>results</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>31-Jul</td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td> </td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>results</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>1-Aug</td>
<td>1st vs. 4th</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>2nd vs. 3rd</td>
<td>1st vs. 4th</td>
<td>2nd vs. 3rd</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>results</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>FRI</td>
<td>2-Aug</td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td> </td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>results</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>B DIV </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>A DIV</td>
<td> </td>
<td>12</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>FINALS</td>
<td>MON</td>
<td>5-Aug</td>
<td>B DIV finals</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>A DIV finals</td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>results</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>TUES</td>
<td>6-Aug</td>
<td>B DIV finals</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>A DIV finals</td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>results</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>WED</td>
<td>7-Aug</td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>results</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>THUR</td>
<td>8-Aug</td>
<td>B DIV finals</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>A DIV finals</td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>results</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>FRI</td>
<td>9-Aug</td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>OPEN</td>
<td>RAIN CONT</td>
<td> </td>
<td>6</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>results</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<td> </td>
<td></td>
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<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>TOTAL</td>
<td>162</td>
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<tr>
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<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>610 458-8458 HOME</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td> 484 432-8313 CELL</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<tr>
<td colspan="2"> COORDINATOR: </td>
<td></td>
<td><a href="mailto:kels1982@aol.com">kels1982@aol.com</a></td>
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<tr>
<td colspan="2">DAVE KELSEY</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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<tr>
<td></td>
<td colspan="4">ALL GAMES START AT 6:30 PM</td>
<td colspan="3"> Home team listed first</td>
<td></td>
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<td></td>
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<tr>
<td colspan="5">SCHEDULE, RULES, FIELD LOCATIONS, ETC LOCATED ON DACSL WEBSITE </td>
<td colspan="2"><a href="http://www.dacsl.org/">www.dacsl.org</a></td>
<td></td>
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<td> </td>
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<tr>
<td></td>
<td>SCHEDULE CHANGES SINCE ISSUANCE ON 4/19/19</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td>TEAM</td>
<td>FROM</td>
<td>Field</td>
<td>TO</td>
<td>Field</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>REASON</td>
<td>sched rev</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>A5-A7</td>
<td>29-May</td>
<td>Manor</td>
<td>21-May</td>
<td>Manor</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>no W</td>
<td>B</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>B2-B7</td>
<td>8-May</td>
<td>Fairview</td>
<td>5-Jun</td>
<td>Manor</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>No W</td>
<td>B</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>B2-B3</td>
<td>5-Jun</td>
<td>Manor</td>
<td>8-May</td>
<td>Fairview</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>swap</td>
<td>B</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>B7-B8</td>
<td>25-Jun</td>
<td>Wagontown</td>
<td>27-Jun</td>
<td>Manor</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>No Tu</td>
<td>B</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>B2-B4</td>
<td>27-Jun</td>
<td>Manor</td>
<td>25-Jun</td>
<td>Wagontown</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>swap</td>
<td>B</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td>B7-B2</td>
<td>9-Jul</td>
<td>Wagontown</td>
<td>11-Jul</td>
<td>Manor</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>No Tu</td>
<td>B</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td>B6-B4</td>
<td>11-Jul</td>
<td>Manor</td>
<td>9-Jul</td>
<td>Wagontown</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>swap</td>
<td>B</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td>B8-B7</td>
<td>15-May</td>
<td>Fairview</td>
<td>12-Jun</td>
<td>Manor</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>No W</td>
<td>B</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td>B8-B3</td>
<td>12-Jun</td>
<td>Manor</td>
<td>15-May</td>
<td>Fairview</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>swap</td>
<td>B</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td>B1-B7</td>
<td>29-May</td>
<td>Fairview</td>
<td>30-May</td>
<td>Fairview</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>No W</td>
<td>B</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td>A3-A1</td>
<td>30-May</td>
<td>Fairview</td>
<td>29-May</td>
<td>Fairview</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td>swap</td>
<td>B</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td colspan="6">ABOVE CHANGES ARE INCORPORATED INTO REV B</td>
<td></td>
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</tbody>
</table>
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<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<table width="530">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="42"></td>
<td width="178"></td>
<td width="310"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
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<tr>
<td></td>
<td>A league (9 teams)</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A1</td>
<td>HOPEWELL 1</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A2</td>
<td>ST MATTHEW</td>
<td>No W</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A3</td>
<td>GROVE</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A4</td>
<td>PROVIDENCE</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A5</td>
<td>CALV. CHAPEL </td>
<td>No W, no 6/24-27</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A6</td>
<td>GATEWAY 1</td>
<td>Min Tu, min Fairview</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A7</td>
<td>ST. PETER</td>
<td></td>
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<tr>
<td>A8</td>
<td>CHRIST COMMUNITY</td>
<td>min TH, no 4/29-5/3, 5/14, 6/20, 7/3, 7/9, 7/23</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A9</td>
<td>ST. ELIZABETH </td>
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<tr>
<td></td>
<td> B League (9 teams)</td>
<td></td>
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<tr>
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<td></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td>B1</td>
<td>FAIRVIEW</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>B2</td>
<td>GATEWAY2</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>B3</td>
<td>HOPEWELL 2</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>B4</td>
<td>MORGANTOWN </td>
<td>No Wed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>B5</td>
<td>CALV FELL 1</td>
<td>No Wed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>B6</td>
<td>CALV FELL 2</td>
<td>No Wed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>B7</td>
<td>EAST BRANDY</td>
<td>No W in April/May, no Tu in June/July, no 5/13 & 16</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>B8</td>
<td>HOLY DOVE</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>B9</td>
<td>CHRIST CHURCH</td>
<td>no W until July</td>
</tr>
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</table> Schedule for Natl Definition of Done Daytag:www.agilephilly.com,2019-04-24:3783271:Page:1439292019-04-24T19:29:57.175ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Schedule of <strong>National Definition of Done Day</strong> <a href="http://www.DefiningDone.org">www.DefiningDone.org</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To learn about our <strong>Promotional Discounts,</strong> write to <a href="mailto:DefiningDone@gmail.com" rel="noopener" target="_blank">DefiningDone@gmail.com</a><br></br></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Schedule on Friday May…</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Schedule of <strong>National Definition of Done Day</strong> <a href="http://www.DefiningDone.org">www.DefiningDone.org</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Schedule on Friday May 10<br></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">OnSite Start Time 12:00 to 4:30 <br></span></p>
<p>Virtual Start Time 12:30 to 4:30 with sufficient breaks to manage work demands</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Speaker Notes:</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><u>Onsite Parking and Directions</u></strong></p>
<p>Our physical address is 1500 Spring Garden St but that doesn’t get you to our most convenient entrance. Use <strong>“487 N 16<sup>th</sup> Street, Philadelphia PA 19130”</strong> and that will bring you to our entrance off 16<sup>th</sup> street. We are just a few feet past the CBS3/CW entrance on the right.</p>
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<p>For parking there are a few options along with street parking on 16<sup>th</sup> street if you can find it. The closest lots are listed below:</p>
<p><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/ANuicp4PZNK2">Parkway Lot at Broad & Spring Garden</a></p>
<p><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/jVNUcu6FU8D2">Park America Garage at N 15<sup>th</sup></a> <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/jVNUcu6FU8D2">and Callowhill</a></p>
<p><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/ZWiZ32hpQTo">CCP Garage at N 17<sup>th</sup> and Callowhill</a> <strong>($10 CASH ONLY)</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/So1fifnCjby">One Franklintown Garage N 17<sup>th</sup> and Callowhill</a> </p>
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<p><strong>Timeline:</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Setup and welcome Onsite attendees 12 to 12:30</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Official Start of Definition of Done Day Start at 12:30</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Task Speaker TimeFrame ( minutes )</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Intro to Agile and Kanban John Voris 10 </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2647896995?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Intro.to.DoD.pptx</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Defn of Done Helen Mussaf of Deloitte 15</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2647898511?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Helen.Wassef Intro to DefinitionOfDone.pptx</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Defn of Done John Voris of AgilePhilly 15</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2647900276?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JV Strategies.For.3.Categories.of.Done.pptx</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Break from 1:55 to 2:03 8 minutes = DVD segment from PBS is shown</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Defn of Ready Bob English & Bill Roberts 45 </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://st2.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/983154501?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Definition of Ready Slides</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and more is at</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/events/discovery-techniques-part-of-kanban-jan22">http://www.agilephilly.com/events/discovery-techniques-part-of-kanban-jan22</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Break 2:47 to 3:07<br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to watch the</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">reenactment of the driving of the Final Golden Spike 20 minutes ( at 2:47 Eastern Time )</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2647902208?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Break2.pptx</a></span></p>
<p><span> Andre Dhondt, of R.E.V. </span></p>
<p>speaking on <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">BDD Gerkin Style</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">of GivWenZen Tests </span></strong><span> 40 minutes</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Slides are at <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1742771599?profile=original">https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1742771599?profile=original</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Break 5 minutes</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2647902677?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Break3.pptx</a><br></span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">David Bulkin of Grow-Lean,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">speaking on <strong>Going from on BDD to Hypotheisis Driven Design </strong> 40</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Break 5 minutes</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2648021818?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Final Break.pptx</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Howie Ross of Linode </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">speaking on <strong>Innovation, where OpsDev becomes *.Dev ( Star-Dev) </strong> 40 minutes<br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br></span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>THE TARGET is to be DONE at 4:30 pm</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The total of above is 248 minutes = 4 hrs 8 minutes</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">so all of us have to be – as Lincoln said “Short, Short, Short”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">** During Breaks, ads will mention Grow-Lean, Linode, Chariot Solutions, Vanguard, Cerner, TD Bank, Deloitte, as well as TheStarBarn.com, Strasburg Railroad, Steam Into History, Steamtown, Phila Flyers, & AgilePhilly<br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We also want to have an honorable mentions for Keith Ramirez of HarrisburgU</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and Seth McNaughton of Chatham Financials for their assistance</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Who did I forget?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> Cats of Westminstertag:www.agilephilly.com,2019-03-05:3783271:Page:718842019-03-05T14:06:58.226ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p><strong>The Cats of Westminster</strong> <strong>are as likely as their human underlings to get Brexit right</strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>An Update to the 03/29/2019 Brexit</strong>: Due to the failed vote on Jan 15, we misdirect your attention to this other bit of news.</p>
<p>Everyone loves the PBS series Victoria . . . . But did you know about Palmerston on Twitter ?</p>
<p>Yes, "Palmerston The Cat" was installed in the Foreign Secretary's office down the block on Downing Street - as a…</p>
<p><strong>The Cats of Westminster</strong> <strong>are as likely as their human underlings to get Brexit right</strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>An Update to the 03/29/2019 Brexit</strong>: Due to the failed vote on Jan 15, we misdirect your attention to this other bit of news.</p>
<p>Everyone loves the PBS series Victoria . . . . But did you know about Palmerston on Twitter ?</p>
<p>Yes, "Palmerston The Cat" was installed in the Foreign Secretary's office down the block on Downing Street - as a mouser in April 2016<br>
This was mostly in response to "Larry The Cat" who was installed at 10 Downing Street in Feb 2011.</p>
<p>Larry became such a media success that he remains even when if Prime Minister is voted out. And he even got a chance to meet President Obama on one occasion. Larry retains the Title of Chief Mouser, but overall, his prowess as a Mouser is on the low-end. He was helped out briefly by Freya owned by Osborne of the Exchequer.</p>
<p>When President Trump visited 10 Downing, Larry did his bit to protest the visit. (In the US Federal Code, <b>Dr. Wang Wenyi</b> was formally charged on 21 April 2006 with "knowingly and wilfully intimidating, coercing, threatening or harassing … a foreign official performing his duties," by <span class="st">confronting Chinese President Hu Jintao on 20 April 2006) Larry escaped prosecution and injury when he did a lie-in under President Trump's limo called the Beast on June 4 2019.)</span></p>
<p><span class="st">Larry also has his own merchandise line</span></p>
<p><span class="st"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KF71Hd1ur8yg2BeJaZRA2bJj7fxUh5V3/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KF71Hd1ur8yg2BeJaZRA2bJj7fxUh5V3/view</a><br></span></p>
<p></p>
<p>Last to be installed in the government circles was "Gladstone the Cat" in June 2016 as Chief Mouser at the Treasury, followed by Evie, named after Dame Evelyn Sharp, the first female permanent secretary, and Ossie after Sir Edward Osmotherly, author of the Osmotherly Rules, the guide that civil servants have when giving evidence to parliamentary select committees.</p>
<p>It seems that most of these roles are like the US Supreme Court and are appointments for life. But Palmerston is unique in that he has appointed other mousers (Lawrence of Abdoun named after Lawrence of Arabia , and Leyla Pixie in Instanbul ) to their overseas roles.</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston_(cat)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston_(cat)</a> @DiploMog<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(cat)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(cat)</a> @Number10Cat<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya_(cat)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya_(cat)</a><br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladstone_(cat)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladstone_(cat)</a> @TreasuryMog</p>
<p>Evie, no webpage yet @HMCabinetCat (Evie The Cat, named after Dame Evelyn Sharp. Mother of Ozzie.)</p>
<p>A list of all the Players <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cats#United_Kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cats#United_Kingdom</a></p>
<p>and their haunts</p>
<p><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/09/new-cat-evie-joins-westminster-moggies-cabinet-office-mouser/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/09/new-cat-evie-joins-westminster-moggies-cabinet-office-mouser/</a></p>
<p>and adding some juicy tidbits to your bowl</p>
<p><a href="http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/famous/humphrey.html#larry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/famous/humphrey.html#larry</a></p> Defining Donetag:www.agilephilly.com,2019-02-07:3783271:Page:716322019-02-07T19:35:57.791ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> DEFINING DONE .ORG</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">celebrating</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>National Definition of Done Day</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>May 10 2019</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A Conference in Philadelphia</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">( a project of…</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> DEFINING DONE .ORG</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">celebrating</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>National Definition of Done Day</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>May 10 2019</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A Conference in Philadelphia</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">( a project of AgilePhilly and <span style="font-weight: 400;">Philly Tech Week 2019 presented by Comcast</span> )</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The link for LIVE-STREAMING as at</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://livestream.com/HU/AgilePhilly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://livestream.com/HU/AgilePhilly</a> ( videos coming this summer )</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">start time is 12:30</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="https://definingdone2019.eventbrite.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here for TICKETS for ON-SITE or LIVE =-STREAMING</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Student Promo Discount Codes and other discounts and freebies are available.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Just ask at <a href="mailto:DefiningDone@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DefiningDone@gmail.com</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Slides of the Presentations and the Day's Schedule</strong> can be found at</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/schedule-for-natl-definition-of-done-day" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.agilephilly.com/page/schedule-for-natl-definition-of-done-day</a></span><br></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>It was on May 10 1869, that the Transcontinental Railroad was completed.<br></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Federal Government Contracts were approved by President Lincoln in 1861.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And then the great work began - Surveying, Engineering, Tunneling, Blasting, Digging.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A majority of workers on the West Side of the build were Chinese while Irish were predominant on the Eastern Side. No Chinese were invited to the celebration exercise, and the issues of the treatment of Chinese, Irish and Native American Lands should not go unremembered even while we celebrate this achievement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It was the Moon Landing of the 1860's. The news of the last spike was sent by telegraph to a waiting nation at 12:47 pm using just four letters . . . D O N E</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What is happening in Philadelphia on May 10</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The webpage <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/events/definition-of-done-day" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.agilephilly.com/events/definition-of-done-day</a> shows who is part of our celebration of Definition of Done in Philly and those who will participate remotely, too. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Yes, we are Live-Streaming our conference so everyone everywhere can share in the Joy of Done.</strong> Contact <a href="mailto:DefiningDone@gmail.com">mailto:DefiningDone@gmail.com</a> <strong>or leave a comment with email contact, and check back here as more details are ironed out.</strong></span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For some background, the AgilePhilly group celebrated World Retrospective Day on February 27 - where teams reflected on the good (and not-so-good) of their teams' progress on <a href="http://www.WorldRetroDay.com">www.WorldRetroDay.com</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The next step for suggested improvements from a Retrospective is often for teams to make a better <strong>Definition of Done</strong> to keep the team and the team members focused. The goal of all technical projects is to move small tasks from a column of TODO to IN-PROGRESS to DONE. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Software Engineers are expensive talent. We want them to produce quality, but not over-produce features that will not be used. The topics that we will talk about to prevent <strong>Scope Creep</strong> include:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Definition of Done</span>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Break down your expectations for Proof of Concept, Prototype, or Minimal Vaiable Feature for Production</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Definition of Ready ( Ready to begin development work )</span>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A separate swim column for Defn of Ready became a 19% improvement in flow</span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When do we build "Good Enuff" and when do we build "Excellent" ?</span>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The eternal question</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Acceptance Criteria described in a Gerkin Style of BDD Behavior Driven Design that goes beyond TDD</span>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The goal of BDD is for Business people to write the tests</span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Is your company going the way of the Pony Express ?</span>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It was not the Transcontinental Railroad that killed the Pony Express. It was the Transcontinental Telegraph that killed it in two days time. Know your marketplace and your competitors' advantage.</span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/schedule-for-natl-definition-of-done-day" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Schedule being developed</a></span></li>
</ul>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>A Definition of Done is</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">what stops <strong>Scope Creep</strong>! Besides Requirements for a system, a Definition of Done for each sub-task tells us what to build and what to test. It tells us what the Acceptance Tests will be. It stops us from building more than is required or doing more tests than are needed. As the great Edward Demming said,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Doing your best is not enough.</strong><br>
<strong>First, you must know what to do and then do your best.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Refer to <a href="https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2008/september/what-is-definition-of-done-(dod)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2008/september/what-is-definition-of-done-(dod)</a> for a longer description. Note that a Description of Done can be more than just programming. Performance tests, documentation for support staff and other pieces that make up a complete system should be part of the <strong>Definition of Done</strong>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>How to help</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tell your friends, put <a href="http://www.DefiningDone.org">www.DefiningDone.org</a> into a Linked In post or Twitter, or leave a comment on what you want to hear discussed. And send us some Train Trivia from the Age of Steam. Techs love trivia.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Conference Timeline</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A timeline for May 10 is 12:30 to 4:30. Not to worry, our timeline at the conference will have a pause about 2:00 pm Eastern to see historian Jon Meacham speak at the reenactment on KSL-TV - and to see the Spike driven in - and see America united by steel. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.nowplayingutah.com/event/may-10th-celebration-ceremony-broadcast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.nowplayingutah.com/event/may-10th-celebration-ceremony-broadcast</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1007456397?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1007456397?profile=RESIZE_710x"></a></span><strong>"What was it the engines said? Pilots touching, head to head.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Facing on a single track. Half a world behind each back"</strong> - Writer Bret Harte</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Resources</strong> about the Transcontinental Railroad, Promontory Summit and the Misconceptions that abound to catch the Tourists</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spike">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spike</a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.gregmester.com/done-in-1869/#.WET5tZy00O4.linkedin">http://www.gregmester.com/done-in-1869/#.WET5tZy00O4.linkedin</a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/28985" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/28985</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Other resources for the 150th Anniversary</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.nps.gov/gosp/planyourvisit/2019-150th-anniversary-of-the-completion-of-the-transcontinental-railroad.htm">https://www.nps.gov/gosp/planyourvisit/2019-150th-anniversary-of-the-completion-of-the-transcontinental-railroad.htm</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Spike 150 Commission ( <a href="http://spike150.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spike150.org</a> ) and <a href="https://umfa.utah.edu/race-to-promontory">https://umfa.utah.edu/race-to-promontory</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association (<a href="https://www.goldenspike150.org/">https://www.goldenspike150.org/</a>)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Trivia</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Most of the rail was for single passage ( not for two way traffic ) Resource management was even then part of their Definition of Done.</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The two railway companies built past each other. They were paid by the mile, so more miles were built than were necessary. Still, they finished ahead of schedule and under budget.<br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In anticipation the day before May 10, Chicago held an impromptu celebratory parade that was 7 miles long. Upon hearing the news on May 10, Philadelphia had fire engines lined up in front of Independence Hall with bells and whistles clamoring - while Boston was the sole American city to ignore the event. A hundred guns were fired in a salute at City Hall Park in New York City, and the lead story in the New York Times the next day was "The long looked-for moment has arrived. The construction of the Pacific Railroad is <em>un fait accompli " <br></em></span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This great technical accomplishment was at <b>Promontory Summit</b>. The misnomer "Promontory Point" is still used by many due to the handy alliteration of two P's.<br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="https://www.nps.gov/gosp/faqs.htm">https://www.nps.gov/gosp/faqs.htm</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promontory,_Utah">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promontory,_Utah</a></span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At the National Historic Site in Utah, on every Saturday and holiday between May 1 and Labor Day, the two replica locomotives are lined up to re-enact the "Golden Spike" ceremony.</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The words on the Golden Spike also appear in US passports.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>May God continue the unity of our Country, as this Railroad unites the two great Oceans of the world.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spike">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spike</a></span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">During the ceremony, Central Pacific's Leland Stanford and Union Pacific's Thomas Durant both missed hitting the last spike. The spike had been wired to a telegraph and they only needed to tap it. The ceremony's telegrapher W. N. Shilling frustrated with their delay completed the circuit to send out the message D O N E.</span></p>
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<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Is there a Philadelphia Connection?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Although the two trains were NOT from Philadelphia, the Jupiter ( No. 60 ) and Train No.119 are similar to the steam locomotives built at the Baldwin Locomotive Works located at Broad Street in Phila and later the town of Eddystone.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>BUT . . .</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The <i>Inyo</i>, a <a title="4-4-0" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-4-0">4-4-0</a> steam locomotive built for the <a title="Virginia & Truckee Railroad" class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_%26_Truckee_Railroad">Virginia & Truckee Railroad</a> (V&T #22) in 1875 by the <a title="Baldwin Locomotive Works" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Locomotive_Works">Baldwin Locomotive Works</a> in Philadelphia, appeared in the Golden Spike ceremony scene in the movie <i><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_(film)">Union Pacific</a></i> (April 1939) among others. The movie premiered in Omaha in a 4 day event in which 250,000 people attended. The <em>Inyo</em> also appears in the 1960s TV series <i><a title="The Wild Wild West" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Wild_West">The Wild Wild West</a></i>. More details about the <em>Inyo</em> are at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_and_Truckee_22_Inyo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_and_Truckee_22_Inyo</a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and at <a href="http://www.virginiaandtruckee.com/Locomotive/No22.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.virginiaandtruckee.com/Locomotive/No22.htm</a><br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In May 1969, the <i>Inyo</i> participated in the Golden Spike Centennial at Promontory, Utah, and then served as the replica of the Central Pacific's <a title="Jupiter (locomotive)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_(locomotive)"><i>Jupiter</i></a> (CPRR #60) at the Golden Spike National Historical Site until the current replica was built in 1979. Purchased by the <a title="Nevada State Railroad Museum" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_State_Railroad_Museum">Nevada State Railroad Museum</a> in Carson City, Nevada, in 1974, it was eventually brought back to Nevada and was fully restored there in 1983 and where it still runs today.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">( Inyo was a great Shoshone Chief. Inyo County in California includes Mount Whitney and Death Valley <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inyo_County,_California">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inyo_County,_California</a> )</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The word Inyo is also the Japanese name for the Ying-Yang symbol on the Okinawa flag and is the symbol of the JKA Karate Association.<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/972594247?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-center" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/972594247?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="150"></a></span></p> World Retrospective Day in Februarytag:www.agilephilly.com,2019-01-31:3783271:Page:719202019-01-31T19:43:02.668ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p></p>
<p>Join us on <strong>WEDS Feb 27 2019</strong> from Noon to 1 pm Eastern</p>
<p>for our Virtual Meeting talking about Retrospectives &</p>
<p>where we think about what makes a good Retrospective.</p>
<p>SIGN UP HERE <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/events/world-retro-day-2019" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://www.agilephilly.com/events/world-retro-day-2019</a></p>
<p>For the announcement of World Retrospective Day on Tuesday Feb 27th 2019…</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>Join us on <strong>WEDS Feb 27 2019</strong> from Noon to 1 pm Eastern</p>
<p>for our Virtual Meeting talking about Retrospectives &</p>
<p>where we think about what makes a good Retrospective.</p>
<p>SIGN UP HERE <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/events/world-retro-day-2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.agilephilly.com/events/world-retro-day-2019</a></p>
<p>For the announcement of World Retrospective Day on Tuesday Feb 27th 2019</p>
<p><a href="http://worldretroday.com/"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">http://WorldRetroDay.com</span></a></p>
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<p></p>
<p>( and while you are at it, bookmark FRIDAY May 10 2019</p>
<p>for <strong>National Definition of Done Day</strong></p>
<p>where we think about how a good Definition of Done prevents Scope Creep and lets developers know they are done.)</p>
<p><strong>Notes from the Virtual Meeting in 2019 ( Feb 27 2019 )</strong></p>
<p>Wide Ranging Topics</p>
<p>Generally One Hour limit for Retrospectives. And noone wants their Retros to descend into B*tch Sessions , but so often it is hard for the team to "Engage" ( They are in a Rut )</p>
<p>So Everyone is trying different styles/formats of Retros.</p>
<p></p>
<p>But deciding on "One Action Item" to work seems to help - and put it on the BIG BOARD or BACKLOG to remind the team of it.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Do we want to mix our Team Action-Improvement into the User-Stories/ User-Impact? Generally Yes !</p>
<p>And then there is positioning it / talking about a "Flowtrospective" !</p>
<p><br>
And there is the challenge of Distributed Teams - even using Video Games to build trust and rapport with remote team members. </p>
<p>Some use Tools like Quiplash, Scatterspoke - - but get a tool that every team member can add to</p>
<p><strong>Those who Participated in 2019 ( in no particular order )</strong></p>
<p>Jodie Kane</p>
<p>Lilia Weber</p>
<p>Gerald Thomas</p>
<p>Greg Mester</p>
<p>Howard Meyers</p>
<p>Joel Chew</p>
<p>John Voris</p>
<p>Sheena Gladden</p>
<p>Barbara Kratzer</p>
<p>Matt Edwards</p>
<p>Amy Neil</p>
<p>Chris Wistrom</p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>-===============================================-</strong></p>
<p><strong>Notes from the Virtual Meeting in 2018 ( Feb 6 2018 )</strong></p>
<p>Impressions</p>
<p>Seeing "Risk" or "Trouble" during a retrospective can be very subjective.</p>
<p>Stock Phrase: Assuming we did all that, what do you expect to be different? What gets unblocked? How does your day change?</p>
<p>Engage, Listen, Confront = Clarity</p>
<p>Teams sometimes have Trouble getting to Specifics.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Other questions raised</p>
<p>Size of team during the retrospective</p>
<p>Good sound headsets for remote teams = more important than video</p>
<p>IceBreakers to start, like Pictionary of your Superpower</p>
<p></p>
<p>Agenda for a Retrospective is a Five Part Play . . .</p>
<p>Set the Stage.</p>
<p>Gather data.</p>
<p>Generate insights</p>
<p>Decide what to do</p>
<p>Close</p>
<p></p>
<p>Tools</p>
<p><a href="https://blog.scatterspoke.com">https://blog.scatterspoke.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.funretrospectives.com/">www.FunRetrospectives.com</a></p>
<p><a href="https://plans-for-retrospectives.com/en">https://plans-for-retrospectives.com/en</a></p>
<p>Stickies.io</p>
<p>Mural.ly</p>
<p>Conteneo.co Weave ( formerly Innovation Games Online )</p>
<p><a href="https://www.christopheravery.com/blog/what-i-can-confront">https://www.christopheravery.com/blog/what-i-can-confront</a> an article on how facilitating is Responsibility, which can be a little frightening.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Those who Participated in 2018 ( in no particular order )</p>
<p>Bonnie Aumann</p>
<p>John Voris</p>
<p>Louis Rubinfeld</p>
<p>Brad Beebe</p>
<p>Lilia Weber</p>
<p>Tony Piazza</p>
<p>David Hughes</p>
<p>Randy Angiel</p>
<p></p> First Transcontinental Railroad, a Definition of Donetag:www.agilephilly.com,2019-01-21:3783271:Page:714412019-01-21T18:08:00.547ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
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<p><strong>The Transcontintental Railroad was completed on May 10 1869</strong></p>
<p>The Federal Government Contracts were approved by President Lincoln in 1861.</p>
<p>A majority of workers on the West Side of the build were Chinese while Irish were predominant on the Eastern Side. No Chinese were invited to the celebration exercise. And issues of treatment of Chinese, Irish and Native American Lands should not go unremembered.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>The Definition…</strong></p>
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<p><strong>The Transcontintental Railroad was completed on May 10 1869</strong></p>
<p>The Federal Government Contracts were approved by President Lincoln in 1861.</p>
<p>A majority of workers on the West Side of the build were Chinese while Irish were predominant on the Eastern Side. No Chinese were invited to the celebration exercise. And issues of treatment of Chinese, Irish and Native American Lands should not go unremembered.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>The Definition of Definition of Done</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2008/september/what-is-definition-of-done-(dod)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2008/september/what-is-definition-of-done-(dod)</a></p>
<p>( A lengthy wordy description. But each team and perhaps each task should have its own ? )</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Resources</strong> about the Transcontinental Railroad, Promotory Summit and the Misconceptions that abound to catch the Tourists</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spike">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spike</a> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.gregmester.com/done-in-1869/#.WET5tZy00O4.linkedin">http://www.gregmester.com/done-in-1869/#.WET5tZy00O4.linkedin</a> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/28985" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/28985</a></p>
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<p><strong>Other resources for the 150th Anniversary</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.nps.gov/gosp/planyourvisit/2019-150th-anniversary-of-the-completion-of-the-transcontinental-railroad.htm">https://www.nps.gov/gosp/planyourvisit/2019-150th-anniversary-of-the-completion-of-the-transcontinental-railroad.htm</a></p>
<p>Spike 150 Commission (spike150.org) and <a href="https://umfa.utah.edu/race-to-promontory">https://umfa.utah.edu/race-to-promontory</a></p>
<p>Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association (<a href="https://www.goldenspike150.org/">https://www.goldenspike150.org/</a>)</p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Trivia</strong></p>
<p>Companies were paid by the mile, so more miles were built than were necessary. Most of the rail was for single passage ( not for two way traffic ) Resource management was even then in their Definition of Done.</p>
<p></p>
<p>The words on the Golden Spike also appear in US passports.</p>
<p><em>May God continue the unity of our Country, as this Railroad unites the two great Oceans of the world.</em></p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_spike</a></p>
<p></p>
<p>This great technical accomplishment was 150 years ago at <b>Promontory Summit</b>, where the <a title="First Transcontinental Railroad" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad">First Transcontinental Railroad</a> in the United States was officially completed on <strong>May 10, 1869</strong> The misnomer "Promontory Point" is still used by many, according to the Golden Spike Natl Hist Park</p>
<p> <a href="https://www.nps.gov/gosp/faqs.htm">https://www.nps.gov/gosp/faqs.htm</a></p>
<p> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promontory,_Utah">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promontory,_Utah</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>At the National Historic Site in Utah, on every Saturday and holiday between May 1 and Labor Day, the two replica locomotives are lined up to re-enact the "Golden Spike" ceremony.</p>
<p></p>
<p>The defining features of most Bullet Trains ( like Japan's Shinkansen trains ) are their extraordinarily long noses, designed not to improve their aerodynamics, but primarily to eliminate sonic booms caused by the "piston effect" of trains entering tunnels and forcing compression waves out of the other end at supersonic speeds.</p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Is there a Philadelphia Connection?</strong></p>
<p>Although the two trains were NOT from Philadelphia, the Jupiter ( No. 60 ) and Train No.119 are similar to the steam locomotives built at the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Red Lion Road .</p>
<p><strong>BUT . . .</strong></p>
<p>The <i>Inyo</i>, a <a title="4-4-0" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-4-0">4-4-0</a> steam locomotive built for the <a title="Virginia & Truckee Railroad" class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_%26_Truckee_Railroad">Virginia & Truckee Railroad</a> (V&T #22) in 1875 by the <a title="Baldwin Locomotive Works" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Locomotive_Works">Baldwin Locomotive Works</a> in Philadelphia, appeared in both the Golden Spike ceremony scene in <i><a title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_(film)">Union Pacific</a></i> (1939) and in the 1960s TV series <i><a title="The Wild Wild West" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Wild_West">The Wild Wild West</a></i>.</p>
<p>In May, 1969, the <i>Inyo</i> participated in the Golden Spike Centennial at Promontory, Utah, and then served as the replica of the Central Pacific's <a title="Jupiter (locomotive)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_(locomotive)"><i>Jupiter</i></a> (CPRR #60) at the Golden Spike National Historical Site, until the current replica was built in 1979. Purchased by the <a title="Nevada State Railroad Museum" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_State_Railroad_Museum">Nevada State Railroad Museum</a> in Carson City, Nevada, in 1974, it was eventually brought back to Nevada and fully restored there in 1983, where it still runs today.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-38"></sup></p>
<p>( Inyo was a great Shoshone Chief. Inyo County in California includes Mount Whitney and Death Valley <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inyo_County,_California">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inyo_County,_California</a> )</p>
<p>Ironically, Inyo is also the Japanese name for the Yin-Yang symbol of the Okinawan flag and the symbol of the JKA Karate Association.<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/972594247?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/972594247?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center" width="300"></a></p>
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<p></p> Planning our Meeting Schedule for the yeartag:www.agilephilly.com,2018-10-26:3783271:Page:700352018-10-26T13:01:49.047ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ideas for Planning our yearly schedule ( what we are thinking about ) </span></p>
<p> Everyone, We are always looking for topics and speakers and meeting places.</p>
<p> AND FOR OUR SPEAKERS, here are helpful tips…</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ideas for Planning our yearly schedule ( what we are thinking about ) </span></p>
<p> Everyone, We are always looking for topics and speakers and meeting places.</p>
<p> AND FOR OUR SPEAKERS, here are helpful tips</p>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/9-ways-help-your-speaker-make-great-first-impression-sylvie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/9-ways-help-your-speaker-make-great-first-impression-sylvie</a></p>
<p>Especially as we expand into South Jersey and Downtown.</p>
<p>So what can you expect for the coming months ?</p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>= October Fall Conference Topics =</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.ministryoftesting.com/news/testbashx-edinburgh-a-new-type-of-testbash-joins-the-family" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.ministryoftesting.com/news/testbashx-edinburgh-a-new-type-of-testbash-joins-the-family</a></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>= Planning the 2020 Meetings - Western Suburbs - Tentative Plans =<br></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Nov 2019 - How a Non-Profit Gets Acquired was cancelled<br></strong></p>
<p><strong>- Andre Dhondt</strong> - to walk us through the <strong>Snowflake Exercise</strong>.</p>
<p>This is a great learning tool for a young team to experience various ways that "scrumming" can be done. It is also fun for Advanced Practioners to get re-engaged and to see how simple team exercises can be developed for in-house training.</p>
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<p>- <a href="https://scrumology.com/a-collection-of-funny-scrum-videos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://scrumology.com/a-collection-of-funny-scrum-videos</a></p>
<p>or Robin Ratliff on <strong>Story Level Doneness</strong></p>
<p>It’s an issue that came up in the Q&A quite a bit for her.</p>
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<p><strong>April 2020 - OPEN or PhillyETE Tech Conference Pow-wow with Speakers</strong></p>
<p><strong>May 01 2020 - Spring Conference, video broadcast from Downtown</strong></p>
<p><strong>June – Open Topic</strong></p>
<p></p>
<p>On Monday, may the Fourth be with you.</p>
<p>May 04 2020<br>
for the AgilePhilly Spring Conference 12:30 to 4:30</p>
<p>Tues 05 05 2020 is the Day-Long DEV conference. No venue yet.</p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>-</strong> <strong>Tiffany Powley<br></strong></p>
<p>Powerful Questions - a coaching technique to inspire coaching clients to new ways of thinking to solve their own problems. </p>
<p> “Powerful Questions” (when used with deep listening) is the most powerful and versatile tool in my coaching toolbox. <br>
( I use this skill with teams and coaching clients! I use it to gently help friends, or when puzzling something out with my spouse. A truly powerful and generative question can wake me up, calm me down, refocus me or get my butt into action, depending on what I discover while exploring it.)</p>
<p>- <strong>Design Thinking with Tiffany Powley - POSTPONED until TBD</strong></p>
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<p>– <strong>David Hughes on Metaphorically Speaking: Powerful metaphors for Lean Systems Thinking</strong>." at VANGUARD = Did we do this ?</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Other</strong> need to contact / invite for Brian Campo Govt & Metrics - and Mona Roccio of SEI Investments</p>
<p>-or-</p>
<p>Nick Smith on my list of people.</p>
<p>His topic is Automated Testing of JavaScript</p>
<p>-or-</p>
<p>Anu Smalley again ?</p>
<p>( probably at VertexInc in King of Prussia , hmmmmm ? )</p>
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<p></p>
<p><strong>= PRIMARY LOCATIONS =<br></strong></p>
<p><strong>Cerner</strong> does not need the list of attendees until 5:30 pm Tuesday</p>
<p><strong>Vanguard</strong> prefers the list at Noon on Monday</p>
<p>Our standard policy is Noon on Monday to get the list of DEFINITELY YES and MAYBE to the hosting location. Pizza is ordered on Monday afternoon or Tuesday afternoon. Pizza headcount on the YES count usually handles the no-show percentage drop.</p>
<p><strong>TD Bank</strong> in Mt Laurel NJ</p>
<p><strong>= Other =</strong></p>
<p> New Space in Frazer ( near Church Farm School)</p>
<p>offered by Chris McCauley of coxautoinc.com in Exton</p>
<p>( Pizza probably from Roccos from near the Exton mall </p>
<p><strong>South Jersey Women in Agile</strong></p>
<p> ARCS Federal</p>
<p> TD Bank in Mt Laurel</p>
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<p> Lucia Wang of Vanguard ( as well as Rajvi Mehta ) would like to partner a joint software engineering/data science event, since there are shared skills and domain expertise.</p>
<p> Meet-up page. <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.meetup.com_Philadelphia-2DWomen-2Din-2DData_&d=DwQFAg&c=dMbZggepYLdL8nDVVsn2yw&r=199dg2ayCObYGNbn_Bt1tnOkamKy44jF4rcTR4ttfmM&m=KVovx4edD2VyEZ_BuZcwEwrpEolmZ11dRt3TTAktgIU&s=WSMjmojU1ZAbze-4iZyO-lFHxg4JVWyQ2rWGuG7BvcU&e=">https://www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-Women-in-Data/</a></p>
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<p><strong>AgilePrinceton ( see Meetup.com )</strong></p>
<p> Deloitte</p>
<p> Other new</p>
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<p><strong>North of the City = Tentative Meeting Locations =</strong></p>
<p>PSU Abington - Looks Like it is going to happen - waiting to meet with the Dean there.</p>
<p>Reed Technologies</p>
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<p><strong>= Virtual Meetings =</strong></p>
<p>Feb 6 World Retro Day on Slack at noon</p>
<p>Mar 26 World Retro Day on Slack at noon</p>
<p>May 10 Definition of Done Day - changed to be more than just a Slack Conversation at noon</p>
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<h4><strong>= Downtown = Tentative = Other<br></strong></h4>
<p>Meeting Locations:</p>
<p>Center City venues. I added the ones you mentioned to that list:</p>
<p> Linode</p>
<p> Hussian College</p>
<p> Slalom Consulting</p>
<p> Promptworks</p>
<p> Urban Outfitters ( near the Navy Yard )</p>
<p> Comcast</p>
<p> O3 World (Recent Contacts ? )</p>
<p> CHOP (Wanamaker Building) (Recent Contacts ? )</p>
<p> GlaxoSmithKline (Navy Yard) (Recent Contacts ? )</p>
<p> Arcweb (Recent Contacts ? )</p>
<p> Thomas Reuters (Recent Contacts ? )</p>
<p> Philadelphia University (Recent Contacts ? )</p>
<p>Regular Meeting night ( was 4th Weds ) and is now ????</p>
<p> At Hussian College, for their students in UX, UI and Full Stack Web Dev,</p>
<p> Possible Topics for the Students are:</p>
<p>( 3 or 4 evening sessions in the spring for those students soon to graduate and who are thinking ahead & would find this interesting )</p>
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<p>Probable topics for the Intro Sessions are:</p>
<p> TERMINOLOGY and INTRO to the TWO SIDES of AGILE: SCRUM vs KANBAN</p>
<p> The FLOW of a SCRUM Sprint</p>
<p> WHY KANBAN and its TERMINOLOGY is COOL</p>
<p> THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS we AGILISTS are concerned about. Like how to break things into smaller and smaller things.</p>
<p> WHAT THE INDUSTRY IS TALKING ABOUT: and what you should be able to speak about during the Interview</p>
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<p>= <strong>Other Ideas to Improve our Meetings =<br></strong></p>
<p>like what we see at <strong>Agile New England</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">This is an couple of interesting facets of the AgileNewEngland User Group meetings</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">It looks to me like they have no annual dues. I believe AgileBoston has annual dues. <a href="http://www.agileboston.org/">www.agileBoston.org</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Their other offerings below – are things that we have talked or hinted at.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">These Special Interest Groups meet from 5:45 to 6:45 in a corner of the main room,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">followed by the main meeting.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">They are something to consider as the next level that AgilePhilly might attempt.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">I will be contacting the people who are running these SIGs to see if there is staying power.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">( Often these endeavors fall apart from disinterest.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">At the December 6 Meeting of Agile New England</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> <strong>Agile 101: TBD</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Agile 101 classes start at 5:45 and last one hour. A sign-up sheet is posted at 5:30 near the check-in table. Capacity is limited to 10 people per class.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> <strong>Scrum Master/Agile Coach Lean Coffee Circle</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">The group will meet from 5:45 to 6:45 in the main room to exchange ideas and advice on any Agile related topics. Up to 15 people, first come first served. At the start, we will choose from topics proposed by those attending. Every attendee is invited to share his or her perspective. Questions? Email timbrook1.1@gmail.com.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> <strong>Agile Dojo</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">The Agile Dojo gives Agile practitioners an opportunity to improve Agile techniques. Participants practice an Agile Skill such as facilitation, requirements elicitation, or estimation, then receive feedback. The group meets from 6:00 to 6:50 and is facilitated by Richard Kasperowski, Bruce Conner, and Wendy Wong. For more information contact r@kasperowski.com.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> <strong>Main Presentation</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">December = Agile: Safety-Critical Too! = Agile adoption in a regulated environment</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Presented by Brian Shoemaker</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> January Meeting Topic = Advanced User Story Writing - With Games!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Presented by Damon Poole</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> <strong>Agile New England's two annual conferences</strong> will be held at the Microsoft Technology Center in Burlington, MA.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Agile Games Conference: April 8-10, 2019: <a href="https://agilegamesnewengland.com/">https://agilegamesnewengland.com/</a> [r20.rs6.net]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Mob Programming Conference: April 11-12, 2019: <a href="https://mobprogrammingnewengland.com/">https://mobprogrammingnewengland.com/</a> [r20.rs6.net]</span></p>
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<p><strong>= RESOURCES =</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/2020</a><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/2020"></a></p>
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<p><strong>= FEEDBACK =</strong></p>
<p>the Slack channel is the best place or</p>
<p>at <a href="mailto:AgilePhillyCoordinators@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mailto:AgilePhillyCoordinators@yahoogroups.com</a></p>
<p>or <a href="Mailto:DefiningDone@Gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DefiningDone@Gmail.com</a></p>
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<p> </p> Chat & Forumstag:www.agilephilly.com,2018-10-24:3783271:Page:698212018-10-24T14:11:24.105ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p>AgilePhilly is always trying new things.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>We are now using Slack ( which many tech teams use internally ) as our chat area <a href="https://agilephilly.slack.com/messages" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://agilephilly.slack.com/messages</a> It allows both public and private conversations among members.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Forums for longer discussions are always handy - and often more appropriate …</p>
<p>AgilePhilly is always trying new things.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>We are now using Slack ( which many tech teams use internally ) as our chat area <a href="https://agilephilly.slack.com/messages" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://agilephilly.slack.com/messages</a> It allows both public and private conversations among members.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Forums for longer discussions are always handy - and often more appropriate <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.agilephilly.com/forum</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The old chat app on the website was not used much <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/chat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.agilephilly.com/chat</a></p> When you join AgilePhillytag:www.agilephilly.com,2018-10-24:3783271:Page:701222018-10-24T13:22:20.821ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p>Our standard Welcome to AgilePhilly message is below.</p>
<p>It tells you who we are, the commitment we make to keep your inbox clean, and how you can help us with keeping your RSVP up to date.</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>Glad to have you aboard. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>All our meetings in the evenings are free and they are in both the western suburbs and in center-city downtown Philadelphia, and soon in South Jersey.</p>
<p>But we also cross-list a lot of other groups that have meetings…</p>
<p>Our standard Welcome to AgilePhilly message is below.</p>
<p>It tells you who we are, the commitment we make to keep your inbox clean, and how you can help us with keeping your RSVP up to date.</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>Glad to have you aboard. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>All our meetings in the evenings are free and they are in both the western suburbs and in center-city downtown Philadelphia, and soon in South Jersey.</p>
<p>But we also cross-list a lot of other groups that have meetings you may be interested in ( the "Software as a Craft" meetup from Downtown is one you might want to become familiar with.) And at our website, you will see PB&J = Philly, Bucks County & Jersey events listed, as well as ours which are marked with the BIG BLUE LIBERTY BELL. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>For our Agile Philly meetings, ALL WE ASK is that you keep your RSVP current on our events you sign up for, so our headcount for the pizza is accurate. (On our event webpages, you can update your RSVP checkoff button anytime, from "Definitely Yes" to "No" to "Maybe" as your busy schedule changes).</p>
<p> </p>
<p>And we at AgilePhilly will always strive to keep your inbox clean by only sending out 2 or 3 emails a month.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>You may have missed our latest email blast of upcoming AgilePhilly meetings and the other events we cross-post, so just bookmark our meeting schedule at <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/events/event/listUpcoming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.agilephilly.com/events/event/listUpcoming</a></p>
<p>and if you think you will have an immediate need anytime to ask a question or two, tell us on our AgilePhilly.Slack.com chat area.</p>
<p>Or think about joining our AgilePhilly Mentoring Program, where we can always use more Mentors and Mentees <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/amp-up-your-skills" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.agilephilly.com/page/amp-up-your-skills</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>So as a participant at our meetings, we encourage you to go to the Upper Left Corner of our website into My Profile and customize your enrollment with a picture.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Our monthly meetings taper off for the summer, as we start plan our October 22nd AgilePhilly All Day Conference. ( We just concluded the Fall conference for 2018.) </p>
<p>What we covered at these are here = <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>So get ready for more Monthly meetings in the Western Suburbs, Meetings in downtown Philly, and our upcoming conferences where AgilePhilly will have different tracks of Agile Topics for you.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Yes, look for more great meetings to come - where the pizza will flow. Or we hope it will. </p>
<p>As always, Corporate Food Sponsors for our monthly meetings are always welcome, so think about having your company contribute.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>John Voris, Lead Coordinator, AgilePhilly.com</p>
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<p></p> Fall 2018 Conference Details & Session Gridtag:www.agilephilly.com,2018-10-01:3783271:Page:694382018-10-01T23:12:50.570ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1678291624?profile=original" target="_self"> </a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Click for the most up-to-date Session Grid</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Link to the …</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1678291624?profile=original" target="_self"> </a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Click for the most up-to-date Session Grid</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Link to the <a href="http://www.axs2000.net/jvoris/2018/2018.Session.Grid.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Session Grid for October 22 2018 at CERNER</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Directions to CERNER:</span></p>
<h2>Notes, Directions and Schedule For the AgilePhilly October 22nd 2018 All Day Conference</h2>
<p>Our conference is part of the <a href="http://at2018.agiletour.org">International AgileTour</a> The AgileTour is a way for enthusiasts of Agile to spread the word about Agile practices and to share their experiences, both good and bad, within their local community.</p>
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<p>This Year’s Theme . . . Metrics and Measurements</p>
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<p><b>Notes</b></p>
<p> All sessions must fit within one hour. This includes Q&A.</p>
<p> Lunch is provided free to speakers.</p>
<p> $20 Lunch is the cost of the tickets to the conference and Lunch.</p>
<p> Bulk payment of tickets for an entire department are available</p>
<p> Sponsorships for the Conference are available for $100</p>
<p> A shuttle from the SEPTA train to the event is available. Two weeks prior, you must contact</p>
<p> <a href="mailto:AgilePhillyCoordinators@YahooGroups.com?Subject=Shuttle">Mailto:AgilePhillyCoordinators@YahooGroups.com? Subject=Shuttle</a></p>
<p> or use our Slack channel to connect with other attendees for rides.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>DIRECTIONS</strong></span></p>
<p><b>Location</b> of the Agile Philly conference is <b>CERNER</b></p>
<p>Cerner Health Services</p>
<p>55 Valley Stream Parkway</p>
<p>Malvern, PA 19355-1406</p>
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<p>Google Maps: <a href="http://bit.ly/1PwBihn">http://bit.ly/1PwBihn</a></p>
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<p>TRAVELLING WESTBOUND IN THE MORNING, THE PA TURNPIKE IS A PARKING LOT from BENSALEM to KING of PRUSSIA. INCLUDE TRAVEL TIME IN YOUR MORNING PLANS.</p>
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<p>EXIT 320 on the Pa Turnpike is <b>EZ-PASS ONLY</b>. You cannot pay cash there. If you are without EZ-PASS, use the King of Prussia Exit instead.</p>
<p></p>
<p>If using the PA Turnpike EZPass Exit 320 at Malvern, you will go South on Rte 29</p>
<p></p>
<p>The directions when leaving the Turnpike are . . . LEFT at the light.</p>
<p>LEFT at the 3rd Light is Valley Stream Parkway.</p>
<p>Go 0.45 miles then make a LEFT into #55 Valley Stream Parkway at the sign for “ CERNER Healthineers “</p>
<p>Follow the Service Road around to the Parking Garage of Building III</p>
<p>The entrance and Security Desk with Welcome Table is on the ground floor of the Parking Garage.</p>
<p>so you can park anywhere in or near the parking garage.</p>
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<p><br>
<b>Directions From Rte 202 when you are going north</b></p>
<p><b>( Suggested Route for people coming from New Jersey )</b></p>
<p>Exit off of Rte 202 at Malvern, home of Penn State Great Valley and Microsoft</p>
<p>The exit is labeled "Rte 29 NORTH ... GREAT VALLEY "</p>
<p>At the light on the service road Matthews Road, take a RIGHT. At the Super Wawa, Make the RIGHT onto Rte 29 North. </p>
<p>After going over Rte 202, make a RIGHT at the light onto Swedesford Road.</p>
<p>At the SECOND stoplight, make a LEFT onto Valley Stream Parkway</p>
<p>Enter at the THIRD driveway on your RIGHT = This is 55 VALLEY STREAM PARKWAY,</p>
<p>This is the service road that works around the parking lots.</p>
<p>The road will curve to the left to a parking garage in back of the Cerner buildings to your left.</p>
<p>The entrance and Security Desk with Welcome Table is on the ground floor of the Parking Garage.</p>
<p>so you can park anywhere in or near the parking garage.</p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>FROM DOWNTOWN</strong></p>
<p>If you are coming from the airport or Downtown Philly, then you will not take the PA Turnpike at all. The Turnpike will not be a concern. You will probably go North on the Schukyll Expressway and at King of Prussia, go to Rte 202 South. Pay attention to the lane directions at the merge-curve.</p>
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<p>Or you will take the <a href="http://www.septa.org/schedules/rail/w/PAO_0.html">SEPTA</a> train from 30th Street Station to the Malvern Train Station and tell us if you want to use the shuttle from the Malvern Train Stn <a href="mailto:AgilePhillyCoordinators@YahooGroups.com?Subject=Shuttle">AgilePhillyCoordinators@YahooGroups.com? Subject=Shuttle</a></p>
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<p><strong> DIRECTIONS FROM THE AIRPORT AREA . . . AND FOR PEOPLE FROM SOUTH JERSEY</strong> . . . AVOID THE PARKING LOT - PA TURNPIKE WESTBOUND in the MORNING</p>
<p>One option is to go I-95 North to the Schulkyll Expressway I-76 North to King of Prussia and then Rte 202 South.</p>
<p><strong>From South Jersey, I prefer</strong> the Commodore Barry Bridge to Rte 322 North to Rte 202 North</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>LUNCH MENU</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Lunch Wraps , Salad , Soda and Cookies</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b>SCHEDULE OF THE DAY</b></span></p>
<p>We have Four Rooms ( One big room and three conference rooms ) x 3 slots = ( seats 20, 20 16)</p>
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<p>08:30 - 09:30 am Choice of three <em>optional</em> sessions: Lean Coffee, Icebreakers for Daily Scrum, Mentoring</p>
<p>09:30 - 09:45 am <strong>OFFICIAL START OF THE CONFERENCE & ANNOUNCEMENTS</strong></p>
<p>09:45 - 10:45 am Morning Session</p>
<p>10:45 - 11:00 am Break</p>
<p>11:00-12:00 noon Second Morning Session</p>
<p>12:00-1:00 Lunch</p>
<p>1:00-2:00 First Afternoon Session</p>
<p>2:15-3:15 The Raffle and Panel of Experts Discussion</p>
<p>3:15 - 3:30 Break</p>
<p>3:30-4:30 Final Afternoon Session</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">CERNER Rooms:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Auditorium B</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Training Room 8</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Training Room 11</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Training Room 16</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CERNER staff are on-hand to direct you to the rooms.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There will also be signs of the sessions in each room showing any last minute changes</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">SPONSORS</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> And the AgilePhilly Code of Conduct for the Conference and for all our Meetings</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is the same one used by GDI.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/policy-statements" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.agilephilly.com/page/policy-statements</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.girldevelopit.com/code-of-%20%20conduct">https://www.girldevelopit.com/code-of- conduct</a></span></p> Fall 2018 Conference Topic Descriptionstag:www.agilephilly.com,2018-09-21:3783271:Page:693262018-09-21T14:48:57.465ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p>Table of Contents on this webpage <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf">http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf</a> is below</p>
<p>A color-coded Session Grid of topics on Oct 22nd is <a href="https://bit.ly/2PfdtCo" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2PfdtCo…</a></p>
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<p>Table of Contents on this webpage <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf">http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf</a> is below</p>
<p>A color-coded Session Grid of topics on Oct 22nd is <a href="https://bit.ly/2PfdtCo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://bit.ly/2PfdtCo</a></p>
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<p><a href="#_Instructions">Instructions</a> Getting headcounts for the rooms and questions for Helpers</p>
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<p><span> 8:30 hour for Mingling or Optional Session</span></p>
<p><span><a href="#_A_Lean_Coffee">A Lean Coffee Hour</a> with Tiffany Powley</span></p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf/#_Fun_Daily_Scrum">Fun Daily Scrum Social Networking: Alternative to Lean Coffee</a></span> with Greg Mester</p>
<p><span><a href="#_Mentoring:_How_to">Mentoring: How to Get a Mentor and How to Be a Mentor</a> with Greg Robinson & Doug Leard</span></p>
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<p><span><a href="#_Fun_Daily_Scrum"></a></span></p>
<p><strong>Official Start Time is 9:30 am</strong></p>
<p> 9:45 - 10:45 First Morning Hour</p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf/#_Scaling">Scaling - Getting Big is Not the Answer</a></span> with David Bulkin</p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf/#_Authentic_Leadership">Authentic Leadership</a></span> with Anu Smalley</p>
<ul>
<li> Anu Smalley's slides are here</li>
<li> <a href="https://www.capalaconsulting.com/app/download/6245405/Agile+Philly+Authentic+Leadership.pdf">https://www.capalaconsulting.com/app/download/6245405/Agile+Philly+Authentic+Leadership.pdf</a> </li>
</ul>
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<p><span><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf/#_Using_Mapping_Techniques">Using Mapping Techniques to Navigate Problem Areas</a></span> with Pete Fleming, Deborah Wyse & John Voris</p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.axs2000.net/jvoris/2018/Mapping.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Slides</a> and more . . . <a href="http://www.axs2000.net/jvoris/2018/AgileCoachAssessment.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns PDF Form</a> or <a href="http://axs2000.net/jvoris/2018/Agile.Coach.Assessment.xlsx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns XLS Form</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://www.axs2000.net/jvoris/2018/Intro.to.Impact.Mapping.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deborah Wyse Slides</a></li>
<li> <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ek1d1yxx35pd4gn/AAA8-86OwsJm2evmhcumE6lNa?dl=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete and his Chicken</a></li>
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<p>THE MAPPING WORKSHOP REQUIRES YOU ATTEND HOUR 1 and HOUR 2</p>
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<p><span><a href="#_A_Case_Study">A Case Study of using Objectives and Key Results (OKR's) for Team Accountability and Transparency</a></span> with Karen Loomis</p>
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<p><span> 11:00 to 12:00 noon Second Morning Session</span></p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf/#_Is_Humility_an">Is Humility an Agile Team Superpower?</a> with Mark Dodge </span></p>
<p><span><strong>*CANCELLED*</strong> </span> <span><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf/#_Help_My_Agile" target="_self">Help, My Agile Team Has Fallen And It Can’t Get Up !</a> with Bill Faucett</span></p>
<p><span>PART 2 of the MAPPING WORKSHOP</span></p>
<p><span><a href="#_Scaling_The">Scaling The Agile Transition Wall</a></span> with Kimberly Davis</p>
<p><span><a href="#_Measuring_the_Urgency">Measuring the Urgency Index</a></span> with Crystal Harris and Travis Bjorklund </p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.axs2000.net/jvoris/2018/Urgency.Index.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crystal's and Travis' Slides Here</a></li>
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<p>12:00 - 1:00 Lunch in the Big Room</p>
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<p>1:00 - 2:00 First Afternoon Session</p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf/#_From_Shu-Ha-Ri_to" target="_self">From “Shu-Ha-Ri” to “Ba” - Looking at Lean Culture, a Culture you can Lean On</a></span> with Kimberly Davis</p>
<ul>
<li>Kimberly's Slides on <a href="http://www.axs2000.net/jvoris/2018/Shu.Ha.Ri.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shu Ha Ri</a></li>
</ul>
<p><span><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf/#_Color_Personalities:_Lead">Color Personalities: Lead with Your Strengths | Personality, Interaction and Collaboration</a></span> with Adrienne Rinaldi</p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.axs2000.net/jvoris/2018/Leadership.personality.presentation.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adrienne's slides here</a></li>
</ul>
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<p><span><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf/#_An_Outcome_Measurement">An Outcome Measurement Model; Is Your Agile Adoption Moving the Needle</a></span> with Michael McCalla</p>
<p><span><a href="#_Lean_Costing_Approaches:">Lean Costing Approaches: Getting to Lightweight Methods for Effective Decision Making using A.V.C.</a></span> with David Hughes</p>
<ul>
<li> David's slides can be found at</li>
<li><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/events/why-finance-departments-cling-to-project-accounting">http://www.agilephilly.com/events/why-finance-departments-cling-to-project-accounting</a></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/forum/topics/accepted-value-costing">http://www.agilephilly.com/forum/topics/accepted-value-costing</a></strong> and his <strong><a href="http://www.trainingdhughes.comcastbiz.net/SMT$/SMT$_Annotated_Bibliography.pdf">Annotated Bibliography.PDF</a> </strong></li>
</ul>
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<p>2:15 - 3:15 Agile Terminology Raffle and Panel of Experts</p>
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<p>3:30 to 4:30 Final Afternoon Session</p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf/#_Culture_Eats_Strategy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast</a></span> with Greg Robinson</p>
<p><span><strong>*CANCELLED*</strong> <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf/#_Using_Improv_to">Using Improv to Create High Performing Teams</a></span> with Jardena London</p>
<p><span><a href="#_Lean_Metrics_and">Lean Metrics and Systems Thinking</a></span> with Rashmi Chafale</p>
<p><span><a href="#_What_are_Agile">What are Agile Anti-patterns Costing You?</a> with Sean Gilligan and Ana Chanda</span></p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf/#_There_is_No">There is No Silver Bullet: Metrics Reflect Your Organization's Culture</a></span><span> with Jennifer Honerman</span></p>
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<p><span>And later in the Winter and Spring, you may hear from the following Speakers</span></p>
<p><span>NOT ON OCTOBER 22 . . . BUT VERY SOON<br></span></p>
<p><span><a href="#_Coach_the_Coach">Coach the Coach | The Coaching Backlog</a></span> with Adrienne Rinaldi</p>
<p><span><a href="#_Whats_in_your">What’s in your Agile Suitcase?</a></span> with Charlie Villare</p>
<p><span><a href="#_The_4_Ps">The 4 P’s of Product Management</a></span> with Anu Smalley </p>
<p><span><a href="#_Put_the_FANTASTIC">Put the FANTASTIC back in Facilitation - 4 techniques to great facilitation!</a></span> with Anu Smalley</p>
<p><span><a href="#_Myths_and_Realities">Myths and Realities of Lean Software Development</a></span> with Vaibhav “VG” Gandhi</p>
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<h1><a name="_Instructions"></a>Instructions</h1>
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<p>Your choice on the following selections does not bind you to any one session. When you purchase your ticket, that is when we would like</p>
<p>you to commit.</p>
<p>The following list of topics let's us get a inkling on which is more popular. We do this so we can size the rooms properly. Even then, we</p>
<p>may be forced to make last minute changes on the day of the conference. But we are agile and all of us can adjust quickly.</p>
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<p>If you are coming to one of the Optional Early-Hour Sessions, tell us which</p>
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<p>Are you attending the optional 8:30 to 9:30 Hour ? Y/N</p>
<p>If yes, then indicate your interest ( pick only one ). . .</p>
<p> Lean Coffee, with Tiffany Powley</p>
<p> _ I want to be included in the Lean Coffee</p>
<p> _ I want to help Tiffany run the Lean Coffee</p>
<p> Exploring Mentoring, with Greg Robinson and Doug Leard</p>
<p> _ I am interested in Learning about the AgilePhilly Mentoring Program</p>
<p> _ I am interested in Learning about How to Mentor within my own Organization</p>
<p> IceBreakers with Greg Mester</p>
<p> _ Daily Scrum Networking and IceBreaker</p>
<p> _ ( or any other question or activity you want to insert here )</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> I want to help with the conference and get emails from John and get me a nametag that says "Helper"</p>
<p> _ I will come at 8:00 am and help with the Welcome Table. I have been to the conference before, so I know the routine. </p>
<p> _ I am not a morning person. I will help with cleanup afterwards.</p>
<p> _ I have some really nice SWAG and will tell John about it.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong> 8:30 hour for Mingling or Optional Session</strong></span></p>
<h1><a name="_A_Lean_Coffee"></a>A Lean Coffee Hour</h1>
<p> by Tiffany Powley and others</p>
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<p>A Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking.</p>
<p>Conversations are directed and productive BECAUSE the agenda was democratically voted on, and discussions are time-boxed. If the topic is exhausted, we move on.</p>
<p>If you have not participated in one, this is a great chance to do so.</p>
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<h1><a name="_Fun_Daily_Scrum"></a>Fun Daily Scrum Social Networking: Alternative to Lean Coffee</h1>
<p> by Greg Mester</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Topic: Fun Daily Scrum Networking and ICE-BREAKER questions after introducing their name and company.. A great tool to get teams to realize how easy it is to hold a daily scrum and it is applied here as a social networking ice breaker, so people can create social and professional connections throughout the conference. Groups of 30 people take less than 10 minutes to ask the 3 questions:</p>
<p> </p>
<p>1) What fun thing did you do last weekend?</p>
<p>2) What fun thing do you plan to do this coming weekend? and</p>
<p>3) What blockers do you have to having fun this weekend?</p>
<p> </p>
<p> -or-</p>
<p> </p>
<p>1) What new Agile technique/concept did you do last week or month?</p>
<p>2) What new Agile technique/concept would you like to learn today? and</p>
<p>3) What blockers do you have to trying a new agile concept and could you use some help of follow-up with AgilePhilly?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Bio: Greg Mester an Agile Cheerleader is currently transforming an organization of over 30 plus teams into an Agile organization. Greg loves to get teams to work at an enjoyable, sustainable pace, so they have time to enjoy life and produce timely customer solutions.. His career journey includes: engineer, independent business owner, project / program manager, Scrum Master and continues as an Agile Coach. Greg's 30 years of experience includes Agile and Scrum work with over 30 teams across 8 different companies in areas ranging from fighter jets and tanks to software in brick and mortar stores, entertainment, schools, health care, insurance, logistics and large corporate IT organizations.</p>
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<h1><a name="_Mentoring:_How_to"></a>Mentoring: How to Get a Mentor and How to Be a Mentor</h1>
<p> by Greg Robinson and Doug Leard</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Greg and Doug will cover how to have Mentoring within your organization. How to approach management, how to approach others when you think mentoring can help the team - or yourself. In some organizations, Tech Guilds of like-minded people can be the springboard for it.</p>
<p>And besides the Mentoring within your organization, Greg and Doug will cover the AgilePhilly Mentoring Program, where experienced members can be mentors and less-experienced ones can be mentees. These activities are usually done in a phone call every two weeks. Learn if these are things to make you better at your job and or to pay back someone who helped you along the way.</p>
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<p><span><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/page/fall-2018-conf#_Fun_Daily_Scrum"></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Official Start Time is 9:30 am</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong> 9:45 - 10:45 First Morning Hour</strong></span></p>
<p></p>
<h1><a name="_Scaling"></a>Scaling - Getting Big is Not the Answer</h1>
<p> with David Bulkin, Anil Kappa, and Don Patti</p>
<p> </p>
<p>When people talk about agile at scale, they think about getting big using an agile framework like SAFe, LeSS or Scrum@Scale. Perhaps getting big and locking into a framework is not the answer. We will have a discussion what it means to scale, when to scale, the popular scaling frames, how to use do what’s best for your context, and how to scale intelligently.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Bio: Anil Kappa, Don Patti and David Bulkin are agile coaches, consultants and trainers, offering agile services in the Philadelphia area through Grow Lean LLC. Anil has built successful IT services companies which have been featured in INC 500 and NJ Fast companies list. Don has successfully founded and grown two entrepreneurial businesses during his career and applied Lean approaches in both manufacturing and software development. David has been applying agile for 17 years and has trained 20,000 individuals, and coached numerous teams, on agile methods.</p>
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<h1><a name="_Authentic_Leadership"></a>Authentic Leadership</h1>
<p> by Anu Smalley</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Many leaders still attempt to be one way at work and their true authentic self emerges outside of work - Some believe leadership is acting. For us to be successful agilists, we need to show up as our authentic self’s so that we can be true leaders. Based on the work done by Bill George, the creator of the "authentic leadership" approach to management, this session will talk about the importance of your authentic self, its impact on your leadership style, 4 traits of authentic leaders and provide 5 recommended steps towards your own authentic leadership</p>
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<p>Bio: Anu is the President and Founder of Capala Consulting Group, LLC where she specializes in Executive coaching and Agile Transformations. She is also an Enterprise Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer® - providing education and coaching, consulting services to clients across the United States. An IT professional with over 25 years of industry experience, Anu holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from Osmania University in India and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University, Ohio.</p>
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<h1><a name="_Using_Mapping_Techniques"></a>Using Mapping Techniques to Navigate Problem Areas</h1>
<p> by Pete Fleming, Deborah Wyse and John Voris.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Our job is to see problems and resolve them. We need to tackle these subjective areas objectively, in order to achieve buy-in from upper management and our teams. Facilitated Mapping builds shared understanding and keeps the focus on value, in a variety of ways.</p>
<p></p>
<p>This workshop presents three complementary techniques that you can use to highlight and navigate through project challenges. For example, how do we identify the good and bad seen within our teams? How do we convene business and technology stakeholders to plan so that features support business activities? How can we organize information about the user needs and behaviors, in order to understand their entire experience and therefore maximize value?</p>
<p></p>
<p>Shu Ha Ri, Impact Mapping and Customer Journey Mapping are proven methods that guide brainstorming, planning and prioritization, and help teams navigate through the problems that often arise during these activities. This interactive workshop is relevant for technologists, designers, product owners, or anyone else working on a software product.</p>
<p><b>Attendees must attend BOTH one-hour parts of the workshop. </b></p>
<p><b>The workshop will be in the morning running from 9:45 am to 12 Noon.</b></p>
<p></p>
<p>Bio: Pete Fleming works on the full spectrum of User Experience Design for Chariot Solutions, from up-front user research and usability evaluations to information architecture and User Interface and User Experience design.</p>
<p>Pete Fleming recently was the Product Design Lead to AT&T focusing on Digital Life (the company’s home automation and security product). Prior work was Product Design Lead for DIRECTV apps for the company’s home automation and security services, and Product Experience Design Services to Comcast and Blue Cross Blue Shield, among others. Peter also is a Founding Board Member of The Dare Two Foundation, applying Design Thinking in the fight to prevent type 2 diabetes.</p>
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<p>Deborah Wyse is a senior project manager and CSM who leads and supports teams from discovery to retrospective. Her expertise is with technology products and services that enhance community well-being, connecting individuals and families to education, health and financial resources. She is active in Philadelphia's Women in Tech & local Agile communities. Most recently, Deborah was a project manager with Communally, a Philadelphia Certified B Corporation.</p>
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<p>John Voris CSM has been the Lead Coordinator for AgilePhilly for many years and connects us to the robust tech scene in Philadelphia. John first started Timeboxed Sprints and Minimal Viable Product in 1990 and he still continues to advocate for modern methods at his current company. He believes what we do is a craft that requires practice and we should not back away from its challenges.</p>
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<h1><a name="_A_Case_Study"></a>A Case Study of using Objectives and Key Results (OKR's) for Team Accountability and Transparency</h1>
<p> by Karen Loomis</p>
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<p>The Vertex Innovation Labs started using OKR's a year ago. We'll share our lessons learned from experimenting with OKR's. From listening to our experience, you'll get an opportunity to sketch your teams OKR's by the end of the presentation.</p>
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<p>Bio: Karen Loomis of Vertex is a business development manager in the Vertex Innovation Labs. Karen acts as a scrum master and customer development coach for new product development. She has her PMP and CSM and has been leading projects for the past 10 years.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong> 11:00 to 12:00 noon Second Morning Session</strong></span></p>
<h1><a name="_Is_Humility_an"></a>Is Humility an Agile Team Superpower?</h1>
<p> by Mark Dodge</p>
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<p>The two biggest inhibitors of quality thinking, learning, and emotionally engaging with others is our ego and our fears. This session will explore how embracing humility can enable agile teams to break through these inhibitors to higher levels of performance – especially in the age of smart machines.</p>
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<p>Bio: Mark Dodge - Senior Scrum Master at Vanguard in Malvern, PA - CSM, CSP, PMI-ACP, ICP-ATF, ICP-ACC, SAFe PM/PO</p>
<p>Agile journey started in 2006 with varied experiences as Developer, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, Dev Team Manager, and currently Scrum Master. He understands what it is like to be ‘Flawsome’ - individuals who embrace their ‘flaws’ and know they’re awesome regardless!</p>
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<p><strong>* CANCELLED *</strong></p>
<h1><a name="_Help_My_Agile"></a>Help, My Agile Team Has Fallen And It Can’t Get Up ! <strong>* CANCELLED *</strong></h1>
<p> by Bill Faucett</p>
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<p>An exasperated manager, product owner, or team member comes to you frustrated about a team that has lost its way. Have you ever experienced this? Where do you start and what can you do? I will share a few of my experiences working with struggling teams, the problems we identified, and how we started to improve performance. We will also relate my experience to your, comparing and contrasting challenges and approach.</p>
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<p>Bio: Bill Faucett of Slalom Consulting uses his experience with XP, Scrum and Kanban teams over the past 12 years to help clients and delivery teams adopt and improve agile practices. His perspective is that the best agile teams adapt patterns and practice to suit their unique needs.</p>
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<p><strong>Scaling the Agile Transition Wall</strong></p>
<p> by Kimberly Davis</p>
<p></p>
<p>Transitioning from traditional software development approaches to an Agile approach is difficult for any organization. Scaling the Agile Transition Wall offers insights into getting started with Agile and implementing it at scale.</p>
<p>From implementation mistakes, lessons learned and the value of small victories, these lessons in transition can be applied to all teams and all organizations. Kimberly will talk on implementing scaled agile rather than what it is. She works for a the department of defense and our prime PO is Lockheed Martin. They've implemented scaled agile across both our organizations since they're primarily responsible for the systems engineering and we do the software for them.</p>
<p>She is responsible for scaling it throughout her organization (AFMS) and she has a counterpart at Lockheed. So implementing Scaled Agile ( what not to do and what to do, leadership buy-in, etc.) are the many lessons she has learned.</p>
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<p><strong>Bio:</strong> Kimberly Davis is the Lead Agile Architect for ASRC Federal Mission Solutions (AFMS) located in Moorestown, NJ and is primarily responsible for the transition from Waterfall to Agile for real-time, mission critical defense systems. This is a large scaled effort that involves AFMS and their customer, Lockheed Martin Rotary Mission Systems.</p>
<p>Kimberly is an Agile enthusiast and practitioner with certifications in CSM, CSPO, and CAL1 from the Scrum Alliance, an SA and SP from Scaled Agile, and finally a PMI-ACP from the Project Management Institute.</p>
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<h1><a name="_Measuring_the_Urgency"></a>Measuring the Urgency Index</h1>
<p> by Travis Bjorklund and Crystal Harris</p>
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<p>Organizations that adopt Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or other agile methodologies get access to a bevy of new metrics: velocity, predictability, cycle time, variability, and many more. These metrics can help an organization incrementally improve and focus their transformation – or they can just drive the teams to misery. So where do you start? First, track the urgency index.</p>
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<p>Bios: Travis Bjorklund is a team builder, a lean-agilist, a devops enthusiast, a process engineer, and a change agent. He specializes in leading teams of agile coaches to drive measurable business improvements for his clients – from Fortune 50 enterprises to small businesses. He is very serious.</p>
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<p>Crystal Harris is a leader, change agent, agile coach and software developer.. She's passionate about using agile and lean practices to connect developers directly to the business outcomes they impact. She is only serious when absolutely necessary.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>12:00 - 1:00 Lunch in the Big Room</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>1:00 - 2:00 First Afternoon Session</strong></span></p>
<h1><a name="_From_Shu-Ha-Ri_to"></a>From “Shu-Ha-Ri” to “Ba” - Looking at Lean Culture, a Culture you can Lean On”</h1>
<p> by Kimberly Davis</p>
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<p>Agile Teams are the heart of delivering value. The success, quality and timeliness of delivered solutions can vary greatly based on the inner operations from within a team. Whether or not a team is coming together for the first time, or has been working together for a long time, leaders must guide the team down a successful path so they can continuously delight their customers and stakeholders. </p>
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<p>Teams that consistently deliver, continuously learn and enjoy working with one another often thrive off each other’s skills, knowledge and motivation. Kimberly Davis will discuss the patterns and behaviors for a team to go from “Shu” , learning to work together, to the “Ha” phase, learning to adapt as a team, to the “Ri” phase, where they are motivated practitioners of a practice they preach and take pride in.</p>
<p>In transforming a government-subcontract-Waterfall organization, Kimberly will share the methods she has used for identifying such patterns and behaviors and solutions for building strong and united teams, and the critical coaching mechanisms necessary for get through these three stages.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Bio:</p>
<p>Kimberly Davis is the Lead Agile Architect for ASRC Federal Mission Solutions (AFMS) located in Moorestown, NJ and is responsible for the transition from Waterfall to Agile for real-time, mission critical defense systems. This large scaled effort involves AFMS and their customer, Lockheed Martin Rotary Mission Systems. Kimberly is an Agile enthusiast and practitioner with certifications in CSM, CSPO, and CAL1 from the Scrum Alliance, an SA and SP from Scaled Agile, and a PMI-ACP. </p>
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<h1><a name="_Color_Personalities:_Lead"></a>Color Personalities: Lead with Your Strengths | Personality, Interaction and Collaboration</h1>
<p> by Adrienne Rinaldi</p>
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<p>This session will begin with a Color Personality assessment to learn your Color Personality Signature. It will go through each colors’ strengths, how others view your personality as potential weaknesses (and how they are not), how your personality makes you a good team member or a good leader. Finally, by learning about these four personalities and their traits, can you identify how to interact and communicate differently with team members, your boss, your direct reports?</p>
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<p>Bio: Adrienne Rinaldi is an Agile Coach for CapTech Consulting. She has been an agile practitioner for several years working with a wide range from startups to enterprise companies. Her interest in Color Personalities stems from an “Aha!” moment when first taking the assessment with coworkers in a team building activity 13 years ago. When not being an agilest, Adrienne’s activities include a blog, a published book, mountaineering, hiking and climbing. She lives in Denver, Colorado. </p>
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<h1><a name="_An_Outcome_Measurement"></a>An Outcome Measurement Model; Is Your Agile Adoption Moving the Needle</h1>
<p>by Michael McCalla</p>
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<p>94% of organizations are practicing Agile in one way, shape, or form. Has this investment yielded anything besides an Agile label? Can we articulate the gains ( and not in story points and velocity) but in measurements that impact the bottom line?</p>
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<p>We can drive toward desired outcomes by identifying leading and lagging indicators that "Move The Needle" and change alignment and accountability. A four step model is covered in this interactive session, and the outcomes can change the conversation.</p>
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<p>Bio: Michael McCalla is President of Achieving Agility. A technology leader, transformation specialist, and avid Agile practitioner with a passion for building great products and strong teams, Michael has over 15 years of product management experience in the financials, start-ups, coaching, and other the software development areas. The last five years were leading enterprise-wide agile adoption initiatives. His certs are in Scrum, SAFe, and PMI. </p>
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<h1><a name="_Lean_Costing_Approaches:"></a>Lean Costing Approaches: Getting to Lightweight Methods for Effective Decision Making using A.V.C.</h1>
<p> by David Hughes</p>
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<p>Starting in the 1990s with the advent of activity-based costing and in 2003 with the publication of Beyond Budgeting, ideas for Lean Costing have grown along with the Lean and Agile movements. Unfortunately, lightweight methods had not evolved prior to the appearance of Accepted Value Costing (AVC) in 2018.</p>
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<p>This workshop will share the research that led to the development of AVC. You will be empowered to decide for yourself how to “connect the dots” for measuring success in Lean Costing terms by comparing and contrasting AVC with other approaches. The focus is on empirical measures and practical models for Lean Costing. You will leave equipped to explore this important topic further on your own.</p>
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<p>Bio: Dave Hughes is a long-time AgilePhilly member. In addition to AgilePhilly, he has been a speaker at the Agile & Beyond national conference, the Lean-Kanban North America conference, the PMI Southeastern Region annual conference, the Network for Women with Careers in Technology annual meeting, and the Philadelphia area AICPA professional workshop. Over his career, Dave has taught nearly 8,000 people world-wide. He has 39 years of professional experience, 21 of them with Lean and Agile approaches. </p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>2:15 - 3:15 Agile Terminology Raffle and Panel of Experts</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>3:30 to 4:30 Final Afternoon Session</strong></span></p>
<h1><a name="_Culture_Eats_Strategy"></a>Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast</h1>
<p> by Greg Robinson</p>
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<p>Without a good culture, strategy will fail. Yet without a strategy, a good culture will still produce results. </p>
<p>In this session, we look at different aspects of culture that contribute toward happy, productive, high performing teams and how it relates to the principles of Agility:</p>
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<p>Examples include</p>
<p> Strong organizational cultures, but also the associated business failures due to poor cultures.</p>
<p> How to assess your current culture using the Laloux Culture Model, who can affect it, and how to intentionally design for it to produce better outcomes.</p>
<p> And the intersection of Culture and Agility at a local company (Capital One) are reviewed.</p>
<p>You will come away with ideas on why culture might be causing your group to struggle and learn how to focus on Culture to improve business results.</p>
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<p>So what is the culture of your company and what do you want it to do?</p>
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<p>Bio: Greg Robinson is an Agile leader, Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Agile Coach, and Scrum Master with 15 years of experience leading software development teams toward program goals and building Scrum Master capabilities. Challenging traditional norms to help customers, teams, and organizations succeed through agility is at the core of what I do. I strive to unlock potential by enabling individuals and teams to solve problems and deliver business value while furthering them on their agile journey.</p>
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<h1><a name="_Using_Improv_to"></a>Using Improv to Create High Performing Teams <span>*IS CANCELLED*</span></h1>
<p> by Jardena London</p>
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<p>This is an Interactive Workshop where we use simple Improv exercises to help teams sync and get attuned to each other;</p>
<p> & learn to create safety for their team members;</p>
<p> & build on each other’s ideas;</p>
<p> & let go of planning and control</p>
<p> & and develop deep customer empathy.</p>
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<p>Bio: Jardena London is passionate about helping IT organization’s not suck. She does this through Agile Transformation Consulting and her own Blogtoon. Jardena comes from Northern Jersey. (She has had rave reviews of this presentation from its two "performances"). Check her out at <a href="http://www.rosettatg.com/blogtoon">www.rosettatg.com/blogtoon</a></p>
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<h1><a name="_What_are_Agile"></a>What are Agile Anti-patterns Costing You?</h1>
<p> by Anamika Chanda and Sean Gilligan</p>
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<p>What are the impacts of Agile anti-patterns? We have all seen them and we've all struggled with them but, what have you done about it?</p>
<p>From Ceremonies to Performance Metrics, how are Agile anti-patterns keeping you from achieving your Agile outcomes?</p>
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<p>Bio: Anamika Chanda, Senior Scrum Master, TD Bank, Mount Laurel, NJ Ana is new to Agile Philly. She has been in multiple Agile roles for the past 8+ yrs. She has worked with financial organizations in Scrum Master (SM), Product Owner and Release Train Engineer roles. She is an Agilist who believes that a SM should have technical and business expertise to transform teams into self-organizing, cross-functional teams.</p>
<p>Sean Gilligan is new to Agile Philly. He has held multiple Agile roles over the last 8 years including, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile Project Manager and Agile Coach. Sean is a project delivery and Agile specialist who has a passion for improving team performance and business outcomes through the adoption of Agile.</p>
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<h1><a name="_There_is_No"></a>There is No Silver Bullet: Metrics Reflect Your Organization's Culture</h1>
<p> by Jennifer Honerman</p>
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<p>Have you been searching for "the answer" of what metrics will illuminate the agility of your organization? Have you attended conferences and meet ups promising you the answer, only to walk away feeling unsatisfied? Me too!</p>
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<p>In this session, I will share my experience leading Capital One's Credit Card organization through this journey after several failed implementations. You'll get to hear what we tried, what we learned from previous failed attempts, and ultimately how we came to the realization that the "right" answer for us is really a reflection of our culture and values, from knowing what the CIO thinks he wants, to working with your team and business partners to finally relate values and significant metrics.</p>
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<p>Bio: Jennifer Honerman of Capital One leads the Agile Coaching Practice for Capital One's Consumer Bank. Jen has over 15 years of delivery and coaching experience in high tech and financial services organization.</p>
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<p><strong>Also Ran Topics</strong></p>
<p><strong>These other topics we hope to hear at Evening Meetings this Winter and Spring</strong></p>
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<h1><a name="_Coach_the_Coach"></a>Coach the Coach | The Coaching Backlog</h1>
<p> by Adrienne Rinaldi</p>
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<p>You’re a new coach. Now what? This session will help you get started on an agile transformation assignment with a coaching backlog. This session will inform new coaches on “where to start” as an Agile Coach. It will begin with reviewing common agile impediments, conditions for success, an agile readiness checklist and a coaching backlog including Epics, Features and Stories.</p>
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<p>Bio: Adrienne Rinaldi is an Agile Coach for CapTech Consulting. She has been an agile practitioner for several years working with a wide range from startups to enterprise companies. When not being an agilest, Adrienne’s activities include a blog, a published book, mountaineering, hiking and climbing. She lives in Denver, Colorado. </p>
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<h1><a name="_Whats_in_your"></a>What’s in your Agile Suitcase?</h1>
<p> by Charlie Villare</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This session introduces a new, better suitcase to carry all your stuff. This is a technical presentation on a useful tool, that being the new suitcase - MS Teams - which was released in Feb. 2017. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Although it may resemble Slack, MS Teams has gone much further with its capabilities. This MS Teams suitcase can carry all your tools. And what’s more, it makes it tremendously easy to share all your tools with others. MS Teams offers discussion threads, one-on-one or group chat, audio and video conferencing, file sharing and the ability to run nearly any app. It works on any device and enables collaboration with anyone. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Whether you need a suitcase for work or pleasure, MS Teams will make communicating and sharing much easier. This session will show examples from a work environment and from personal use.</p>
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<p>Bio: Charlie Villare has been in healthcare IT for over 35 years. Throughout his career, he has held positions as a developer, R/D Manager, traditional project manager, Scrum Master and is currently an Agile Coach with teams working in Kanban. Charlie’s career has largely been in the development of the financial software for hospitals; with a few years in clinical development. </p>
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<h1><a name="_The_4_Ps"></a>The 4 P’s of Product Management</h1>
<p> by Anu Smalley</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Product development is a fickle business.. Everyone wants something, but it's hard to navigate the forest through the trees. Opinions run rampant. Needs and demands seem to conflict one another. And there is always more functional expectation than there is capacity. Agile product management has provided techniques, patterns, and mindsets that have proven useful in navigating your course through these mazes. And Anu Smalley is an experienced guide who has been helping organizations and teams be successful for years. Anu will explore vision-setting and chartering as critical initial focus points—beginning with the end in mind. Then she'll share a set of Do's and Don'ts when it comes to evolving a product. She'll also bring a fresh perspective to the notion of an MVP and how to chart your course (pivot) successfully while avoiding those rocks and shoals. And finally, Anu will explore the lost art of experimentation and finding your customers compass by effective listening towards understanding and delivering what they truly need.</p>
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<p>Bio: Anu is the President and Founder of Capala Consulting Group, LLC where she specializes in Executive coaching and Agile Transformations. She is also an Enterprise Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer® - providing education and coaching, consulting services to clients across the United States. An IT professional with over 25 years of industry experience, Anu holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from Osmania University in India and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University, Ohio.</p>
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<h1><a name="_Put_the_FANTASTIC"></a>Put the FANTASTIC back in Facilitation - 4 techniques to great facilitation!</h1>
<p> by Anu Smalley</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Whether you are a trainer, coach, leader or team member - facilitation is key to the success in an Agile environment.</p>
<p>This session will explore:</p>
<ul>
<li>Active listening – Are you really hearing what others are really saying?</li>
<li>Group dynamics – Are you Developing trust, teaming, and authentic collaboration among the group.</li>
<li>Communication skills – Knowing “how to” present yourself ensuring that what you say is heard and understood.</li>
<li>Critical thinking – Pulling together the fragments of the message into a whole to form a better understanding helping people synthesize what has been said.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p>Bio: Anu is the President and Founder of Capala Consulting Group, LLC where she specializes in Executive coaching and Agile Transformations. She is also an Enterprise Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer - providing education and coaching, consulting services to clients across the United States. An IT professional with over 25 years of industry experience, Anu holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from Osmania University in India and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University, Ohio.</p>
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<h1><a name="_Lean_Metrics_and"></a>Lean Metrics and Systems Thinking</h1>
<p>By Rashmi Chafale</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Velocity, stability, lead time cycle time, productivity, value, quality.. there are so many measurements and metrics.. What do we measure? How do we measure to get most value without being wasteful? Come spend some time with us to understand how to apply lean principles, systems thinking approach to metrics and measurements to derive actionable feedback that will help you deliver value quickly and improve continuously.</p>
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<p>Bio: Rashmi Chafale is an agile and Lean practitioner. Rashmi is certified Scrum Master and certified LESS practitioner. The last 8 years, Rashmi worked with multiple agile teams in their transformation journey as coach and Scrum Master. Rashmi has a Master of Science in Physics for Nagpur University India and a Master of Science in Software Engineering from Andrews University.</p>
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<h1><a name="_Myths_and_Realities"></a>Myths and Realities of Lean Software Development</h1>
<p> by Vaibhav “VG” Gandhi</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Learn what a true lean software development mindset looks like. Is it methodology agnostic and why? I will be sharing real-life examples on how your teams and organization can benefit by embracing the principles of lean software development.</p>
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<p>Bio Vaibhav “VG” Gandhi has co-presented in AgilePhilly Conference in Oct 2017, in Spring Agile Philly aka DrupalDelphia in May 2018, in Agile Delaware in May 2017 as well as in SECON (internal conference at Capital One) on “Agile games – Using Simple Play to Generate Lasting Insights” and was well received.</p>
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<p>VG has also led a full-day workshop attended by 20 Scrum Masters/Agile Coaches on “EazyBI”, an analytics tool to visualize and analyze Jira issues in May 2017. VG currently works in Vanguard as a Scrum Master for a Journey lab laser focused to improve the client experience/journey across all online channels.</p>
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<p>-==- **PAGE IS HAND-CRAFTED AND CANNOT BE COPIED OVER ** -==-</p> Agile in the Familytag:www.agilephilly.com,2018-05-31:3783271:Page:680572018-05-31T13:49:52.430ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p><strong>Views of how to approach and integrate Agile ideas to your Family Unit - and to start a Kanban / Scrum Card Wall for the Family</strong></p>
<p></p>
<p>Agile For Kids is a book on treating your family members like members on a Dev Team.</p>
<p>Emphasize "creating fun" not as a project, but as a continuous involvement of your team of valued members.</p>
<p>Respect for others and respect for the tasks of everyday life are learned.</p>
<p></p>
<p>This was driven home at our February…</p>
<p><strong>Views of how to approach and integrate Agile ideas to your Family Unit - and to start a Kanban / Scrum Card Wall for the Family</strong></p>
<p></p>
<p>Agile For Kids is a book on treating your family members like members on a Dev Team.</p>
<p>Emphasize "creating fun" not as a project, but as a continuous involvement of your team of valued members.</p>
<p>Respect for others and respect for the tasks of everyday life are learned.</p>
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<p>This was driven home at our February 2020 meeting</p>
<p><a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/events/lightning-talks-on-agile-in-non-agile-areas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.agilephilly.com/events/lightning-talks-on-agile-in-non-agile-areas</a></p>
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<p>Note that the Daily Gathering is a core value.</p>
<p>"The manager needs to think as a parent" and also "The parent needs to think as a manager."</p>
<p>- Shirly Ronen-Harel</p>
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<p>A <a href="https://www.scruminc.com/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-ja-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quick article</a> from the wife of Jeff Sutherland</p>
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<p>* Agile Kids is not to be confused with <a href="http://www.agilekids.in/">www.agileKids.in</a> Learning Through Movement.</p>
<p>** Likewise, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ScrumKids">https://www.facebook.com/ScrumKids</a> is for Rugby enthusiasts, not us.</p>
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<p><strong>Links of Resources</strong></p>
<p><strong>A list of resources that shows the impact that a family Task Board can have.</strong></p>
<p>Agile in the Family<br>
by Shirly Ronen-Harel</p>
<p><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/shirlyronen/agile-kids">https://www.slideshare.net/shirlyronen/agile-kids</a></p>
<p>$7 eBook <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/shirly-ronen-harel/agile-kids/ebook/product-21132681.html">http://www.lulu.com/shop/shirly-ronen-harel/agile-kids/ebook/product-21132681.html</a></p>
<p><a href="https://leanpub.com/test1234567898765">https://leanpub.com/test1234567898765</a></p>
<p><a href="http://agilopedia.blogspot.com/">http://agilopedia.blogspot.com/</a></p>
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<p>John Yorke, who talks about the failure of a reward system as viewed by young minds</p>
<p><a href="https://yorkesoftware.com/2016/03/30/scrum-at-home-agile-for-kids">https://yorkesoftware.com/2016/03/30/scrum-at-home-agile-for-kids</a></p>
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<p>Scrum For Kids<br>
<a href="http://scrumforkids.com">http://scrumforkids.com</a></p>
<p>Joe Meade, Fort Myers, FL</p>
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<p><br>
<a href="https://scrum4kids.blogspot.com">https://scrum4kids.blogspot.com</a><br>
- Peter Stevens</p>
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<p>Mike Cohn with some good advice on facilitating any team</p>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ten-sentences-all-scrum-master-advice-youll-ever-need-mike-cohn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ten-sentences-all-scrum-master-advice-youll-ever-need-mike-cohn</a> </p>
<p><br>
Contacts for future additions<br>
Admin @ lean self.org</p>
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<p></p> Agile in Government and Large Organizationstag:www.agilephilly.com,2018-05-03:3783271:Page:680362018-05-03T12:55:56.093ZJohn Voris, Lead Coordinatorhttp://www.agilephilly.com/profile/JohnVoris
<p><strong>Agile in Government and Large Organizations</strong></p>
<p><strong>and How They Are Adapting to their Built-In Constraints Against Agile</strong></p>
<p>( This is a reference sparked from the meeting at DoD Contractor SABRE on</p>
<p>May 2 2018 with <strong>Brian Campo</strong> <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/events/agile-for-government" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://www.agilephilly.com/events/agile-for-government</a></p>
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<p>And from our meetings the prior two…</p>
<p><strong>Agile in Government and Large Organizations</strong></p>
<p><strong>and How They Are Adapting to their Built-In Constraints Against Agile</strong></p>
<p>( This is a reference sparked from the meeting at DoD Contractor SABRE on</p>
<p>May 2 2018 with <strong>Brian Campo</strong> <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/events/agile-for-government" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.agilephilly.com/events/agile-for-government</a></p>
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<p>And from our meetings the prior two months of Spring 2018, <strong>David Hughes</strong> on Accepted Value Costing ( which is an Aggregate Costing model) . . . developed after hearing <strong>Mike Harris of Premios</strong> in February speak on Fixed Price Agile Contracts - and from some prior thoughts he had going back to 2015.</p>
<p>Links about AVC and David Hughes: <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/forum/topics/accepted-value-costing#comments">http://www.agilephilly.com/forum/topics/accepted-value-costing#comments</a></p>
<p>March 2018 meeting with David Hughes: <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/events/why-finance-departments-cling-to-project-accounting">http://www.agilephilly.com/events/why-finance-departments-cling-to-project-accounting</a></p>
<p>Feb 2018 meeting with Mike Harris: <a href="http://www.agilephilly.com/events/feb-20-2018">http://www.agilephilly.com/events/feb-20-2018</a></p>
<p>You Tube Video from A.G.L. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOSbbPNR598" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOSbbPNR598</a></p>
<p>Agile in Education <a href="https://coalition.agileuprising.com/t/educational-agility/2102" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://coalition.agileuprising.com/t/educational-agility/2102</a></p>
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<p>Related Industries with heavy usage of Requirements, Budget-Plans, Acquisition-Services or Documentation Needs are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Government Agencies</li>
<li>Department of Defense</li>
<li>Big Pharma</li>
<li>Insurance, Banks, Financials</li>
<li>Service companies like Comcast</li>
</ul>
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<p></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Online Groups</strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Agile Government</strong></p>
<p><strong>A.G.L.</strong> <a href="https://www.agilegovleaders.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.agilegovleaders.org</a> <strong>is the best place to learn about Webinars and Conferences and Papers</strong></p>
<p><strong>For local content from A.G.L. <a href="https://www.agilegovleaders.org/chapters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.agilegovleaders.org/chapters</a><br></strong></p>
<p><strong>and GovLoop is a Social Network for Fed & Local Govt</strong> <a href="https://www.govloop.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.govloop.com</a></p>
<p><strong>and they have a Linked-In Group</strong> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/agile-government-leadership-association/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/company/agile-government-leadership-association/about</a></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>References</strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Paul Eisenberg</strong> recommends the following report issued by the Defense Technical Information Center in February of 2018.</p>
<p>The report specifically com<span>pared Agile and document-driven approaches in managing uncertainty in software development, finding companies that use Agile methods are more customer-centric and flexible than document-driven ones, and companies that use Agile methods seem to have a more satisfactory relationship with the customer.</span></p>
<p><span>Design and Acquisition of Software for Defense Systems - Feb 2018</span></p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/1048883.pdf">http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/1048883.pdf</a></span></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1048883"></a><strong>Design and Acquisition of Software for Defense Systems</strong></p>
<p>The Task Force has made seven recommendations on how to improve software acquisition in defense systems. A base recommendation underlying all others is to emphasize the importance of the software factory and to incorporate the software factory as a key evaluation criterion in the source selection process. Next, the Department of Defense (DoD) and its defense industrial base partners need to adopt continuous iterative development <a href="http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1048883">http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1048883</a></p>
<p><br>
Medium.com was mentioned by <strong>Marc Gravez</strong> as a good resource, and sure enough, <strong>Melinda Burgess</strong> has a post there. <a href="https://medium.com/agile-government-leadership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://medium.com/agile-government-leadership</a></p>
<p>Video from the UK <a href="http://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-in-the-public-sector">http://www.scrumexpert.com/videos/agile-in-the-public-sector</a></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Financial Products</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups/52030/52030-6404746609028067329" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/groups/52030/52030-6404746609028067329</a> of a Scaled Agile - Multi-Team process</p>
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<ul>
<li><strong>NEWS</strong></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On CSPAN-3 Tuesday night, did you catch the House Committee on the GI Bill & payment delays were talking about SCRUM Teams.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here is a brief part of the transcript.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?454569-1/gi-bill-payments">https://www.c-span.org/video/?454569-1/gi-bill-payments</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Scrum Teams discussed at the House committee on the GI Bill</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>November 15, 2018</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>GI Bill PAYMENTS</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">2018-11-15</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">T16:03:50-05:00</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Veterans Affairs Under Secretary for Benefits Paul Lawrence and other VA officials testified on GI Bill payment delays and departmental informational technology issues.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Bill James , Phil Roe, Paul Lawrence, Mark Takano speaking . . . </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt;">Minute 1:28:58</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">>> The contract is to deliver software but strictly speaking it buys Scrum teams which are software developments sprints.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">You have been adding Scrum teams throughout the year. How many teams are you up to now?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">>> Congressman, I don't have the exact number. So let me take that for the record. I think it was -- we started with two and added two and added two more. But I need to get the exact number for you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">>> You can't tell us how many scrum teams?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">>> I can't tell you how much are in action.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">>> How many people would be necessary to get this done?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">>> The development teams that are working in Charleston -- that's what you are referring to as the Scrum teams. That's the action of the folks at the Booze, Allen facility. What happens after that, software had - has to get tested. In terms of the Scrum teams, they are able to turn around the software as far as testing bugs and user scenarios. But that is just step one. You have to test that software. It happens until different processes and different locations with the engagement of the users. The fact is that our testing is the tail end of this process & can't keep up with the</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt;">Development processes, the scrum teams as you mentioned. That's part of the technical debt we are dealing with, that we have old testing processes that are catching the software code that is</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">being developed by BOOZE, ALLEN, HAMILTON.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">>> MR. ARRINGTON: I RECOGNIZE MR. TAKANO FOR FIVE MINUTES.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> - = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = -</span></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>EVENTS</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Code California Forum: Online Chat with Chaeny Emanavin</strong> When: February 22, 2019 at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern Where: Online</p>
<p>Please join Code California and the AGL Association for an engaging conversation with Chaeny Emanavin, Director of the Office of Innovation in the California Health and Human Services Agency.</p>
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<p><strong>AGL Live: Measuring the Success of Agile Contracts in Government</strong> When: February 21, 2019 at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern Where: Online Agile contracts are intended to deliver business value, but this can be challenging to measure objectively. Leaders in modern procurement discuss lessons (many learned the hard way) about specific deliverables and metrics to track the success of work on modular contracts.</p>
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