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Presentation Deck and Survey It’s common to see an organization (the people in them) focus on building products with as many features as possible and targeting delivery by a specific due date. Yet, often the result…See More

Games are great training tools, and they’re not just for trainers. Come learn some great games and exercises that *you* can play with your team(s) and coworkers to help them learn Agile principles and practices and to promote a sense of Team.Rachel and Chris will come ready to teach several games. They’ll give a brief sense of the games’ lengths, audiences and goals, and then the group will rank the list of games on-the-spot based on attendees’ interests. They’ll then teach as many as we have…See More

Collaboration doesn't mean working on a shared document. It means interacting with each other in meaningful ways. This highly interactive, workshop-style presentation will present some collaboration techniques focusing on those which can be used before and during agile release planning to dig out details which might otherwise be missed.If your organization struggles with understanding true customer needs, or you struggle with estimating the size of a release, or you simply can't manage to…See More

Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs and the Enterprise.Agenda6:00-7:00 networking, food, and open space discussion7:00 – 8:30 Dean Leffingwell presentationAbstractAgile development introduced the “user story” as the primary currency for expressing application requirements within the agile enterprise. The just-in-time application of the user story simplifies software development and helps eliminate the prior waterfall-like practices of overly burdensome…See More