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Please join us for this special presentation by Mike Cohn. As always our monthly meetings are free to attend and open to the general public and students. Doors open at 5:30 PM and Mike's talk will run from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM. Refreshments will be served.Agile software has had more of an influence and has become more widespread than any early practitioner could have imagined. But some have called agile a failure. Few teams, after all, have achieved the 10x productivity or quality gains that the…See More

Measure for Measure: Lean Principles for Effective Metrics and MotivationThis presentation explores the nature of motivation and the place of metrics and measurement in software development, and how lean software development principles and practices shed light on motivation and metrics and how they can be used to support deep organizational improvement. We will examine the nature of motivation in terms of the four intrinsic rewards that drive positive engagement, and also how certain approaches…See More

Richard Hensley: “The Leaning of Scrum - A McKesson ADM business development story”By now, many have heard about applying XP and Scrum in software development, right? But what have you heard specifically about lean principles and kanban concepts applied to software development? Are you interested in learning more about how others are applying these concepts in their software development processes? If so, please join us when Richard Hensley, from McKesson, as our featured guest shares his…See More

TOPICMany of us have our personal identities wrapped up in our jobs and responsibilities. We define who we are by what we do for a living. In agile processes, the management job is very different from what most of us are used to hearing.New agile managers struggle with what precisely their roles are in an agile environment. They begin by thinking it is simply about shifting from a focus on Gantt charts to a focus on burndown charts and task boards. But they soon discover that there is more to…See More