Managing Resistance: How the Kanban Method Supports Lasting ChangeJulie Wyman
“Going Agile” is a big cultural change for most organizations and it’s significance, impact, and effort required for successful implementation can often be underestimated. There are many benefits to be gained by adopting a more Agile approach, including quicker and additional feedback loops, more focus on value, and higher levels of collaboration. However, for Agile to succeed in the long-term it’s essential to set expectations up front and to balance the amount of change with the amount of disruption it will cause. In this session, we will look at how David Anderson intentionally built change management principles into his Kanban Methodology and explore other change management techniques the Agile community can leverage when helping organizations transition to Agile.
Austin product camp 11 Agile - doing vs beingKelly Looney
Talk about the difference between just doing a few Agile practices and pretending are are Agile and actually having the Agile mindset. In, addition we talk about guiding development with an Agile Value team.
6 Pitfalls Of An Agile Transformation - Presented at Agile Austin 1/5/2016Agile Velocity
Did you know that only 53% of Agile projects are considered successful? Agile has many benefits but can be difficult to adopt. Learn 10 Agile transformation pitfalls that put your initiative at risk.
**Cover image property of Matt Roberts
Pitfalls Of An Agile Transformation - Presented for Dallas Agile Leadership N...Agile Velocity
David Hawks, CST, CSC, presented at the February Dallas Agile Leadership Network. Use these pitfalls for a smooth (relatively) Agile transformation or to jumpstart a stalled change.
Managing Resistance: How the Kanban Method Supports Lasting ChangeJulie Wyman
“Going Agile” is a big cultural change for most organizations and it’s significance, impact, and effort required for successful implementation can often be underestimated. There are many benefits to be gained by adopting a more Agile approach, including quicker and additional feedback loops, more focus on value, and higher levels of collaboration. However, for Agile to succeed in the long-term it’s essential to set expectations up front and to balance the amount of change with the amount of disruption it will cause. In this session, we will look at how David Anderson intentionally built change management principles into his Kanban Methodology and explore other change management techniques the Agile community can leverage when helping organizations transition to Agile.
Austin product camp 11 Agile - doing vs beingKelly Looney
Talk about the difference between just doing a few Agile practices and pretending are are Agile and actually having the Agile mindset. In, addition we talk about guiding development with an Agile Value team.
6 Pitfalls Of An Agile Transformation - Presented at Agile Austin 1/5/2016Agile Velocity
Did you know that only 53% of Agile projects are considered successful? Agile has many benefits but can be difficult to adopt. Learn 10 Agile transformation pitfalls that put your initiative at risk.
**Cover image property of Matt Roberts
Pitfalls Of An Agile Transformation - Presented for Dallas Agile Leadership N...Agile Velocity
David Hawks, CST, CSC, presented at the February Dallas Agile Leadership Network. Use these pitfalls for a smooth (relatively) Agile transformation or to jumpstart a stalled change.
Presentation by Em Campbell-Pretty and Adrienne Wilson at the Global SAFe Summit 2020.
Patterns for preparing a Feature Backlog for PI Planning for an Agile Release Train.
You are in charge of a whole organization or a number of teams. Your ultimate desire is for them to become more productive, which translates into effectiveness and/or efficiency. You would ask yourself which is a golden key here, Kanban or Scrum? Is it an either/or question? Shall you start by practicing Scrum for a while and switch when matured? Is there a golden ratio of Scrum practices v.s. Kanban that make your transformation successful? Do you find yourself in Scrumfalls? Is Kanban the magic solution? You are telling yourself: It’s time to switch to Kanban. Others have done it, so it must be the magic solution. If that’s you, most probably you are spending now time and money on a new “method” while barely moving the needle. I can assure you It can become successful, it has been done!
Kanban is the new Scrum these days. Let’s look at the failure modes of adopting Kanban deeper and together. What are the conditions needed for a Kanban method to flourish and find its roots in an organization? What can lead to a successful Kanban introduction compared to Scrum? Are there any fundamental differences between them? How can you make sure if you are moving from Scrum to Kanban, or having the thought of it, to become successful? What are the pitfalls that you want to avoid?
Join me in this session to share with you my experience as both Scrum and Kanban coach helping organizations transform. I will be sharing lessons learned and coaching techniques to help organizations and leaders realize the true potential of Kanban.
Kanban is the New Scrum! Failure Transformation Patterns, Similarities, and L...Shahin Sheidaei
You are in charge of a whole organization (or a number of teams). Your ultimate desire is for them to become more productive. You would ask yourself which is a golden key here, Kanban or Scrum? Is it an either/or question? Shall you start by practicing Scrum for a while and switch when matured? What can lead to a successful Kanban Transformation compared to Scrum? Is there a golden ratio of Scrum practices v.s. Kanban that makes your transformation successful? Are there any fundamental differences between them? What are the pitfalls that you want to avoid? Join me in this session to share with you my experience as both Scrum and Kanban coach. I will be sharing lessons learned to help organizations and leaders realize the true potential of their organization focusing on factors that really matter the most.
Agile and Beyond 2016 Rethinking Agile TransformationJason Little
Should you be Agile or can you just do Agile? Which Agile scaling framework should you pick? We tend to make things more complex than they need to be, but we can simplify things!
Presentation given at Agile 2014.
Are you working with multiple agile teams on a single software application? Are you looking for help with making agile work for you at the program level? Have you considered leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) but been scared off by its prescriptive nature? Are you confused about how program level SAFe applies in your context?
Every organisation is different and what works for one organisation may not work for another. One of the benefits of a framework, is that they can and should be adapted to your context. Based on learnings derived from practical experience, this session will illustrate how focusing on values and principles over practice and processes, can help you design a pragmatic approach to program level SAFe suitable for your unique situation.
By contrasting principles and practises this session will:
* draw out the principles behind SAFe and the standard SAFe practises that apply to them,
* show how practises from other scaling models align to SAFe principles and compliment program level SAFe; and,
* share real word examples of how adapting SAFe practises, while remaining aligned to the principles, can help you create a working model applicable to your program
Almost no one on software teams believes in waterfall any longer. That's what we learned from the surveys we took in the course of authoring The 2013 Study of Product Team Performance.
But that doesn't make agile a magic pill.
Mike Cohn notes, "Becoming agile is hard. It is harder than most other organizational change efforts I've witnessed or been part of [for reasons] including the need to change from the top-down and bottom-up simultaneously, the impossibility of knowing exactly what the end state will look like, the dramatic and pervasive changes caused by Scrum, the difficulty adding more change on top of all that is already occurring, and the need to avoid turning Scrum into a list of best practices."
How do we get beyond that?
Glossing over the reality that agile is hard leads us to ignore the very things we need to address to succeed.
On the other hand, acknowledging that agile is hard lets us focus on the challenges that have been preventing us from becoming high performance teams.
This session combines a presentation, a panel and some shared thinking to move beyond how simple agile seems - to what in fact makes agile transformations hard - to how we can face down those challenges to achieve agile's promise.
Expected Takeaways (outcome) for Audience *
For those just starting agile transformations: a heads-up that implementing practices only goes so far.
For those well into agile but struggling, a sense they're not alone.
For all of us, a window into how to get to where we want to go.
Agile NOT by the Book - Agile and Beyond 2015Wade Wachs
Agile is so much more than rituals and buzzwords, but often the real value is lost as organizations focus more on adhering to processes than the reasons behind them. Teams all too easily fall into the trap of following a prescribed method and deviate little from that original template. A continuous improvement approach implies a team is regularly questioning, tweaking, and iterating on its own version of Agile. Today's set of practices and processes should not be identical to those from a year ago.
Large companies often struggle to align development with sales and marketing - how do you ensure the delivery of features and fixes lines up with the efforts to promote them? Luisa will talk about how a big organization implemented a lightweight version of SAFe, but adapted the methodology to fit their needs. Learn how you can tailor agile principles to address the unique challenges your teams face and why configuring your agile tools properly is critical to increasing agility throughout the company.
After three years as a Scrum Master and Agile coach, I hit a wall coaching a team that did not want to try popular Agile engineering techniques such as TDD and pair programming. I had become a Scrum Master after four years working on the business analysis and account ownership side of things and could not speak from personal experience about engineering practices. In order to get some first-hand experience and to gain a new perspective, I chose to spend a year or two as a software developer on a Scrum team.
The experience has been eye-opening. I experienced a tremendous cognitive load working with a wide array of technologies; this pulled my attention away from many of the collaborative and process-oriented activities I cared about as a Scrum Master. I was surprised to feel strong pressure to complete work quickly, cutting corners, even when the Product Owner and Scrum Master were not asking me to. When this pressure was explicit, it usually came from my fellow developers. On the other hand, there is real joy in writing code and seeing a system do something worthwhile that it wasn't doing before. My outlook has changed tremendously and is something I want to share with anyone who works with development teams, especially Scrum Masters and other coaches. I am still enjoying my time as a developer, but I'm looking forward to returning to coaching and incorporating this experience into my approach.
Slides for my presentation at Agile2019 (https://agile2019.sched.com/event/OD8A/undercover-scrum-master-dane-weber)
Imagine inheriting the job leading the "business as usual" change program for Westpac's new online banking platform. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it (like you have a choice), is to “turn it Agile”. You are “gifted” a SAFe Program Consultant, not that you know what that is. So you tell them of your predicament and ask if Agile will help.
As one would expect, the Agile consultant can see the path to agility. However, the recommended approach seems somewhat unconventional. A one-week immersion program that will transform the waterfall machine into an Agile Release Train!
Tune into this session to learn how one of Australia’s largest banks adopted Agile on a mission critical application overnight.
Attendees at this session will learn the benefits and pitfalls of using SAFe’s notorious Quick Start approach to implementing Agile, and the facts about what it really takes to “Quick Start” an Agile Release Train.
Presentation by Em Campbell-Pretty and Adrienne Wilson at the Global SAFe Summit 2020.
Patterns for preparing a Feature Backlog for PI Planning for an Agile Release Train.
You are in charge of a whole organization or a number of teams. Your ultimate desire is for them to become more productive, which translates into effectiveness and/or efficiency. You would ask yourself which is a golden key here, Kanban or Scrum? Is it an either/or question? Shall you start by practicing Scrum for a while and switch when matured? Is there a golden ratio of Scrum practices v.s. Kanban that make your transformation successful? Do you find yourself in Scrumfalls? Is Kanban the magic solution? You are telling yourself: It’s time to switch to Kanban. Others have done it, so it must be the magic solution. If that’s you, most probably you are spending now time and money on a new “method” while barely moving the needle. I can assure you It can become successful, it has been done!
Kanban is the new Scrum these days. Let’s look at the failure modes of adopting Kanban deeper and together. What are the conditions needed for a Kanban method to flourish and find its roots in an organization? What can lead to a successful Kanban introduction compared to Scrum? Are there any fundamental differences between them? How can you make sure if you are moving from Scrum to Kanban, or having the thought of it, to become successful? What are the pitfalls that you want to avoid?
Join me in this session to share with you my experience as both Scrum and Kanban coach helping organizations transform. I will be sharing lessons learned and coaching techniques to help organizations and leaders realize the true potential of Kanban.
Kanban is the New Scrum! Failure Transformation Patterns, Similarities, and L...Shahin Sheidaei
You are in charge of a whole organization (or a number of teams). Your ultimate desire is for them to become more productive. You would ask yourself which is a golden key here, Kanban or Scrum? Is it an either/or question? Shall you start by practicing Scrum for a while and switch when matured? What can lead to a successful Kanban Transformation compared to Scrum? Is there a golden ratio of Scrum practices v.s. Kanban that makes your transformation successful? Are there any fundamental differences between them? What are the pitfalls that you want to avoid? Join me in this session to share with you my experience as both Scrum and Kanban coach. I will be sharing lessons learned to help organizations and leaders realize the true potential of their organization focusing on factors that really matter the most.
Agile and Beyond 2016 Rethinking Agile TransformationJason Little
Should you be Agile or can you just do Agile? Which Agile scaling framework should you pick? We tend to make things more complex than they need to be, but we can simplify things!
Presentation given at Agile 2014.
Are you working with multiple agile teams on a single software application? Are you looking for help with making agile work for you at the program level? Have you considered leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) but been scared off by its prescriptive nature? Are you confused about how program level SAFe applies in your context?
Every organisation is different and what works for one organisation may not work for another. One of the benefits of a framework, is that they can and should be adapted to your context. Based on learnings derived from practical experience, this session will illustrate how focusing on values and principles over practice and processes, can help you design a pragmatic approach to program level SAFe suitable for your unique situation.
By contrasting principles and practises this session will:
* draw out the principles behind SAFe and the standard SAFe practises that apply to them,
* show how practises from other scaling models align to SAFe principles and compliment program level SAFe; and,
* share real word examples of how adapting SAFe practises, while remaining aligned to the principles, can help you create a working model applicable to your program
Almost no one on software teams believes in waterfall any longer. That's what we learned from the surveys we took in the course of authoring The 2013 Study of Product Team Performance.
But that doesn't make agile a magic pill.
Mike Cohn notes, "Becoming agile is hard. It is harder than most other organizational change efforts I've witnessed or been part of [for reasons] including the need to change from the top-down and bottom-up simultaneously, the impossibility of knowing exactly what the end state will look like, the dramatic and pervasive changes caused by Scrum, the difficulty adding more change on top of all that is already occurring, and the need to avoid turning Scrum into a list of best practices."
How do we get beyond that?
Glossing over the reality that agile is hard leads us to ignore the very things we need to address to succeed.
On the other hand, acknowledging that agile is hard lets us focus on the challenges that have been preventing us from becoming high performance teams.
This session combines a presentation, a panel and some shared thinking to move beyond how simple agile seems - to what in fact makes agile transformations hard - to how we can face down those challenges to achieve agile's promise.
Expected Takeaways (outcome) for Audience *
For those just starting agile transformations: a heads-up that implementing practices only goes so far.
For those well into agile but struggling, a sense they're not alone.
For all of us, a window into how to get to where we want to go.
Agile NOT by the Book - Agile and Beyond 2015Wade Wachs
Agile is so much more than rituals and buzzwords, but often the real value is lost as organizations focus more on adhering to processes than the reasons behind them. Teams all too easily fall into the trap of following a prescribed method and deviate little from that original template. A continuous improvement approach implies a team is regularly questioning, tweaking, and iterating on its own version of Agile. Today's set of practices and processes should not be identical to those from a year ago.
Large companies often struggle to align development with sales and marketing - how do you ensure the delivery of features and fixes lines up with the efforts to promote them? Luisa will talk about how a big organization implemented a lightweight version of SAFe, but adapted the methodology to fit their needs. Learn how you can tailor agile principles to address the unique challenges your teams face and why configuring your agile tools properly is critical to increasing agility throughout the company.
After three years as a Scrum Master and Agile coach, I hit a wall coaching a team that did not want to try popular Agile engineering techniques such as TDD and pair programming. I had become a Scrum Master after four years working on the business analysis and account ownership side of things and could not speak from personal experience about engineering practices. In order to get some first-hand experience and to gain a new perspective, I chose to spend a year or two as a software developer on a Scrum team.
The experience has been eye-opening. I experienced a tremendous cognitive load working with a wide array of technologies; this pulled my attention away from many of the collaborative and process-oriented activities I cared about as a Scrum Master. I was surprised to feel strong pressure to complete work quickly, cutting corners, even when the Product Owner and Scrum Master were not asking me to. When this pressure was explicit, it usually came from my fellow developers. On the other hand, there is real joy in writing code and seeing a system do something worthwhile that it wasn't doing before. My outlook has changed tremendously and is something I want to share with anyone who works with development teams, especially Scrum Masters and other coaches. I am still enjoying my time as a developer, but I'm looking forward to returning to coaching and incorporating this experience into my approach.
Slides for my presentation at Agile2019 (https://agile2019.sched.com/event/OD8A/undercover-scrum-master-dane-weber)
Imagine inheriting the job leading the "business as usual" change program for Westpac's new online banking platform. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it (like you have a choice), is to “turn it Agile”. You are “gifted” a SAFe Program Consultant, not that you know what that is. So you tell them of your predicament and ask if Agile will help.
As one would expect, the Agile consultant can see the path to agility. However, the recommended approach seems somewhat unconventional. A one-week immersion program that will transform the waterfall machine into an Agile Release Train!
Tune into this session to learn how one of Australia’s largest banks adopted Agile on a mission critical application overnight.
Attendees at this session will learn the benefits and pitfalls of using SAFe’s notorious Quick Start approach to implementing Agile, and the facts about what it really takes to “Quick Start” an Agile Release Train.
The Roles and Responsibilities in an Agile Project and OrganizationToivo Vaje
Presentation at Finnish project conference called Projektipäivät (Project Days) 2014. Going through topics related to how we have implemented Agile at scale at NAPA. (Minimal amount of text, so not sure how this works just as slides)
WEBINAR: How to Flip the Conventional Lean Six Sigma Classroom Approach and G...GoLeanSixSigma.com
Are your Lean Six Sigma training efforts stale? Does your training approach need a facelift? Are you interested in changing your training approach to ensure students have better recall and retention of the material? Do you want to increase your rate of real world application and get better process improvement results? Then this 1-hour Leadership webinar is for you. We’ll provide the method and helpful examples of “Flipped Classrooms” so you can flip your own training and reap the rewards.
https://goleansixsigma.com/webinar-flip-conventional-lean-six-sigma-classroom-approach-get-better-results/
PRESENTATION: How to Flip the Conventional Lean Six Sigma Classroom Approach ...GoLeanSixSigma.com
Are your continuous improvement training efforts stale? Does your training approach need a facelift? Are you interested in changing your training approach to ensure students have better recall and retention of the material? Do you want to increase your rate of real world application and get better process improvement results? Then this presentation is for you. We’ll provide the method and helpful examples of “Flipped Classrooms” so you can flip your own training and reap the rewards.
Three Concepts to Successfully Scaling AgileJoshua A. Jack
Whether adopting scaling out of the gate or taking your organizational change to the next level, there are concepts that should stay at the forefront of your decision: agility, design, and quality. In this seminar, we will discuss methods for maintaining response to changing priorities and needs at the team and organizational level, how to incorporate good empathetic design techniques into scaling, and increasing and maintaining quality with more and more teams involved in product delivery.
Path to Agility: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Agile AdoptionAgile Velocity
Why do 53% of all Agile projects ultimately fail? Navigating common pitfalls can be hard to do. Find out which five hurdles to Agile adoption are the most challenging and how to implement a plan of action to overcome them.
This is the companion workbook provided in the interactive and engaging Agile Classroom Teacher (ACT) Workshop. This is free to use, under Creative Commons, just ensure to attribute the source (AgileClassrooms.com).
Workshop Overview
The Certified Agile Classroom Teacher (ACT) is an in-depth one day immersion into the world of Agile Classrooms. The course is full of practical, real world techniques, which can be implemented immediately in your classroom, project-based learning program, club, after school program, or teacher team. An Agile Classroom is better experienced than explained, so, this class extremely hands on and interactive.
Benefits
-A paradigm shift in how you look at learning that reinvigorates the passion for teaching & learning
-A simpler, lighter, and more empowering way to run student projects
-Transform from instructor to inspirational servant-leader, facilitator, and coach for your students' journey to self-directed learners
-A sense of pride in seeing your students become self-directed learners and support each other in doing so
-Your classroom will become an exemplar model of 21st Century -Skills, becoming radically empowered and collaborative
-Your classrooms will achieve higher order thinking and deeper levels of knowledge
-Discover new found freedom to decide how to teach and learn while still aligning to curriculum and standards
-Gain authentic 21st Century Skills so students can thrive in academics, life, and career
-Your students will standout to universities and employers with Agile on their transcript and resume
-Enrich relationships between students, teachers, administration, and parents by amplifying clarity, trust and reliability
-Unlock hidden strengths and passions of teachers and students
-Go beyond knowledge transfer to emergent knowledge generated from rich collaboration
-Grow social and emotional intelligence throughout all learning so students become the constructive leaders and global citizens
-Accelerate your classroom's learning, responsiveness, and adaptability
Full course available at: http://masterofproject.com/courses/agile-project-management-scrum-framework-certification-prep
Course Description
The Agile & Scrum Certification Training course imparts knowledge on the Agile and Scrum values, helps you build the requisite skills and gain expertise in the domain. The course provides immense clarity on vital concepts of scrum and agile to help you clear the certification exam in your first attempt. The course aims to make you an expert in the Scrum ways, enhancing your capability to deliver shippable products by the end of each Sprint. With the practical application of the agile methodologies you would be able to maximize business value, while mitigating potential risks.
Features
50+ Lectures
10+ Hours
Lifetime Access
100% Online & Self Paced
30 day money back guarantee!
Course Completion Certificate
What am I going to get from this course?
Learn the Agile Methodologies and Agile Project Management
Learn Scrum Framework
Learn practical implications of Scrum over a sample project
Get ready for Scrum Certification exams (PMI-ACP, CSM, PSM, CSPO, PSPO, CSD, PSD)
Learn Scrum Team
Learn Scrum Events
Learn Scrum Artifacs
Learn Extreme Programming (XP) Agile Methodology briefly.
Learn Lean Agile Methodology briefly.
Learn Kanban Agile Methodology briefly.
Learn the differences of Agile & Scrum Certifications provided by different organizations
Qualify for the 21 Contact Hours Agile Training requirement of PMI for the PMI-ACP certification.
Earn 15 SEUs under Category E: Independent Learning of Scrum Alliance
Earn 14 PDUs if you are a PMP already.
What is the target audience?
The Agile & Scrum certification is best suited for:
Team Leaders
Project Managers
Members of Scrum teams such as developers, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners
Managers of Scrum teams
Teams transitioning to Scrum
Professionals intending to pursue the Scrum Master certification
Number Stories: Win Friends and Influence HiPPOs with an Effective Measuremen...Michael Powers
Data overload has come to content strategy. With so many things to measure and tools to measure it with, how do you find a way to use analytics without succumbing to analysis paralysis? And without spending all your time on analytics? This session will walk through the creation of a measurement strategy that supports your existing content strategy. Then we’ll look at the ways you can use those analytics to tell the kinds of stories that persuade your peers and superiors to make smarter content decisions.
In this session, you will:
Learn how to decide what to measure and why
Find out how to create an analytics routine that provides actionable insights without taking up all your time
Learn to present measurements and analytics in ways that influence and persuade others
LeanCor Training and Education Webinar: From Paperback Book to Global Deploym...LeanCor Supply Chain Group
Team members had been successfully trained on lean tools, but the cultural shift was slow to follow for a global technology leader and supplier to the railroad, mining, marine, stationary power, drilling and services industries. In this 1-hour webinar, learn how the company leveraged the PEOPLE book and blended learning to break down silos and begin a global lean transformation – setting potential in motion for customers, shareholders and employees.
We will explore:
How the Continuous Improvement and Operations teams collaboratively led the way towards operational excellence
How combining the train-do approach with e-learning and weekly team reflections proved to be the recipe for success
How the company applied the learning and the results that followed
How tools, systems, and principles can lay the foundation for a lean culture
*This webinar is part of a special “Go to the Gemba” series where we interview different industry professionals about how they use lean principles and tools to solve their challenges.
What makes a Project Manager truly great? Over the years of working the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes Project Managers, Erika Flora from BEYOND20 talks about the key characteristics and habits that make someone in this field genuinely great at their job. The best news is that these are all habits that can be developed, and with a little work, everyone can become a great Project Manager.
Webinar: 6 Keys to Agile Transformation Success with David Hawks | Agile Velo...Agile Velocity
Most Agile transformations are failing to deliver results. They’re either never-ending or constantly restarting, which has created transformation fatigue for many individuals and organizations. In this webinar, David Hawks discussed 6 critical elements most companies are missing that will enable them to have a successful Agile transformation.
My colleagues and I took a look back at the Promotion Process that we had recently gone through at ERM. We shared with the Information Solutions group our experience to help future colleagues go through the same process.
Similar to Case Study of Agile and Scrum at the Speed of Light (20)
Many Faces of Retrospectives-MindyBohannon.pptxMindy Bohannon
I’ve been practicing two roles on my project for over a year – part lead Agile Business Analyst and part Scrum Master. Oh, the techniques I’ve learned! The leadership and facilitation aspects of retros and other SM activities have led to my being a better and more caring leader and business analyst. During this session we’ll review the general goals of a Scrum Master, how it overlaps with being a BA, and four different types of retrospective activities.
Takeaways:
*Responsibilities and overlap of a Scrum Master, Business Analysis, and Leadership
*Improvement retro
*Celebration retro
*Root cause analysis retro
*Retro covering many months or years of work
Working remotely - Cultural and Practical Advice and Tips 202003Mindy Bohannon
This deck is open source and freely available for anyone to use and present. This has been updated since I gave it last in 2017 in response to many of us working remotely due to COVID-19.
I'm a BA Girl in an Agile World @AgileDC 20190923Mindy Bohannon
Presented at AgileDC conference on Sept 23, 2019. Described how a Business Analyst fits into Product Development when the team is using the Agile Methodology
Columbus Ohio, August 2019 Why do we create process flows; how to create a process flow; simple icons to use and BPM notation, story mapping and many other types of diagrams used to spur conversations between stakeholders
Working Remotely, with Trust and Communication - Mindy BohannonMindy Bohannon
80% of communication is face-to-face non-verbal cues. In today’s remote working environment this dynamic is dumped on its head and written emails have taken over. Skype would be ideal but any company I’ve ever worked for doesn’t give video bandwidth as an option. Communication and trust are the key for success in any project. The more remote the team, the more important communication in all forms and modes becomes. Different personalities and cultures require a variety of communication methods and collaboration tools. This requires a variety of approaches by project managers and team members when requesting input on questions, raising issues in a safe environment and setting expectations of each other. When do you pick up the phone versus send a text versus send an email? What tone are you sending? What example are you setting for openness and collaboration?
1. Understand cultural, personality, and time zone differences among team members.
2. Methods to explicitly and proactively request input, suggestions and issues from all team members, during team meetings and one-on-one conversations.
3. Collaboration Tools for communication, task management, file sharing, and team building.
Presented by Mindy Bohannon
Excella Consulting
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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Intentions
Explain GiveCamp Experience
Show how Agile principles and Scrum ceremonies
make GiveCamp succeed
**This is how I learned agile and scrum
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Agile Principles
Early and continuous delivery
Changing requirements
Work together daily/hourly
Co-located and motivated
individuals
Working software is the
measure of progress
Simplicity
Self-organizing teams
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• Began in 2007, created by
Microsoft employees
• Software developers,
designers and database
administrators dedicate an
entire weekend to
supporting non-profits
What is
Give Camp?
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Cleveland Ohio GiveCamp
More than 215 Cleveland GiveCamp volunteers show up at Burke
Lakefront Airport and the LeanDog / Arras Keathley boat
Provide free web services to 19 non-profits
In 2015 we had the most tents ever - more than 20 tents pitched,
and one mini-camper
Non-profits in Cleveland and Akron
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Bragging about Cleveland GC
Largest inaugural GiveCamp of any city in the country in
2010
Doubled in size of volunteers over 6 years
Expanded the services to additional education for non-
profits during the weekend
WordPress Tutorials, Marketing Strategies, Security
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Preparation
July 21-23:
GiveCamp
happens
mid-June:
Non-Profits
notified of
being
selected
June 1:
Volunteers
signup
April 1 -
May 15:
Non-profits
apply
Sponsor Signup
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Non-Profits Preparation
• Project description - completed in one weekend
• Project Stakeholders – PO to be on site
• Project Goals
• Will the project greatly enhance the mission of the
nonprofit?
• Must: Content written, Graphic designs created,
Site map if a website
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Who Participates?
Developers
Project Managers (or anyone who can act like one)
Experts - DevOps, Content Writers
roaming to pair and solve blockers
Team Z – Handle Meals and Snacks
Support Team – Social Media, Photographers
Organizers
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Agile Principles
Early and continuous delivery
Changing requirements
Work together daily/hourly
Co-located and motivated
individuals
Working software is the
measure of progress
Simplicity
Self-organizing teams
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References
Credit to Matt Beyer for some content
http://givecamp.org/
https://www.facebook.com/CLEGiveCamp/
http://www.veggieu.org/family-fun/playing-together
This is how I learned Agile for the first time – as scrummaster at GiveCamp
I didn’t learn by being in a classroom, it wasn’t about legal contracts. This wasn’t about the individual, this is all about the team, working together to create working software.
The Scrum PO is typically a project's key stakeholder. The product owner's responsibilities include having a vision of what he or she wishes to build, and conveying that vision to the Scrum team. ... The Agile product owner does this in part through the product backlog, which is a prioritized features list for the product
30 GiveCamp twitter feeds with one in Berlin Germany
LeanDog is agile software development company. I learned about Kanban, Lean, agile and scrum from them.
Google “GiveCamp” and Cleveland dominates the search results
Other cities (Seattle, Denver, DC) reach out to us around how to organize GiveCamp
http://clevelandgivecamp.org/nonprofits/
Over 75 apply each year – 15-20 can be completed
Project Managers start in April-May to vet the applications and especially in mid-June working to keep the non-profits on track with their preparations
Volunteer signup is in June..until we max out or the event in July
Sponsor signup is ongoing from January to the day of camp
Sponsors are continuously being signed up to participate – no deadline!
=> Non-Profits Apply:
Contact information, 501c3 tax ID number
Project description
A project that can be completed in one weekend
Organization information
Organization name and address
Organization Website, Organization history and background
Tax ID Number as a 501(c)3 nonprofit
Contact Name, Contact Email, Contact Phone Number, Contact Mobile Phone
Project information
How did you hear about Cleveland GiveCamp?
Project Description (work requested) (i.e. Is it a website, database application, mobile site/mobile app, something else?)
Project Stakeholders
Project Goals
Look (i.e. if it is website, what do you want it to look like – modern, traditional, etc.)
Specifications
Web Plugins – (Is there specific software or apps that must be integrated into the project? Online giving, membership module, etc.)
Examples of websites you like
Examples of websites you don’t like.
Comments on Existing Technologies
Comments on Skill of Support Staff
Keep in mind it is instrumental that your organization has someone with decision-making authority available during the entire GiveCamp weekend.
We plan to select around 15 to 20 nonprofits to serve this year. This number varies based upon the number of technical volunteers who have committed to help at the event and the scope of the projects. Our ultimate goal is to complete all projects in a weekend.
When selecting our nonprofit partners, we evaluate the projects based on certain criteria:
Can we complete the project over the course of the weekend?
Will the project greatly enhance the mission of the nonprofit?
Will the nonprofit NOT be able to do this project without our help? Meaning, do they have the financial resources to do it on their own? We want to make sure we help those who need it most.
=> My charity got selected. What now?
If selected, before GC:
Content written
Graphic designs created
Site map if a website
Congratulations! We fondly look forward to working with your organization. Here are a few things to think about that might be helpful when planning your project.
The main emphasis on projects is technology.
For organizations needing written content, we suggest they have a majority of it ready and planned before coming to GiveCamp. We do have copy writers available to help, but we suggest utilizing these volunteers to tighten up copy or fill in the gaps.
For organizations needing graphic design… GiveCamp volunteers are focused on the technology aspects of your project. We do have graphic designers assigned to teams creating websites, but their role is to infuse your brand into the site. They will not be able to create a branding campaign or logo for your organization. Those items must be developed ahead of time.
We suggest you take time to plan your project ahead of time. If you want a website, look at other sites and plan a site “map.” This document will make it easier for our volunteers to set up your site. If you are planning an app or database, think about those who will use them, the fields or sections you want to include, and plan accordingly.
My charity did not get selected. What now?
More than 75 nonprofits apply each year for assistance and unfortunately we cannot accept every project. If you have applied and were not accepted, we encourage you to consider applying again the next year. There are also other GiveCamp events planned throughout the region that may be able to help your organization.
Before, during and after tweets
LeanDog is agile software development company. I learned about Kanban, Lean, agile and scrum from them.
People really do camp!
Lake Burkefront airport – which has a nice Women In Space museum exhibit (with the cutout)
and LeanDog. It’s a great site to work on since it’s a barge, converted into a restaurant, and now hosts an agile software development company and a marketing firm.
Location of our work is important. Co-locating makes it easier to get work done.
A friendly environment can’t always be had but the effort to make it nice
For both the PO and the Development team
Kickoff – We learn how the weekend will go, similar to a project kickoff.
What is our goal? Why are we here?
Who are our coworkers? Who is here with us?
Who is our customer? What are the nonprofits we are going to work with?
Who is the support team that will help us that isn’t directly on our teams? Deal with blockers of code and food! - Similar to the DevOps
One non-profit tells us about their organization.
CAN - Collective Arts Network Journal
It’s at the kickoff that we, the volunteers, commit to this effort and to the project.
People are assigned by skillset to each project, since projects differ.
Mostly Wordpress
Salesforce one time
Veggie Worms was an application with 20 people, variety of skills
We knew ahead of time there was a special project and recruited people for specially for that project. Usually we don’t have a animator and graphic artist .
Volunteers donated $750K of their time.
All food is donated
Snacks and drinks are available around the clock
PO is onsite and available all day, every day
Malachi House
Everyone is co-located and committed to the weekend.
First thing to do – Build the backlog.
Work with the non-profit representative to find out what the project is.
Build the backlog of how to approach the project for the next 47 hours. (1 hour went to the kickoff)
Give the technical info to the developers so they can load the app on their local machine.
Scrum Ceremony – Standups
Project Managers only – can be a BA, PM – anyone not a developer can lead a team
What’s said at a standup – status of the project, how much done, confidence on getting done on time,
any hindrances/blocks, need help,
if a person or entire teams is done and devs can move to another project
Short and to the point – there are 21 teams after all
Back to working the backlog
In 2016 the Heavy Hitters wore red shirts.
They float around the teams. If a team needs help they find someone with a walkie talkie – the organizers and heavy hitters – and find a red shirt.
The expert flies over to the team and helps solve the problem. Remove the blockers
Wordpress, Security education given to non-profits
Yes, her name is really Heidi Cool – Wordpress
Security Training from Tom of Team X security team
Project team
Leadership team
Social media/photography team
Heavy Hitters team
Project managers present final products
My project in 2015 was to help rewrite the non-profit’s website. The non-profit was Malachai House. They are an end-of-life hospice home and their website was terribly outdated. And it wasn’t maintainable by the staff.
They did their prep work and had their logo redesigned in the new colors. They brought pictures to include on the site. They had all their technical web information ready for the team.
The project team gave them a new layout using a free Wordpress template. And they can update themselves.
The 2 product owners attended the Wordpress training.
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Another project I worked was a contact database. This required a special skill and the developers were able to make just get it done in the givecamp time period. It was a large project to accomplish in 48 hours.