When Worlds Collide: Distributed Lean and Agile Teams in the Public Sector.
This presentation was given by Arun Kumar, founder & CEO of Kerika, at the Lean Transformation Conference in Tacoma, Washington, on Oct 21-22, 2014.
Over 2,700 attendees attended the conference, primarily from the public sector.
Traditional Scrum approaches won't help you if you have to deal with distributed agile teams.
Arun Kumar, founder and CEO of Kerika, presents three generic strategies for handling distributed agile teams and discusses the relative merits of these. (Spoiler alert: Arun's frustrations with traditional methods and tools led him to design and build Kerika, the only task board that's designed specially for distributed agile teams :-)
How Spotify IT Supports a Company in HypergrowthAtlassian
Spotify is one of the largest online music streaming company in the world and they've been growing extremely fast. Like, "600% growth in three years" fast. So put your headphones away and listen to Rick Wacey tell the story of how his team went from managing requests by email to using JIRA and JIRA Service Desk. You'll get tips on coping with increased demand from employees (while still providing great service, of course), and see how to set up your own internal Genius Bar kiosk for IT issues. Get here early and grab a seat – this one goes to 11.
Using Kerika for Washington State government workArun Kumar
Quick guidelines for anyone working in a Washington State government agency who is planning on using Kerika: what you can use Kerika for, what sort of data you can store in Kerika, and how you can get help!
'Xero-ing in' on Global Collaboration During Hyper-GrowthAtlassian
As the 2014 and 2015 Forbes Most Innovative Growth Company, Xero has seen exponential growth since its inception 10 years ago. Fostering a culture of collaboration across global teams is a challenge in itself, let alone onboarding and promoting effective use of agile tools in the context of hyper-growth.
Learn how Xero is fostering a culture of collaboration and building in-house capability and advocacy to support their global teams to get more out of JIRA & Confluence.
Products covered:
JIRA Software, Confluence
The Five-Week Transformation: How the Department of Defense’s Public Web Serv...Atlassian
The Defense Media Activity’s Public web program supports more than 10,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines globally with the ability to rapidly move news, images and video to worldwide audiences via official military websites and the ability to integrate that content on social media sites. In September 2014, DMA's CIO Leslie Benito realized that to deliver world-class service, DMA needed to transform its Public Web service desk. In this session, Leslie will explain how they completed that within weeks, under stringent security requirements, while improving IT productivity and customer satisfaction. carried out the projects and what we achieved along the way.
Deflect Tickets and Stop Interruptions For Your IT Teams - Michael KnightAtlassian
Learn how Atlassian's own build engineering team uses a combination of ticketing in JIRA Service Desk, and knowledge management with Confluence Questions, HipChat, and the Knowledge Base Blueprint in Confluence to scale the support they provide to a rapidly growing number of developers.
Traditional Scrum approaches won't help you if you have to deal with distributed agile teams.
Arun Kumar, founder and CEO of Kerika, presents three generic strategies for handling distributed agile teams and discusses the relative merits of these. (Spoiler alert: Arun's frustrations with traditional methods and tools led him to design and build Kerika, the only task board that's designed specially for distributed agile teams :-)
How Spotify IT Supports a Company in HypergrowthAtlassian
Spotify is one of the largest online music streaming company in the world and they've been growing extremely fast. Like, "600% growth in three years" fast. So put your headphones away and listen to Rick Wacey tell the story of how his team went from managing requests by email to using JIRA and JIRA Service Desk. You'll get tips on coping with increased demand from employees (while still providing great service, of course), and see how to set up your own internal Genius Bar kiosk for IT issues. Get here early and grab a seat – this one goes to 11.
Using Kerika for Washington State government workArun Kumar
Quick guidelines for anyone working in a Washington State government agency who is planning on using Kerika: what you can use Kerika for, what sort of data you can store in Kerika, and how you can get help!
'Xero-ing in' on Global Collaboration During Hyper-GrowthAtlassian
As the 2014 and 2015 Forbes Most Innovative Growth Company, Xero has seen exponential growth since its inception 10 years ago. Fostering a culture of collaboration across global teams is a challenge in itself, let alone onboarding and promoting effective use of agile tools in the context of hyper-growth.
Learn how Xero is fostering a culture of collaboration and building in-house capability and advocacy to support their global teams to get more out of JIRA & Confluence.
Products covered:
JIRA Software, Confluence
The Five-Week Transformation: How the Department of Defense’s Public Web Serv...Atlassian
The Defense Media Activity’s Public web program supports more than 10,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines globally with the ability to rapidly move news, images and video to worldwide audiences via official military websites and the ability to integrate that content on social media sites. In September 2014, DMA's CIO Leslie Benito realized that to deliver world-class service, DMA needed to transform its Public Web service desk. In this session, Leslie will explain how they completed that within weeks, under stringent security requirements, while improving IT productivity and customer satisfaction. carried out the projects and what we achieved along the way.
Deflect Tickets and Stop Interruptions For Your IT Teams - Michael KnightAtlassian
Learn how Atlassian's own build engineering team uses a combination of ticketing in JIRA Service Desk, and knowledge management with Confluence Questions, HipChat, and the Knowledge Base Blueprint in Confluence to scale the support they provide to a rapidly growing number of developers.
Using Atlassian for State-of-the-Art Computer Science EducationAtlassian
You've probably wondered about it, and they proved it: state-of-the-art software engineering can be taught using the Atlassian stack. Dora and Lukas will show how Munich's Technical University uses JIRA, Confluence, HipChat, Bitbucket (including Stash), and Bamboo for running an agile software engineering course with 100 participants and 10 industry partners. We'll show you how the tools work hand-in-hand to teach students and reduce our organizational overhead. They'll also show how the stack can be scaled to support interactive lectures with a large number of participants. Ever wondered what happens when 100 students start their own sprint at the same time in the lecture hall? Join this session and find out!
Change Management 2001 will take a look at how one company has implemented a change solution that has been heavily utilized for the past several years. Take an in-depth journey through the Cherwell Service Management out-of-the-box approval process and how mobile keywords alert the management team when their approval is needed.
Technology Doesn't Transform Organizations, People DoSara Dickson
Want to experience a digital transformation at your nonprofit organization? You might be surprised to find out it's less about the tech and more about your people. Join Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to learn more about how your approach to engagement can either make or break your project.
Velocity 15 Minute Booth Session - Building a Performance Team - Dave MurphySOASTA
Skills without commitment does not create a performance culture. A strong performance culture crosses organizational boundaries. Ideally, everyone owns performance.
Enterprise Wikis: Boldly Go Where No Wiki Has Gone Before - Ian HostetlerAtlassian
In this talk, Ian Hostetler, operations analyst for Independent Project Analysis, shares his four strategies for successful enterprise wiki adoption. Hostetler will share the importance of system structure, wiki governance, process implementation, and end-user communication to prepare any company for success in streamlining internal communications at scale.
Harness Tribal Knowledge With Confluence Questions - Kim WallAtlassian
Great products are only great if they get used. On the Atlassian growth team, we investigate what our users engage with as a focal point for improving their experience across the board. We'll show how to design successful experiments to help users get more out of their products, and share several major findings. From cross-sells to tweaking elements, this talk will teach you how to tell a compelling story to delight your customers.
Digital Transformation Using O365, SharePoint Online and Nintex: Increase productivity by automating your processes by Alex Viera
Key Takeaways:
How workflow automation can help maximize your investment in Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365.
We will demonstrate how Nintex (Workflow/Forms) can automate your time-consuming, manual processes and create streamlined workflows in every department (HR, Operations, Finance, Sales, Marketing, IT) of your organization.
We will also look at how other companies are benefiting from automating their business processes.
In these slides from our AXELOS ITSM webinar held in June 2015, Louise John from Essex County Council discusses their ITIL case study.
Archaic, over-engineered processes, using inappropriate tools (e.g. excel) and exhausting unnecessary resource?...that was Essex County Council! Until significant investment in upskilling people, improving processes and effective ITSM tooling paved the way for ITIL alignment and maturity.
You can read the full case study at: www.axelos.com/case-studies-and-white-papers/essex-county-council-an-itil-case-study
012182 01 analysis of petroleum isomer distribution in jet fuelPerkinElmer, Inc.
The hydrocarbon isomer distribution in petrochemicals contributes to many commercially important petrochemical characteristics such as boiling and melting points, octane number, combustion efficiency, flash point, viscosity, lubricity, solubility, and solvation power. These characteristics are strongly influenced by hydrocarbon chain branching. This is especially important for jet engine fuels. If these are not to specification, jet fuel lines can freeze up or engines malfunction. Electron Ionization Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (EI GC/MS) is a powerful and information-rich technique for qualitative characterization and quantitative analysis of the compounds in a petrochemical mixture. One of its most valuable functions is to provide the molecular weight of a compound. However, for high molecular weight or highly branched compounds, this important ion may be small or absent because of energetic instability relative to its fragment ions. In that case analyte confirmation is more dependent upon measured retention time and comparison with established standards. In contrast, Cold Electron Ionization GC/MS (Cold EI GC/MS) can improve petroleum isomer distribution analysis by substantially increasing the molecular ion peak intensity of a compound while retaining the EI fragmentation pattern for spectral library searching without modification to established GC methodologies.
Using Atlassian for State-of-the-Art Computer Science EducationAtlassian
You've probably wondered about it, and they proved it: state-of-the-art software engineering can be taught using the Atlassian stack. Dora and Lukas will show how Munich's Technical University uses JIRA, Confluence, HipChat, Bitbucket (including Stash), and Bamboo for running an agile software engineering course with 100 participants and 10 industry partners. We'll show you how the tools work hand-in-hand to teach students and reduce our organizational overhead. They'll also show how the stack can be scaled to support interactive lectures with a large number of participants. Ever wondered what happens when 100 students start their own sprint at the same time in the lecture hall? Join this session and find out!
Change Management 2001 will take a look at how one company has implemented a change solution that has been heavily utilized for the past several years. Take an in-depth journey through the Cherwell Service Management out-of-the-box approval process and how mobile keywords alert the management team when their approval is needed.
Technology Doesn't Transform Organizations, People DoSara Dickson
Want to experience a digital transformation at your nonprofit organization? You might be surprised to find out it's less about the tech and more about your people. Join Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to learn more about how your approach to engagement can either make or break your project.
Velocity 15 Minute Booth Session - Building a Performance Team - Dave MurphySOASTA
Skills without commitment does not create a performance culture. A strong performance culture crosses organizational boundaries. Ideally, everyone owns performance.
Enterprise Wikis: Boldly Go Where No Wiki Has Gone Before - Ian HostetlerAtlassian
In this talk, Ian Hostetler, operations analyst for Independent Project Analysis, shares his four strategies for successful enterprise wiki adoption. Hostetler will share the importance of system structure, wiki governance, process implementation, and end-user communication to prepare any company for success in streamlining internal communications at scale.
Harness Tribal Knowledge With Confluence Questions - Kim WallAtlassian
Great products are only great if they get used. On the Atlassian growth team, we investigate what our users engage with as a focal point for improving their experience across the board. We'll show how to design successful experiments to help users get more out of their products, and share several major findings. From cross-sells to tweaking elements, this talk will teach you how to tell a compelling story to delight your customers.
Digital Transformation Using O365, SharePoint Online and Nintex: Increase productivity by automating your processes by Alex Viera
Key Takeaways:
How workflow automation can help maximize your investment in Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365.
We will demonstrate how Nintex (Workflow/Forms) can automate your time-consuming, manual processes and create streamlined workflows in every department (HR, Operations, Finance, Sales, Marketing, IT) of your organization.
We will also look at how other companies are benefiting from automating their business processes.
In these slides from our AXELOS ITSM webinar held in June 2015, Louise John from Essex County Council discusses their ITIL case study.
Archaic, over-engineered processes, using inappropriate tools (e.g. excel) and exhausting unnecessary resource?...that was Essex County Council! Until significant investment in upskilling people, improving processes and effective ITSM tooling paved the way for ITIL alignment and maturity.
You can read the full case study at: www.axelos.com/case-studies-and-white-papers/essex-county-council-an-itil-case-study
012182 01 analysis of petroleum isomer distribution in jet fuelPerkinElmer, Inc.
The hydrocarbon isomer distribution in petrochemicals contributes to many commercially important petrochemical characteristics such as boiling and melting points, octane number, combustion efficiency, flash point, viscosity, lubricity, solubility, and solvation power. These characteristics are strongly influenced by hydrocarbon chain branching. This is especially important for jet engine fuels. If these are not to specification, jet fuel lines can freeze up or engines malfunction. Electron Ionization Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (EI GC/MS) is a powerful and information-rich technique for qualitative characterization and quantitative analysis of the compounds in a petrochemical mixture. One of its most valuable functions is to provide the molecular weight of a compound. However, for high molecular weight or highly branched compounds, this important ion may be small or absent because of energetic instability relative to its fragment ions. In that case analyte confirmation is more dependent upon measured retention time and comparison with established standards. In contrast, Cold Electron Ionization GC/MS (Cold EI GC/MS) can improve petroleum isomer distribution analysis by substantially increasing the molecular ion peak intensity of a compound while retaining the EI fragmentation pattern for spectral library searching without modification to established GC methodologies.
This presentation was given by Guido Schoonheim and Jeff Sutherland at Agile 2009 Conference in Chicago: Aug 24 - 28. This presentation was given on 24th Aug on the subject "Lineair Scalability of Production between San Francisco and India". This presentation also includes case study on TEE BEE DEE .
Scoring High on the Supply Chain Maturity Modelaconris
This is my presentation from CSCMP Europe 2007 conference. Discover how leading practices are being used to transform supply chain performance by attending this session on the Global Value Chain Study. This study, undertaken by IBM Global Business Services in conjunction with APQC, identifies current practices, captures significant trends and establishes operational performance benchmarks in several key areas of Supply Chain Management: New Product Development, Planning, Procurement, and Logistics. By analyzing responses from
companies across a range of industries, in multiple geographies worldwide, it provides unique insight into challenges and demonstrates how supply chain management is changing from a static and cost-centric function to an evolving, integrated business model.
Kanban in a Can: Capture, Visualize and Optimize your Everyday ProcessesArun Kumar
Kanban in a Can: use online taskboards, like Kerika, to capture, visualize, share and optimize your everyday business processes.
While we can all agree that 3-ring binders really suck as a way of capturing business processes, not many of us have moved past posting PDFs on our Intranets.
But PDFs on Intranet is just "paper on glass": instead of printing and distributing 3-ring binders, you are just moving the printing problem to your users.
Visual process templates is an innovative solution to shortening the PDCA cycle in a dramatic way.
“Sprinkle the Pixie Dust”: How to Sell Your Content Management Initiative Int...dclsocialmedia
You’ve recognized that your content development and publishing processes are in need of an overhaul, but getting a content management strategy approved and funded by your management team can be a tough job. In this webinar sponsored by Data Conversion Laboratory, Dr. JoAnn Hackos of Comtech Services and Suzanne Mescan of Vasont Systems will explain how you can “sprinkle the pixie dust” around your organization to move your content management strategy forward. They will explain how to:
- Find a champion or 2
- Navigate through the approval process
- Align your content strategy with your organization’s goals
- Develop a proposal for a content management strategy
- Build the estimated return on investment for your proposal
Slides from the presentation "A Brave New World of Delivering IT – what Devops and Continuous Delivery really means to the business" by Andrew Phillips at the Unicom DevOps Summit: DevOps for Business Value.
See http://www.devopssummit.com/london-june-2015/
Managing the Evolving Role of Finance to Empower Enterprise GrowthProformative, Inc.
The role of Finance continues to rapidly evolve and is becoming increasingly strategic. Senior finance professionals are being asked to increase value-added services across the entire organization, and are taking on a greater role in facilitating growth-related initiatives across the enterprise. Attend this session to understand the shift in how finance leaders are spending their time and the implications of that change. Learn how they align strategy, scorecards and systems to be more effective in driving growth initiatives within and beyond the finance function. Hear how finance executives in leading-edge organizations are approaching this transformational shift in their roles and functions, and successfully elevating the view of the Finance function, while empowering growth across the enterprise.
Speakers: Mike Forman, VP Finance & Corporate Controller, NetSuite
Carl Cox, CFO and EVP of Operations, LightSpeed Technologies
Presentation delivered at ProformaTECH 2014 - http://www.proformatech.com
Track: Managing Change | Session: 1
Culture, Processes and Tools of Continuous DeliveryXebiaLabs
Slides from the presentation "Three Pillars of Continuous Delivery: Culture, Processes and Tools" at the CD Summits London and Paris 2014. http://www.cloudbees.com/cdsummit/london
LivingSocial Director of Global HR Colleen Wood delivers her company's vision for sustaining their social, collaborative culture.
See how Rypple helped Living Social achieve that vision as LivingSocial grew in the last year from 600 to 5000 employees.
Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement in Your CompanyKevin Goldsmith
First presented at Agile Camp NW in September 2017.
Continuous improvement is the goal for agile teams. We strive for it.
What does it look like when we create a continuous improvement beyond our agile teams and bring it to the larger organization: the company level?
Kevin Goldsmith was leaving Spotify, a company that had a built an amazing continuous improvement culture. He saw the benefits that it brought, first hand. When he joined Avvo as its new CTO, his primary goal was to help Avvo create that culture for itself.
In this talk, Kevin shows what Avvo has done to build a foundation for a continuous improvement culture: frameworks, organizational and processes that support and empower individuals and groups to own and drive improvements to make themselves more efficient and the company a better place to work.
The ideas presented will inspire cultural and organizational changes that you can make to bring continuous improvement to your institutions.
DOES16 London - Andrew Hawkins - Horses for CoursesGene Kim
Andrew Hawkins, CTO Automation & Delivery Lead, LV=
This presentation is titled "Horses for Courses" and will outline a story of improvement at LV= recognizing that as organisations we will all adopt new and improved ways of working in different ways and with varying degrees of pace. As an organisation very much aligned to ITIL and through introduction of automation practices we continue to see steady improvement in quality of service and throughput of change. We’ll share our story along with challenges faced and the opportunities we see ahead.
Using the Product Wall Release Workshop – Alignment From Vision to Sprint Bac...BigVisible Higdon
Multi-team Release Planning, as it is often executed, fails to bring alignment beyond one-time inter-team coordination. When the “Chief Product Owner” arrives with just descriptions of features, the teams don’t learnt the connection between features and value. This hands-on session provides a hypothetical Product Wall Release Workshop. The Product Wall Release Workshop brings together all the elements of business needs, user experience, value proposition, dependency resolution, risk mitigation and user story planning. By combining various Agile collaboration techniques in a guided sequence, your multi-team Release Planning can create alignment by learning together and building together a clear path to success, from the release vision all the way to Sprint Backlogs.
Presentation by Alan Dayley in a session of the Agile Roots 2014 Conference.
"Scaling a Marketplace with a Physical Product” Shruti Shah (Move Loot, SVB)TheFamily
We were delighted to welcome Shruti Shah, Entrepreneur in Residence at Silicon Valley Bank and ex-Cofounder & COO of Move Loot.
In this talk, Shruti shares the story of Move Loot, the YC-backed full-service marketplace for buying and selling furniture.
⚡️ In only 3 years, they raised $22M and expanded across the US, with the vision to reinvent how people sell their (big) stuff.
Startups tend to pursue growth at all costs.
But how do you grow at startup-speed when you're a customer-facing business, with physical bulgy items that need to move from point A to point B?
The challenge was enormous, and eventually Move Loot had to shut down.
In this talk, Shruti shares some of the learnings of:
- Going from a crazy idea to a live business
- Building a fully-integrated logistics platform
- Raising a lot of money FAST, and growing a team
- Pivoting, and what it’s like to shut down a company
** Shruti Shah is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Silicon Valley Bank where she is currently working with the early stage practice team on strategic partnerships. She was previously the co-founder and COO of Y Combinator backed Move Loot where she led national expansion and general business operations.
Shruti was honored by Forbes as a 2016 30 Under 30 recipient in Retail and E-Commerce and the Aspen Institute as an Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar in reimagining capitalism. Prior to co-founding Move Loot, Shruti worked for the New Schools Venture Seed Fund, a seed fund that invests in early-stage education technology companies, and she was also a public school teacher in Baltimore, Maryland through Teach for America, where she taught elementary school.
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Originally presented at the 207 Lean Transformation Conference, this presentation provides a practical introduction to Scrum, particularly for public sector employees, and guides you to deciding whether Kanban or Scrum will work best for your teams and projects.
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Canadian Immigration Tracker March 2024 - Key SlidesAndrew Griffith
Highlights
Permanent Residents decrease along with percentage of TR2PR decline to 52 percent of all Permanent Residents.
March asylum claim data not issued as of May 27 (unusually late). Irregular arrivals remain very small.
Study permit applications experiencing sharp decrease as a result of announced caps over 50 percent compared to February.
Citizenship numbers remain stable.
Slide 3 has the overall numbers and change.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Up the Ratios Bylaws - a Comprehensive Process of Our Organizationuptheratios
Up the Ratios is a non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the gap in STEM education for underprivileged students by providing free, high-quality learning opportunities in robotics and other STEM fields. Our mission is to empower the next generation of innovators, thinkers, and problem-solvers by offering a range of educational programs that foster curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.
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Our free classes cover fundamental concepts in robotics, coding, and engineering, providing students with a strong foundation in these critical areas. Through our interactive workshops, students can dive deeper into specific topics, working on projects that challenge them to apply what they've learned and think creatively. Our summer camps offer an immersive experience where students can collaborate on larger projects, develop their teamwork skills, and gain confidence in their abilities.
In addition to our local programs, Up the Ratios is committed to making a global impact. We take donations of new and gently used robotics parts, which we then distribute to students and educational institutions in other countries. These donations help ensure that young learners worldwide have the resources they need to explore and excel in STEM fields. By supporting education in this way, we aim to nurture a global community of future leaders and innovators.
Our live lectures feature guest speakers from various STEM disciplines, including engineers, scientists, and industry professionals who share their knowledge and experiences with our students. These lectures provide valuable insights into potential career paths and inspire students to pursue their passions in STEM.
Up the Ratios relies on the generosity of donors and volunteers to continue our work. Contributions of time, expertise, and financial support are crucial to sustaining our programs and expanding our reach. Whether you're an individual passionate about education, a professional in the STEM field, or a company looking to give back to the community, there are many ways to get involved and make a difference.
We are proud of the positive impact we've had on the lives of countless students, many of whom have gone on to pursue higher education and careers in STEM. By providing these young minds with the tools and opportunities they need to succeed, we are not only changing their futures but also contributing to the advancement of technology and innovation on a broader scale.
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Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
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Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
A process server is a authorized person for delivering legal documents, such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, and other court papers, to peoples involved in legal proceedings.
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
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Inscription on an old globe, now in the New York Public Library
Hic
Dracones, which translates as Here Be Dragons.
The end of the known world.
Terra Incognita when asked to deliver on two mandates simultaneously:
Transform IT from Waterfall to Scrum, and
Move a bunch of IT offshore to save money.
Distributed Agile was going to be just a combination of two things I had done very successfully before.
What followed was like the middle part of the Lord of the Rings, all darkness, woe and frightful danger.
What I found was that I was going into Terra Incognita: distributed agile wasn’t just not recognized by traditional Scrum practitioners; it was actively rejected as a concept by traditional Scrum thinking and writing.
So, I had to do a bunch of experiments
I am going to use the words Lean and Agile somewhat interchangeably in this talk, since the concepts I want to highlight today apply to both, but given the mixed audience we have here today it might be helpful to sort out our terminology first…
This whole conference is all about Lean, and many of you are more expert on the subject than I am so I won’t go into too much detail on this, but at a high-level we could say that Lean is about removing the 7 forms of waste through Kaizen events.
A common characteristic of Lean teams is the use of Kanban boards to organize and visualize work: traditionally this has been done with sticky notes, but there are huge disadvantages to sticky notes when we are dealing with distributed teams, as I will illustrate today.
And with Kanban boards, your goal is generally to manage and optimize flow: whether it is for your personal list of tasks, or for your team’s tasks.
One of the methods that people frequently use for this is by limiting Work-In-Progress, for example.
And the great thing about Kanban boards is that you can do continuous improvement as frequently as you like: you can tweak your process and reprioritize your workload on a daily basis as you deal with shifting priorities and changing resources.
So, where would you want to use Lean?
Lean is a great model where you have new work coming in continuously, for example, when each day something new lands on your plate by way of an email, a phone call or a meeting.
Ideally, all the work is roughly of the same size and shape, so it can all go onto the same Kanban board.
And if you are working in a team environment, ideally all the work that comes in can be done by your, or someone like you: in other words, anyone on your team could potentially take on a new task as soon as they are freed up from their old task.
Of course, if something much larger or very different from usual comes in one day, you are probably going to have to use a different Kanban board to take care of that.
As new work comes in regularly, you are going to have to re-prioritize your work frequently: probably daily, sometimes more than once.
A new work item may make it to the top of the list, or end up in the middle or the bottom, depending upon how urgent it is.
Examples of where Kanban boards make sense are for Personal Kanban, where you organize your personal work load – and maybe give visibility into that to your manager and coworkers, and support teams, e.g. a technical help desk that deals with similar PC support issues all day.
Here’s a real-life example of a Personal Kanban board: this one comes from Melissa Wideman in OFM, who has organized all of her tasks into a simple online board that she can view in her browser – and share with her manager and coworkers.
(We’ll talk more about how she does that.)
Agile is a similar model to Lean, but it’s roots like in IT rather than in manufacturing.
With an Agile model, you have a team that works in project iterations called “Sprints”
The Sprints are always of a fixed, usually constant duration: for example, a team may choose to work in 2-week Sprints.
The actual duration of a Sprint is entirely up to the team, but 2-3 weeks is generally a good rhythm.
At the beginning of each Sprint, the team commits to a chunk of deliverables that called the Sprint Backlog.
The key differentiator for Agile vs. Lean is that a Sprint is a protected space: while the Sprint is underway, no one outside the team can attempt to change the team’s commitments.
At the end of each Sprint, the team will do a retrospective and look for process improvements, while also looking at all the work that remains and reprioritizing that to reflect any changes in reality that have taken place in the past 2 weeks.
So, if Lean is about removing waste, Agile is about reducing the cost of change.
So, where would you want to use an Agile model?
You should adopt Agile in any scenario where the work is new, in other words it is a type of commitment that has never been made before by the team, and consequently the strategy is uncertain.
Anytime you undertake to do something completely new, there is really no way that you can have a fixed strategy and a fixed plan: that’s been the basic flaw of the old Waterfall model of doing work, where you tried to define and specify every aspect of something that you have never done before, and then you were judged entirely upon how well you followed the agreed-upon plan, even if that plan makes no sense by the time you finish the project.
Unfortunately, government projects are too often associated with these kinds of disasters that are years in the making, even though the flaws in the plan become evident fairly early in the project.
Like with Lean, you are also looking for process improvement in Agile, but you are trying to do this on an rhythmic process: at the end of every Sprint you do a Retrospective where you look back and try to understand what went well, what didn’t, and how you could do better in the next Sprint.
The cadence of a Sprint also means that work is getting re-prioritized only episodically: during the Sprint you cannot change priorities, so it’s at the end of a Sprint that you get to review all the work that remains, and shuffle it around.
So, where would you use Agile? Pretty much for any all software development.
Here’s real-life example of an Agile project.
This board looks a lot like Melissa’s Task List, the Kanban board we saw earlier, but it’s got some critical differences, and the one I want to focus on right now is the list of people who are working on this board.
You might recognize some of these names, and if you do, you will quickly realize that this Agile project actually involved people from 8 different agencies, who had to come together to deliver the state’s overall commitment: that someone living in Pierce County wouldn’t inadvertently get sent a bill for King County taxes!
Distributed teams are everywhere.
Historically, they were embraced first in the Non-Profit Sector, before coming to the Private Sector and finally the Public Sector
Non-Profits have always been what I would call a cottage industry.
If you look at the statistics in Washington State alone, there are over 55,000 non-profits, which is an astonishingly high number.
And, more importantly, most non-profits are tiny: 80% of them have assets or income that’s less than $100,000
And while you can think of non-profits in many ways, from the perspective of state government they are really service delivery organizations that are sub-contracted to deliver civic services.
There are examples of outsourced civic services across the U.S., from literacy programs to nutrition programs to family services.
So, how do these tiny non-profits survive and thrive?
They do so by getting good at leveraging multiple, transient partnerships.
They partner among themselves, with donor organizations, and with the public and private sector to deliver a greater impact than they could on their own
The Private sector has also embraced distributed teams, and this has largely been out of necessity.
This is a fun example of distributed teams: Google and Google’s CIO are on opposite ends of the United States.
When Google hired Ben Fried as their CIO, he was a long-time resident of New York, and guess what: he still is!
Large organizations in the private sector have to embrace distributed teams because, ultimately, no room is roomy enough for everything that needs to get done.
Anybody familiar with this building?
It’s the Department of Ecology – the infamously long building in Lacey, where I discovered, a couple of weeks ago, that it’s a quarter-mile walk from my car to my meeting room.
And the public sector is undergoing transformation too:
At a most fundamental level, unless you work in a really tiny agency you are going to have to work with people located in multiple locations.
With budget flat or declining, as far as the eye can see, you are going to have to get better at partnerships, not just across agencies – which, frankly, has always been close to non-existent in the past – but also across sectors.
When your budget goes down but your population goes up, and all the citizens continue to demand the same services and even more, you are going to have to figure out how to deliver more with less.
Because more is a given, and less is also, unfortunately, a given.
And for most agencies, you have field teams to support: 75% of the State Auditor’s Office, for example, is not located in Olympia.
And, finally, you need to think about how to deliver on the Governor’s mandate for Telework, because, after all, we all want to have a better work-life balance!
So, we are looking at a more complex environment, what I would call a model of social collaboration, where you are a member of multiple collaboration networks that are changing.
The networks are changing because people come and go from projects and teams.
And the projects are changing because you are embracing change: whether it is through Lean or Agile, you are trying to affirmatively deal with changes in priorities and workloads and resources, and to periodically improve your processes, reduce waste, and reduce the cost of change.
So, if you went down to Cupertino, California, and asked the Jedi Master himself what really matters for distributed Lean and Agile teams to succeed, what might he suggest?
These are some of the key critical success factors for making distributed Lean and Agile teams succeed.
First, there needs to be a way to visualize the work. You need to be able to see at a glance all that’s on someone’s plate, or all that a team has to get done.
You need to be able to see this on a high level, and to be able to drill-down if necessary to an individual task or person.
But what’s different with distributed teams is that everyone needs to have visibility, not just you.
And that inevitably means that your Lean or Agile project board has to be maintained in some way that makes it possible for people to see what’s going on, without having to be in the same room as you
These are some of the key critical success factors for making distributed Lean and Agile teams succeed.
First, there needs to be a way to visualize the work. You need to be able to see at a glance all that’s on someone’s plate, or all that a team has to get done.
You need to be able to see this on a high level, and to be able to drill-down if necessary to an individual task or person.
But what’s different with distributed teams is that everyone needs to have visibility, not just you.
And that inevitably means that your Lean or Agile project board has to be maintained in some way that makes it possible for people to see what’s going on, without having to be in the same room as you
These are some of the key critical success factors for making distributed Lean and Agile teams succeed.
First, there needs to be a way to visualize the work. You need to be able to see at a glance all that’s on someone’s plate, or all that a team has to get done.
You need to be able to see this on a high level, and to be able to drill-down if necessary to an individual task or person.
But what’s different with distributed teams is that everyone needs to have visibility, not just you.
And that inevitably means that your Lean or Agile project board has to be maintained in some way that makes it possible for people to see what’s going on, without having to be in the same room as you
Here’s another great real-life example of a distributed Kanban team that was working on a cost saving initiative.
There were Lean teams located in 25 different locations in Australia and New Zealand that had been trying to collaborate by having a video camera trained at a physical Kanban board in one location.
See how little was getting done!
This is the same team, just a few weeks later.
By the way, 2 weeks after our initial visit, we went back to DOL to take some more pictures of the Post-It Palace, because it was such a remarkable sight and our initial pictures were a little blurry.
This is what we found…