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Calgary APLN
Sep 12, 2011 —
Regular meetings will run from 12:00 – 1:00pm and will be located at Fifth Avenue Place Conference Room Suite 202, 420 2nd Street SW. We are currently looking for sponsors to help bring these events to you free of charge. If you are able to sponsor an event please contact:
Mike Griffiths – Mike@LeadingAnswers.com or
Janice Aston – Janice@agileperspective.ca
Mike Haden – mike.haden@stridepm.com
Notes from APLN Planning Session – June 27, 2011
Aug 15, 2011 — Here are the results from our planning session.
Click here to download the Calgary APLN planning notes.
Upcoming Events
But I thought you were flying the plane!
Guest Speaker |
Steve Adolph |
Date |
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 |
Time |
12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Special Notes |
Registration opens at 11:30am, event runs from 12-1pm |
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Fifth Avenue Place (Conference Room) |
Description |
But I thought you were flying the plane! During the mid 60s the frequent crashes of perfectly good working aircraft alarmed world airlines. What was missing from their pilot training programs? After extensive research, the airlines discovered nothing lacking in the pilot’s “stick and rudder” skills, rather these accidents where the result of the flight crew to work as a team. In response the airlines instituted the Crew Resource Management program teaching pilots, flight attendants, dispatchers how to work together as a team. So what does this all have to do with software development? For the last 4 years while researching my doctoral dissertation, I studied agile teams to understand how people manage the process of software development. During this research the question always in the back of my mind was a question similar to that which perplexed the world airlines: Even for agile teams, why do smart hardworking people fail to deliver on their commitments? Like the airlines, is something missing from our Agile training programs? Is something missing from our Agile practices? Part of the answer to these questions comes the theory developed during this research and a course of action is offered for improving agile teams. |
About the Speaker |
Steve is an Agile Coach and a preferred partner of Rally Software where he pursues his passion for helping organizations get the job done. Steve has been creating and managing software development projects long enough to remember Fortran and OS/MVT JCL. His professional career ranges over many exciting and critical projects including designing call processing software for digital telephone exchanges, design and development of leading edge network management systems, railway signaling, and telecom billing. He has diverse experience over many different job roles from developer to chief engineer, to CTO, across many different industries, from telecom, to graphic arts. With Rally Software Steve coaches large industrial enterprises through their agile transformation. Academically, Steve holds an MSc in Computing Science from BCʼs beautiful Simon Fraser University, and 20 years later got a crazy idea to pursue a doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineer at the University of British Columbia. Steve is active in the agile software development community and is the co founder of Agile Vancouver, has served as a stage producer and program chair for various agile conferences including last yearʼs Agile 2011. He has spoken at a variety of conferences and has authored numerous articles on the topic of In his downtime, Steve enjoys the usual Canadian west coast lifestyle of skiing, cycling, kayaking, hiking, and cheering on the Canucks. He occasionally tries to practice karate and is passionate about aviation. There are rumors he also has a secret passion for opera. |
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Technical Debt: Should I care?? (and its impacts in project management)
Guest Speaker |
Hugo Corbucci |
Date |
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 |
Time |
12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Special Notes |
Registration opens at 11:30am, event runs from 12-1pm |
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Description |
Software development projects are all about trade offs. One of the most common is between quality and cost. As all trade offs, the tendency of the answer varies as time goes. The start of a project usually allows for less quality to reduce the cost of evaluating the idea's potential resulting in a poor code base. However, having such code base has a big impact in the software's ability to evolve and be maintained. This is what is called Technical Debt. |
About the Speaker |
Hugo Corbucci has a CS master degree in Agile Methods from the Univeristy of São Paulo (Brazil). He has been involved in the Brazilian Agile community since 2006 giving courses, presenting at conferences and organizing them. He founded his own consulting company (Agilbits) in Brazil in 2008 to provide high quality software development allied with agile consultancy having worked both with web as well as desktop solutions. Since the end of 2011, he is working at ThoughtWorks helping organizations be more successful through agile practices such as continuous delivery and experience design. |
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Past Events
Agile Coffee Break
Guest Speaker |
Agile Coffee Break |
Date |
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 |
Description |
Do you want to connect with other like minded leaders but don’t have the time to network? Do you have an interesting challenge and not sure what to do? Join us for an Agile Coffee Break at Sunterra. Take a break and drop by for a coffee and some stimulating conversation. Eagle Professional Resources is sponsoring the event by providing coffee and other beverages. |
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An Agile PMO?
Guest Speaker |
Mike Griffiths |
Date |
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 |
Description |
An Agile PMO? A Project Management Office (PMO) can act as an obstacle to agile projects. This can take the form of asking for inappropriate planning detail by not recognizing the likelihood of changes; or asking for conformance to templates that are not even used on an agile project. For these reasons PMOs often get a bad reputation on agile teams, but it need not be that way, they can also add tremendous support and be a great help. This presentation examines the role of the PMO, how common behaviours can be obstacles for agile teams, and how organizations have positioned the PMOs to support agile projects. Accompanied with case studies from Nationwide insurance who used lean principles to transform their inefficient, blocking PMO to an efficient enabling hub for project assistance. |
About the Speaker |
Mike Griffiths is a project manager and trainer for the PMI in agile project management. He is helping write the new PMBOK v5 Guide, the Software extension to the PMBOK guide and the PMI-ACP certification. Mike was a co-creator of DSDM in 1994 and has been using agile methods for the last 17 years. He maintains the blog www.LeadingAnswers.com. |
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Season Opener – Networking Social
Guest Speaker |
Networking Event |
Date |
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 |
Description |
To help build a vibrant Agile Leadership community in Calgary, we would like to invite you to a networking event. Come out and meet other leaders, swap stories and share some laughs. Agile Recruiting has graciously sponsored the event by providing appetizers. Cash bar will be available. |
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APLN Planning Session
Guest Speaker |
Facilitated planning session using Innovation Games® |
Date |
Monday, June 27th, 2011 |
Description |
Help shape the Calgary APLN to better serve you. Let’s create a shared understanding of the role that the CAPLN plays in the leadership community and how best to fulfill that role. In doing so you will participate in a creative and fun agile planning session using Innovation Games®. If you have never been exposed to “serious” games you are in for a surprise. Come see how these techniques might be utilized within your organization to drive innovation. |
About the Speaker |
Janice Aston, an Innovation Games® trained facilitator, will be facilitating the planning session. Janice is an Agile Project Leader and Coach who is passionate about building high performing teams focused on delivering business value. She has successfully embraced a combination of traditional and agile methods to deliver on project commitments. She has a heart for leadership; creating a shared vision, building a collaborative work environment, and mentoring and coaching team members. |
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“Keystone Commercial Systems Project: We broke all the rules*, because we had to. What would you do?”
Guest Speaker |
Interactive Discussion |
Date |
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 |
Description |
“Keystone Commercial Systems Project: We broke all the rules*, because we had to. What would you do?” We had a challenge ahead of us; TransCanada was entering the oil pipeline business with the Keystone Pipeline, and IS needed to implement a customer commercial application suite in just over a year. In recent times, it had taken us at least 3 years just to replace existing pipeline commercial applications. It was a daunting task, but we ended up successful. |
About the Speaker |
Raj Chander Frank Letniowski |
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