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.

An Agile PMO?
Does your PMO Produce Multiple Obstacles for your agile projects or Promote Many Opportunities for success?

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.

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.

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.

“Keystone Commercial Systems Project: We broke all the rules*, because we had to. What would you do?”
(*at least all the conventional project management “rules”.)

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.

Many companies have adopted Agile in software development. Although some companies have great success using Agile, some companies have no luck using Agile and are faced with various difficulties and challenges. When their Agile projects fail, they claim "Agile doesn't work!". In the presentation, I will discuss the common pitfalls of these companies using Agile, exploring the reasons why they say "Agile doesn't work!". Do they really understand Agile? Do they have adequate training and support from management?

Do you want to help blow (or not) some popular Agile Myths out of the water? Come prepared to join this explosive discussion. Myths to be busted or find plausible might include:

• Agile projects are cheaper
• Agile methods promote scope creep
• Agile scales naturally
• Agile teams are happier
• Agile is quicker/faster
• Agile methods avoid accountability
• You cannot accurately estimate agile projects

Come join in this event it should be a blast!

Not everyone is a fan of the self directed self organizing team. It flies in the face of traditional project management, and often conflicts with the traditional organization model.

The benefits of self directed teams however are too big to ignore and now we have scientific proof as to why.

In this new talk on agile leadership, Jonathan explains how and why agile leadership works, the science behind why so many choose to work this way, and the impact it’s going to have on you and your organization.

To help build a vibrant Agile community in Calgary, we would like to invite you to a networking event. Come out and meet other Agile Leaders within Calgary, swap stories and share some laughs. Agile Recruiting has graciously sponsored the event by providing appetizers. Cash bar will be available.

For the season windup, join us for this special meeting when we try something new! – An interactive discussion in which we explore a number of project leadership challenges and difficulties.

Possible topics include the following, amongst a long list:

"I have challenges completing agile projects with dependencies on non-agile (i.e. waterfall) projects."
"My team is totally dysfunctional? Where do I start? How do you build trust within a team?"
"Sponsorship, what sponsorship, is anyone really there? How to address the problem of an absent sponsor."