Topic:
The Agile Playground: Learning Games for the Agile Practitioner
Guest Speakers:
Michael McCullough, Technical Director, Quadrus Development Inc.
Date:
Wednesday, November 26th 2008 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Fifth Avenue Place (Conference Room)
202, 420 - 2nd Street SW
Calgary, Alberta
Description:
This fun, energetic, and interactive session explores game techniques for accelerating the adoption and understanding of Agile principles through experiential learning.
Guest Speaker |
Michael McCullough, Quadrus Development Inc. |
Date |
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 |
Description |
The Agile Playground: Learning Games for the Agile Practitioner playground |ˈplāˌground| noun |
About the Speaker |
Michael McCullough is a trainer and consultant at Quadrus. He has served as a project leader, trainer, coach and mentor for an impressive list of clients in a broad range of industries and business environments. With a broad background in software development and practical experience leading Agile teams, Michael is able to effectively assist and mentor clients in the adoption and application of Agile methodologies. Michael has a keen interest in team dynamics and approaches to creating environments for highly productive teams. Michael has deep, practical experience applying game techniques in the classroom and project room to communicate Agile values and principles. |
Presentation Slides |
Oct 15, 2008 — Welcome to the 2008/2009 season of the Calgary APLN. In addition to the current presentation format, we are also planning interactive tool and technique sessions to build skills, experience reports to share learning’s (2x30 min format), as well as networking opportunities.
Please book these dates on your calendar:
Oct 27, 2008 Overview of Agile Project Leadership with Mike Griffiths
Nov 26, 2008 The Agile Playground: Learning Games for the Agile Practitioner with Michael McCullough
Jan 28, 2009
Feb 26, 2009
Mar 25, 2009
May 27, 2009
Welcome to the 2008/2009 season of the Calgary APLN. You are invited to the first meeting on October 27th where Mike Griffiths will be providing an overview of Agile Project Leadership and Janice Aston will outline the new format for this year.
Mike's talk was presented on the Main Stage of the Agile 2008 Conference this August in Toronto and outlined the shift from project management to leadership when running agile projects.
Please register for this free event by visiting the CalgaryAPLN web site www.CalgaryAPLN.org and confirming your details.
Guest Speaker |
Mike Griffiths, independent consultant |
Date |
Monday, October 27th, 2008 |
Description |
Agile projects require shared leadership and collaboration to be successful, yet many organizations try to use outdated command-and-control approaches. "We manage property and lead people. If you try to manage people they feel like property". This presentation exposes the weaknesses of trying to use formal project management on emergent endeavours and outlines the leadership and collaboration based alternatives. |
About the Speaker |
Mike Griffiths is an independent consultant specializing in effective project management. Mike was involved in the creation of DSDM in 1994 and has been using agile methods (Scrum, FDD, XP, and DSDM) for the last 14 years. He is active in both the agile project management community and traditional PMI-based circles. He has served on the board of the Agile Alliance and the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), he was a contributing reviewer to the PMBOK v3 Guide and is a trainer for the PMI SeminarsWorld program. He maintains the award winning leadership and agile project management blog at www.LeadingAnswers.com. |
Presentation Slides |
Presentation slides have been added to Calgary APLN June 18th 2008 event: Executing Agile in a Structured Organization: The City of Calgary.
Calgary APLN
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Calgary Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN)
Topic:
Executing Agile in a Structured Organization: The City of Calgary
Guest Speakers:
Michael McCullough, Technical Director, Quadrus Development Inc.
Janette Scott, Project Manager, City of Calgary
Robyn Johnson, Management Systems Analyst, The City of Calgary
Date:
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Fifth Avenue Place (Conference Room)
202, 420 - 2nd Street SW
Calgary, Alberta
Description:
Guest Speaker |
Michael McCullough, Technical Director, Quadrus Development Inc. |
Date |
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 |
Description |
Learn from our experience executing Agile into the constraints imposed by the complicated and integrated organization and culture at The City of Calgary. We are going to briefly describe the lessons learned from our journey from first deciding to look at Agile to actually executing and evaluating it. Our particular viewpoint will focus on how this played out in a government IT organization that is highly structured. Please use the Executing Agile_Presentation Slides link under the Presentation Slides Section below. |
About the Speaker |
Michael McCullough is a Technical Director with Quadrus Development Inc., an IT consulting and services company based out of Calgary, Alberta. As one of Quadrus’ thought leaders in Agile concepts, Michael plays a leading role in assisting Quadrus’ clients in the quick and practical adoption of agile paradigms and techniques through the application of Quadrus’ Agile Jumpstart methodology; an approach that integrates formal classroom training with on-site mentoring and ad-hoc coaching to teach, practice and apply agile techniques to real project delivery. Over the past 5 years, Michael has been helping fortune 500 companies in the United States and leading organizations here in Canada to understand, integrate and adopt Agile techniques in both project management and software development. In addition to his focus on Agile development, Michael has a background and experience in software development and project management. Robyn Johnson is a Management Systems Analyst in the The City of Calgary's IT Program Management Office. Robyn has been actively involved in project management and application development methodolgy since 2002. Her interest in Agile in Calgary started with a course on SCRUM, and ever since it has been her goal to introduce Agile to The City. Janette Scott is a Project Manager in Application Development with The City of Calgary. Janette is currently leading the Agile Evaluation project that was started in late 2007. She has an extensive background in software development and project management at The City of Calgary. |
Presentation Slides |
Presentation slides from Mike Griffiths' talk on Large Decomposing Programs and the PMI Framework Mappings from the May 15th, 2008 event have been added to the Calgary APLN website. The slides can be found under Past Events - Large Decomposing Programs and the PMI Framework Mappings - Presentation Slides. Both the PMI Agile Mappings and slides from the event are available.
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Presentation slides from Mike Griffiths' talk on Large Decomposing Programs and the PMI Framework Mappings from the May 15th, 2008 event have been added to the Calgary APLN website. The slides can be found under Past Events - Large Decomposing Programs and the PMI Framework Mappings - Presentation Slides. Both the PMI Agile Mappings and slides from the event are available.
