We are taking a slight departure from the norm this month and co-hosting our meeting with the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). Agile software development has been a hot topic with our members and this month is the inaugural meeting for the Forth Worth Chapter of the APLN. We hope you will agree that jointly holding the meeting with the APLN this month is a benefit to our members as well as helping the APLN successfully start up their chapter.
Joseph Little will be presenting: Shock therapy, Scrum, and the Nokia Test: Is this really self-organization?
NOTE: This month's meeting will not be held at our normal Justin Boots Location.
When:
February 17, 2009
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Where:
ThinkCash Financial
Overton Center, Tower 2
4100 International Plaza
Fort Worth, TX 76109
Agenda:
6:30 – 6:45 Check-in / Networking
6:45 – 7:15 Survey / Gathering of ideas
7:15 – 8:15 "Shock therapy, Scrum, and the Nokia Test: Is this really self-organization?"
8:15 – 8:30 Wrap-up
Registration:
As with our regular FWDNUG meetings - this meeting is FREE to attend along with FREE food and drinks.
Please send an email to fortworthapln@gmail.com RSVP'ing so we can plan to have enough food and drink for everyone.
What is APLN?
APLN was founded in 2004 by a group of people who are active in writing about, practicing, and evangelizing the movement towards fast, flexible, customer value driven approaches to leading projects of many types. This group works closely with the Agile Alliance within the software community and with people and companies outside of software and IT to help them become better Project Leaders.
Speaker Bio
Joe Little is an Agile coach and Certified Scrum Trainer. His goal is to use Lean-Agile principles and practices to help firms deliver more business value for customers, to make workers’ lives better and to benefit stakeholders. Discovering business value is one of his passions. And helping teams discover new avenues to greater productivity. He is proud for several people he has mentored, who now themselves are very strong in Agile.
Joe learned Scrum from Ken Schwaber and later mentored with Jeff Sutherland, with whom he continues to co-teach. He also works with several other CSTs (and friends). He produces Lean Software training with the Poppendiecks. His preference is to practice Agile as a combination of Scrum, XP and Lean principles and practices. Joe was a speaker at Agile2007 and at Agile2008. He started Agile-Carolinas.
He started off as an English major and international banker, but after getting an MBA, got into the software industry and became a management consultant. Having worked on so many SW Dev projects over 20+ years, he is possibly a real geek now. He started his own firm in 1991. Many years ago, he was a Big 6 management consultant (Senior Manager). He has been a senior business and IT consultant to a small number of household names in New York, London, and Charlotte. He has worked with relatively few clients, since his clients tend to invite him back. He named his firm Kitty Hawk in part because of the Wright Brothers’ success in turning an idea into reality.
Born in Virginia, he lived in NYC for 20+ years. Joe now lives with his family in Charlotte. He has a BA from Yale and an MBA from NYU.
More Information:
If you have questions, please contact:
Charley Seaman (817-233-8962), Harry Long (210-995-2421) or Jaynee Beach Jaynee.beach@yahoo.com