Agile Events & (Free) Training Calendar

The Future of Work in Scotland
Wednesday, August 12 at 7:00 PM

The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be bringing you a session with Dr Suzanne Doyle-Morris. Suzanne will be talking about the lessons fr...

https://www.meetup.com/the-future-of-work-in-Scotland/events/271252516/

Here’s the opportunity to learn the Bikablo visualization technique which thousands of people apply to create better meetings and projects. Explore basic marker skills for your flip chart or whiteboard. Develop your visual vocabulary—pictograms, figures, and containers. Use simple combination techniques to create thoughtsketches. Learn to make ideas, differing views, problems, questions, processes, and project progress visible to accelerate results. 

Bring two chisel tip, black, permanent ink markers, e.g. Neuland, Mr. Sketch, Sharpie…

A few light colors for shadow, chisel tip yellow, pink, orange, lime green, etc.

BIO

Jill Greenbaum

Dr. Jill Greenbaum helps leaders across the globe to create responsive environments in corporate, government, nonprofit, and educational settings, by accessing the strengths of their communication styles. Jill utilizes her expertise in instructional design, training, facilitation, and coaching to deliver stellar offerings that transform participants, their relationships, and their work. She leverages her strengths as a graphic facilitator to support clients in gaining greater clarity, perspective, and depth, about the issues and challenges they are facing, enabling accelerated, richer, and long-lasting results. Jill is the only member of the Bikablo Global Training Team in the United States.

The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be bringing you a session with the awesome Dan Vacanti.

Whether we like it or not, our customers’ most important question is “When Will It Be Done?” Answering this question accurately requires a different approach than recommended by many Agile techniques. By means of example we shall explore weather forecasting—and in particular hurricane forecasting—to give us insights into how we might approach this problem. The increased accuracy of hurricane forecasting is mainly due to the rigorous application of proven techniques like Monte Carlo Simulation and Continuous Forecasting. In this talk we will explore some of those practices and discuss how you might employ them to make your projects more predictable. We will walk through some real-world examples that will explain how to get you up and running with methods immediately. You wouldn’t want a little thing like bad forecasting get in the way of you delivering your projects on time, would you?

Learning Objectives:

What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?

- Why uncertainty of forecasting demands a probabilistic approach
- What does it mean to think probabilistically?
- The basic elements that go into a good forecast
- A brief introduction to a forecasting technique

Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:

Daniel Vacanti is a 25-plus year software industry veteran who has spent most of his career focusing on Lean and Agile practices.

In 2007, he helped to develop the Kanban Method for knowledge work and managed the world’s first project implementation of Kanban that year. He has been conducting Lean-Agile training, coaching, and consulting ever since. In 2011 he founded ActionableAgileTM (previously Corporate Kanban) which provides industry-leading predictive analytics tools and services organizations that utilize Lean-Agile practices.

In 2015 he published his book, “Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability”, which is the definitive guide to flow-based metrics and analytics. In 2017, he helped to develop the “Professional Scrum with Kanban” class with Scrum.org. Daniel holds an M.B.A. and regularly teaches a class on lean principles for software management at the University of California Berkeley.

Details: https://www.meetup.com/the-future-of-work-in-Scotland/events/271355165/

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Memphis Technology User Groups
Thursday, August 27 at 11:30 AM

We are please to welcome all the way from the UK, Craig Cockburn (Coburn), only distantly related to Agile Manifesto Alistair 🙂 The topic will be *Vis...

https://www.meetup.com/memphis-technology-user-groups/events/271235500/