Jan

10


2017

2017 January Meetup

Tue (07:00 PM - 09:00 PM)

Summary

Join us at Agile Yorkshire for an evening where we tackle the often tricky balance between agile teams and traditional management. Our speaker will share real-world scenarios and practical strategies that have helped companies successfully transition to an agile way of delivery. We'll explore the importance of team fluency, which goes beyond just the skills of team members to include management structures, relationships, company culture, and the tools they use. If your agile teams have hit a plateau, this talk will introduce the Agile Fluency Model—a roadmap to reignite continuous improvement and ensure your teams and business reap the full benefits of agile practices.

Programme

Hello... I'm Your Project Manager!
The dichotomy between agile teams and traditional management has plagued my world for the past few years. I look at scenarios you might come up against and how I've tried to deal with them to allow companies to transform into an agile way of delivery.
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Adam Mitchell
Agile coach and triathlete. Spent the last 14yrs working in IT around Leeds/Manchester. Left development behind and moved into helping companies with agile transformation programs.
The Agile Fluency Model
Agile is about teams and people, and the success of any project will depend on it team(s). Team fluency is more than the capabilities of the team members. There is also the management structures, relationships, and company culture, as well as the tools, practices and technologies that the team use. Many agile teams have plateaued, while we all know that continuous improvement is a foundation of agile, many teams has stopped making these improvements. They lose the benefits that can be had for themselves and the company. The Agile Fluency Model will help guide a pathway through many of these issues and work with the wider business to incorporate them into the agile process.
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Kev McCabe
Kev has worked with large corporations in the Finance, Media, E-commerce and Logistics spaces. He’s currently a freelance code smith, coach & trainer; With a passion to improve developers from the ground up in all areas of development. He also has a huge Interest in all things Agile since 2002, mainly XP, but of late Scrum & Kanban having become a Certified Scrum Master in 2012 and Accredited Kanban Practitioner in 2013 and SAFe agilist in 2015.