Agile-Carolinas group
People in NC/SC interested in Lean, Agile, Scrum, etc.
Introduction
We welcome people new to Agile. To see some introductory stuff, including pages you may be interested in, go here: Introduction
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When: Thursday, February 13, 2020
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: Cornwell Center
How do you try to convince people about Agile? Do you prepare a list of bullet points, facts, and figures?
Is this working? Or do you still have skeptics that are wearing you out? Or are you just starting and
wondering how many facts and figures you should use? OR, is there a better way?
This presentation will look past the logic of facts to the emotional side of change. You will be introduced to some techniques for inspiring people to change.
Mary Lynn Manns, PhD is a professor in the Department of Management at UNC Asheville. Her books, co-authored with Linda Rising, are Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas, 2005 (also published in Japanese and Chinese) and More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen, 2015. Mary Lynn has given numerous presentations at conferences worldwide and organizations that include Microsoft, Proctor & Gamble, Avon, and Amazon.com
Sponsor is Teksystems
Past Events
Michelin's Agility Journey (the Good, the Bad, the Ugly)
Hosted by: Kevin Cosgrove
Kevin is a Canadian who made his way South in 1997 during the Y2K craze, to work with Michelin as a consultant. After 10 years of consulting and 13 years as an employee at Michelin, Kevin has played almost all roles in IT. He spent 4 years in France building and deploying applications Worldwide before returning to USA. In 2016 he became the Lean and Agile Transformation Program Manager for the Americas. CSM, SA-SAFE 4, Certified Scrum@Scale
Sponsor: TEKSystems
Game Night
When: December 18th 2019
Where:Wells Fargo on the Green
Session Description: To celebrate the holidays and the new year, Agile Carolinas will be holding this event -- the games will be educational and fun, AND we will have a bit of a holiday celebration!
We expect you to learn games you can use with your people.
There will also be food and beverage and socializing. Including one free adult beverage per person.
Over 90 minutes we expect to do 3 different games by 4 amazing Agile leaders:
- Gwen Kestin and Frank Wohlfarth
- Tom Friend
- Rowena Lorusso
You will be asked to participate in these Agile games. As part of the celebration, we will have food and beverages. Afterwards, we will have a bit more (save some room).
Thanks for Randstad for sponsoring.
When- November 14th, 2019
Where- Duke Optimist Hall
340 E 16th Street · Charlotte, nc
Topic- Business Agility What the Heck is it?
Description- A definition of Business Agility: The ability to deliver more and better things to customers more quickly, that are more adaptive to their future needs.
An alternate definition: How to fail fast and learn faster what the customer really, really wants!
Riddhi Gupta will be talking with us about Business Agility. This is a hot topic. She will share with you the purpose and the ways to enable Business Agility at your company. Her model for Business Agility comes from being in various transformations and from what she has learned. and sometimes didn’t see, from teams while in the trenches.Riddhi Gupta is a seasoned IT leader with expertise in formulating and executing IT strategies. She has worked at several well-known firms in Charlotte. You can find her on LinkedIn.
Date : Thursday, September 19, 2018
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Discussion: Enterprise Agile Do’s and Don’ts
Location: The Green
Speaker : Brett Bender
Spotlighting some of the key sponsorships, partnerships, tactics, processes and failure points when embarking on an Enterprise Wide Agile Transformation.
Sponsor: Signature Consultants
See Additional Past Meetings here PastMeetings
Other Notes
Please see the Special Announcements page for information on other up-coming events.
Please see the Your Action page for actions you can take to support Agile-Carolinas. Perhaps the most useful thing is to invite others.
Please help get the message out that this group is available to others. See Getting the Word Out
Our group is affiliated with the APLN (Agile Project Leadership Network; see APLN Background) and the Agile Alliance.
Catherine will talk about
"Leadership and K9 Training: Teaming and behavioral shaping methods used by GREAT vs Terrible leaders"
She comes from a context of Agile in large organizations. But I think the ideas will apply elsewhere. More details TBD.
Bio:
Catherine is a great coach and has many years running the agile initiative in a large telecommunications company.
This event starts at 6:00pm with food and networking and will go until 8pm.
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