Event: Agile Austin Meeting
Date: June 3, 2008
Time: 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Location: Microsoft Technology Center; Stonebridge Plaza One; 9606 North Mopac, Suite 200, Austin TX, 78759
Speaker: Robin Dymond - Managing Partner, VP Innovel, LLC; Instructor, Coach, and Consultant , CST
Assistant Producer, Learning and Education, AGILE 2008
David Douglas - President & Managing Partner, Innovel LLC; Executive Facilitator, Instructor, Coach, and Consultant
Title: Appropriate Metrics for Agile Teams
Description
How do you measure Agile teams? How do you measure progress, improvement, or even value delivered? Few hard-and-fast “Agile Metrics” have emerged as effective measures. This might seem surprising, but perhaps the temporary and contextual nature of agile metrics explains the emergence of a more heuristic approach. How can teams create metrics “on demand”, in support of their goals, applying their understanding of Agile principles and values to create useful measurement tools on the fly? We call these local, contextual measurement tools “diagnostics” to distinguish them from more long-term metrics used to measure contribution to overall organizational goals.
Since Team metrics or “diagnostics” are highly contextual, they need to be evaluated carefully to know if they are useful. We will present both long term metrics used by the business, and potential diagnostic measures used by the team. We will present our tool for evaluating diagnostic measures for Agile teams, and invite participants to bring their own team metrics to evaluate with this tool. Together we will use this tool, and discuss the agile diagnostics both presented and developed in the session.
Speaker Bios
Robin Dymond is a leader and innovator in consulting and training for Scrum, Agile, and Lean methods. He regularly achieves 100% increase in productivity of teams he trains and supports. Dymond developed Scrum, Lean, and Agile training for teams and trained hundreds of “new to Scrum” team members. At Agile 2007 Dymond and Pushinsky presented an innovative new class for Product Owners that has lead many to re-think their role and how business value is achieved. A frequent speaker and organizer in the Agile community, Dymond co-organized and facilitated the APLN National Leadership summit 10/2007 and the Agile Executive Consortium in 2007. He is the co-founder and board member of Agile Richmond, organizing local Agile events. Robin Dymond is also assisting with the submission, review, and planning of the Learning and Education sessions at Agile 2008. Dymond (with Douglas) was a member of a change team that initiated and led the largest enterprise adoption of Scrum in the financial services at a Fortune 200 Financial Services company. This two-year lean/agile adoption initiative resulted in a time-to-market reduction of over 40% and a process execution time savings of 70%. Dymond has lead teams using Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development since 2002. In 2003 Dymond lead the first large enterprise application development in Canada that used Agile and Microsoft .NET. Since then Dymond implemented Agile in service of multi-national retail companies, startups, and Fortune 500 clients. Dymond has spent 17 years helping companies deliver complex software products Robin Dymond holds a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary.
David Douglas is a skilled facilitator and excels at leveraging disparate personalities and skills in solving complex problems. He is the facilitator and trainer with whom executives love to work. He is a true innovator in training and application of Scrum and Lean, taking these practices into completely new business domains, such as hardware infrastructure deployment, regulatory operations, and compliance. David has lead over 50 skeptical mid-level and senior executives through facilitated, interactive sessions on Agile and Lean; educating, informing, while establishing personal credibility and trust. CIOs, CEOs, and other senior executives look to Douglas for the new school management perspective that they need to make the transition to Agile successful in their organizations. Douglas (with Dymond) was a member of a change team that initiated and led the largest enterprise adoption of Scrum in the financial services industry. This two-year lean/agile adoption initiative resulted in a time-to-market reduction of over 40% and a process execution time savings of 70%. David Douglas co-organized and facilitated the first gathering of large company CIOs and senior executives at the Agile Executive Consortium in July 2007, and the subsequent second event in March 2008. David Douglas is a career consultant for Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies in a wide array of industries. He has also successfully managed three releases for one of the world’s largest programs to use RUP, a $120MM per year legacy system overhaul that included a team of over 500 professionals and 40 teams. Prior to co-founding the consulting firm Innovel LLC, he started a sales and marketing software company that he subsequently sold in 2002. He has worked for IBM, American Management Systems, Legg Mason, and Foote Cone & Belding. He received a BSFS degree in International Economics, Finance and Commerce from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the Certificat d’Etudes Politiques from l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, France.
Additional Information
Cost: Free
Map & Directions: From South of Hwy 183: Travel North on Mopac (Loop 1) exiting at Capitol of Texas Hwy. Make a U-turn before the traffic light. Go one block on the access road. Stonebridge Plaza One is to the right, with an entrance between the two towers. Building One is on the right as you enter. (map)
More Info: info@AgileAustin.org
Agenda: Sign-in and Networking 6:00 - 6:30 PM
Announcements, Presentation 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Q&A and Networking 8:00 - 8:30 PM
Proof of Attendance forms will be provided for PMI (PDU), ASQ (RU) and PDMA (PDH) re-certifications