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Large organizations with decades of legacy application history are finding it more and more difficult to deliver quality software. As a result, IT leaders are turning to Agile software development methods to help “unclog the machine”. However, most organizations don’t anticipate the magnitude of change required to transform a traditional waterfall environment with functional areas of expertise into an organization that is focused on the delivery of customer value. They soon realize that it requires more attention than simply changing vocabulary. A backlog is not the same thing as a requirements document. A ScrumMaster is not the same thing as a project manager.

In this workshop, John Krewson will walk through an increasingly popular framework for applying Agile in large environments: The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). He’ll provide an overview of the framework, and examine SAFe roles, responsibilities, and artifacts. He’ll also lay out common patterns and anti-patterns for transitioning to Agile.

 

Speaker Biography:

John Krewson is the founder and President of Sketch Development Services, a software development studio that provides Agile coaching, consulting and training. Sketch delivers software for its customers using Agile principles and practices, and helps other organizations with their Agile transformations. John has been an active member of the Agile community since 2003 as a developer, ScrumMaster, development leader, product leader, and coach. He recently led the agile transformation for MasterCard Worldwide, scaling agility to 10,000 team members across 6 continents and multiple product lines using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). He was previously an agile coach with VersionOne, where he worked with dozens of companies from startups to the Fortune 50 to help them learn, adopt, and apply Agile, Scrum, and Lean/Kanban principles and practices. John is also a certified SAFe Program Consultant and an internationally recognized speaker at Agile and technology conferences.

Date:  Thursday, May 18, 2017

Time/Agenda:

From	To	Content
8:00 am	10:00 am	Presentation/Discussion
10:00 am	10:10 am	BREAK
10:10 am	12:00 pm	Presentation/Discussion
12:00 pm	12:30 pm	LUNCH
12:30 pm	2:30 pm	Presentation/Discussion
2:30 pm	2:40 pm	BREAK
2:40 pm	4:30 pm	Presentation/Discussion

 

Registration Closes:  Monday, May 15, 2017 at 5:00 pm

Provider Number:  C230

Total PDUs: 8

Talent Triangle:

• Strategic & Business Management PDUs: 3
• Technical PDUs: 3
• Leadership PDUs: 2

Location:
Canterbury Hill Winery and Restaurant
1707 S Summit Dr.
Holts Summit MO 65043

Price:
$250 per person (Chapter members who log into pmimidmo.org and verify their member ID during registration can get a $50 discount)
$200 per person for groups of 6 or more

Benefits:

At the end of this session, customers will understand

• The layers of SAFe
• SAFe values and principles
• SAFe roles and responsibilities
• SAFe artifacts
• Common ways organizations have transitioned to SAFe
• Common pitfalls organizations have faced when attempting a transition

Who Should Attend:

• Project managers
• Business analysts
• Program managers
• Portfolio managers
• Functional (line) managers

Prerequisites or Requirements:
None