tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34569203235036132262024-02-21T07:59:22.045-08:00Ilio on Using Agile and Lean Practices to Deliver More ValueAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-5261269077108171592019-03-12T12:01:00.000-07:002019-03-12T12:01:42.691-07:00RESCHEDULED: Agile PeopleOps Framework: An Agile HR Solution on 3/12/19Join us for the rescheduled <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/">Lean / Agile Practitioners of NJ Meetup</a> to see <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cgoscinski/">Christopher Goscinski</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ksnaveen/">Naveen Ks</a> discuss an 'Agile PeopleOps Framework' they have developed. The event is now scheduled for Tuesday, 3/12. Hope to see you there.<br />
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Agile is expanding beyond engineering and DevOps. Human Resources is next to adopt the mindsets and methodologies that enable quick feedback loops, focus on the customer, and drive better business decisions. Join us as we discuss the Agile PeopleOps Framework, a new approach how people function is driven keeping People central to it in an impactful way instead of old industrial management approach of managing machines and people in the same way.<br />
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cgoscinski/">Christopher Goscinski</a> is an agilest focused on helping organizations change how they interact with customers, both internal and external. He works with traditional scrum teams, as well as “meta” scrum teams - Human Resources, client relations, and the like. He enjoys enabling people to think differently and be the change they want to see in their organization.<br />
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ksnaveen/">Naveen Ks</a> is an agile and organizational coach transforming individuals and teams through the adoption of agility in meaningful ways. He helps bring organizational agility and transformation efforts through assessments, coaching, training, mentoring and building motivated and outcome-oriented teams. He believes and quotes “self-awareness is central to become and remain agile”.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-52701254894414813542018-12-10T07:34:00.000-08:002018-12-13T07:34:44.015-08:00Celebrating 2 Years for the 'Lean/Agile Practitioners of New Jersey' Meetup On Nov 7th 2016, Sarah Diefenbach, Maddy Del Monte and I started <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/">The Lean / Agile Practitioners of New Jersey</a> meetup. Since then we've hosted 21 meetups, grown to over 740 members, and asked Ken Farer to join us as an organizer.<br />
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To celebrate our Meetup's two-year anniversary, we are hosting an <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/events/255839714/">Lean-Agile Fair and networking event</a> on Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 6pm. RSVP to join us and stroll through the booths and tables set up around the floor as we eat and connect with other Lean-Agile practitioners in the area.<br />
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Know someone who might be interested in our Meetup? Guests are encouraged as we celebrate and discuss topics for 2019!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-11101914106361197182018-06-01T12:20:00.000-07:002018-08-21T12:22:59.886-07:00'Team Dynamics and Difficult Conversations within the Lean and Agile Space' - June 13 at Lean/Agile Practitioners Meetup of NJJoin us to discuss '<a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/events/251267903/">Team Dynamics and Difficult Conversations within the Lean and Agile Space</a>' on June 13th at the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/"> Lean/Agile Practitioners Meetup of NJ</a><br />
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Being a Servant Leader is hard…<br />
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No matter the role, Team member, Scrum Master, or Product Owner, it can lead to issues in team dynamics and having some difficult conversations. In this session you will learn techniques to help you survive in an ever-changing demanding Lean/Agile world.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-7558394871216253902018-05-14T12:11:00.000-07:002018-08-21T12:15:35.115-07:00'Using Lean Six Sigma to Drive Innovation and Maximize Revenue' at Lean/Agile Practitioners of NJ Meetup on May 24th Join us on May 24th, at the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/">Lean-Agile Practitioners of NJ Meetup</a> to discuss, '<a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/events/250558965/">Using Lean Six Sigma to Drive Innovation and Maximize Revenue</a>' presented by Dwight Harris. He will discuss "what does a early investor look for in order to make an
investment. How does one know if a business opportunity or line of
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VC funding! We’ve all heard the terms "Series A", "Friends & Family Round" and so on…<br />
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But what does the terminology mean? And more importantly, how do Venture Capitalists assess value?<br />
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During the Meetup, we'll explore the methodology for conceptualizing whether a product or service has market value and acceptance potential, from a venture capital perspective. We will further discuss some tools to assess value longevity, capture the methodology on how to launch a new product or service utilizing Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), and introduce best practice approaches towards maximizing revenues through maximizing the customer experience.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-87019777061974604152018-04-02T05:30:00.000-07:002018-08-21T12:06:32.350-07:00Explore Agile Games on April 12th with the Lean / Agile Practitioners Meetup of NJJoin us on October 5, 2017 at the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/events/248963338/">Lean-Agile Practitioners of NJ Meetup</a> so we can Explore Agile Games.<br />
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Within the Agile space, game theory is used to teach, enact, and explore the concepts of Agile in a fun and interactive way. Bring your game faces as we breakout into groups to perform some of the Agile games available to your teams. Have a game you'd like to share with the group? Bring your examples and we'll work to incorporate them into this session in an open space format.<br />
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Thank you for attending our event last night! I hope everyone found it fun and informative. I’ve included links to three of the Agile Games that were presented last night.<br />
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<li><a href="http://tastycupcakes.org/2017/02/cards-against-agility/">Cards Against Agility</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.360pmo.com/core-beliefs-waterfall-agile-lean/">Waterfall, Lean and Agile Values</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/secret/5ZXbJDC9IjIyNy">Draw the Picture</a></li>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-2077022695945542252018-02-01T05:00:00.000-08:002018-08-21T12:00:58.686-07:00World Retrospective Day - February 6th - with Lean / Agile Practitioners of NJ and Agile NJDuring this <a href="http://worldretroday.com/">globally coordinated event</a>, Agile communities around the world will share insights and best practices in organizing retrospectives.<br />
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Join <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/events/246945493/">Lean/Agile Practitioners of NJ</a> and <a href="https://www.meetup.com/AgileNJ/events/246945822/">AgileNJ</a> in this co-hosted event where we will draw on our collective experiences to examine retrospective techniques and styles and help answer any questions.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-68036155485588223432017-11-14T05:30:00.000-08:002018-08-21T11:47:04.447-07:00The Product Design Playbook via Lean/Agile Practitioners of NJ Meetup on November 14 Please join us at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/">Lean/Agile Practitioners of New Jersey Meetup</a> on November 14th, 2017 to hear <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewvoshell/">Matthew Voshell</a> share his thoughts on <b><a href="https://uxdesign.cc/product-design-playbook-103d3a5cf2e3">The Product Design Playbook</a></b><br />
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With the accelerated adoption of agile and multi-disciplinary teams known as ‘Pods” Product Design, as a profession, is on a trajectory to demand generalist designers over specialized ones. In response to this eventual pivot “The Product Design Playbook" is a comprehensive collection of methodologies and concepts that will guide designers and teams alike to build high quality products quickly and repeatedly.<br />
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For this <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/events/244112131/">Lean-Agile event</a>, concepts covered will span across the spectrum of continuous agile product development. The presentation is intended to communicate a direct approach to help designers and teams discover and understand what to expect through learning about situational concepts to leverage at any given time throughout the continuous product development process.<br />
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Matthew Voshell is a product designer in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Through his career he designed both SaaS and mobile products for fortune 500 companies. Before becoming a product designer Matthew worked in the cyber security field as a consultant to several different U.S. federal agencies.<br />
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His new book "Product Design Playbook: Concepts & Methodologies to Live By" is slated for release this winter.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-70534018822186260212017-11-07T05:30:00.000-08:002018-08-21T11:55:13.228-07:00The Lean/Agile Practitioners of NJ meetup celebrates it's 1st anniversary. Time flies when you're having fun and building a great community. The <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/">Lean-Agile Practitioners of New Jersey meetup</a> group is celebrating its one-year anniversary.<br />
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To express our thanks for your continued interest and support, we invite you to <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/events/245186937/">join us</a> for an evening of food, drinks, and discussion with other Lean-Agile practitioners in the area on December 12th.<br />
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Thank you to <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/">Lean/Agile Practitioners of NJ meetup</a> members (now over 500) and the wondeful co-organizers, Sarah Diefenbach and Maddy Del Monte who make all these events possible.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-44226388833064906032017-09-29T03:07:00.003-07:002017-09-29T03:07:50.863-07:00Exploring Agile HR and Finance with Jeff Gothelf - Oct 5th Agile Lean Practitioners Meetup of NJ<span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Join us on October 5, 2017 at the </span><a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/" style="background-color: white; color: #949494; font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;">Lean-Agile Practitioners of NJ Meetup</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, when Jeff Gothelf author of </span><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lean-UX-Designing-Great-Products/dp/1491953608/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" style="animation-delay: 0.1s; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-name: fontfix; animation-timing-function: linear; background-color: #e6e6e6; color: #3095b4; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="animation-delay: 0.1s; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-name: fontfix; animation-timing-function: linear;">Lean UX</em></a><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> , </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Respond-Successful-Organizations-Continuously/dp/1633691888/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" style="animation-delay: 0.1s; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-name: fontfix; animation-timing-function: linear; background-color: #e6e6e6; color: #3095b4; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="animation-delay: 0.1s; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-name: fontfix; animation-timing-function: linear;">Sense & Respond</em></a><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> & </span><span style="animation-delay: 0.1s; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-name: fontfix; animation-timing-function: linear; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Agile-Design-Thinking-high-performing/dp/1541140036" style="animation-delay: 0.1s; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-name: fontfix; animation-timing-function: linear; background-color: #e6e6e6; color: #3095b4; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: none;">Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking</a><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: #a00029; font-style: italic;">,</span><span style="background-color: white;"><i style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);"> </i>will share his insights on '<a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/events/242896626/"><b>Exploring Agile HR and Finance</b>'</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This informal, Q&A-based discussion will take Agile beyond the product/tech teams and rethink the way we organize and manage work. Questions are encouraged. References will be made from Jeff’s book,</span><em style="animation-delay: 0.1s; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-name: fontfix; animation-timing-function: linear; background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Sense & Respond</em><span style="background-color: #e6e6e6; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">.</span><br />
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Jeff Gothelf is an author, coach and consultant, speaker and organizational designer. Over his nearly 20 years in digital products and services Jeff has worked to bring a customer-centric, evidence-based approach to product strategy, design and leadership. Jeff has worked in various roles and leadership positions at iXL, Fidelity, AOL, WebTrends, and TheLadders. Most recently Jeff co-founded Neo Innovation (sold to Pivotal Labs) in New York City and helped build it into one of the most recognized brands in lean and agile consulting. As a principal in Neo’s NYC office, Jeff functioned as head of executive training, coaching, workshops and education. Jeff is regularly keynoting conferences, teaching workshops or working directly with client leadership teams across North America, Europe & Asia. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-61140809020144021642017-09-24T13:16:00.003-07:002017-09-24T13:16:20.946-07:00Building a Workplace People Love- Just Add Joy - Sept 25th Agile Lean Practitioners Meetup of NJ<div style="animation-delay: 0.1s; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-name: fontfix; animation-timing-function: linear; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-shadow: none; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">
Join us on Sept 25th, 2017 at the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/">Lean-Agile Practitioners of NJ Meetup</a>, when <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/menloprez/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3BFY0JLeO%2FTMmiCrxIzMScgg%3D%3D&licu=urn%3Ali%3Acontrol%3Ad_flagship3_feed-mention">Rich Sheridan</a>, The CEO of Menlo Innovations and author of <i><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Joy-Inc-Built-Workplace-People/dp/B00KDOW78Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506284069&sr=8-1&keywords=Joy%2C+Inc">Joy, Inc. — How We Built a Workplace People Love</a>, </i>will share his insights on '<a href="https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Practitioners-of-New-Jersey/events/242825471/">Building a Workplace People Love</a>'. </div>
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Rich Sheridan will explore what an intentionally joyful culture must choose as its focus. He will discuss what joy looks like, feels like, how it is organized. Along the way, you will be confronted by paradoxical approaches of how workplace noise increases productivity, how two people at one computer outperforms hero-based organizations 10-to-1, how rigor and discipline emanate from a shared-belief system, how transparency conquers fear, how all of the disciplines you study including agile, lean, and six sigma when done well are really about building human relationships at the intersections of business and technology, between project management and software development, between development and design and how quality can be a natural result of a team built on trust.</div>
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Rich Sheridan had an all-consuming thought during a difficult mid-career in the chaotic technology industry... things can be better. Much better.</div>
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In 2001, Rich and his co-founder James Goebel invented their own company to “end human suffering in the world as it relates to technology” by returning joy to one of the most unique endeavors mankind has ever undertaken: the invention of software. Their unique approach to custom software design, they named it High-tech Anthropology® has produced custom software that delights users rather than frustrating them.</div>
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The CEO of Menlo Innovations and author of <i>Joy, Inc. — How We Built a Workplace People Love </i>travels the world speaking about joy, creativity, and human energy in the workplace.</div>
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In this fast-paced era, we do our best to balance work schedules with our personal lives, but can all suffer from work and information overload. To keep pace with the constantly changing priorities among our competing workflows, we all come up with our own ways to balance our professional and personal relationships along with the calendars. Kanban, is a means of visualizing current and future work that we have, along with the way it’s carried out. The same framework can be applied in our own lives as Personal Kanban. Join me in understanding this approach that is simple, clear, and commonsensical - Personal Kanban - that offers opportunities for achieving better balance as we set our daily tasks.<br />___________________________________________________________<br /><span style="animation-delay: 0.1s; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-name: fontfix; animation-timing-function: linear;"><b>About the Speaker:</b></span><b> </b>Ashwini Vijaykumar is an agile scrum master. She has 5+ years of experience in using waterfall and agile methodology to manage complex projects. Ashwini is a SAFe certified Agilist and can scale up agile to large organizations. She has worked with diverse clients across APAC and North American regions. Armed with an MBA in HR from ICFAI, India, she is passionate about coaching & mentoring. She likes to apply project management paradigms to improve the quality of life.<br />In her free-time, Ashwini loves to watch movies and binge on Netflix. She is organized by nature, loves biking, and fondly remembers biking on the great river road in Wisconsin last summer.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0D&B Short Hills40.7483499 -74.32321939999997140.7002249 -74.403900399999969 40.7964749 -74.242538399999972tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-17930473443664248242015-03-20T03:36:00.000-07:002015-03-20T03:36:00.770-07:004/15 - Antifragility: Beyond Agility with Si Alhir<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-shadow: none; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21.6000003814697px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">
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A recent <a href="http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/ceo-survey/2013/index.jhtml" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">PricewaterhouseCoopers CEO survey</a>; emphasized that “during the past decade, we’ve seen economic volatility and disruption escalate to arguably unprecedented levels” and that “‘expect the unexpected’ has become the mantra”!</div>
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In a complex world where we can only “expect the unexpected,” tranquility is the root of fragility! Antifragility, coined by <a href="http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">Nassim Nicholas Taleb</a>; in his book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Incerto/dp/1400067820" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder</a></i>, is fueling various technology and business movements, including DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and much more!</div>
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While Agility involves responding to change, Antifragility involves gaining from disorder; and while Agility emphasizes embracing change through inspecting and adapting, Antifragility emphasizes embracing chaos through adapting and evolving!</div>
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As a result of the proliferation of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, going beyond Agility is quintessential --- individuals, teams & groups, and organizations & enterprises are embracing the quest for Antifragility to realize greater employee engagement and market innovation & disruption!</div>
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If you’ve embraced any degree of Agility, don’t miss this opportunity to go beyond Agility and explore Antifragility. We’ll introduce and demystify Antifragility, and explore how individuals, teams, and organizations can immediately put it into practice.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/salhir" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">Si Alhir</a></span></div>
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Si Alhir (<a href="http://about.me/salhir" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline;">http://about.me/salhir</a>) is an Enterprise Transformation Coach, Trainer, Consultant, and Practitioner who focuses on Business Agility and Antifragility while working with Individuals, Collectives/Communities/Teams, and Enterprises/Organizations.</div>
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He is a catalyst with over three decades of proven experience in appreciating and leveraging all aspects of human dynamics/nature to catalyze individuals, teams, and organizations to sustainably achieve impactful results towards meaningful intentions --- bridging the chasm between strategy, leadership, & culture -and- business agility and antifragility. His clients have ranged from start-ups to the Fortune 500.</div>
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He blogs at <a href="http://salhir.wordpress.com/" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">http://salhir.wordpress.com</a>.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-44829353680493454122015-02-16T03:32:00.000-08:002015-02-16T03:32:00.261-08:003/19 - The Agile Manifesto after 14 years - why it is still key to great teams<b style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"><a href="http://www.meetup.com/agile-lean-practitioners/events/219152180/">RSVP now</a></b><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21.6000003814697px;"> to attend this event with Mike Roberts.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">Since first coming across Kent’s original ‘white book’ in 2000 I’ve been a proponent of ‘agile’ software techniques. I’ve been on both high- and low-ceremony teams, been to more than a fair share of meetups and conferences, and yet I still believe that the Agile Manifesto (</span><a class="linkified" href="http://agilemanifesto.org/" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; line-height: 21.6000003814697px; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;">http://agilemanifesto.org/</a><span style="line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">) is the best grounding for any team I’ve been part of.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.6000003814697px;">Mike has spent 15 years in the software development industry, and a fair few more before that spending time programming in strange computer languages when he really should have been socializing. His first program moved a robot turtle around the floor - he still remembers it fondly. Mike spent 4 years at ThoughtWorks in the early 2000s where he was part of the blossoming agile software movement, running open source projects and speaking at conferences. Since moving to the US in 2006 Mike has spent time in various technical and management roles at the New York Stock Exchange, DRW Trading, and most recently as VP, Engineering at Intent Media where he manages the 50 person (and growing!) technology team.</span></div>
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We take for granted that the systems we work on now are social systems. Sites like Amazon have used user-generated content for over 20 years. Twitter and Facebook are each about a decade old. But even though social systems are now commonplace, the methods we use to design, build, and launch them are still based on techniques we developed while working on last-generation technology. So how can product teams cope?</div>
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<a href="http://www.neo.com/team/josh-seiden" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">Josh Seiden</a> has been creating great technology products for more than 20 years. As a designer and leader, Josh has worked in hardware and software, consumer and enterprise, mobile, web, and desktop. He is currently a Principal in <a href="http://www.neo.com/" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">Neo’s NYC office</a>. Earlier, he was head of product design at Wall Street innovator Liquidnet, and lead pioneering interaction design teams at Cooper. He is a founder and past President of the Interaction Design Association. He is the co-author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lean-UX-Applying-Principles-Experience/dp/1449311652#" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience</a></i>.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-24404649946354420152015-01-26T04:14:00.000-08:002015-02-06T03:48:43.716-08:00Create a User-Centric Culture with User Research<div style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px;">
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/horowitzdesign" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Horowitz</a> presented the following deck at the <a href="http://www.meetup.com/agile-lean-practitioners/">Agile / Lean Practitioners Meetup</a> on 2/3.<br />
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<strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/jonathanhorowitz/user-centric-culture-with-user-research" target="_blank" title="Create a User-Centric Culture with User Research">Create a User-Centric Culture with User Research</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/jonathanhorowitz" target="_blank">Jonathan Horowitz</a></strong> </div>
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Research can improve team synergies which create opportunities for better products and a team that is happier with their results. In this meetup Jonathan will share insights for how research can be used to create both a user-centric culture and a catalyst for team bonding. Whether you are looking to introduce an internal research practice for the first time or looking to improve on an existing one learn how these methods can work for you. The second half of the event will be a group exercise to uncover bottlenecks in your own organization implementing user research and how this can be solved.</div>
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</span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/horowitzdesign" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Horowitz</a> is a local user experience design leader with 15+ years experience working on consumer and enterprise digital products for startup and Fortune 500 companies. His core specialties are user experience strategy, design and research. In the workplace he is passionate about working with cross-discipline teams uniting them to collaborate and motivating them to deliver. Some highlights of his recent work include higher education applications, tools for budding entrepreneurs, financial applications and automated systems. Jonathan works at Citrusbyte, a design and development consultancy here in New York City leading teams as a Product Strategist and Designer.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-55220551247985928972015-01-05T03:11:00.000-08:002015-02-06T03:12:50.190-08:001/13 Rolling out Lean in a Global Enterprise<div style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px;">
The challenge is simple, take a 100 year old 40,000 person old school publishing company spread out across dozens of cities and countries with a wide ranging portfolio of products, services and cultures, and develop a single framework and common taxonomy to make the company more innovative, more nimble and better equipped to deliver more value to customers. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bertfield" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Bertfield</a>, a product strategy consultant working with the Chief Product Office at Pearson Inc, will talk about how his team is attacking this challenge using Lean principles and tools as both the implementation methodology and the ultimate goal. </div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bertfield" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Bertfield</a> is a Product Strategy Consultant with two decades of experience working with media and education companies in the UK, Israel, California, New York and Australia. He has worked for publishers such as The Learning Company and Scholastic as well as leading several start ups in the ed-tech and publishing domains. Consulting clients include Sesame Workshop, News Corp, The Associated Press, Business Insider, Pearson, The Blue School & Bloomberg, with a focus on delivering strategy guidance around product innovation and driving product development process change, including applying lean start up, customer driven development and business design approaches inside large enterprises. Jonathan is an instructor at General Assembly running workshops for multinational enterprises and has been a coach in the business plan competition at NYU Stern for 7 years. Jonathan has an LLB from the University of Leeds, UK</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-26034881052093260202014-12-02T05:08:00.000-08:002015-02-06T03:10:09.911-08:0012/10 - Co-Hosting Nir Eyal author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products<div style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px;">
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What makes some products so engaging while others flop? Nir Eyal explains the psychology behind the world's most habit-forming technologies and provides practical advice for increasing user engagement.</div>
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Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Nir founded and sold two companies since 2003 and has taught the "Using Neuroscience to Influence Human Behavior" course as a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir's writing frequently appears in TechCrunch, The Atlantic, and Psychology Today. He is the author of the bestselling book, <i><a href="http://www.nirandfar.com/hooked" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products</a></i>.</div>
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7:00pm - 7:40pm Nir Eyal Presentation</div>
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7:40pm - 8:00pm Q&A with Nir Eyal</div>
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8:00pm - 8:30pm Announcements & Networking </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-61090930199475064552014-12-01T06:04:00.000-08:002015-02-08T04:16:37.265-08:00Digging In – Pro Interviewing Techniques for Agile Practitioners<div style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px;">
On 12/9, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamhulnick" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Adam Hulnick</a>, gave the following presentation at the <a href="http://www.meetup.com/agile-lean-practitioners/">Agile / Lean Practitioners</a> meetup.<br />
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In this lean and agile age, more and more teams are doing some level of user testing on their own. Many of them find, however, that getting a user to talk is not as easy as it looks. Users don’t always want to talk, or they’ll get started on the wrong topic. Sometimes they lack the words to express how they feel about an interface or product. Sometimes they think everything is “fine.” How can you dig deeper to get more info from a user, especially if they are digging in their heels? How can you get people talking, keep them on topic, and find out what they are really thinking? Join us on December 9 to learn some of the professional UX researchers’ tricks of the trade. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamhulnick" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">Adam Hulnick</a></span> is a seasoned User Experience researcher. He’s currently heading Research & Insights at <a href="http://www.weareexperience.com/" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">We Are Experience</a>, though he has performed user testing in numerous contexts and with countless different types of stimulus. In the thousands of hours he has logged doing user research, he has picked up numerous techniques to get the data his clients need. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-21256147303084624292014-11-18T03:00:00.000-08:002015-02-08T18:27:10.377-08:00Transitioning from Manual Testing to Automated Testing<div style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px;">
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On November 18, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/billrg">Bill Rinko-Gay</a> presented <span style="font-weight: 700;"><i>Transitioning from Manual Testing to Automated Testing</i></span> at the <a href="http://www.meetup.com/agile-lean-practitioners/">Agile / Lean Practitioners</a> Meetup.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"><i>Transitioning from Manual Testing to Automated Testing</i></span> will cover the following topics:will cover the following topics:<br />
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<li>Agile ROI thinking for automated testing</li>
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This will be a discussion where the above will be the framework but we focus on answering participants questions rather than presenting an approach.</div>
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Bill Rinko-Gay has over 30 years experience in Software Development, most of that time in QA. Bill’s career and the Software QA profession progressed together until Bill realized that Agile was the demonstration that the QA profession had failed to deliver. Since 2005 Bill has been helping to re-imagine Software QA in light of Agile methods, taking advantage of the specific skills and knowledge of the QA SME and incorporating that into Agile’s self organizing teams.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-35845309357985470292014-11-03T02:56:00.000-08:002015-02-06T03:10:32.042-08:0011/11 - What Does Lean/Agile look like at Facebook and The Economist?<div style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px;">
This Meetup features industry professionals with stories about products and experiences within their respective companies. We'll be hearing about the structure of their teams, and the pros and cons that go with it, as well as, looking into what we could be doing as a community to make us more effective as individuals. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Case Study: Victor Brunetti (Product Designer at Facebook)</span></div>
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Victor currently works at Facebook, previously part of the Hot Studio team. He believes in delighting users through a combination of utility and joy. For over a decade he's executed cross-platform, multi-channel digital experiences, rich data-driven applications and marketing campaigns. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Case Study: Danny Setiawan (Senior UX Designer at The Economist) </span></div>
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Danny currently works as the senior UX designer at The Economist. Previously, he worked for Yahoo! and has done work for other major brands like MSN, Disney and Sony. Danny is passionate about optimizing product development processes and result-centric UX. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Fireside Panel Debate: Victor, Danny, and Mona Patel (CEO at Motivate Design)</span></div>
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Mona combines positivity, timeless wisdom, sharp design thinking and a little bit of magic glitter with her 15 years of experience in design and research to help you see around corners and realize a kind of success you didn’t necessarily expect. </div>
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7:00pm - 7:20pm Facebook Case Study</div>
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7:40pm - 8:00pm Fireside Panel Debate</div>
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8:00pm - 8:30pm Announcements & Networking </div>
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This Meetup event is a collaborative effort between the <a href="http://www.meetup.com/agile-lean-practitioners" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Agile / Lean Practitioners</span></a> and <a href="http://www.meetup.com/The-UX-Lab/" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The UX Lab</span></a>.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-15396923177513694032014-10-23T05:15:00.000-07:002015-02-07T04:56:03.607-08:00Using Paper Prototyping to Facilitate Successful Participatory Design Sessions<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/caroline-romedenne/29/724/8b6">Caroline Romedenne</a> and <a href="https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/tricia-okin/320">Tricia Okin</a> presented the following before facilitating a workshop at the 10/28 <a href="http://www.meetup.com/agile-lean-practitioners/">Agile / Lean Practitioners Meetup</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How do you get a team working together to be aligned on the value, feasibility, and usefulness of their product ideas? One approach is to enable team to work together in envisioning the product features via participatory design. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.meetup.com/agile-lean-practitioners/">Agile / Lean Practitioners Meetup</a><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;"> is pleased to be co-hosting a free workshop on </span><b><a href="http://www.meetup.com/agile-lean-practitioners/events/212249942/">Using Paper Prototyping to Facilitate Successful Participatory Design Sessions</a></b><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;"><b> </b>with</span></span> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/caroline-romedenne/29/724/8b6">Caroline Romedenne</a> and <a href="https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/tricia-okin/320">Tricia Okin</a> on<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">Tuesday, October 28, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM in NYC. </span><a href="http://www.meetup.com/agile-lean-practitioners/events/212249942/">RSVP now on Meetup</a>.</span><br />
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<h3><span style="font-family: inherit;">Description of Event</span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/caroline-romedenne/29/724/8b6">Caroline Romedenne</a> and <a href="https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/tricia-okin/320">Tricia Okin</a> will lead a workshop where we explore and experience how using paper prototyping can be an ideal communication tool to enhance and enable a successful participatory design session to uncover and/or discover how your end-user would see, navigate, understand or even design your content or interface...</span><br />
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<h3><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bios: </span></h3><h4><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/caroline-romedenne/29/724/8b6"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Caroline Romedenne</span></a></h4><a href="http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/e/6/2/600_418923682.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/e/6/2/600_418923682.jpeg" height="320" width="319" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">Caroline Romedenne is a User Experience Designer and User Researcher at Kaplan Test Prep. She is a creative thinker, a design strategist with a passion for people, behavior and education.<br />
Caroline studied Fine Art Photography at the <i>Institut des Beaux-Arts St Luc</i> in Belgium, she worked in fashion and portraiture for many years. After much travels, she gets an MFA in Design and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design which has more deeply provided her to creatively conquer wide-ranging and complex work from user-centered, socially networked interaction, to physical installation projects.<br />
Aside from Art direction and other UX-er positions, she is a cultural activist with and for Native American communities, she volunteers over the years designing programs that aimed to bring together different generations through meaningful interactions and cultural experiences.<br />
She is the most motivated when standing at the intersection of diverse needs, ideas and people and ‘making it work’ for everyone.</span><br />
<h4><a href="https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/tricia-okin/320"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tricia Okin</span></a></h4><a href="http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/e/b/2/600_418923762.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/e/b/2/600_418923762.jpeg" height="320" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love learning about people, cultures, languages and why people do the things they do. I’m constantly searching for the “Why?” in a scenario. With all that, my primary love is designing (for) online communities, to connect people to others and to share in storytelling and their histories. In my spare time, I travel to experience new places and people.<br />
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My background is a BFA in photography and I completed my MFA in Design and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design. With over 12 years of professional experience within the interactive design industry, my work focuses on practices such as user experience, strategy, interaction design, creative direction, information architecture, and front-end development knowledge. My work includes clients who extend across multiple industry verticals, including education, nonprofit organizations, entertainment, tech, and food & lifestyle. I'm currently a lead instructor for General Assemb.ly's User Experience Design Immersive course in both the New York and London campuses.<br />
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<i>This event is co-sponsored with <a href="http://www.meetup.com/leanbestpractices/">Lean Product Best Practices meetup</a> group.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Note: This post was updated to include the presented deck post Meetup.</i></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-10842514911547934982014-10-11T06:56:00.000-07:002015-02-09T07:21:44.084-08:00Lean Applied: A "Mini" Workshop w/ Zain Yousaf<br />
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/agile-lean-practitioners/">Agile / Lean Practitioners Meetup</a> was pleased to host <a href="http://www.meetup.com/agile-lean-practitioners/events/203304532/"><i>Lean Applied: A "Mini" Workshop</i></a> led by <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/zainyousaf">Zain Yousaf</a>, Senior Consultant at <a href="http://www.leancog.com/">LeanCog</a>, on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM in NYC. Here is a copy of presentation that Zain presented:<br />
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Over the past several years, Lean Startup and Customer Development have become wildly popular movements amongst startups looking to test their ideas. Larger firms and enterprises have also begun to adopt these methods into their operations. In this hands-on session, we will share examples of how firms are applying these methodologies within their organizations. The group will then practice testing their own ideas using tools such as the Business Model Canvas. Please come prepared with an idea (either your own or from your organization) that you are looking to test and feel comfortable sharing with the group. Looking forward to a fun and interactive session!<br />
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Zain Yousaf is a Senior Consultant at LeanCog, a strategy, product development, and innovation firm. Zain focuses on helping large firms innovate by applying lean startup and customer development methodologies. Zain has experience working with both startups and Fortune 500 firms as an entrepreneur, intrapreneur, and management consultant. He has an MBA from NYU and a BA from Cornell University.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3456920323503613226.post-45767860403594252352014-08-12T10:27:00.000-07:002015-02-08T10:30:54.057-08:00Learn to Prototype Like a Badass! w/ Danielle Tomson<span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">On August 12,</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/danielle-tomson/24/858/786" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> Danielle Tomson</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">led a workshop entitled</span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><i style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.meetup.com/agile-lean-practitioners/events/195330342/" style="color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; text-decoration: none;">Learn to Prototype Like a Badass!</a></span></i><br style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><b>Event Description:</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Prototyping is a rapid way of creating a testable product, without writing a line of code. In this class, join Danielle Tomson of the Occom Group, as she walks through how to best use Axure to build prototypes that will test your product's value to customers. Designed with product managers and designers in mind, this class gives you a tool box of Axure best practices, how to test your Axure prototype on customers using Validately, and some prototyping tips and tricks. No experience is required. Participants can follow along or download Axure before the meet-up and try these techniques live. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Bio:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/e/8/3/c/600_387599452.jpeg" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Danielle Tomson is well-versed in early stage software innovation, service design and prototyping processes. She has lectured in service design, prototyping, Axure and product management at Boston University and New York University. She is a Product Partner at the Occom Group, which works together with their clients to define their ideas and needs before turning them into great software solutions. In a previous life before software development, she worked in international development and graduated from Yale.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">><><><><><><><><><><><</span><br style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">This event is co-sponsored with</span><a href="http://www.meetup.com/leanbestpractices/" style="background-color: white; color: #2a9bc7; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;"> Lean Product Best Practices</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.670588); font-family: Whitney, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> meetup group.</span><br />
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It showcases this concept within Agile Ceremonies:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZfLd1WJ-094Uh-Ktz0KZPf7OBeDJyh6WL4XJX0rVwLi0cnEuFbzOicXaQtu3Mlv6px2c6Tlg-Rt2s-WDU0OG-nWx97t01dAExyvqeehL2mQ-oio9VuscrY06LRAKctTu15KrS8fYPcM/s1600/Realm2.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZfLd1WJ-094Uh-Ktz0KZPf7OBeDJyh6WL4XJX0rVwLi0cnEuFbzOicXaQtu3Mlv6px2c6Tlg-Rt2s-WDU0OG-nWx97t01dAExyvqeehL2mQ-oio9VuscrY06LRAKctTu15KrS8fYPcM/s1600/Realm2.PNG" height="337" width="640" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><br /></span><br />
<br /><br />It also points out that when teams are working at an unsustainable pace, they often remove their opportunities to be reflective and minimize their opportunities to improve. <br /><br />While the concepts in the article should not be new to experienced agile practitioners, the Reflective Agile Learning Model (REALM) is worth looking into more. I am also encouraged that studies like this are being done. <br /><br />Read more at:<br /><a href="http://computingnow.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/issues/2014/07//mso2014040051.pdf">http://computingnow.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/issues/2014/07//mso2014040051.pdf</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902008450715493414noreply@blogger.com0