Chocolate, Lego and Scrum game - Dec 13th Meetup

On Tuesday, December 13th, beginning at 6:30PM (EST), Dun & Bradstreet's will be hosting our first Lean/Agile Practitioners Meetup!  Dana Pylayeva, will facilitate her Chocolate, Lego and Scrum game, which introduces DevOps culture in a way that can be easily understood and appreciated by participants from different areas of organizations.  Inspired by ideas from The Phoenix Project and The Goal, this workshop will help you clearly see a need for taking first steps towards introducing DevOps culture.

Come and meet agilists in our inspiring environment and share your experience (agile, DevOps, or other related) on the 6th floor of our offices located at 101 JFK Parkway! To join the event, please register using the link below:

Registration Link

4/15 - Antifragility: Beyond Agility with Si Alhir

RSVP Now for this event on April 15 with Si Alhir.

A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers CEO survey; 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”!

In a complex world where we can only “expect the unexpected,” tranquility is the root of fragility! Antifragility, coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; in his book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, is fueling various technology and business movements, including DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and much more!

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!

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!

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.

Bio

Si Alhir

Si Alhir (http://about.me/salhir) 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.

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.

He is also affiliated with numerous prestigious professional organizations, holds various professional certifications, has authored various books, and contributes to and speaks at professional events.

He blogs at http://salhir.wordpress.com.

3/5 - Learning From Live Systems w/ Josh Seiden

RSVP now to attend this free meetup on March 5 with Josh Seiden in NYC. 

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?

As agile and lean practitioners know, iterative methods play an important part in our work on these systems. In recent projects, Josh Seiden has been working with teams to link these methods together in a “learning-from-live-systems” approach. In this talk, Josh will take a deep dive into a recent project that illustrates this way of working. Come hear how the team behind Taproot Plus was able to invent and launch an online marketplace for skilled volunteers in just a few months. Online marketplace projects like this one can easily burn through budget and never launch. Instead, we've been live since nearly Day One. Come see how our small team of designers, developers, and product managers has carefully launched and developed this new business in a way that minimized spend and risk, and maximized the chances of success.

Bio:

Josh Seiden 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 Neo’s NYC office. 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 Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience.

Create a User-Centric Culture with User Research

Jonathan Horowitz presented the following deck at the Agile / Lean Practitioners Meetup on 2/3.

Create a User-Centric Culture with User Research from Jonathan Horowitz

Event Description:
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.

Agenda:

6:30-6:45 - Networking
6:45-8pm - Presentation / Group Exercise / Q&A
8-8:30pm - Announcements / More (Optional) Networking

Bio 

Jonathan Horowitz 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.

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Note: This event is being co-promoted between Agile / Lean Practitioners,  Digital Product Design, Lean Product Best Practices,  Software Product Management and the UX Lab Meetups.

RSVP Now for this event.

NOTE: Note this post was updated on 2/6 to include Jonathan's Deck.

1/13 Rolling out Lean in a Global Enterprise

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. Jonathan Bertfield, 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. 

Bio: 

Jonathan Bertfield 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

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Note: This event is being co-hosted with the Lean Product Best Practices Meetup group.

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12/10 - Co-Hosting Nir Eyal author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products with Nir Eyal 

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.

About the Presenter:

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, Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products.

Agenda: 

6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking

7:00pm - 7:40pm Nir Eyal Presentation

7:40pm - 8:00pm Q&A with Nir Eyal

8:00pm - 8:30pm Announcements & Networking 

This Meetup event is a collaborative effort between the 

Agile / Lean Practitioners

and 

The UX Lab

RSVP NOW for this event.

Digging In – Pro Interviewing Techniques for Agile Practitioners

On 12/9, Adam Hulnick, gave the following presentation at the Agile / Lean Practitioners meetup.


Event Info
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. 

Bio: 

Adam Hulnick is a seasoned User Experience researcher. He’s currently heading Research & Insights at We Are Experience, 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. 

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This event is being co-promoted with Lean Product Best Practices, Software Product Management NYC, and UX Lab Meetups.

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NOTE: This post was updated after the 12/9 event to include Adam's presentation.

Transitioning from Manual Testing to Automated Testing

On November 18, Bill Rinko-Gay presented Transitioning from Manual Testing to Automated Testing at the Agile / Lean Practitioners Meetup.

Event Description:

Transitioning from Manual Testing to Automated Testing will cover the following topics:will cover the following topics:

• Agile ROI thinking for automated testing
• When to automate
• Overcoming common objections
• Automated Tests are Software Development
• Where in the architecture to automate
• Who automates

This will be a discussion where the above will be the framework but we focus on answering participants questions rather than presenting an approach.

Bio:

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.

11/11 - What Does Lean/Agile look like at Facebook and The Economist?

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. 

Case Study: Victor Brunetti (Product Designer at Facebook)

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. 

Case Study: Danny Setiawan (Senior UX Designer at The Economist) 

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. 

Fireside Panel Debate: Victor, Danny, and Mona Patel (CEO at Motivate Design)

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. 

Agenda: 

6:30pm - 7:00pm Networking

7:00pm - 7:20pm Facebook Case Study

7:20pm - 7:40pm The Economist Case Study 

7:40pm - 8:00pm Fireside Panel Debate

8:00pm - 8:30pm Announcements & Networking 

This Meetup event is a collaborative effort between the Agile / Lean Practitioners and The UX Lab.

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Using Paper Prototyping to Facilitate Successful Participatory Design Sessions

Caroline Romedenne and Tricia Okin presented the following before facilitating a workshop at the 10/28 Agile / Lean Practitioners Meetup.


Event Description
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.  

Agile / Lean Practitioners Meetup is pleased to be co-hosting a free workshop on Using Paper Prototyping to Facilitate Successful Participatory Design Sessions with Caroline Romedenne and Tricia Okin on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM in NYC.  RSVP now on Meetup.

Description of Event

Caroline Romedenne and Tricia Okin 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...

Bios: 

Caroline Romedenne

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.
Caroline studied Fine Art Photography at the Institut des Beaux-Arts St Luc 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.
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.
She is the most motivated when standing at the intersection of diverse needs, ideas and people and ‘making it work’ for everyone.

Tricia Okin

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.

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.

This event is co-sponsored with Lean Product Best Practices meetup group.
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Note: This post was updated to include the presented deck post Meetup.

Lean Applied: A "Mini" Workshop w/ Zain Yousaf

Agile / Lean Practitioners Meetup was pleased to host Lean Applied: A "Mini" Workshop led by Zain Yousaf, Senior Consultant at LeanCog, on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM in NYC.  Here is a copy of presentation that Zain presented:

Description of Meetup

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!

Bio:

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.

Learn to Prototype Like a Badass! w/ Danielle Tomson

On August 12, Danielle Tomson led a workshop entitled Learn to Prototype Like a Badass!

Check out the Sample Axure File

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Event Description:
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. 

Bio:

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.

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This event is co-sponsored with Lean Product Best Practices meetup group.

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Note: This post was updated after the event to include the deck and sample file.

Using Lean Startup to Ace Your Job Search

On May 21st, 2014, Debbie Madden presented onUsing Lean Startup Tactics To Ace Your Job Search at the Agile / Lean Practitioners meetup.  

Using Lean Startup to Ace Your Job Search from Debbie Madden

Event Description:

For 10 years, Debbie Madden ran Cyrus Innovation, a 50 person Agile consultancy in NYC. On January 9th, I exited. On January 10th, I asked myself "What's next?" I had a million ideas and couldn't figure out how to make sense of it all. I decided right then and there to use Lean Startup to guide me in finding my next career move. Several months in, I can't imagine doing a job search any other way. In the past 2 months, I've been a startup founder for a services company, a CEO at a company (for 3 days), retired, an advisor, and a startup founder for a product company. This is all true, and I did it intentionally, well most of it. The key was I intentionally tried to fail hypotheses and pivoted fast. I'll share with you my successes, my failures and the lessons I learned along the way. 

Bio:

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Debbie Madden is a seasoned executive and an entrepreneur. For 20 years, she has guided tech companies and created strategic plans that result in year over year profitability and efficiency. Her focus is on creating scalable processes that enable sustained growth. As the CEO of Cyrus Innovation, she grew the company into a profitable, close-knit family of over 50 employees. Cyrus landed on the Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list 5 years in a row, and was Crain's NY Best Places to work in 2012. Debbie is now exploring her next venture.

Evolving Alignment Across Multiple Agile Teams - Agile / Lean Practitioner's Meetup

On April 29, 2014, I gave a a presentation entitled Evolving Alignment across Multiple Agile Teams, at the Agile / Lean Practitioners Meetup. 

Evolving Alignment Across Multiple Agile Teams from Ilio Krumins-Beens

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Event Description:
Agile principles emphasize empowered, self-organizing teams but provide little guidance in how create alignment across multiple agile teams. In this presentation, Ilio Krumins-Beens will share experiences gained trying to improve strategic and operational alignment with more than 10 agile teams. Discussion will include experiments with different ways of sharing teams’ roadmaps, identifying dependencies, risks, synergies and achieving operational alignment.

Presented by: 

Ilio Krumins-Beens is an agile practitioner and coach with over 18 years working with teams to build software and web applications. He has spent more than half of his career working with companies / teams to roll out Agile / Lean practices. Currently, Ilio is the Executive Director of Agile Practices, at Kaplan Test Prep.


Ilio has presented and co-authored the following work at various agile conferences and events including National Agile Conferences, AgileNYC, Agile NJ, and HICSS

Building Successful In-House Innovation Teams w/ Jeff Gothelf @ Agile / Lean Practitioner's Meetup

On March 11th, 2014, Jeff Gothelf, presented Building Successful In-House Innovation Teams at the Agile / Lean Practitioners Meetup Group.  View Jeff giving a recent presentation in Stockholm on this topic.

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Event Description:
You’ve read The Innovator’s Dilemma. You’ve bought in to The Lean Startup. You’re ready to kickstart your company’s product innovation efforts. There’s just one problem: you’re not sure where to begin:

- What can design teach us about building a collaborative culture? 
- How do you structure a successful product design team? 
- How should that team work?
- How will that team measure success?

Jeff will offer practical, step-by-step, guidance on how to build and support successful product design innovation in your business. Using insights gained from leading and working with dozens of product and design teams, Jeff will step through team makeup, process steps, management structure and the corporate infrastructure needed for these teams to flourish.

About the Presenter: 


Jeff Gothelf is a designer & Agile practitioner. He is a leading voice on the topics of Agile UX & Lean UX and a highly sought-after international speaker. In addition, Jeff is the author of the O'Reilly book, Lean UX: Applying lean principles to improve user experience (www.leanuxbook.com). Jeff has led teams at TheLadders, Publicis Modem, WebTrends, Fidelity, & AOL.

Building successful in-house innovation teams - 3/11 Talk by Jeff Gothelf

RSVP to attend a presentation where Jeff Gothelf  will present Building Successful In-House Innovation Teams on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 6:30 PM.  The event is hosted by Agile / Lean Practitioner's Meetup at: Kaplan Test Prep. 395 Hudson Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY.

Event Description:
You’ve read The Innovator’s Dilemma. You’ve bought into The Lean Startup. You’re ready to kickstart your company’s product innovation efforts. There’s just one problem: you’re not sure where to begin:

- What can design teach us about building a collaborative culture?
- How do you structure a successful product design team? - How should that team work?

- How will that team measure success?

Jeff will offer practical, step-by-step, guidance on how to build and support successful product design innovation in your business. Using insights gained from leading and working with dozens of product and design teams, Jeff will step through team makeup, process steps, management structure and the corporate infrastructure needed for these teams to flourish.




About the Presenter: 

Jeff Gothelf is a designer & Agile practitioner. He is a leading voice on the topics of Agile UX & Lean UX and a highly sought-after international speaker. In addition, Jeff is the author of the O'Reilly book, Lean UX: Applying lean principles to improve user experience. Jeff has led teams at TheLadders, Publicis Modem, WebTrends, Fidelity, & AOL.

Injecting Agile into Outsourcing: Anecdotes and Horror Stories

On February 4, 2014, Peter Vaihansky, presented Injecting Agile into outsourcing: Anecdotes and horror stories at the Agile / Lean Practitioner Meetup group.

You can also read more of Peter Vaihansky's perspective in the ZDNet article: Outsourcing exec urges: 'Stop outsourcing your software development

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Event Description:A decade ago, what is commonplace today – the use of Agile in outsourced development – was controversial and rare. Peter Vaihansky will share anecdotes, horror stories and insights from the trenches – in other words, the good, the bad and the ugly of his company’s 12 years’ journey with offshore and distributed Agile development. Come learn about how one strategically placed book can change the course of your company’s entire history; whether Extreme Programming can cause x-ray vision; how when all else fails, demoting your CEO and EVP can save the day; why two Russian engineers went looking for Phillips screwdrivers in the middle of a customer’s office; and more.

About the presenter:

Peter Vaihansky is the general manager for First Line Software’s North American operations. In this capacity, he oversees strategic client relationships, plays a key role in the sales and pre-sales process, and directs the company’s global marketing activities. Peter has been working with distributed Agile development teams since 2003.

Managing Non-Colocated Teams in an Agile Framework

On January 28, 2014, Kareen Walsh, presented Managing Non-Collocated teams in an Agile Framework at the Agile / Lean Practitioners Group.

During the presentation, Kareen shared examples of a Team Member Pledge as a way to help non-collocated team members work together more effectively..

***Interested in learning more? Join our group***

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As a seasoned Agilist playing several different roles in technology organizations, Kareen Walsh has always had a common theme of remote team members or employees that demanded a different approach on how to maintain agile practices in a virtual space. Kareen shared her lessons learned and facilitated a great dialogue with about 50 members from our meetup group



Kareen is an Agile Coach with 14 plus years’ experience managing complex, multi-level technical and internal operational projects for leading companies in a variety of industries. Proven track record in Program Management, Project Management, Enterprise Platform Management, Resource Management, Business Process Management, Product Life Cycle Release Management and Strategic Planning.

MasterCard Marries Enterprise Arch & Agile: A Case Study & Guidelines

On October 9, 2013 John Baker presented the following case study showing how MasterCard marries Enterprise Architecture and Agile.



Event Description
MasterCard has adopted several Enterprise Architectures that include business architectures, solution architectures, integration architectures, information architectures, and application architectures. Independently, MasterCard has been developing and deploying a next generation system development lifecycle based on Agile/Lean principles. This presentation discusses how enterprise architectures link with the Agile/Lean SDLC and also provide case studies of projects that have adopted this linkage that discuss problems encountered and benefits obtained.

Bio

• John Baker is a Business Architect at MasterCard. Mr. Baker has spent most of his career in software development, software engineering, emerging technologies and running a professional services organization. He previously held management positions in a number of organizations, including IBM.
  
  
  WHEN: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 6:30 PM

  WHERE: Kaplan Test Prep Kapateria, 395 Hudson Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY

  RSVP NOW

Tech Practices Amplify Uses to Enhance their Agility in the EdTech/Mobile Space

On June 11, 2013, Alberto Silveria, Leslie Borrell, David Cameron, and Rick Carragher, presented Tech Practices Amplify Uses to Enhance their Agility in the EdTech/Mobile Space at the Agile / Lean Practitioners Meetup.

View their presentation

See Photos from Meetup

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Alberto Silveria, Tech Lead for the class experience team at Amplify, will share the agile and technical practices Amplify uses building apps in the Tech Ed / Mobile space. The presentation will provide an overview of the seven development tenets followed at Amplify, how UX is incorporated into Agile Development, and specific practices their teams use across 4 geographic locations.

Alberto will be joined by Leslie Borrell, VP of Engineering (Amplify) and Rick Carragher, Technical Principal (ThoughtWorks).


Learn more about Amplify's tablet.

About Amplify: 
Amplify is reimagining the way teachers teach and students learn. We enable teachers to manage whole classrooms and, at the same time, empower them to offer more personalized instruction, so that students become more active, engaged learners.

An independent subsidiary of News Corporation, Amplify is built on the foundation of Wireless Generation, the pioneer that brought mobile assessments and instructional analytics to schools across America. To date, Amplify has supported more than 200,000 educators and 3 million students in all 50 states as they begin their digital transition. And we’re just getting started.