April Chapter Meeting - Blacksburg

Topic: Group Hug: Implementing Agile Across Multiple Teams
PDUs: 1 Technical
Time: 6:00 -8:00pm
Location: Modea, 117 Washington St SW, Blacksburg, VA 24060

Parking: Paid parking is available in the parking garage adjacent to Modea. For free parking please click here for suggestions.
Speaker: Richard Cheng

Agenda:

6:00 – 6:45 – Networking and Food
6:45 – 7:00 – Introductions and Chapter Business
7:00 – 8:00 – Presentation

The patterns for implementing Scrum at the team levels have largely been set, but what about dealing with Agile and Scrum across multiple teams.  Is the answer just magical words like scaling, or SAFe, or LeSS?  What are the core concepts and successful patterns?  Is it just one big group hug?

In this session, we will explore core concepts around implementing Agile concepts across multiple teams.  The session starts with a simulation that explores distributing people across teams (which will actually NOT involve any hugging).  From there, this session dives into:

• Prioritization across multiple teams
• Product Ownership across multiple teams
• Dependencies and team alignment
• Communities of Practice
• Communication and collaboration across teams
• The role of managers
• A quick look at scaling methods

Coming out of this session, attendees will have an understanding of core concepts and fundamental helpful practices in implementing Agile concepts across multiple teams.

Speaker Bio:

Richard Cheng, Director at Excella, provides consulting and training services to commercial and government clients in the Washington, DC area. Richard coaches, mentors, and trains clients in understanding and implementing Agile and Scrum. Richard leads Excella’s Agile Training division.

A graduate of Virginia Tech, Richard has authored several publications on project management, presented at Agile and PMI sponsored industry events, is a member of Mensa, and holds certifications including:

• Trainer (CST)
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
• SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
• Certified Agile Leadership (CAL 1)
• LeSS Certified Practitioner
• Certified Enterprise Scrum Trainer (CEST)
• Training from the Back of the Room Certified Instructor 

Richard is a founder and on the executive committee of the Agile Delivery for Agencies, Programs, and Teams (ADAPT), an Agile government task force.