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Special Agile Events for the Central Ohio Community!

There are a number of great agile events in Central Ohio to take us well into Autumn!  Check out these opportunities to expand your agile knowledge and network with some really cool people!  Best of all, most of these events are FREE and there is FOOD!  You can get more information about the event and registration details at www.cohaa.org.  

 
Agile BA LIG – Transferring Waterfall Requirements to an Agile Team
During Agile transformations, Waterfall projects are sometimes transitioned to an Agile team – after the detailed requirements have already been documented. When this happens, many team members and managers have questions and make assumptions about what should or could happen with the requirements from there:
  • Do the requirements need to be rewritten in the form of User Stories?
  • How should the change control process work?
  • Is there loss of detail in the transition?
  • Does the agile approach add as much value since detailed requirements have already been created?
This exciting LIG event will be a collaborative discussion focused on helping each other answer these questions and improve future outcomes when facing this situation in the future.
Coffee and breakfast food will be provided.
Date:  October 18, 7:00am to 8:30am Location: Cardinal Solutions 401 N Front St  Ste 210 Columbus, OH
Register at www.cohaa.org.
 
Agile Budgeting & Portfolio Management
If your enterprise is going agile, you are going to bump up against the current processes for funding and portfolio management. While these practices aren’t working very well in most organizations, they are “the way we’ve always done things here” and companies are resistant to changing them. In this presentation, we will look at Agile Portfolio Management techniques for making smaller, more frequent investments and managing our portfolio of investments in real-time.
Date: October 24, 5:30PM to 7:30PM (food and networking 5:30-6:30) Location: The Forge 580 N. Fourth Street Columbus, Ohio 43215  
Register at www.cohaa.org.
 
The Human Side of Agile Management: What It Takes to Grow Great Teams – with Gil Broza
Do you manage, lead, or facilitate an Agile team? For best results, your team can’t be just a cross-functional group of 7 +/- 2 “resources” working iteratively. Come to this interactive presentation by the author of “The Human Side of Agile” to learn what teams need in order to thrive. Get a view, free of hype and cynicism, of how Agile managers and leads contribute to their teams’ success (or not…) And receive practical tips and insights into the key skills you need for supporting your team’s journey to greatness.
Date: November 6, 6:30pm to 8pm Food, networking and registration 5:30 to 6:30 pm Location: CareWorks 5555 Glendon Court Dublin, Ohio 43016  
Register at www.cohaa.org.
 
Workshop – Grow A Solid Agile Team with Gil Broza, Nov. 7 & 8, 2013 – Discount for COHAA members!
Grow A Solid Agile Team is for technology managers and leads. This experiential workshop will build your communication, coaching, and facilitation skills, which are critical for cultivating great teams. A two-day version of his popular book, The Human Side of Agile, this workshop will help you meet the demands of Agile management, which are markedly different from traditional management.
COHAA members receive $150 off with coupon code COHAA_3PV_2013
Date: November 7 & 8, 9:00am to 5:00pm  Location: Northwoods  5815 Wall Street   Dublin, OH 43017

More info and register at http://www.GrowASolidAgileTeam.info
 
 

 

 

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Monthly Newsletter – February 2012

COHAA would like to invite you to continue this strong partnership with COHAA by participating in three exciting events in February..

COHAA/IIBA Feb LIG- Your Project’s Legacy
People in the Application Development world tend to forget what every CIO knows; It costs more to maintain an application than build it. At some point your project will end (by definition a project must have an end), and the maintenance team will take over. In an Agile world where working software is valued more than comprehensive documentation, how does a BA make sure to leave the maintenance team enough information to maintain and enhance the application they just built?

Date: 2/17/12
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 AM
Cost: (Free) Including Breakfast
Location: Cardinal Solutions, 401 N. Front St Ste 210, Columbus, Ohio 43215

Building Agile Skills
With adoption of agile increasing every day the movement has a big obstacle in front of it: How do we best transform thousands of people. Let’s discuss what works best:
•Training
•Self-Learning
•Boot Camps
•On the Job Training
•etc.
This session will be an interactive discussion with several facilitator-led activities to ensure we have a productive discussion.


Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Date: 2/22/12
Cost: Free (Including Dinner)
Location: Platform Lab 1275 Kinnear Road Columbus, OH 43212

Measuring Productivity Across Agile Teams
The most important IT project in your company’s history is coming up, and you need to assign it to your best Agile team, how do you figure out which team it is? Or maybe your just deciding how to pass out year-end bonuses, how do you tell which teams performed the best? For one reason or another, any company with multiple Agile teams will at some point want to compare those teams to see which teams are being more productive. How do you measure a team’s productivity? Can you measure a team’s productivity? We will explore these questions and more at this upcoming Agile Lunchbox in a “Fishbowl Panel”.

Date: 2/29
Time: 11:30m – 1:00pm
Cost: Free (Including Lunch)
Location: OCLC, 6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017

For more details and to RSVP, please visit www.COHAA.org

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Monthly Newsletter – January 2012

COHAA would like to invite you to start off 2012 by participating in two exciting events in January..

Inspire: 10 Keys to Unlock Your Team
Start your new year off right by gaining 10 pragmatic techniques to inspire your team. Whether you are a stakeholder, a team lead or a team member, join us for an interactive session as we discover ways to unlock the power concealed within your team.
Date and Time: 01/26/2012 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Improving Enterprises
4449 Easton Way, Suite 100 Columbus, OH

Agile PM LIG: Leaner, Better, Faster: Agile or Traditional
Agile PM Local Interest Group is hosted by COHAA and the Central Ohio Chapter of PMI.
At this month’s facilitated discussion, participants will have a chance to discuss Agile vs. Traditional Frameworks with David Milo. Are they really that different? When do you decide to implement one vs. another?
Date and Time: 1-20-2012 7.00 am to 8:30 am
Location: Careworks Technology
5555 Glendon Ct. Dublin, OH 43016

For more details and to RSVP, please visit www.COHAA.org

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Upcoming COHAA Events in Sep and Oct

COHAA is excited to present two unique events to its members in the upcoming months….

Agile vs. Waterfall, The Great Debate

Join PMI and COHAA for this exciting debate about the merits of Waterfall and Agile. Johanna Compton will represent Waterfall and Elaine McCormick will represent Agile. In this debate, you will learn about the strengths and weaknesses of both methodologies, and which methodology is best suited to a situation.
To submit a question for the debate please e-mail
daniel.greenleaf@improvingenterprises.com
Date and Time: 9/29 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Ohio Dept. of Transportation.
1980 W. Broad St. Columbus OH, 43223

The Promise & Reality of Agile after 10 Years

This February we saw the 10 year anniversary of the Agile manifesto. National Speaker, Dave West, Principal Analyst at Forrester research will discusses the promise of Agile, and the reality of its use. This presentation draws on over 300 interviews and surveys undertaken by Forrester in the area of enterprise Agile adoption and provides attendees with a clear set of recommendations for how organizations should approach Agility.
Date and Time: 10/6 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Grange Insurance
671 S. High St. Columbus OH, 43206

For more detals and to RSVP please visit www.COHAA.org

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COHAA July Events

COHAA upcoming Events:
7/15 7:00 am – 8:30 am Agile PM LIG: Standing up Agile teams, making sure you have the right team and provide the right leadership.
The Agile PM Local Interest Group is a partnership between the Central Ohio PMI and the Central Ohio Agile Association. These events are highly interactive facilitated discussion where you bring the challenges and work with other professionals to devise solutions or engage in healthy debates. (Free to public. Space is limited)

07/28 6:00 pm – 8.00 pm COHAA Evening Meeting:You can’t argue with that! An interactive presentation on using and misusing logic, emotion, and psychology to influence people.
Join COHAA for our July evening meeting presented by Dr. Charles Suscheck. In agile development teams are self directed – there is no formal command and control. As a scrum master, manager, coach, or peer you don’t have the authority to issue orders, you have to influence people, which is not at all easy. This workshop will present key points in logical argument and number ways to spot and counter weak logical arguments. We will also discuss influencing people through emotion and psychology. The workshop will culminate in a chance to show off your newly learned skills to the group.(Free to public. Space is limited)

To learn more and RSVP for COHAA events, please go to: www.cohaa.org

Other events of interest:
07/11 6:00 pm – 8.00 pm Agile web developmen​t with Groovy and Grails
Grails is a web framework build on top of Java frameworks like Spring and Hibernate and allows developers to build web applications using Groovy programming languages. In this presentation BJ Allmon, Jarred Olson and Kevin Smith will team up and show you how you can quickly build web application for JVM and deploy to the cloud. If you are excited about Groovy/Grails and want to see how you could use at your workplace don’t miss this opportunity
RSVP and more information at Techlife Meetup

07/22 8:00 am – 5.00 pm IIBA Business Analysis Profession​al Developmen​t Day
The IIBA Columbus Chapter proudly presents their first annual Business Analysis Professional Development Day. The theme of “Harmony” will explore the ways Analysts, Project Managers and Quality Assurance can work together effectively and efficiently, always keeping the customer in mind.
Registration and more information at IIBA BAPDD

***Also, if you have participated in one of the recent LIG meetings and would like to post a new question or continue the discussions, check out our new discussion board, Agile LIG Discussion on our website***

Please feel free to spread the word around so that other Agile enthusiasts are aware of these events as well.

Sincerely,
The COHAA Board