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  • Enterprise Agile Adoption

    Organizations often struggle to scale the value of Agile from early efforts by independent teams, to multi-team programs, and then beyond to the everyday strategies, values and culture of an organization. And they must execute broad technical, organizational, and process changes across the enterprise. But where do you start? Who do you involve? And how do you organize it all?
     
    In this webinar, Bryan Stallings with SolutionsIQ will discuss these challenges, and explain how an Enterprise Agile Adoption program is essential for enterprises that have demonstrated small scale success with Agile and now seek comprehensive adoption of Agile values and principles across the organization. Bryan is the Director of Agile Management Practices at SolutionsIQ.
     
    Webcast Highlights: 
    • Challenges to Enterprise Agile Adoption
    • Programs for Enterprise Agile Adoption
    • Case Study: Tailspin
    • Live Questions
    Bryan Stallings leads the efforts of the Professional Services Consulting team to maximize the benefits that agile methods present to SolutionsIQ’s software development and agile consulting clients. He is an experienced leader of Agile adoption initiatives, both as a consultant and as an internal change advocate. Before joining SolutionsIQ, Bryan defined and led the enterprise agile adoption programs at two previous companies where he was employed. A Certified Scrum Trainer, Bryan regularly leads Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner training courses.
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  • A Day in the Life of a User Story Webcast

    This presentation will talk through the life of a user story from idea inception through delivery back to the Product Owner. Using Scrum principles, we explore different processes of creating, maintaining and developing a story.

     
    Webcast Highlights: 
    • Get best practices for documentation, process flow and acceptance criteria
    • Learn how to remove complexities and simplifying the process
    • See how VersionOne supports the complete Scrum user story lifecycle
     
    Katia Sullivan is a Product Specialist at VersionOne. Katia has extensive experience in transitioning from waterfall through RUP and then into agile practices. She spent more than two years managing requirements and as a ScrumMaster on NASA’s Integrated Enterprise Management Project. Prior to that, Katia worked in various other government contractor roles from Operations Support to Technical Writing. Katia’s professional background began with leadership training in the United States Marine Corps. 
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  • Adopting Agile Webcast

    Agile methodologies are helping teams deliver software faster and with much higher quality than ever before. Given the success of agile at the team level, many organizations are exploring the possibility of implementing agile across the entire product delivery organization. To help ensure success on a broad scale, there are several critical factors that need to be considered.

     
    Webcast Highlights: 
    • Learn how teams can be built around business outcomes in terms of delivering working software
    • See how to change functional areas or technical silos and create a truly self-contained, cross-functionally complete unit
    • Find out how the organizational structures, policies and practices that the organization chooses can reinforce learning and lead to sustainable change across the enterprise
    Presented by Mike Cottmeyer, product consultant and agile evangelist for VersionOne. Prior to joining VersionOne, Mike was a senior project manager for CheckFree Corporation, where he led a portfolio of projects for their online banking and bill payment business unit. Mike has 20 years of experience leading IT initiatives using traditional, agile and lean project management best practices. Mike is a certified PMP Project Manager and a certified ScrumMaster. He co-created the DSDM Agile Project Leader certification and holds Foundation, Practitioner, and Examiner level certificates. Mike is an honorary member of the DSDM Consortium and a founder of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium. Mike speaks internationally on the topic of Agile Project Management and writes for several blogs, including http://www.leadingagile.com.
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  • Empowering Agile Teams Webcast

    Empowering Agile Teams Webcast
    Managers at many levels are often concerned about empowering their teams, fearing they may lose control of the project. In this webcast you’ll hear Certified ScrumMaster, Coach & Trainer, V. Lee Henson, explain the benefits of "letting go" and trusting the team. In addition, Lee will outline the expectations of a responsible, empowered agile team.
     
    Webcast Highlights: 
    • See what characteristics effective agile manager/leader needs
    • Understand the expectations and attributes of an empowered agile team
    • Learn about the pitfalls and warning signs of a "damaged" team
    • Find out about the rewards organizations can expect from adhering to basic agile principles
       
    Presented by Lee Henson, Product Expert and resident Certified Scrum Trainer at VersionOne. Prior to joining VersionOne, Lee worked hands-on as a GUI web developer, quality assurance analyst, automated test engineer, senior product manager, senior project manager, ScrumMaster, agile coach, consultant, and ADDIE training professional. He has worked with hundreds of teams in many different business sectors to assist them in successful implementation of thousands of agile projects.
     
    Lee is one of a handful of Certified Scrum Trainers worldwide and is very actively involved in the Scrum Alliance where he serves as Chairperson for the Certification Advisory Board. He also has been recognized by the National Forensics League for excellence in public speaking and has received a number of accolades for his community involvement and motivational speaking sessions. Lee has a unique ability to convey practical, detailed, and complex topics through the use of real-world experiences and analogies. 
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  • Agile Metrics and Measurements Webcast

    This presentation explores how agile teams estimate and plan, what these teams measure, and how these metrics can be used to manage project performance. 

    Webcast Highlights: 
    • Learn more about four key agile concepts: story points, velocity, defect trend and burndown
    • See how these agile metrics can be used to deliver graphically rich, accurate and timely project reporting

    Presented by Mike Cottmeyer, product consultant and agile evangelist for VersionOne. Prior to joining VersionOne, Mike was a senior project manager for CheckFree Corporation where he led a portfolio of projects for their online banking and bill payment business unit. Mike has 20 years of experience leading IT initiatives using a combination of traditional, agile and lean project management best practices. Mike is a certified PMP Project Manager and a certified ScrumMaster. He co-created the DSDM Agile Project Leader certification and holds Foundation, Practitioner, and Examiner level certificates. Mike is an honorary member of the DSDM Consortium and a founder of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium. Mike speaks internationally on the topic of Agile Project Management and writes for several blogs including http://www.leadingagile.com.
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  • Regression Testing and Analytics

    This webinar provides an in-depth look at two new and powerful features of VersionOne - Regression Testing and Analytics (Custom Reporting.) The webinar is broken into two sections, the first half on Regression and the second covering Analytics.

     
    Regression Testing
    Over the life of a project, thousands of acceptance tests are created. VersionOne alleviates rework by enabling teams to generate a reusable inventory of regression tests. Using regression test suites, organize and execute regression tests to ensure that previously-delivered functionality is working as expected. Run a single test suite in multiple environments to ensure comprehensive and consistent test coverage. Multiple dashboards and standard reports are provided to track progress and report on results.
     
    Comprehensive Analytics and Custom Reporting
    VersionOne’s Agile Analytics is a comprehensive data analysis and custom reporting platform that’s pre-configured to get users started quickly and easily. With a custom web-based report writer, team members and stakeholders can create their own reports, with complete control over report design and configuration.
     
    Webcast Highlights: 
    • Generate regression tests directly from completed acceptance tests
    • Schedule test sets with the sprint backlog
    • Create comprehensive regression test plans for new releases or projects.
    • Easily customized reports that meet your organization's needs
    • Powerful, spreadsheet "like" analysis grids
    • Interactive, easy to configure role-based dashboards
     
    Presented by Mark Crowe and Jerry Odenwelder of VersionOne. 
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  • The Role of the Project Manager in Modern Agile Projects

    The Role of the Project Manager in Modern Agile Projects
    Many groups adopting an agile development approach fail in ways that can be traced back to the missing project manager role.  In other words, they didn't understand what good project managers do in the first place.  In this webinar, Dr. Cockburn starts with 10 critical project success factors, relates those to PMI project phases and to the overall value and purpose of a project manager. 

     
    Presented By: Alistair Cockburn
    Dr. Alistair Cockburn co-founded the agile development movement, co-authoring the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and the project leadership Declaration of Interdependence. He wrote the Jolt-Productivity Award winning book on the subject, Agile Software Development. Working in research, academia, and the industry since 1974, and doing computer hardware design, software design, process design and project management, Dr. Cockburn helps companies align their strategies and actions with their purpose, injecting lightweight agile methods into projects needing improvement. 
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  • AgileLIVE: Blending Scrum and Kanban to Create an End-to-End Agile Enterprise

    Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 12 Noon ET
                                       
    Large scale agile adoption requires top down intent, with bottom up implementation. We’ll explain how we transformed a 100 person company from ad-hoc and waterfall practices to a true end-to-end agile organization… inclusive of sales, marketing, and support. We’ll cover the initial assessment and organizational design, how we introduced team-based delivery practices, and put into place program and portfolio management to align all aspects of delivery to achieve business objectives. We’ll explain in detail the final state and the fundamental operational principles that make it all work. 
     
    AgileLIVE is a webinar series featuring 40-minute sessions followed by 10 minutes of Q&A from the leading minds in agile.
     
    Learn from the best.  Live.
    Mike is an independent agile coach that provides agile training, agile coaching, and agile transformation services designed to help pragmatically, incrementally, and safely introduce agile methods into any sized organization. Previously, he served as Vice-President and General Manager of Pillar Technology Southeast, and prior to Pillar, was a product consultant and agile evangelist for VersionOne. Mike has twenty years of experience leading IT initiatives using a combination of traditional, agile, and lean project management best practices. Mike is a certified PMP Project Manager and a certified ScrumMaster. Mike speaks internationally on the topic of Agile Project Management and writes for several blogs including http://www.leadingagile.com and http://blog.versionone.com and occasionally for http://www.agilesoftwaredevelopment.com. Mike co-authored the paper "Rethinking the Agile Enterprise" for the Cutter Consortium and is writing a book on Agile transformations. He was named an honorary member of the DSDM consortium and served on the board of APLN and the Lean Software and Systems Consortium. He currently co-leads the PMI Agile Community of Practice.  
     
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