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The first Agile Boston Open Space, Spring 2009
NEXT MEETINGS:
Agile Boston/Waltham Wednesday 5/23
Agile Boston DOWNTOWN! Wednesday 6/7
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NEXT MEETING: MAY 23 2012 630PM WALTHAM MA
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JOE TINDAL and BRIAN SUMMERS on: IMPLEMENTING AGILE COMPANY-WIDE AT MASTERCAM
MASTERCAM is the leading provider of software and tools to the toolmaking industry. Customers include HARLEY DAVIDSON, UNITED TECHNOLOGIES and thousands of smaller shops. In late 2010, MASTERCAM leadership under Brian Summers decided to implement Agile throughout the company. You exit this session with the real story from a real company, doing real Agile in the region. This is a very interesting story.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- The trials and tribulations of adopting an Agile mindset
- The role of existing culture in the success of your adoption
- How Agile adoption is a ‘culture hack’ from the start
- What pitfalls to avoid as you embark on the Agile journey in your company
- What practices for adoption actually WORK
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AGILE BOSTON: PICTURES OF A CURIOUS, FUN-LOVING PEOPLE:
First Agile Boston Open Space, Spring 2009
Agile Boston Open Space, September 2010
Agile Boston Open Space, Sept 2010, Even MORE Agile afterwards
Agile Boston Open Space, Sept 201, even MORE pictures
Utterly Awesome Pictures of Agile Day 2011, Sept 2011, held in Norwood MA. PARTY BUS PIX !!
Dan LeFebvre on the PARTY BUS, September 2010, en route to Boston from the AgileNYC Agile Day
NEXT MEETING: May 23 2012.
Brian Summers, CEO of MASTERCAM and Joe Tindal, Senior Project Manager, MASTERCAM, telling there story of IMPLEMENTING AGILE AT MASTERCAM: The Experience Report. Learn more here.
Party Bus from Agile Day NYC to Agile Day Boston, Sept 2010. Andre Dhongt (left), Jim McCarthy (foreground right), Rich Sheridan and friends
THE STORY OF THE PARTY BUS: Sept 2010
We co-produced an event called AGILE DAY in NYC and BOSTON. On September 25 2011 we attended the AgileNYC event and the next day we shipped out for Boston with the speakers, sponsors and organizers on a big honking PARTY BUS. The bus had a huge TV, a bathroom, coolers for beer and wine, and the alll-important BATHROOM ON BOARD. We stopped for lunch in New Haven CT on the waterfront. Everyone who was “on the bus” had an incredible time of dialogue and bonding.
Linda Rising and Michele McCarthy, Boston to NYC Party Bus, September 2010
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THANKS FOR EVERYONE WHO MADE [GIVE THANKS FOR SCRUM] A GREAT TIME !!
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 22: The 3rd Annual GIVE THANKS FOR SCRUM Event, Honoring Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber.
Learn more about GIVE THANK FOR SCRUM 2011.
(Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, Give Thanks for Scrum event, circa 2009)
You know this event: Jeff and Ken, together, doing a Thanksgiving-time celebration of Scrum’s astonishing success, with about 200 of their fans and friends. This year, we move it up by one day, so Jeff and Ken can baste the turkey !!
Learn more about GIVE THANK FOR SCRUM 2011.
Seating is limited. Join us at the Microsoft Waltham facility on Jones Rd on 11/22/2011. Tickets start at just $39 and go to $79 (that’s almost double) if you are not paying attention. You snooze you lose ! Save the date and be ready to pull the trigger when registration opens !! We can only sell 180 seats so you’ll have to act fast.
AGILE DAY IN BOSTON
We had quite a time on September 29: Over 248++ of us, learning and teaching Agile all day…then the Happy Hour Party!
AGILE DAY IN BOSTON on 09/29/2011 is depicted below.
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Learn more about Agile Day 2011, see pictures and grab the proceedings by clicking here.
The Opening of the Open Space segment of Agile Day 2011 in Boston on Thursday, 9/29
Thanks to everyone who makes this happen:
All those attending, the Sponsors, Speakers and Volunteers !
Special thanks to: Karen Spencer, Don Blair, Dan LeFebvre, Jim Lindenthal, Bernadette St. John, Jason Tanner, Luke Hohmann, Larry Coates, Frank Saucier, Gloria Shepardson, Kriss Aho, Richard Kasperowski, Ralph Fink. You are the best !
Learn more about Agile Day 2011, see pictures and grab the proceedings by clicking here.
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The first annual GIVE THANKS FOR SCRUM event, held in 2009, honoring our tribal elders: Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber
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