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SUMMARY:April Program: Are you Agile enough?
DESCRIPTION:Mature Agile Teams: Sixteen Essential Patterns\n\nMany tea
 ms have a relatively easy time adopting the tactical aspects of the ag
 ile methodologies. Usually a few classes, some tools’ introduction, 
 and a bit of practice lead teams toward a fairly efficient and effecti
 ve adoption. However, these teams quite often are simply going through
  the motions and neither maximizing their agile performance nor delive
 ring as much value as they could.\n\nBorrowing from his experience and
  lean software development methods, Bob Galen explores essential patte
 rns—the ”thinking models” of mature agile teams—including larg
 e-scale emergent architecture, relentless refactoring, quality on all 
 fronts, pervasive product owners, lean work queues, stretching above a
 nd beyond, providing total transparency, saying “No”, and many mor
 e. Bob also explores the leadership dilemma of self-directed teams and
  why there is still the need for active and vocal leadership in defend
 ing, motivating, and holding agile teams accountable.\n\nBob Galen is 
 an Agile Methodologist, Practitioner & Coach based in Cary, NC. In thi
 s role he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption 
 and organizational shift towards Scrum and other Agile methods and pra
 ctices. He is currently the Director of R&D and Agile Coach at iContac
 t, an email marketing SaaS provider. He is also President and Principa
 l Consultant for RGCG, LLC. Bob has held director, manager and contrib
 utor level positions in both software development and quality assuranc
 e organizations. He has over 25 years of experience working in a wide 
 variety of domains at companies including Bayer, Bowe–Bell & Howell 
 Mail Processing, ChannelAdvisor, EMC, Lucent, Unisys and Thomson.\n\nB
 ob regularly speaks at international conferences and professional grou
 ps on topics related to software development, project management, soft
 ware testing and team leadership. He is a Certified Scrum Master Pract
 icing (CSP) since 2004, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and an a
 ctive member of the Agile Alliance & Scrum Alliance. In 2009 he publis
 hed the book Scrum Product Ownership – Balancing Value from the Insi
 de Out. The book addresses the gap in guidance towards effective agile
  product management. You can find the book here - http://tinyurl.com/c
 v8bsy\n\nBob may be reached directly at – bob@rgalen.com or bob.gale
 n@icontact.com and for more information – www.rgalen.com\n\nFor more
  information visit http://www.rtp-aitp.org/events/april-program-are-yo
 u-agile
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LOCATION:NC State University Club
WEBSITE:http://www.ncsuclub.com
URL:http://www.ncsuclub.com
CONTACT:
ORGANIZER;CN="Vern McDonald":http://www.rtp-aitp.org/profile/VernMcDon
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