Home About





North Bay Agile April Meeting

Click here to RSVP

Location:

Petaluma Library

Forum Room

100 Fairgrounds Drive

Petaluma, CA 94952

Date:

April 27, 2010

Topic:


Exploring Business Value Workshop

Meet, Greet and Eat:

Presentation:

6:30 - 7:00 pm

7:00 - 8:30



Meeting Abstract:

What is "Business Value"?  Everyone seems to think they know. And everyone seems to think that their understanding is shared by other people. But when we scratch the surface we discover an interesting and largely uncharted territory. This workshop is designed to create a learning opportunity that supports real conversation about Business Value in YOUR organization or team.


By the end of the session, we will have:


* Increased our fluency around Business Value

* Defined and Prioritized Business Value Issues & Concerns

* Identified and Prioritized Business Value Metrics

* Created an Action Plan for moving forward



Presenter Bio:

David Chilcott has an unusual set of skills that encompasses both the deeply technical and the deeply human aspects of software development. In addition to his background as a system architect and software developer, David holds a degree in group dynamics, and has completed formal training in creative problem solving, advanced facilitation, Innovation Games facilitation, Non-Violent communication (NVC), and conflict resolution. His passionate focus on collaboration and clear communication supports effective Agile business consulting, project management support and team facilitation, training, and coaching.


David is the founder of Outformations, a collaborative software design, development, and Agile consulting practice. David has been designing and building custom business applications since 1989. He’s the lead systems analyst and designer for Outformations as well as the chief Agile evangelist, trainer and coach. With a long standing interest and commitment to supporting learning communities David has been actively supporting and participating in both national and local associations, non-profits and business organizations for over 30 years. He is a former president of the Bay Area Association of Database Developers, is on the Agile Open California conference organizing team and is a board member for the National APLN. He is also the founder and a coordinating committee member of the Bay Area Agile Project Leaders Network (BayAPLN) Local Chapter.


David is a husband, step-father, and grandfather, and is also active in healing, diversity, & social justice work.



Previous Topics:

Using Cucumber for Behavior Driven Development

John Rothfield

January 26, 2010


The Dependency Game

Steve Bockman

January 12, 2010


The Beer Game - Lean and TOC Using an Agile Wall Chart

Tom Looy

November 30, 2009

 

Creating User Personas

Steve Bockman

October 2009


User Experience and AGILE: Issues and Solutions

Peter Roessler and Anshu Agarwal

August 25, 2009

 

The Great Agile Requirements Showdown

Chris Sims

July 28, 2009


Elevating the Bottleneck

Steve Bockman

July 1, 2009

 

Slow Down to Speed Up

Steve Bockman

May 26, 2009


The Value of Refactoring on an Agile Team

Rob Myers

April 27, 2009


Refactoring

John Rothfield

March 10, 2009


Behavior Driven vs Test Driven Development (continued)

Peter Thompson

Steve Bockman

January 27, 2009

 

Behavior Driven vs Test Driven Development

Peter Thompson

November 25, 2008


Exploring Agile Metrics

Peter Thompson

October 27, 2008


The TDD Pair Programming Game

Rob Myers and Steve Bockman

September 24, 2008


The Power of a Self-Organizing Team

Chris Sims

July 30, 2008


The Business Value of Pair Programming

Rob Myers

June 30, 2008


Refactoring: A Way of Life

Steve Bockman, Kevin Moore

April 29, 2008


Enterprise Agile Testing

Shane Duan

March 28, 2008


Team Estimation Game Workshop

Steve Bockman

January 30, 2008