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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Your Path Through Agile Fluency: Making Agile Work for You</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2013-10-15T17:30:00" datetime="2013-10-15T17:30:00">Tuesday, October 15, 2013 from 5:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2013-10-15T19:30:00" datetime="2013-10-15T19:30:00">7:30pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202390078'><span class='fn org p-name'>World Trade Center</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">121 SW Salmon</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97204</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=121%20SW%20Salmon,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097204%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <h2>Your Path Through Agile Fluency: Making Agile Work for You</h2> <p><i>Presented by Diana Larsen and James Shore</i></p> <p>Networking with complimentary hors d'oeuvres at 5:30pm<br> Presentation at 6:30pm</p> <h3>Abstract</h3> <p>The promise of Agile is simple and compelling: a team that effortlessly surfs the wave of business possibility, changing direction to meet the needs of a changing market. Transitioning to Agile confers many benefits to an organization, but all too often teams don’t (or can’t) deliver on the promise. Too few teams achieve the ideal.</p> <p>Diana Larsen and Jim Shore developed a model of the ways agile teams deliver value. This model describes four conditions of Agile fluency, what you can expect from each condition, and how to increase your team’s fluency, so you can achieve what Agile promises.</p> <p>Diana and Jim will demonstrate how the organization’s desire for benefits and willingness to invest make the real difference. From creating value, to delivering, optimizing, and beyond, you will learn the practices, techniques, and change necessary as teams stretch their understanding of Agile and achieve new levels of excellence. This talk is based on the ideas behind the article at <a href="http://www.agilefluency.com">www.agilefluency.com</a>.</p> <h3>Bio</h3> <p><strong>Diana Larsen</strong> is a founding partner of FutureWorks Consulting. She is considered an international authority in the areas of Agile software development, team leadership, and Agile transitions. Diana works with organizations in the western US and around the world. Deeply in tune with how work teams grow, adapt, and develop, she co-authored Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams and Projects, and most recently, with James Shore, “Your Path through Agile Fluency: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile” at <a href="http://www.agilefluency.com">www.agilefluency.com</a>.</p> <p>An active volunteer, Diana is a current board member for Agile Open Northwest and the Organization Design Forum, coordinating committee member for AgilePDX, and past board member of Agile Alliance and PNSQC. She is also an associate of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute. You can follow her on Twitter (@DianaOfPortland) or contact her directly at <a href="mailto:diana@futureworksconsulting.com">diana@futureworksconsulting.com</a>.</p> <p><strong>James Shore</strong> teaches, writes, and consults on Agile development processes. He led his first Agile team in 1999 and was an early adopter of Extreme Programming in 2000. Today, he focuses on helping people understand how all aspects of Agile, from technical, to business, to social, fit together to create successful software projects.</p> <p>James is an inaugural recipient of the Agile Alliance’s Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice and is co-author of The Art of Agile Development (O’Reilly, 2007). In 2012, InfoQ named him as one of the “most influential people in Agile.” He writes about software development on his “Art of Agile” blog at <a href="http://jamesshore.com">http://jamesshore.com</a> and he hosts the screencast series “Let’s Code: Test-Driven JavaScript” at <a href="http://www.letscodejavascript.com">http://www.letscodejavascript.com</a>.</p> <h3>A Special Treat from PNSQC</h3> <p>Plan on coming early! In collaboration with the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) the SPIN meeting will complimentary hors d’oeuvres and beverages beginning at 5:30 pm. This is a great opportunity for networking and knowledge exchange with other practitioners on the current state of software development.</p> <p>PNSQC is the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, a group of volunteers interested in Software Quality. The Mission of the PNSQC is to enable knowledge exchange to produce higher quality software. As a non-profit, it seeks to promote software quality by providing education and opportunities for information exchange within the software community.</p> <h3>How to Register</h3> <p>This is a FREE lecture sponsored by the Rose City SPIN. But you can help us plan by registering at: <a href="https://2013octspin-reg.eventbrite.com">https://2013octspin-reg.eventbrite.com</a></p> <h3>Rose City SPIN</h3> <p>The Rose City Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) is a monthly forum for networking, mutual support, and promotion of effective software practices. We exchange practical experiences, ideas, knowledge, wisdom, and war stories about the technical, business, and human facets of software process improvement. The Rose City SPIN serves the software development community of the Portland/Vancouver metro area. Whether you work for a large company or a small one, corporate or self-employed, industrial or academic setting, you are welcome at the Rose City SPIN.</p> </div> </div>