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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">AgilePDX Downtown (evening) - Agile Still Sucks - Frank D'Andrea</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2012-10-17T18:30:00" datetime="2012-10-17T18:30:00">Wednesday, October 17, 2012 from 6:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2012-10-17T21:00:00" datetime="2012-10-17T21:00:00">9pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202392291'><span class='fn org p-name'>Puppet Labs on NW Park (old office)</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">411 NW Park Ave., Suite 500</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97209</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=411%20NW%20Park%20Ave.,%20Suite%20500,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097209%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Frank D’Andrea is an enthusiastic Agile evangelist, mentor, educator, and most recently, the Vice-President of Software Development at Tater Tot Designs. He has extensive experience in managing web and software development projects as well as mobile application and Content Management System development efforts. He is an experienced process improvement specialist with expertise in both Agile and Waterfall development environments.</p> <p>Frank has leadership experience in both Product and Project Management as well as hands-on experience as a Certified Scrum Professional. Frank has been involved in numerous extracurricular activities as well; such as a 10-year stint of teaching poetry, literature, creative writing, and composition classes at Portland Community College; representing Portland as a member of Portland’s National Poetry Slam team; publishing and performing with Haiku Inferno, and getting his J.D. from Willamette University College of Law.</p> <hr> <p>Here's the abstract:</p> <p>Agile Still Sucks.</p> <p>Bringing Agile into an organization is never a good idea. It is disruptive, complicated, and very expensive. It brings organizational dysfunction to the surface and shines a bright light on business practices that sabotage teams and fail to deliver value to clients. Further, unwitting teams may adopt a version of Agile that becomes dogmatic, inflexible, and interested in perpetuating the "process” of Agile rather than being, well, agile. The only thing worse than bringing Agile in, is trying to get Agile right.</p> <p>That said, everyone should be using Agile. This presentation will explore ways to bring Agile into an organization, how to choose the right "flavor” of Agile, and what to do when it goes badly – because it will. This presentation will also examine how to expand the Agile conversation from within the software development team, outward to internal stakeholders, and eventually into client engagements.</p> <p>Details and Pizza:</p> <p>This event is free and is at Puppet Labs. It begins at 6:30 pm with pizza, sponsored by PNSQC (Many thanks to both Puppet Labs and PNSQC for supporting agile in Portland).</p> <p>The program starts at 7:00 pm.</p> <p>After the program you're invited to join us for a no-host gathering at a nearby brewpub for further discussion of launching Agile Projects.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://agilepdx.org">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>