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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">AgilePDX Westside: Introduction to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) </h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2014-03-11T07:45:00" datetime="2014-03-11T07:45:00">Tuesday, March 11, 2014 from 7:45</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2014-03-11T09:00:00" datetime="2014-03-11T09:00:00">9am</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202393465'><span class='fn org p-name'>Nike World Headquarters</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1 Bowerman Dr</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Beaverton</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1%20Bowerman%20Dr,%20Beaverton%20OR%20%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Postponed because of weather last month, we have rescheduled this event.</p> <p>Description: Being an agile organization was always the goal (right?). The idea of "business agility" is certainly older than agile software development and many of us have struggled with the pain of an agile development team in an organization that doesn't understand how we work. Finding ways to scale agility from development to the rest of the organization has been a bit of a rocky road so far. Many development teams use Scrum and I'm not sure that's a good fit for some business areas -- I for one wouldn't want HR time-boxing the hiring of a new developer, delivering the best one they could find in 2 weeks. So just scaling what development does to a larger, different audience isn't the answer.</p> <p>The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) provides, er, a framework for how the larger organization can operate more effectively together. Rather than provide new ways of working, it synthesizes important aspects of Scrum, XP, Lean, Product Development Flow and other agile notions into a sensible fabric for organizational effectiveness, optimizing the whole. The list of companies finding value in SAFe continues to grow.</p> <p>In something under an hour, I plan to deliver enough information about SAFe that you can have a reasonable elevator conversation about it and leave with an understanding of how much more you want to learn (and where to go find that information). Even if you don't work for a large organization with multiple levels of program and portfolio management, the concepts SAFe is built on and how they interact should spark ideas for how you can grow agile ways of working within your own environment.</p> <p>Bio: After deciding against a career in journalism halfway through college, Millard Ellingsworth has been developing software ever since. He currently works for IBM and was part of a small team of facilitators that led IBM Software Group's agile transformation efforts, training many teams, serving them as an agile coach and working as a scrum master within his own development organization. He has presented on agile topics at internal and external IBM conferences and has written a variety of articles for IBM developerWorks where he is a contributing author and a member of the steering committee. You can follow him on Twitter as @millard3 (<a href="https://twitter.com/millard3">https://twitter.com/millard3</a>) and on Google+ (<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MillardEllingsworth">https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MillardEllingsworth</a>). He happily accepts invitations to play golf and talk tech.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.agilepdx.org">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>