BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20140309T020000 RDATE:20140309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140122T020154Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140311T090000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140311T074500 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140122T020154Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140306T020204Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250465561 DESCRIPTION:Postponed because of weather last month\, we have rescheduled this event. \;\n \;\nDescription: \;\nBeing an agile organiz ation was always the goal (right?). The idea of "\;business agility& quot\; is certainly older than agile software development and many of us have struggled with the pain of an agile development team in an organiz ation 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 ro cky 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 coul d find in 2 weeks. So just scaling what development does to a larger\, d ifferent audience isn't the answer. \;\n \;\nThe Scaled Agile Fra mework (SAFe) provides\, er\, a framework for how the larger organizatio n can operate more effectively together. Rather than provide new ways of working\, it synthesizes important aspects of Scrum\, XP\, Lean\, Produ ct Development Flow and other agile notions into a sensible fabric for o rganizational effectiveness\, optimizing the whole. The list of companie s finding value in SAFe continues to grow. \;\n \;\nIn 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 t hat information). Even if you don't work for a large organization with m ultiple levels of program and portfolio management\, the concepts SAFe i s built on and how they interact should spark ideas for how you can grow agile ways of working within your own environment. \;\n \;\n \;\nBio: After deciding against a career in journalism halfway through c ollege\, Millard Ellingsworth has been developing software ever since. H e currently works for IBM and was part of a small team of facilitators t hat led IBM Software Group's agile transformation efforts\, training man y teams\, serving them as an agile coach and working as a scrum master w ithin his own development organization. He has presented on agile topics at internal and external IBM conferences and has written a variety of a rticles for IBM developerWorks where he is a contributing author and a m ember of the steering committee. You can follow him on Twitter as @milla rd3 (https://twitter.com/millard3) and on Google+ (https://plus.google.c om/u/0/+MillardEllingsworth). He happily accepts invitations to play gol f and talk tech. \;\n\n\nTags: agilepdx\n\nImported from: http://cal agator.org/events/1250465561 URL:http://www.agilepdx.org SUMMARY:AgilePDX Westside: Introduction to the Scaled Agile Framework (S AFe) LOCATION:Nike World Headquarters: 1 Bowerman Dr\, Beaverton OR US SEQUENCE:5 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR