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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">PDMA Oregon Monthly Event: Making Agile Less Fragile</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2014-06-19T18:00:00" datetime="2014-06-19T18:00:00">Thursday, June 19, 2014 from 6</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2014-06-19T20:00:00" datetime="2014-06-19T20:00:00">8pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202391034'><span class='fn org p-name'>Rogue Distillery & Public House</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1339 NW Flanders</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</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=1339%20NW%20Flanders,%20Portland%20OR%2097209%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Companies who have ‘gone Agile’ often experience several failure modes. We know that Agile brings unprecedented transparency to adopters - but this often exposes organizational dysfunction which has ‘always been there,’ but often neither acknowledged nor addressed. This can result in one of the most disruptive transitions a company can go through. What to do?</p> <p>-How can we spare ourselves months of what seems like inevitable struggle? -What have some veteran Agile practitioners learned, and done, to accelerate their transition, and reap the rewards that have eluded others? -How have they measured success?</p> <p>Our panel of Product & Development experts will share their experience and strategies, to help you cross this minefield successfully and faster.</p> <p>Mark Bednarski has worked with iGrafx since 2007, starting in Germany as a Business Process Consultant and Six-Sigma Black Belt. He transitioned into Product Management in October 2013 when he transferred to iGrafx headquarters in Tualatin, OR. iGrafx goal - to reduce the release cycle from 18 mos. to 6 mos. - required major changes in both Dev & PM processes, which Mark will lead to completion by the end of this year. This goal screamed for an Agile approach, causing Mark to learn and discover on his own – a tough learning curve, which started to pay back just a few months ago.</p> <p>Tony Aiello has spent 20 years in machine vision / factory automation engineering, and 5 years in the movie business. He's regularly intrigued by how much these disciplines actually have in common from development / production viewpoints, and gratified that the skills are transferable.</p> <p>We will confirm the remaining two panelists early next week.</p> <p>Questions? Contact <a href="mailto:david@pcamppdx.org">david@pcamppdx.org</a></p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.pdma.org/p/cm/ld/fid=1283">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>