Portland PMI Monthly Agile Roundtable : First meeting Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 12p-1p, 400 SW 6th Ave, 1st fl conf rm. RSVPs ([email protected]) appreciated but not required. Bring a lunch; snacks will be provided.

This roundtable is a friendly and supportive forum where agilists and agile-interested contributors —Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Team Members, Project Managers, Coaches, and Agile Managers—come together to talk about agile practice. Given the sponsoring organization, the topics may trend in the direction of leadership, project execution, and product delivery and deployment. However, all agile-related topics are welcome and dialogue is encouraged. We anticipate that some months will be a multi-topic, interactive discussion while others will have agile topics of interested presented by a speaker. Attendees will form the community and shape the conversation, topics and direction.

The January 8th meeting will have two parts: a brief presentation on why the roundtable is being started, including data from PMI and Cutter, followed by brainstorming and agile topic identification for the coming months. Be there to form the agile community and shape the conversation for 2014!

You may sign up for this roundtable at http://www.pmi-portland.org/roundtables, but signup is not required.

We start promptly at 12p and end promptly at 1p. Late comers welcome, but you miss some of the good stuff.

This month we will be doing a roundtable focused on "Agile estimation." We start on time at 12p, take the first 5 to 10 minutes to generate a list of subtopics and vote to select two to three to discuss. Then, we discuss the selected subtopics as a group before closing at 12:50p to select next month's topic and adjourn at 1p.

Feel free to bring your lunch. Feel free to continue the conversation afterward. Bring your stories, problems, Agile buddies, and Agile-curious colleagues.

You know how to plan a sprint and now they say you have to plan a release? You've got agile release planning down like clockwork and you want to share how you figured it out? You think release planning is bunk and want to explain why? Have we got a venue for you!

In April, the PMI Portland Agile Roundtable comes together for a fast dive into agile release planning. Please plan to start and end on time: we do. Networking after the event as you walk back to the office in the lovely sprint weather.

The PMI Portland Agile Round Table is held on the second Wednesday of every month during the noon hour.

The round table provides project managers, scrum masters and others engaged in agile projects an opportunity to discuss topics of interest, issues they're facing and to join in an evolving community to promote effective use of agile methods.

Bring your lunch, ideas and challenges to the table.

(Note: PMP's & PMI-ACPs can claim 1 PDU for attendance)

This month the PMI Agile Roundtable welcomes a local PMP to talk about Serving Two Project Management Masters with a Hybrid Approach. Read the article (http://pmi.memberclicks.net/serving-2-pm-masters--chiang-). Then come to the roundtable and get the back story on the article he published in the newsletter this month, and we’ll take this opportunity to talk about hybrid agile adoptions, their efficacy, challenges, benefits, and dangers.

Allen Chiang, PMP is a career IT project manager with deep experiences in companies like Intel, IBM, and Nike. Allen has over 15 years of experience managing both hardware and software projects, as well as small business ownership. He is also an avid electronics hobbyist and collector.