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AI is everywhere! And TAO is here for it! Our existing Data Community is growing to encompass AI and we hope that you will join us. Our kickoff event of 2024 will feature you, our community members, and give you time to share your thoughts, ideas, fears, challenges, and insights on AI. If you have opinions, we want to hear them! This is an opportunity to grow the community, network, and share ideas for future programming.

Come for an noon hour of dialogue with Diana Larsen, author, coach, consultant, speaker, startup founder, visionary pragmatist, chief relationship builder, and sojourner in the many various fields of Agile.

There will be no prepared slides or lecture, just spontaneous dialogue with you and your colleagues about real challenges you face today. We'll focus on your specific, real-time questions, challenges, dilemmas and issues about retrospectives, teams, agile, adoptions, liftoffs, managing, leadership, complexity, learning, the Agile Fluency™ Model, and more. Invite her to discuss whatever is top of your mind! We will collect and aggregate your questions, sort them into topic areas, and invite the questioners to join Diana in a time-boxed conversation.

We'll get through as many topic areas as possible between networking and close. Join us!

Bio:

Diana Larsen co-founded and directs the Agile Fluency™ Project and leads the practice area for Agile software development, team leadership, and Agile transitions at FutureWorks Consulting. Diana is author of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great; Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams; Five Rules for Accelerated Learning; and co-originator of the Agile Fluency™ Model. Find out more about Diana at http://www.agilefluency.org/about.php

We will meet at:

The Standard 900 SW Fifth Ave, Portland, OR 97204 Main Level - Atrium

Thanks to The Standard for providing space for this event

Note: PMI Certification holders can claim 1 PMI PDU for attending this event.

See website for talk details.

Schedule

8:30 – 9:00 am – Sign In

9:00 – 10:15 am – Presentation

10:15 – 10:30 am – Break, Chapter Announcements

10:30 – 11:30 am – Presentation continued

The PMI Agile Roundtable provides a forum for exchanging ideas, techniques and real world experiences (good and bad) in managing agile projects. Although sponsored by PMI, all roles and backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to participate / debate. We value the variety of perspectives and levels of experience with agile practices.

This month the group will select agile-related topics / issues and have time boxed discussions. All attendees are encouraged to bring their burning agile-related topics, issues and questions for discussion/debate/brainstorming.

We will meet at:

The Standard

900 SW Fifth Ave,

Portland, OR 97204

Thanks to The Standard for providing space for this event

Note: PMI Certification holders can claim 1 PMI PDU for attending this event.

The PMI Agile Roundtable provides a forum for exchanging ideas, techniques and real world experiences (good and bad) in managing agile projects. Although sponsored by PMI, all roles and backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to participate / debate. We value the variety of perspectives and levels of experience with agile.

This Month we're honored to have Adam Light facilitating: Change is Hard! Lessons Learned from Enterprise Agile Transformation

Fast moving SAAS businesses use agile methods natively. The recently-published PMI Agile Practice Guide shows there is broad understanding of agile practice fundamentals. Yet agile transformation continues to struggle in traditional organizations. What lessons can we draw after 15 years of mainstream experience? Come share your own experiences and gain a higher-level perspective on the difficult work of leading Agile change in an established company.

Your guide for this conversation will be Adam Light. Adam led his first agile transformation as the director of a traditional PMO. His experience made him a believer in Agile. And he has since spent nearly ten years helping technology leaders lead change and overcome challenges to make their traditional organizations more productive, innovative, and humane.

Thanks to The Standard for providing the venue and to Adam for leading this discussion

The PMI Agile Roundtable provides a forum for exchanging ideas, techniques and real world experiences (good and bad) in managing agile projects. Although sponsored by PMI, all roles and backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to participate / debate. We value the variety of perspectives and levels of experience with agile.

This Month we're honored to have Daniel Lynn present: Technical Consulting

Summary: What Is Technical Coaching?

All the best athletes teams have coaches. Musicians and singer? They have coaches too. If you’re a top-level executive at a Fortune 500 company, chances are you have a coach too. So what about the people building your products? Should they have coaches?

Coaching has really taken off over the past decade, but somehow our teams - the people who make the products that our companies live or die by - they’ve been left behind. In this talk we’ll discuss the what a technical coach does (and doesn’t do) and how to tell if your team could benefit from one.

About Daniel:

Daniel has been developing software for nearly two decades and has been working in agile teams for the last 10 years. More recently, he has worked with agile42 coaching teams on the adoption of agile practices both in code and across the organization, but his passion is still in writing great software and helping others do the same.

We will meet at:

The Standard

900 SW Fifth Ave, Portland, OR 97204 Class Rooms 1 & 2 Meeting Rooms are on the lower level by OutTakes Cafe

Thanks to The Standard for providing space for this event

Note: PMI Certification holders can claim 1 PMI PDU for attending this event.

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The PMI Agile Roundtable provides a forum for exchanging ideas, techniques and real world experiences (good and bad) in managing agile projects. Although sponsored by PMI, all roles and backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to participate / debate. We value the variety of perspectives and levels of experience with agile practices.

This month the group will select agile-related topics / issues and have time boxed discussions. All attendees are encouraged to bring their burning agile-related topics, issues and questions for discussion/debate/brainstorming.

We will meet at:

The Standard

900 SW Fifth Ave,

Portland, OR 97204

Class Rooms 1 & 2

Meeting Rooms are on the lower level by OutTakes Cafe

Thanks to The Standard for providing space for this event

Note: PMI Certification holders can claim 1 PMI PDU for attending this event.

The PMI Agile Roundtable provides a forum for exchanging ideas, techniques and real world experiences (good and bad) in managing agile projects. Although sponsored by PMI, all roles and backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to participate / debate. We value the variety of perspectives and levels of experience with agile practices.

This month the group will select agile-related topics / issues and have time boxed discussions. All attendees are encouraged to bring their burning agile-related topics, issues and questions for discussion/debate/brainstorming.

We will meet at:

The Standard

900 SW Fifth Ave,

Portland, OR 97204

Class Rooms 1 & 2

Meeting Rooms are on the lower level by OutTakes Cafe

Thanks to The Standard for providing space for this event

Note: PMI Certification holders can claim 1 PMI PDU for attending this event.

The PMI Agile Roundtable provides a forum for exchanging ideas, techniques and real world experiences (good and bad) in managing agile projects. Although sponsored by PMI, all roles and backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to participate / debate. We value the variety of perspectives and levels of experience with agile. This month the group will discuss The Agile Practice Guide:

"Created in partnership with Agile Alliance®, the Agile Practice Guide* provides tools, situational guidelines and an understanding of the various agile approaches available to enable better results. It is especially useful for those project managers accustomed to a more traditional environment to adapt to a more agile approach."

PMI members can download a pdf version of the practice guide at: https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/practice-guides/agile

Thanks to The Standard for their continued support

Note: 1 PMI PDU can be claimed for attending this event.

The PMI Agile Roundtable provides a forum for exchanging ideas, techniques and real world experiences (good and bad) in managing agile projects. Although sponsored by PMI, all roles and backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to participate / debate. We value the variety of perspectives and levels of experience with agile.

This Month we'll continue on the topic of Servant Leadership: A Grounding Discussion with Jean Richardson (and possibly discuss other leadership models). Summary: For agilists, servant leadership has long been the go-to leadership model. Most agilists aren’t grounded in what servant leadership really is.

As requested by the attendees, this discussion will continue last month's topic - introduce you to the founder, his initial conceptual overview of servant leadership, modern thought leaders, and common critiques of the model. You will leave with an easy way to determine whether you really are a successful servant leader.

Jean Richardson led the webinar “Intro to Servant Leadership for the Flummoxed” last month. She will set the context for a discussion on this leadership model and encourage discussion among the attendees. Jean is the author of The Preservation of the Agile Heart, an advanced discussion of agile advocacy and where agile advocates need to go from here. Learn more at agileheartinfo.com.

We will meet at:

The Standard: 900 SW Fifth Ave, Portland, OR 97204

Tree Room (located on the Concourse Level down the escalator) (NOTE THIS IS A DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN LAST MONTH)

Thanks to The Standard for providing space for this event

Note: PMI Certification holders can claim 1 PMI PDU for attending this event.

Join your fellow Portland area Lovers of Data for breakfast, networking, and a data talk by Michael Scofield from Loma Linda University; hosted by your local Portland DAMA chapter. We meet at in Downtown Portland at 8:30am for registration and networking with the presentation from 9 to 11:30am.

RSVP Required. More Information and RSVP at: https://damapdx.wordpress.com/2017/10/05/november-2017-good-data-bad-info/

Free for members and employees of corporate members.
Students only $5 (to cover breakfast and speaker travel).

About "Good Data, Bad Info"

Producing decision-able information from lots of raw data often requires complex processes which must be carefully designed and architected.

Mind the Gap: This presentation looks at the gap between raw data and decision-able information. Most of the chatter about data quality focuses upon raw, granular data describing discrete events and entities inside the enterprise and around it. But for data warehouses and decision-support, data must be converted into useful information meaningful to the decision-maker.

Raw or Derived? Trend and Pattern Examples: We will also examine numerous examples between raw data and derived data (“information”) which show us trends, patterns, etc. Examples come from astronomy, military intelligence, and criminology. For example, in image analysis (in the intelligence community) we see a succession of “derived” data as we move from pixels to clues about the enemy’s strategic intent.

The 9 MetaData Types - Which and Why: As an enterprise is inundated with more data (raw, intermediate, and advanced information) the designing and population of good metadata becomes even more important. We will look at nine distinct kinds of metadata. Not all kinds are of equal importance, but we will show the value of each. The larger the organization, and the more diverse the “institutional memory”, the more important it is to properly document the data asset for broader exploitation of its value.

Correct Conclusions? Handle with Care: We will also look at how incorrect conclusions may be drawn because of mishandling of the process to derive “higher level” information from the raw data.

About DAMA Portland

The Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association has been serving the Portland data community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit, vendor independent, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management.

Our primary purpose is to promote the understanding, development and practice of managing data, information and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets.

The DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job. Please join me, the rest of the DAMA board, and other fellow lovers of data at this regular chapter meeting in downtown Portland.

Thanks for your support of local Data Education, we look forward to seeing you there!

The PMI Agile Roundtable provides a forum for exchanging ideas, techniques and real world experiences (good and bad) in managing agile projects. Although sponsored by PMI, all roles and backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to participate / debate. We value the variety of perspectives and levels of experience with agile.

This Month we're honored to have Jean Richardson present: Servant Leadership: A Grounding Discussion

Summary: For agilists, servant leadership has long been the go-to leadership model. Most agilists aren’t grounded in what servant leadership really is.

This discussion will introduce you to the founder, his initial conceptual overview of servant leadership, modern thought leaders, and common critiques of the model. You will leave with an easy way to determine whether you really are a successful servant leader.

Jean Richardson led the webinar “Intro to Servant Leadership for the Flummoxed” last month. She will set the context for a discussion on this leadership model and encourage discussion among the attendees. Jean is the author of The Preservation of the Agile Heart, an advanced discussion of agile advocacy and where agile advocates need to go from here. Learn more at agileheartinfo.com.

We will meet at:

The Standard: 900 SW Fifth Ave, Portland, OR 97204

Broadway CR (Basement - signs will show the way)

Thanks to The Standard for providing space for this event

Note: PMI Certification holders can claim 1 PMI PDU for attending this event.

The PMI Agile Roundtable provides a forum for exchanging ideas, techniques and real world experiences (good and bad) in managing agile projects. Although sponsored by PMI, all roles and backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to participate / debate. We value the variety of perspectives and levels of experience with agile.

This month the group will select agile-related topics / issues and have time boxed discussions. All attendees are encouraged to bring their burning agile-related topics, issues and questions for discussion/debate/brainstorming.

We will meet at:

The Standard: 900 SW Fifth Ave, Portland, OR 97204

Class Rooms 1 & 2

Meeting Rooms are on the lower level by OutTakes Cafe

Thanks to The Standard for providing space for this event

Note: PMI Certification holders can claim 1 PMI PDU for attending this event.