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With Craeg Strong (CTO, Savant Financial).
Wed, Jul 08, 2015 @ 07:00 PM   $1   Spotify HQ, 45 W 18th St, 7th Fl
 
     
 
 
              

      
 
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Craeg Strong will be presenting his case study, "An Unexpected Journey: Improving a Scrum Implementation with Kanban". Craeg's talk will provide the seeds for a Lean Coffee, immediately thereafter.

Presenter: Craeg Strong, CTO, Savant Financial Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Ariel Partners

Abstract:

Over the last five years, Scrum has made significant advances and is now the best-known and most popular Agile framework by a wide margin. However, in recent years Kanban has emerged as an alternative to Scrum. Many companies are attracted to Kanban due to the promise of a flatter learning curve, easier adoption, and wider applicability beyond just IT to other parts of the company. But is Kanban really an alternative to Scrum? And what is Scrumban, anyway? This talk describes our experiences transforming a mission-critical criminal justice program for the Federal Government from waterfall to Scrum, and how the Kanban Method has given us the tools to address some significant challenges to our Scrum implementation. This talk should help you answer some important questions such as: which Agile method should we choose? How do we get started? If we run into obstacles, what techniques can we apply to help us get unstuck? I already have a tool, so what is so great about a visual board, anyway? I know about visual boards, so I already know Kanban, right?

Technical Bio of Speaker:

Craeg Strong is the CTO of ArielPartners andcurrently the Technical Lead of the FBI CODIS project shepherding a transition from waterfall to Agile. He has 25 years of experience in information technology, starting at Project Athena during his undergraduate studies at MIT. He owns a small consulting business based in New York City and Washington DC. Mr. Strong is an experienced "turn-around" artist, and has successfully instituted Agile practices on some of the largest and most complex commercial and government software projects. His areas of expertise are as a hands-on software architect and agile coach. Mr. Strong is a Certified Scrum Master, Project Management Professional, and a contributor to the Apache Ant open source automated build tool.

Presentation History:

Craeg presented an earlier iteration of this talk at:

Lean Kanban Train the Trainer/Seattle (May 2015)


Lean Kanban North America Conference/Miami (June 2015)

Location: Spotify is on 45 W. 18th Street. That's between 6th and 5th avenues, above the Bed Bath and Beyond. They're up on the 7th floor.

 
 
 
 
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