[CPMP]Agile Project in a Gated Environment

This event is hosted by our sister association CPMP.

Workshop to Attain Tools to Start Up an Agile Project in a Gated Environment

Date:           Septmeter 28th, 2014

Time:          1:00 – 4:30 pm 

Location:   North  York Civic Centre Committee Room# 2

PDU:           3 PDUs

Tickets:      Members: free

                   Non-members: $20

                   Students : $12

Contact:     event@cpmpac.org

Registration: here

Brochure: Download

Speakers: Ardita Karaj

Ardita Is a passionate Agile coach, trainer, change agent and consultant in the Toronto area. She brings more than 15 years of software development experience from different commercial and public organizations. Over the past few years her focus has been on process improvement for organizations that are adopting Agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban. Working with both management and development teams, she is well known for applying Agile and Lean techniques to help identify and remove barriers in order to streamline software development efforts.

                Matt Alexander

Mattcomes to us from Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC) and has a vast experience in Project Management from several companies and across many industries.  Matt has been in roles such as Enterprise PMO Manager, AgileTransformation Lead, and Project/Program Manager in the IS/IT, Telecom, Security, Financial Service s, and Retail industries. Matt is active in the Agile communities within CTC, where he promotes Agile principles and values tothe various layersof IT and Business.

Overview

You work for a company that until now has been delivering projects following Waterfall. Your new project is asked to be delivered in an Agile way. You know some basics on what Agile is, the need for frequent deliveries, focus on value, self-organizing teams where people collaborate, empirical planning, etc. What now? Where do you begin with your very first Agile project? What to do to get things going and deliver fast?

Using our experience at a large Canadian corporation, in this session, we will walk you through our journey of how we approached projects with teams new to Agile. We will talk about the following tools and techniques: Project Canvas, Value Stream mapping, and Story mapping. Through a workshop, participants will have an opportunity to learn how to apply these tools and techniques right away to your Agile projects. These tools and techniques are valuable to existing Agile projects too!

Key Lessons Learned

Audience will learn how to: