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Chapter Meeting – Agile Mindsets and Scaled Agile Framework

Summary Agile consultants Aashish Vaidya and Vikram Shevde take our members and guests on an Agile journey in both the Education and Keynote sessions of this month’s Chapter meeting. Join us to explore concepts including Lean Agile and Scaled Agile Framework 5.0.

Educational Session Title: Experience Lean Agile

Agile is much more than a practice. It is a set of principles and values, a way of thinking, a mindset.  Application of Agile is not limited to technology.  Cultivating an Agile mindset can help businesses not only survive, but also thrive in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous (VUCA) environment.  In this session, we will get hands on and learn about concepts that can help cultivate an Agile mindset.

Learning Objectives:

• Is there a cost of context switching? (context switching game)
• Does limiting work in process matter? (the penny game)
• Is self-organization desired?  (60 steps in 60 seconds game)

Keynote Session Title: Overview of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) v5.0

At the team level, Agile has helped many organizations achieve agility.  However, when a solution is complicated and requires multiple teams working across several practice domains, Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban provide little specific guidance.  Scaled Agile Framework is a Lean Agile framework that enables teams and organizations to adapt scaling practices and principles.  With the latest iteration of the framework, SAFe extends the concept to include the entire enterprise to capitalize on emerging opportunities and manage risks to achieve business agility. 

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the principles, competencies and key practices of SAFe
• Scaling Agile with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Learn about Essential and Portfolio configuration of SAFe

Speaker Bios:

Aashish Vaidya is an enterprise and team Agile coach and a consultant with Slalom Consulting.  He has more than two decades of experience in technology leadership and management in private and public sectors, ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies.  For the past ten years, Aashish has been training, coaching, and mentoring teams and organizations in their Agile transformation journeys.  An engineer by training he  holds Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Lean IT foundations certifications.  When not working, Aashish tries to keep up with his two sons, one a college freshman and another a high school junior.  He also likes to travel with family, is an avid photographer, and a fair-weather cyclist.  Connect on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aashish-vaidya/

Vikram Shevde is a senior Agile practitioner and digital product development leader with Slalom who has helped Fortune 500  firms, startups and federal agencies deliver high-impact digital products using Lean Agile values and principles. He has a deep background in software engineering and project/program management, and is inspired by the work of Diana Larsen, Joshua Kerievsky, Mike Cohn, John Cutler and others. He holds Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) and Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certifications. Outside of work, he likes to spend time with his wife and two young daughters.  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikramshevde/

Agenda for the evening

Meeting details

Location and parking

Doubletree Lloyd Center, 1000 NE Multnomah, Portland, OR 97232
Parking is free; pick up your parking voucher at the registration table.

Menu options (gluten free available)

Pricing

Chapter meeting includes educational session, keynote session, and meal.
Chapter members must log in to receive automatic membership discounts.
Late fee applies after discounts are calculated.

• Chapter Members: $25
• Chapter Student Members: $10
• Non-members: $45

Late Fee Pricing: March 13, 2019

• $15 added to the pricing above

Registration

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Cancellation/Refund Policy

All requests for refunds must be made in writing to the respective event coordinator:  Director of Registration

PDUs

Education session:1.0 technical
Keynote: 0.5 strategy and 0.5 leadership

Questions?