Archive for the ‘Presentations’ Category

• Speaking at PMI San Diego Conference – May 13th & 14th

  Date: 2010.03.25 | Category: Agile, Conferences, PMI, Presentations, SIMSOC, Training | Response: 0

  Just wanted to let folks know that I will be speaking at the PMI San Diego 2010 conference.  I will be running a full-day seminar on May 13th and a 60-minute tutorial on May 14th.  I am very excited about this opportunity and encourage folks to attend either day.

  • Leaping to Success with High Performing Teams – in this May 13th seminar, I will be running a SIMSOC.  This is a great opportunity to participate in this exciting and interesting simulation to earn about what factors help teams self-organize and that high-performing state.  The last time I ran this class, it got great reviews and was a lot of fun.
  • Agile Playground – on May 14th, I will be leading a tutorial which uses games to help people experience Agile principles.  I have found to really begin to understand Agile, one needs to experience the principles and values at an emotional level, rather than an intellectual level.  The exercises I will be using in the tutorial will open your mind to what Agile is all about.

  That is what I have scheduled for the month of May, I have more exciting stuff planned for June.  Stay tuned, in the meantime, please register for the PMI San Diego 2010 conference today.

• Speaking at Orlando Scrum Gathering – Mar 9th 2010

  Date: 2010.02.23 | Category: Conferences, Design Excellence, Lean, Presentations, Product Owner, Pugh Concept Selection, Scrum | Response: 0

  Finally had a few moments to write about my upcoming speaking engagement at the Orlando Scrum Gathering from March 8th to March 10th.  I am VERY excited about the chance to speak at a Scrum conference and I was lucky enough to be selected to provide two presentations in Orlando.

  1. Prioritization with Pugh – this workshop is designed to provide Product Owners a new tool to help evaluate conflicting priorities and focus the discussion on factors that matter to the business by using a Pugh matrix.  Pugh matrices come from the Lean world and are an excellent collaboration tool to resolve conflicts from conflicting stakeholders.
  2. Insights Into Scrum Illuminated by Lean – this Pecha Kucha will focus on how we can learn more about the essential elements of Scrum by looking at the Lean principles embedded natively in Scrum.

• Agile Games @ XPSD Jan 13th

  Date: 2010.01.13 | Category: Agile SD, Presentations | Response: 0

  I am facilitating an Agile Playground session with June at XPSD tonight.  Stop by if you are interested in learning some Agile games and want to have some fun.  Here is the short write-up from the XPSD wiki:

  “What is Agile software development? What are the essentials I need to know about this stuff? Why is my Agile team so dull and boring? Looking to get energized? Come to this introductory session hosted by Carlton Nettleton & June Clarke and they will demonstrate as many Agile principles and practices as they can in 75 minutes of fun through a variety of short simulations and participatory games. Walk away with the critical insights, the “ah-ha” moments, where the essential Agile concepts slip into place and make sense.”

• Submissions to PMI San Diego Conference

  Date: 2010.01.07 | Category: Agile, Conferences, Presentations, SIMSOC | Response: 0

  Here are my submissions to PMI San Diego’s 7th Annual PM Conference scheduled for May 12th to 14th.  I am hoping that one of them gets accepted.

  1. Leaping to Success with High Performing Teams: this is a one-day workshop on the importance of team building through SIMSOC.
  2. Debunking Myths About Agile Software Development: this is a new presentation for me and I am really excited about the format.  Instead of your typical powerpoint presentation where I dissect each of the common myths I have and the the audience passively listens to me, I am going to engage the participants in collecting the myths and we’ll have a conversation about the myths they are interested in learning more about.
  3. Agile Playground: another one-hour tutorial where we are going to play games to illustrate common Agile principles and concepts.  Hat tip to Tobias Mayer for the great name.

• Speaking @ Fullerton Code Camp – Jan 30 & 31

  Date: 2010.01.04 | Category: Agile, Coaching, Conferences, Extreme Programming, Planning, Presentations, Scrum | Response: 0

  If you are looking to see me speak in person, be sure to come to the Fullerton Code Camp.  I will have three presentations on Agile.

  1. Experiencing Agile Through Games: Are you bored at work? Is your Agile team devoid of fun? It could be that you are following the mechanics of your process, but missed out on the critical insight, the “ah-ha” moment, where everything clicked and it all fit into place. Come to this session hosted by Carlton Nettleton and he will demonstrate as many Agile principles and practices he can in 75 minutes through a variety of short simulations and games. Walk away energized and excited about working on an Agile team.
  2. Agile Planning Workshop: Every time I speak about Agile software development, I often hear this statement, “Agile teams never know when they are going to be done.”  With the teams I coach, this is not the case.  Come to this workshop and we will walk through the steps I use when planning an Agile team.  Learn the practical tools and techniques for estimating, planning, reporting progress and keeping the stakeholders in the loop. This session will focus more on principles and tools used in Agile planning.
  3. Debunking Myths About Agile Software Development: With so many myths surrounding Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean and Agile software development these days how is someone supposed to succeed with these processes when there is so much half-truth and opinions masquerading as practice and fact? In this workshop, we will look at the myths surrounding planning, deadlines, documentation, architecture & design, requirements, testing, pair programming and other common misconceptions about Agile teams. By the end of this session, Carlton Nettleton will provide real facts about Agile software development, refuting many of these myths once-and-for-all.

• Developing High-Performing Teams Class at PMI San Diego

  Date: 2009.10.28 | Category: Agile, Presentations, Training | Response: 0

  Tonight I will be promoting my upcoming class on Nov 12th to the monthly meeting of PMI in San Diego.  In addition, I have five minutes to talk about what I do and talk about the upcoming class.  I am not exactly sure when I will be “on”, but networking starts at 5:30 PM and the keynote speaker begins 7:45 PM.  This should be a lot of fun!

• Sponsoring San Diego PMI Chapter Meeting on Oct 28th

  Date: 2009.10.21 | Category: Agile, Agile SD, PMI, Presentations | Response: 0

  This year, the Agile Alliance and PMI formed an Agile Community of Practice.  The community was formed because both sides recognized their is a lot of misunderstanding about each other, yet we often talk about improving the same types of things.  In the sprit of that enterprise, Look Forward Consulting decided to sponsor the October meeting of the PMI Chapter in San Diego and act as an ambassador to the project management community in San Diego.  For those of you unfamiliar with PMI San Diego, their mission (from their website) is:

  “…to serve the professional interests of chapter members by enhancing expertise through project management education, training, and PMI certification preparation; as well as, promoting association and networking within the project management community.”

  In practice, this means helping project managers make connections with other project managers, educate each other on the latest techniques and promote their ideas in their profession.  It sounds an awful lot like what we do at XP San Diego.  This should be an interesting collaboration and I am looking forward to meeting some new people.

• SoCal Code Camp – Nov 21 & Nov 22

  Date: 2009.10.16 | Category: Agile SD, Conferences, Presentations | Response: 0

  I will be presenting three sessions at the LA Code Camp this year.  Surprisingly, I am not going to be giving my Top Ten Refactoring session; I just did not feel in the mood to do it this year.  Have no fear, Llywellyn and Woody Zuill have that topic covered in their excellent Code Excellence for the Average Programmer talk and demonstration.

  The sessions I will be giving are:

  1. Experiencing Agile Through Games: we will be playing as many Agile simulations and games as we can in 75 minutes.
  2. Insights Into Scrum Illuminated by Lean: we do a lot of counter-intuitive things in Scrum, by looking at Lean we can see why they make sense.
  3. Techniques for Improving Distributed Scrum Teams: an encore presentation of my Oct 1st talk at XPSD session about my work in Shanghai this year.

• My Insights on Distributed Scrum Teams

  Date: 2009.09.28 | Category: Agile SD, Presentations, Scrum, ScrumMaster | Response: 0

  Come to XPSD on October 1st where I will share my ideas and experiences gained while in Shanghai.  I am not sure if I will turn my presentation into a post, but I will give away my key point now: you will have much more impact improving the performance of your Scrum teams by providing soft skill training to the ScrumMasters rather than training on hard skills, i.e. estimation, Planning Poker, Scrum mechanics, etc.

• Speaking @ XPSD on Sept 3rd

  Date: 2009.08.14 | Category: Agile, Agile SD, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Presentations, Scrum, Team | Response: 0

  Just wanted to let people know that I will be the speaker at the XPSD meeting in September.  I will be talking about my experiences coaching Scrum teams in China and my insights on what essential skills a ScrumMaster needs to be successful.

  Update: this was postponed until Oct 1st due to my knee surgery.  The topic will be the same – CEN 09/03/2009