December Holiday Mixer

It's time for the annual Agile Cincinnati holiday mixer!  Come join your Agile Cincinnati leadership team and sponsors at the Fox & Hound in Mason for an evening of networking and fun.  Learn more about Agile Cincinnati, help us understand how to be a better organization for you, or just come to learn more about each other and have fun!  This year we are using our sponsorship dollars to pay for the party room and sponsor a tablet as a door prize (details below).

Food Sponsorship

Eliassen Group has generously offered to sponsor appetizers for us. This is in addition to their annual sponsorship, so please be sure to thank their representatives at the event!

Members are responsible for purchasing their own beverages.

Door Prize

Enter to win a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 with Android Kit Kat.

Swag Bags

We will have swag bags for guests with swag from Cardinal, Eliassen, and Max Train.  

When: December 11, 2014  (Second Thursday).
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm or beyond
Where: Fox and Hound Pub & Grille, 5113 Bowen Dr, Mason, OH 45040

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Small, Mighty Teams: The Secret to Building Leaner, Meaner Software

Need to move faster? Stretch your budget? Build better apps? Here’s the secret: Build your process around the power of Small Mighty Teams.  It’s about fostering clear, continuous communication and building incredibly tight feedback loops. The end result? An efficient process that’s easy on budgets and creates leaner, meaner software with only the features you need.

This presentation will explore: why small mighty teams are the answer; what exactly is a small mighty team; how to make your team mightier; strategies for building leaner, meaner software; how mighty teams move mountains.

Doug Alcorn is a Co-Founder and Developer at Gaslight, a Cincinnati software development firm that transforms businesses with web-based technology. On a day-to-day basis, you’ll find Doug building apps in Ruby and JavaScript. He believes in minimizing work in progress and breaking a software project down into the smallest features that still deliver value. Doug has given talks at QCMerge, CodeMash, Wicked Good Ruby, Burlington Ruby Conference, and others.  www.teamgaslight.com

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Cardinal Solutions and Eliassen Group Renew Gold Sponsorship

Cardinal Solutions and Eliassen Group renewed their Gold sponsorship this year. Sponsorship enables us to "keep the lights on", provide food at the meetings, and additional benefits such as books and other giveaways to our members. So be sure to thank their representatives when you see them at the next meeting!

October Meeting:The Missing Role in Scrum...Truths about Coaches

Transformations are popping up left and right as companies see the value of embracing iterative and incremental project delivery.

You may have heard it called an “Agile Transformation, going from waterfall to scrum.” These big organizational reforms are not easy, not pretty, and often times leave employees frustrated.

So what went wrong?

There is a role missing in all the scrum transformations…there is no such thing as a “scrum coach”, and the market confusion behind “agile coaches” is only contributing to the pain of transformations.

In this session we explore the myths around the role of a coach and a few tools and techniques to help you and your teams break through the pain of a transformation and get to the important part – working differently, more effectively, and more innovatively.

Jessica Soroky is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Purple Belt Certified Collaboration Architect (CCA) and the youngest Leadership Gift Accredited Coach with over seven years of practice in iterative delivery systems (agile) and team leadership. Her passion is with people and teams unlocking innovation within projects and products. Her expertise is in agile methodologies utilizing cognitive psychology and gamification to produce high performing teams in any environment.  

After five years of non-profit development and management through Nellie's Catwalk for Kids, Jessica continues her journey leading departments, products, projects and teams in state government, not-for-profit, and private sector fortune 100 companies.

Today she focuses her coaching and product management in successful large enterprise Insurance, financial and medical fields. Jessica's journey is available here and is currently published on one of the Top 50 Leadership Blogs available: Christpher Avery and The Leadership Gift™.

When: October 9, 2014 (Second Thursday)
Networking: 5:30 - 6pm
Program: 6 - 7:30pm.
Where: Max Train, 4900 Parkway Drive, Suite 160, Mason, 45040

PMP's: This event counts for 1 (one) PDU

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