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Past Events

Friday
Aug062021

August Monthly Meeting - Dr. David Rettig

August Monthly Meeting by Dr. David Rettig

When: Thursday, August 12, 2021

Where: Online (Meeting link will be emailed prior to event)

Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm 

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 Technology has moved from the back-office cost center to the driver of digital business transformation. However, digital transformation requires transformational leadership. Based on his 2020 research, Dr. Rettig will cover the nine factors that contribute to your growth as a transformational leader. You will understand how leadership can positively or negatively impact your organization. You will also learn how to take control of your leadership development, select the best resources (including five free resources) to grow your leadership skills, and how leadership training can help you find your next job or promotion.

 

 Agenda

6:00pm: Welcome and Intro

6:15pm: Speaker

7:15pm: Networking

7:25pm: Feedback & Wrap-up

7:30pm: Adjourn

 

About David Rettig

David Rettig is CEO of Synoptus, delivering IT Operational Excellence and Salesforce architectural services. He holds a doctorate in business administration, researching leadership training effectiveness. David has authored three books on leadership & business-IT alignment. He has over 25 years of hands-on technology and leadership experience with IT in manufacturing, tier-1 automotive, supply chain, higher education, engineering, and nonprofits.

 

Wednesday
Jul072021

Guiding Your Team To Technical Excellence

Guiding Your Team To Technical Excellence by Fadi Stephan

When: Thursday, July 8, 2021

Where: Online (Meeting link will be emailed prior to event)

Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm 

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 “Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility” is one of the twelve principles behind the Agile manifesto.

Are your teams practicing Test Driven Development, Automated Testing, Continuous Integration and Delivery? How about pairing, mobbing, and collective code ownership?
Agile Engineering Practices are key to succeeding with Scrum and realizing its many benefits like faster ROI, reduced risks, increased visibility, high quality, and improved adaptability. Yet many teams struggle with adopting these practices and end up just going through the motions of Planning meetings, Daily Scrums, Reviews, Retros and so forth. They use cool new lingo and tools; they have new roles and titles, yet the overall approach, technical practices, and results are still the same. Sprints usually end up being just for coding and finish with no shippable Product Increment. Teams go through several Sprints without delivering anything. Testing cycles and release cycles are still long, and the delivery of customer value is delayed. The final deliverable suffers from poor quality and does not meet the customer’s needs.
Come to this session to learn how to introduce essential Agile Engineering Practices to your team. We’ll discuss typical transitions teams go through in their Agile adoption along with the challenges, roadblocks and push back to these technical practices. Leave equipped with a continuous improvement action plan to overcome these challenges, make new behaviors stick, and get your teams on their way to technical excellence.

 

 Agenda

6:00pm: Welcome and Intro

6:15pm: Speaker

7:15pm: Networking

7:25pm: Feedback & Wrap-up

7:30pm: Adjourn

 

About Fadi Stephan

Fadi Stephan is a technology consultant, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), and Agile coach with more than twenty years of experience at startups, government agencies, and Fortune500 companies across various sectors including financial, hospitality, and homeland. His focus is on building high performing innovative organizations and teams that deliver value early and maximize ROI. Fadi coaches clients on agility and organizational culture, leadership, product management, user-centered design, Agile engineering practices and DevOps. Find out more at https://www.kaizenko.com/about

 

Wednesday
May052021

MAY MEETING: The Core protocols: The Core Commitments first by Jesus Mendez

The Core protocols: The Core Commitments first by Jesus Mendez

When: Thursday, May 13th, 2021

Where: Online (Meeting link will be emailed prior to event)

Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm 

 

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The Core protocols: The Core Commitments first by Jesus Mendez

The Core Protocols are a set of interdependent communication practices proposed by Jim et Michele MacCarthy, arranged in a practical culture-as-a-protocol-stack by Richard Kasperowski (and previously written about from a meeting perspective by Peter Antman in this blog), that can be applied for oneself and in a team to facilitate interactions between people and obtain better results by uniting the collective.

They are a set of communication practices that promise those who use them a huge impact:

  • a greater presence to oneself and to others which allows them to effectively co-construct their projects
  • shared and responsible decisions where everyone can express their ideas constructively and have all the elements to engage in their realization
  • alignment and understanding of oneself and others that allows you to act confidently and in a positive way on a daily basis
  • the ability to improve their work collectively in order to produce the best possible quality

 

My Purpose for the workshop

I have the intention to tap into the collective intelligence of the Agile Cincinnati meetup group to discover possibilities together by going over the fundamental conditions/the Core commitments required to effectively apply the Core Protocols.

Indeed, owning tools is good ... But if you are not in the right environment to use them, it is less useful!

 

How we will achieve the proposed purpose?

During the workshop, we will going to answer the following questions together:

  • What’s the role of communication when working with people?
  • What tools and techniques do we typically to help our groups/teams improve communication?
  • How the core protocols could help us with improving people’s interactions?
  • What are the fundamental conditions/The Core commitments proposed by the Core Protocols?
  • What’s possible now?

 

Agenda

6:00pm: Welcome and Intro

6:15pm: Speaker

7:15pm: Networking

7:25pm: Feedback & Wrap-up

7:30pm: Adjourn

 

About Jesus Mendez

My main purpose is to help with building the future generation of Agility Enablers, by creating possibilities together.

I do that by helping people find better ways to work together through a Lean-Agile mindset and providing amazing content and events that would help us connect and grow together. I believe that learning by sharing is the greatest way to change the world around us, that’s why I have started experimenting with the Liberating Structures as a way to reconnect and unleash people’s potential by including and engaging everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday
Mar242021

"Design Thinking for Social Innovation" by Emily Stuhldreher

"Design Thinking for Social Innovation" by Emily Stuhldreher

When: Thursday, April 8th, 2021

Where: Online (Meeting link will be emailed prior to event)

Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm 

 

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"Design Thinking for Social Innovation" by Emily Stuhldreher

Join us for a hands-on workshop teaching the basics of Design Thinking in the context of building social impact solutions. Design Thinking allows us to understand social issues on a deeper level and to use an iterative strategy to stay lean and achieve the impact we hope to create. In this workshop, you will get a chance to engage with other participants and try out design thinking principles for yourself as while walking through a case study of how this strategy has been effective.

 

Agenda

6:00pm: Welcome and Intro

6:15pm: Speaker

7:15pm: Networking

7:25pm: Feedback & Wrap-up

7:30pm: Adjourn

 

About Emily Stuhldreher

Emily is a Design Thinking practitioner by day and a Social Innovation enthusiast by night. She spends her time building the social impact launchpad at GiveBackHack, coaching social entrepreneurs, and empowering communities through Design Thinking facilitation. She is passionate about leveraging systems thinking to build sustainable social solutions, creating true social impact in our communities. Previously she has spent time in nonprofit fellowships with The Columbus Foundation and The Suddes Group. Outside of work she loves to get outside - hiking, climbing, biking, and kayaking whenever she can.