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Agile is coming to Atlanta!
This is your chance to attend
an Agile conference specifically designed to address the needs of the Agile
community in Atlanta and the Southeast. Our speakers will discuss topics
ranging from Product and Portfolio management to Agile Architecture and Metrics.
Each speaker will present two talks, one geared toward the practitioner
that is looking for tools and techniques they can use on a daily basis, the
other toward leaders considering, or leading, a switch to Agile.
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Session 1 |
Session 2 |
Session 3 |
Session 4 |
Session 5 |
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Bridge to Agility
Michelle Sliger |
Building Roadmaps
Peter Hodgkins |
Test Driven Everything
David Hussman |
Agile Metrics
Roland Cuellar |
Implementing Development Value Chain: An
Assessment Framework
Bud Phillips |
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Agile Portfolio Management
Roland Cuellar |
Mixing Roles in Scrum
Mitch Lacey |
Roadmaps and Quality
Peter Hodgkins |
Agile and Architecture
David Hussman |
Speaker Abstracts
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Thursday September 25th |
Friday September 26th |
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Breakfast |
8:00 -9:00 |
Breakfast |
8:00 – 9:00 |
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Keynote:
Robert Holler |
9:00 – 9:30 |
Session 5 |
9:00 – 10:00 |
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Session 1 |
9:45 – 10:45 |
Birds of
a Feather |
10:30 – 12:00 |
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Session 2 |
11:15 – 12:15 |
Lunch |
12:00 – 1:00 |
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Lunch |
12:15 – 1:15 |
Keynote:
Christopher Avery |
1:00 – 2:00 |
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Session 3 |
1:15 – 2:15 |
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Session 4 |
2:45 – 3:45 |
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Panel
Discussion |
4:00 – 5:00 |
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Reception |
5:00 – 7:00 |
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What are the benefits of attending?
The summit targets both new and seasoned Agile
leaders – and targets both organizational leaders, product leaders, and project
leaders. This is your chance to spend a whole day with some of the leading
experts in the area of Agile Leadership, to network with with other agile
leaders and to share your experiences and concerns with those who are in the
same situation as yourself.
The APLN Atlanta Leadership Summit format
provides:
- Networking opportunities throughout
the day
- Speakers addressing how to lead
their organizations to become agile.
- "Think Tank" sessions on Agile
Leadership with topics addressing advanced leadership tools, experiences,
lessons learned, and issues yet to be resolved, decided by the group.
- A panel discussion where practicing
agile leaders will discuss the largest issues facing agile leaders in their
enterprise.
- Networking social at the end of the
first day to review think tank solutions and suggestions.
- Attendees can claim 8 PDUs for attending
this event. Click here to find out how!
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Attend keynote talks from recognized Agile
leaders!
Robert Holler
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Robert
Holler is president and CEO of VersionOne, a provider of enterprise
planning and management tools for Agile development. Mr. Holler has more
than seventeen years of high-tech software experience, including VP of
Development, CTO, and CEO of several enterprise software firms over the
last decade. His career in the software arena encompasses working as a
consultant, developer, tester, technical writer, DBA, development
manager and senior executive.
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frequent speaker at industry related conferences and corporate functions
on the implementation and benefits of Agile methodologies, Mr. Holler’s
writing on the subject have been published in both traditional and Agile
specific publications. Holler holds a Master of Science in management
from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in
electrical engineering from Auburn University. |
Bud
Phillips
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Bud Phillips leads
the Transformation Services Group, where he is responsible for providing
consulting and training services that help Valtech’s clients introduce
and build agility into their development value chains. These services
include agile technical and management training, agility assessments and
transformations, and supply chain software - strategy development.
Prior to Valtech,
Bud was Vice President at Capital One Financial Services, leading the
Response Services Group in Marketing Acquisitions. In this role, Bud
pioneered the use of Lean and Agile process principles to radically
improve cycle time, productivity, associate engagement, and quality of
Response Processing. For five years, Bud led, managed and lived the
experience of transforming people and processes toward lean and agile
value creation. Ultimately, Marketing Acquisitions was regarded as a
Capital One “beacon” for building a lean agile management system and
culture for development and production execution.
Bud has been a
Partner at Deloitte Consulting and a Senior Strategist at Monitor
Company. He has degrees from the College of William and Mary and
Harvard Business School. |
Christopher
Avery
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Best-known for his cutting-edge work to de-mystify and then develop
practical team leadership skills for knowledge workers ––i.e.,
engineers, geeks, and other technical professionals all of whom Peter
Drucker claimed must be led rather than managed–– Christopher Avery,
Ph.D., is a popular speaker, author, and international business advisor
on responsible leadership, teamwork, and change. He wrote the popular
book Teamwork Is An Individual Skill for everyone at work who thinks
they must put up with bad teams.
And now
he’s redefining responsibility. As the visionary force behind the
Responsibility Redefined™ framework, Christopher applies ground-breaking
research on personal responsibility and performance to support
enterprise leaders intent on rapidly building highly reliable, agile,
sustainable, and accelerating cultures. Christopher is a Senior
Consultant with the IT and Agile Project Management practices of the
Cutter Consortium, a Boston-area think tank. He co-founded the Agile
Project Leadership Network dedicated to connecting, developing, and
supporting great project leaders. Christopher earned his Doctorate in
the Communication of Technology from The University of Texas at Austin
where he occasionally lectures. He is a Visiting Scholar at Capella
University.
The
author of hundreds of articles and commentaries about individual and
collective performance at work, Christopher is a popular source for the
media and has been featured or quoted in Investors Business Daily, the
Chicago Tribune, Training+Development magazine, HR Executive, NPR,
ABCNews.com, HR.com and USAToday.com among others. |
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Talk with Senior Leaders running Agile
teams!
The conference will be hosting five agile
executives from around the Southeast. These are leaders that have
successfully lead agile teams and know what it takes to sell agile and lead agile
transitions. Our panel will be available to answer your questions both
during the panel discussion as well as during 'birds of a feather' session and
during breaks.
Confirmed Panelists
Paul King - VP Products
and Engineering, Agentek, Inc. - Alpharetta, GA
Rick McMichael - VP Product Development, CheckFree - Norcross, GA
Bob Myer - Pillar Technologies, President/COO - Columbus, OH
Steve Cover - Sage Software, VP R&D - Lawrenceville, GA
Bud Phillips - Valtech (former VP at CapitalOne) - Richmond, VA
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Learn from world class Agile thinkers!
Peter Hodgkins
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Peter
Hodgkins brings more than 15 years of
technology and program leadership to his role at Enthiosys, where he is
responsible for the firm’s strategic Roadmapping practice. He is one of
the first industry experts to implement and manage multi-project /
multi-location agile program management, including the creation
roadmaps-of-roadmaps for complex division-level planning.
Most recently,
Peter was a senior manager at VeriSign, where he led that company’s
worldwide Engineering Project Management Initiative. This included
leadership for cross-functional multinational project teams, and
pioneering techniques for coordinating agile software development across
many time zones. In this role, he defined and deployed agile
methodologies that reduced development time by 30%. Peter was also head
of VeriSign’s Agilist Group. |
Mitch Lacey
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Mitch honed
his agile skills at Microsoft Corporation, where he successfully
released core enterprise services for Windows Live. While at Microsoft,
he transitioned from Program Manager to Agile Coach, working
hand-in-hand with groups throughout their transition to Agile practices.
After Microsoft, Mitch was the Agile Practice Manager at Ascentium
Corporation where he practiced agility on the projects he ran every day
while coaching customers on agile practices and lessons on agile
adoption worldwide.
As a Certified
Scrum Trainer (CST) and a registered Project Management Professional (PMP),
Mitch shares his experience in project and client management through
Certified ScrumMaster courses, Agile coaching engagements, conference
presentations, blogs and white papers.
He is the
author of “Adventures in Promiscuous Pairing” presented and published at
the Agile 2006 conference, “Transitioning to Agile: Key Lessons Learned
in the Field” presented and published at the Fall 2007 PMI Global
Congress in Atlanta, Georgia and "The Impacts of Poor Estimating - and
How to Fix It" presented and published at the winter 2007 SQE Agile
development conference in Orlando, Florida. He is presenting at Agile
2008 in Toronto Canada on a variety of topics, as well as the Better
Software Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in June 2008.
Mitch is
currently under contract with Addison Wesley to publish a book titled
"Adopting Agile: 101 Tips for Surviving Your First Year" scheduled for
publication in 2009 |
Michele Sliger
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Michele Sliger is the co-author of The Software Project Manager’s
Bridge to Agility. She has extensive experience in agile software
development, having transitioned to Scrum and XP practices in 2000 after
starting her career following the traditional waterfall approach. A
self-described “bridge builder,” her passion lies in helping those in
traditional software development environments cross the bridge to
agility. Michele is the owner of Sliger Consulting Inc., where she
consults with businesses ranging from small start-ups to Fortune 500
companies, helping teams with their agile adoption, and helping
organizations prepare for the changes that agile adoption brings. A
frequent conference speaker and regular contributor to software industry
publications, Michele is a strong advocate of agile principles and
value-driven development practices. She is a certified Project
Management Professional (PMP®) and a Certified Scrum Trainer
(CST). She has an undergraduate MIS degree and an MBA. |
Roland
Ceullar
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Roland has years of Agile Project Management and Lean
expertise - he is a leader in helping enterprise level clients to adopt
the use of both agile and lean in their organizations. Roland has helped
executives prepare their organizations for agile transformation by
identifying challenges and opportunities related to agile and lean
implementation and developing action plans and risk mitigation
strategies to insure that agile and lean initiatives are successful.
Roland has led numerous agile product development teams in the areas of
marketing applications, mortgage, compliance, and logistics. Roland has
also given numerous agile training classes to both management and
technology teams. Roland has prior experience leading large software
development projects for IBM, Lockheed Martin, and DHL. Roland has a
B.S. in Computer Science, an MBA, and is a Certified ScrumMaster and a
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. |
David Hussman
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David
has been creating software for more than 15 years in a variety of
domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail,
legal, and education to name a few. For the past 8 years, David has
mentored and coached agile teams in the U.S., Canada, Europe, India,
Egypt, Russia, and Ukraine. Along with presenting and leading workshops
/ tutorials at conferences in the U.S. and Europe, David has contributed
to several books (Managing Agile Projects and Agile in the Large), and
worked on agile curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella
University. David is currently writing a book for the Pragmatic
Programmer series.
David leads DevJam, a Minneapolis based company composed of agile
collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on using
agile to help people and companies improve their software production
skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically
match technology, people, and processes in a way which produces software
that makes people happier and more productive. |
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Great, so let's have the details!
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Fees to Attend the Summit |
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Earlybird (Until
September 24th 2008) |
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$ 399 |
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20% discount for groups of 5
or more
Corporate and group rates available
$50 discount for national APLN members
Contact
summit@apln.org for
information on Corporate and Group Rates and to
learn how to attend the summit for FREE!
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Hotel
Information |
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Marriott Atlanta Perimeter Center
246 Perimeter Center Parkway NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30346 USA
(Directions)
Click
here to make your reservation
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Additional
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How to Claim PDUs for this Event |
- You are eligible for 8
PDUs under Category 4 - Other Providers
- You have to apply for
your own credits, we are not a PMI Registered Education
Provider
- Assuming that you have
a login to the www.pmi.org site:
- Once you're in,
click on the "View PDUs" link that's down the left
side of the page.
- You will then need
to login again, this time using your PMI ID Number,
your PMP Cert Number, and your password. NOTE:
your password here is the first four characters of
your last name. Before hitting enter, make sure you
have the radio button option to jump to the "PMI PDU
Self Report Form" clicked.
- Next, on the self
reporting screen, select Category 4 from the drop
down ("Other Program Provider"). This is for
education providers that are not registered with the
PMI.
Click "continue," and you'll have to enter in all
the specifics about the class, including the areas
of "Knowledge" and "Process" dropdowns.
- I would recommend
selecting "all" to represent the areas covered. For
"Application/Specific Interest" areas, I would
recommend selecting "09: Information Systems.“
- You will also need
the specific contact information for the instructor
(address, phone, email).
- Once you get
through this you're done (with the exception of a
review by the PMI before granting you the PDUs).
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For more information, contact
Mike Cottmeyer the APLN Atlanta
Leadership Summit Chair.
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