MNAEG Gathering Tuesday, Nov. 27 6-8:30 PM.

[RHunter]

Have the first date set up for this year.  A few suggestions have been made - anyone have other ideas they want to put forth? 

Rod

[RHunter]

Faster feedback using a Design Sprint - led by Paul Ellarby

 

Design Sprints have been around for quite a long time, having been defined and promoted by Google Ventures (gv.com) since 2009. Yet how many of us know why we should use them, when we should use them, and how to use them?

 

Like so many aspects of our work, Design Sprints were codified in a book (“SPRINT – Solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days” by Jake Knapp), and most people have taken the book as “the only way to run a design sprint”. But it is not a manual, it is a framework of outcomes, and we can reach those outcomes using different, situation-fitting ways. We will investigate the “standard” way, and how we can adapt the Design Sprint to our own end goals.

 

 

While Paul is an expert in agile and lean development methods and their effects on organizational structures, his true focus is delivering high-value software to solve pressing business issues. This has enabled him to lead organizations in adopting new approaches to software development, without losing sight of the real reason and need for such an adoption – that old methods are no longer working.

 

This pragmatic and effective approach has resulted in Paul being in constant demand by technology organizations big and small, in both the USA and Europe, where he leads engagements in forming and training software development teams, working with executives to make them understand their move to a more adaptive leadership model, and enabling geographically-distributed organizations to strengthen their collaboration and delivery capabilities.

 6 – 6:30 PM – networking, pizza

6:30 – 8 PM – topic discussion

If planning to attend please indicate on Doodle poll  to help with the pizza order.  Yes for sure and vote "if needed" if you are a maybe :-). 

 Gatherings are held at the University of St. Thomas, Murray Herrick room 206 (MHC206) 

 Here is a link to parking info https://www.stthomas.edu/parking/parkingoptions/visitors/visitoroptions/

Note on parking: The Morrison ramp ($1/hr after 4 PM) is closest to the Murray Herrick.  

Street parking in non-permit areas on the campus perimeters can sometimes be found. 

[RHunter]

One week until the next MNAEG gathering - please indicate on Doodle if planning to attend.

Rod

[Stephen Thompson]

Rod:

Missing link to the Doodle....

On 11/20/2018 11:08 AM, RHunter wrote:

One week until the next MNAEG gathering - please indicate on Doodle if planning to attend.

Rod

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[RHunter]

Final reminder - next MNAEG is this coming Tuesday 

If planning to attend please indicate on Doodle poll  to help with the pizza order.  Yes for sure and vote "if needed" if you are a maybe :-).