BeyondAgile: "Organizing to Fulfill the Product Owner Role" *this* Thursday in Redmond and Seattle!
Monica Yap
In our still-on-the-bleeding-edge series of just-in-time events,
BeyondAgile presents:
"It Takes a Village: Organizing to Fulfill the Product Owner Role"
Thursday, 18 February 2010
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Read on for agenda and locations information, or visit our Google
Group
at †http://groups.google.com/group/beyondagile
- The Blurb
The Agile product owner role is famously defined as the "single
wringable neck" who ensures that software products and projects
deliver value. Many organizations struggle to fill this role, one that
collaborates with stakeholders to define value and manage a backlog,
provides tactical support to the delivery team, and directs the
product and project vision and roadmap. For most organizations, the
reality is that it takes a whole team of people to fill this role.
We're lucky to be able to kick off our 2010 event season with the
fantastic Ronica Roth, agie coach and consultant with Rally. Ronica
will begin with a quick overview of product owner responsibilities,
then describe patterns and examples for organizing product and
customer groups in product
companies, consulting shops, and internal IT departments. They'll be
two-way discussions of the successes and challenges of these patterns
and of your experiences with them.
Why should you come? Ronica's a great speaker, a fun person, and
before she was a teacher, she was a doer, discovering, evolving, and
managing software requirements as a product owner. She knows what
she's talking about.
- Event Agenda
o Welcome and Announcements (10 min.)
o "Organizing to Fulfill the Product Owner Role" presentation (60
min.)
o Questions and Answers (15 min.)
o Giveaway Drawing (whatever we can find lying around to give away) (5
min.)
o Meeting Retrospective (10 min.)
o Socializing and Breakout/Breakup/Beer
- Event Location
Yeah, we're still crazy after all last year, and so we're meeting at
*two* physical locations, connected through videolink:
Eastside (Redmond)
SolutionsIQ
First Floor Training Center
10785 Willows Road NE, Suite 250
Redmond WA
Directions and picture of building at:
http://www.solutionsiq.com/about-us/contact-us.php
Look for the tent signs and the blue BeyondAgile logo
Westside (Seattle)
Amdocs Digital Commerce Division (formerly QPass)
2211 Elliott Ave Suite 400
Seattle WA
Questions? Contact us at beyondag...@taoproductions.com, or visit our
Google Group, or contribute to the nascent Wiki at beyondagile.org. Or
(we're really letting a thousand flowers bloom here) you can RSVP/
discuss the event at the BeyondAgile Facebook site:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=68941257907&ref=nf
- Opportunity knocks!
If you've attended our meetings and think the audio/video links need
improvement, or if you *can't * attend our meetings and wish there was
live/stored streaming of meetings...BeyondAgile needs you! Everything
we do happens because someone wants to make something better: we have
no staff, no budget, no fixed leadership or organization...only the
folks who want to help each month, and our faithful location sponsors
(Amdocs Seattle Division and SolutionsIQ). Some folks from Agile
Vancouver have some ideas about sharing their videoconferencing/
streaming/posting video experience, so maybe you can be the person to
help them help us and forge a cross-border alliance!
So: help make this a better group. Contact us using any of the means
you see in this announcement, or come to the meeting and see who you
can get to help you!
- What's BeyondAgile?
It's the combination and follow-on to a number of the agile-oriented
user and interest groups that have operated in the Puget Sound area.
We aim to:
o Build a bigger agile community
o Take advantage of overlaps between existing groups
o Expand beyond meetings and provide a place to collaborate
o Align software development and business
o Explore cutting-edge ideas and techniques
o Discover the most useful practices among all agile processes
- Where do BeyondAgile events happen?
Our goal is to have many answers to this. As a result, we've worked to
remove the impediment offered by bridges and commuting: we (try to)
hold our events in both Eastside and Seattle locations, through the
semi-magic of videocasting. That's (much) harder than it seems; we'd
also still like to present events freed from the confines of time
through streaming video. If you can make that happen, please, pease,
please volunteer to help!
Michael J. Tardiff
Our speaker for tonight's (18 February 2010) BeyondAgile event, Ronica
Roth, has come down with laryngitis, and it doesn't look good for her
recovery in time to speak tonight.
So Larry and I, the hosts for tonight's event, reviewing what input
and advice we've received and consulting our crystal balls and guts,
have decided to try to rebook Ronica as soon as we can and CANCEL
TONIGHT'S MEETING.
We hope you understand and support us in this call, and we're all
looking forward to our next event. Help us plan it and hold it: we
need the energy and help!
+ Michael and Larry