Agile Auckland

This month we have a speaker Bruce Keightley, Certified Scrum Master, and Scrum Product Owner joining us from Christchurch. Bruce has given this talk at the Christchurch network where is was well received.

**Is the military Agile?**

Military personnel - short hair, disciplined, trained to follow orders, regimented in their thinking and their actions ... or are they? What possible link could there be between the way that militaries train their people to think and act, and the Agile world of software development?

In "Flying and Fighting: Agile aircraft, agile mind" Clarus' Agile Practice Lead, Bruce Keightley, explores the linkages between Colonel John Boyd's OODA loop and Agile's 'inspect and adapt' approach. The result is a fascinating insight into how many military strategies apply self-managing teams, frequent feedback loops and constant inspection and adaption to radically out-perform the completion against all odds.

Bruce Keightley is the Agile Practice Lead at Clarus.  He is a Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner and holds an MBA. He is passionate about business improvement using common sense tools like Scrum.  Bruce served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force for over 23 years as a pilot, flying instructor, staff officer and commander. On leaving the air force he moved to the Middle East, where he worked as a contract instructor, personnel manager and project specialist. He returned home after eight years and began consulting work, specialising in management and training. Bruce has been actively involved in teaching, implementing and coaching Scrum with Clarus. Bruce’s extensive military career has ingrained the Agile principles of inspect and adapt; this combined with his extensive and practical leadership and management experience has produced an unusual but extremely effective skill set.

The event is at the Vero Centre, level 11, 48 Shortland Street, thanks to Vero Insurance NZ Ltd, and starts as always with drinks and chips at 5pm, followed by the talk starting at 5:30pm. See you there!

For those joining us for nibbles, we’d appreciate a $5 donation to help pay for the drinks and chips please as this is an unsponsored event. 

Auckland - New Zealand Wednesday, February 15th at 5:00 PM