A big thanks to Rally Software who have helped organise Dean Leffingwell for our next meetup. Also a big thanks to Telstra for letting us have their great conference centre again...

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The Big Picture: Agile Portfolio Management in the Scaled Agile Framework, Dean Leffingwell, Author of Scaling Software Agility Dean Leffingwell will be sharing with us his experiences in working with APPMO's (Agile Portfolio and Program Management) and the important role they play in 1) Strategy and Investment Funding, 2) Program Management and 3) Governance. He will also be describing some of the legacy mindsets that can prevent a truly agile approach to these functions, and more importantly, what can be done about it. As many of you have followed Dean's work through the years you have watched him build out the Scaled Agility Framework. Dean will also discuss the latest updates to the framework and sharing with us the experiences that have went into building it.

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Dean Leffingwell is a consultant, entrepreneur, software executive and technical author who provides product strategy, business advisory services and enterprise-level agility coaching to large software enterprises. Mr. Leffingwell was founder and CEO of consumer marketing identity company ProQuo, Inc. Mr. Leffingwell has also served as chief methodologist to Rally Software and as business consultant to Ping Identity Corporation and Roving Planet, Inc. Formerly, Mr. Leffingwell served as Vice President of Rational Software, now IBM’s Rational Division, where he was responsible for the Rational Unified Process and promulgation of the UML. Previously, Leffingwell was co-founder and CEO of software tools company Requisite, Inc., makers of RequisitePro for requirements management, which was acquired by Rational. Mr. Leffingwell was also the founder and CEO of RELA, Inc., and publicly held Colorado MEDtech. Mr. Leffingwell has been a student, coach and author of contemporary software engineering and software development management practices throughout his career. His latest books are Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise (Addison-Wesley 2011) and Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for the Large Enterprises (Addison-Wesley 2007). He is also the lead author of the text Managing Software Requirements, First and Second Editions, also from Addison-Wesley.