Snowbird 2001 – A behind the scenes look at the writing of the Agile Manifesto

ABSTRACT

In February of 2021, the AgileReflect20 festival is celebrating 20 years since the writing of the Agile Manifesto in Snowbird, Utah.

Join the DC Scrum User Group as we kick-off the festival with a behind the scenes look at what happened at Snowbird back in 2001 during the writing of the Agile Manifesto. In addition to the skiing, hot tubs and beers, there were some passionate discussions on various light weight methods, approaches and techniques. Find out how the event came about, who initiated it and why, how the location was picked, what were the objectives and agenda coming into the event, who was there and why, who didn’t make it, what were some of the heated discussions that occurred, how the values and the principles came about, what was included and what was left out, and finally, looking back in retrospect, what would the authors want to change or add today?

https://agilemanifesto.org/
https://agile20reflect.org/

AGENDA:
6:00 - 7:00 Presentation + Q&A
7:00 - 7:30 Networking

BIO
Fadi Stephan is a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®), Agile Coach, and technology consultant with more than twenty years of experience at startups, government agencies, and Fortune500 companies across various sectors including financial, hospitality, and homeland. His focus is on building high performing innovative organizations and teams that deliver value early and maximize ROI. Fadi's background is in technology consulting and product development. He has successfully led digital transformations by combining lean discovery with Agile delivery and a DevOps mindset to deliver impactful digital experiences. At client sites, Fadi trains and coaches teams on agility, leadership, product management, user-centered design, Agile engineering practices and DevOps.

SPONSOR & COSTS
This DCSUG event is part of the Agile20Reflect Festival and is free thanks to our sponsors Kaizenko and Excella.

Kaizenko (https://www.kaizenko.com) has some upcoming training that may be of interest to you. Check out the schedule here (https://www.kaizenko.com/public-training/). Contact us for discount codes (https://www.kaizenko.com/contact/)

Excella (http://www.excella.com) is hiring! Check out the open job opportunities page (https://www.excella.com/careers).

CAN'T MAKE IT?

Checkout videos and slides of past presentations at https://www.kaizenko.com/washington-dc-scrum-user-group-dcsug/

Also, we typically meet monthly. So if you can't make it this month, hopefully we'll see you at the next meetup.