About us
“Agile and Scaled-Value Project Management” (ASVPM) is a periodic meetup and a forum for Agile practitioners, project and program leaders, team and enterprise coaches, volunteers, and students who want to share their insights and learn Agile as a mindset. This meetup is our public voice on how a group of volunteers is creating a self-organized global village of Agile thinkers and leaders. We are building a unique and the only existing volunteer-based Agile PM leadership organization built by volunteers and for Agile-minded professional leaders. We are employing any Agile framework that helps us to practically build our organization and learn self-organization in trusted environments. We apply Scrum, Lean-Kanban, eXtreme Programming, FDD, or any applicable Way of Work to apply “Agile mindset” and scale our values within teams and enterprises.
Due to our members’ diverse geographical locations, we will try to readjust the day and time of our periodic meetup to accommodate most of the Agile leaders to join in. This meetup is our public tribune to share our lessons learned with the community of Agile practitioners and learn from Agile leaders to elevate empirical leadership building in practice.
Periodic "Agile and Scaled-Value Project Management" Meetup will feature inspiring Agile coaches and leaders as guest speakers with participant interactions and ample opportunities to connect, share our insights, and learn how to build and scale Agile teams. Our vision is to grow a dynamic global ASVPM community by launching local, in-person meetups, paired with live virtual streaming to share the energy of every session. Want to help us bring this vision to life? Partner with us as a Meetup sponsor and enjoy featured placement online, on our marketing materials, and live at the event. Please contact us through our website https://SVProjectManagement.com if you and/or your organization are interested in sponsorship.
Upcoming events
2
Got AI? Don't dismiss Test-Driven thinking!
·OnlineOnlineOur Agile & Scaled-Value Project Management Meetup hour in August 2026 is scheduled for Thursday, August 27th, 2026.
Time: 12:00 pm PT/2:00 pm CT/3:00 pm ET
Topic: "Got AI? Don't dismiss Test-Driven thinking!"
Our Guest Speaker: Rob MyersPls. Note: To protect privacy and ensure a smooth session flow, we request that attendees refrain from using AI-assistive recording or note-taking tools during the meetup session. Thank you.
An introduction to the meetup:
AI code-generation delivers on speed, but teams working in medical, financial, transportation, and other high-risk domains face a dilemma: when the AI writes both code and tests, how do you know it hasn't hallucinated away a critical edge case? "Vibe coding" through iterative prompts leaves the entire team uncertain whether all critical scenarios have been covered.Rob Myers covers the missing puzzle-piece that must always be done–at some level–by humans. Rob calls this “Test-Driven Thinking,” requiring someone to describe to the agent–in detail–what the software user expects to happen, expressed in concrete examples. Learn about specific techniques for keeping humans in the driver's seat on test scenario creation while still gaining AI's code generation speed. Discover how to structure your workflow so creative human insight defines "what ifs" while AI handles implementation.
You'll leave with practical approaches for integrating comprehensive Test-Driven Thinking into your AI-augmented pipeline—giving you both the speed you need and the confidence that no critical cases get missed.
Takeaways:
- Why the same AI agent shouldn’t build both- user stories (requests) and implementation.
- Some approaches for integrating Test-Driven Thinking into your AI-augmented workflow.
- How agentic development might alter team roles… possibly making us humans more “Agile” rather than becoming obsolete wetware.
Our Speaker:
Rob Myers has 40 years of professional software development experience, including six years as a full-time developer coach on a variety of Extreme Programming (XP) teams. He has been training and coaching organizations in Agile engineering practices since 1998. His courses blend fun, practical, hands-on coding labs, "Training From the Back of the Room” techniques, and relevant first-person stories from both successful and not-so-successful Agile implementations. Rob is the founder of Agile Institute, where he offers immersive courses & mentoring in Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Certified Scrum Developer (CSD), Advanced CSD (A-CSD), and Extreme Programming (XP). He’s a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer specializing in Advanced Certified Scrum Developer courses (A-CSD), and the author of the book Essential Test-Driven Development.24 attendees
Eleven Lessons Learned from an Agile Hardware Transformation
·OnlineOnlineOur Agile & Scaled-Value Project Management Meetup hour in September 2026 is scheduled for Thursday, September 17th, 2026.
Time: 12:00 pm PT/2:00 pm CT/3:00 pm ET
Topic: "Eleven Lessons Learned from an Agile Hardware Transformation"
Our Guest Speaker: Dr. Kevin ThompsonThis meetup will be in a "HYBRID" setting!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Onsite (In Person):
Venue address: 4 N 2nd St, San Jose, CA 95113 [10th floor, Room# 1045]
Seats are available at the venue on a first-come, first-served basis.Online:
The Zoom link will be visible to those who R.S.V.P. as "Attending".Pls. Note: To protect privacy and ensure a smooth session flow, we request that attendees refrain from using AI-assistive recording or note-taking tools during the meetup session. Thank you.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------An introduction to the meetup:
Can Scrum really work for hardware development? This presentation answers that question through a case study of an Agile transformation at Thermo Fisher Scientific involving the development of a new mass spectrometer. The engagement provided an opportunity to test predictions from my eighteen-month research project on Agile methods for hardware development. The presentation summarizes eleven practical lessons about what translates directly from Scrum, what had to be changed, and why.Takeaways:
- Scrum itself translates surprisingly well to hardware development.
- Many software-oriented Scrum practices must be replaced with hardware-appropriate alternatives.
- Hardware work can be decomposed into Sprint-sized, testable deliverables.
- Cross-functional teams remain a key ingredient for successful Agile development.
Our Speaker:
Dr. Kevin Thompson holds a Ph.D. in Physics and has worked as a scientific researcher, software developer, project manager, Scrum Master, Agile consultant, and trainer. He has led Agile transformations across more than 100 engineering organizations, with a particular focus on hardware and embedded-systems development. He is the author of the book Solutions for Agile Governance in the Enterprise, and specializes in helping engineering organizations adapt Agile methods to complex hardware environments.15 attendees
Past events
47
