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
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The Helpful Leader: Why the helpful ones are dangerous, and what to do about it
·OnlineOnlineOur Agile & Scaled-Value Project Management Meetup hour in November 2026 is scheduled for Thursday, November 12th, 2026.
Time: 12:00 pm PT/2:00 pm CT/3:00 pm ET
Topic: "The Helpful Leader: Why the helpful ones are dangerous, and what to do about it"
Our Guest Speaker: Brian Link
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:
Who is the “most dangerous leader”? Every room can name the tyrant, the micromanager, the blamer, the one who shouts. Almost nobody names the leader who is always available, always willing to weigh in, always ready with a suggestion. And I think that's the one quietly doing the most damage, because it doesn't look like damage to anyone, least of all the leader doing it.
You can make the teams awesome, and you even get top-down executive support. But if leader behavior doesn't change, everything you fixed in strategy, discovery, flow, and structure tends to revert within a year.
Takeaways:
Brian will open with the best leadership move he's ever watched: a brand new CIO standing in a rented hotel ballroom in front of three hundred middle managers, telling them all to stop pretending they know everything.
Then we'll look at the four ordinary, well-intentioned behaviors that leaders often think are helpful but are not:
- Leaders can accidentally provide instructions or commands to the team if they aren’t careful with their language and respect the team’s processes
- Leaders can break trust and psychological safety by filling the silence and answering their own questions
- Leaders unknowingly introduce waste and delays by trying to be helpful, offering to have teams “run something by them”
- Leaders who say thank you to feedback but fail to follow through do damage to relationships and further break trust with the team
Our Speaker:
Brian is an Enterprise Agile Coach whose path to agility was forged in the trenches — from software engineer to CTO of internet startups, including Digg.Inc, to leading large-scale Agile transformations at some of the country's largest financial institutions. He currently leads the team of coaches in the Transformation Management Office at Huntington Bank.
A practitioner first, Brian brings hard-won experience helping individuals, teams, and entire organizations build genuine Business Agility — not just adopt frameworks. He is the author of The Practical Agilist Guidebook and the recently published Assembled. Aligned. Adaptive: The integrated operating model every leader must build, a field manual for leaders navigating organizational transformation.
Brian is also an Adjunct Professor teaching Agile courses at Columbus State Community College, where he works to shape the next generation of practitioners.
Outside of work, he is a word nerd, a competitive Scrabble player, a juggler, and deeply obsessed with dystopian science fiction.25 attendees
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