What we’re about
Agile Denver is an outreach organization for agile and lean practice in the Denver area. The organization strives to facilitate quality events to our members, helping them become better agilists. Agile Denver is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit that supports a number of Special Interest Groups.
Ways to get involved and stay informed:
• Visit the Agile Denver website
• Follow Agile Denver's YouTube Channel
• Join Agile Denver's Slack community (email board@agiledenver.org to join!)
• Keep in touch with others on the Agile Denver LinkedIn
• Attend the Agile Denver Monthly Meeting (4th Monday of the month; see this meetup group for details)
We also offer the following special interest groups:
Agile Denver North
Agile Boulder
Agile Denver Kanban CoP (Lean/Kanban)
PDUs are available for our monthly meetings as well as our annual conference.
Upcoming events (2)
See all- In person - Unblocking AI: What We Can Learn from Agile Transformation StrugglesInnovar Group, Greenwood Village, CO
## Details
In Person Event:
7400 East Orchard Road Suite 120 (Lower Level) Greenwood Village CO 80111Description:
Unblocking AI: What We Can Learn from Agile Transformation Struggles
Most AI efforts don’t fail because of the tech. They fail because of the system around it. Sound familiar? It’s the same story we saw in Agile transformations—big promises, high hopes… and too often, superficial change and unrealized impact.In this interactive talk, we’ll connect the dots between why Agile transformations struggled and why AI adoption is hitting the same walls. We’ll surface the six organizational blockers that hold AI back—misaligned strategies, weak data foundations, resistance to change, talent gaps, governance overload, and scaling failures—and compare them to the patterns many of us lived through in Agile.
You’ll learn to:
✅ Spot the warning signs of AI blockers before they stall progress
✅ Recognize the parallels with Agile transformations and how to avoid repeating the same mistakes
✅ Take away practical steps and simple tools to clear friction and accelerate AI’s impact in your organizationWho should attend this session?
Whether you’re leading AI initiatives, sponsoring investments, or simply curious about the organizational dynamics that make or break change, this session will give you new perspective—and a few tools you can apply tomorrow.About Brad
Brad Swanson is a Leadership and Organizational Coach who guides organizations to achieve sustainably better results using Lean & Agile principles. He has been a trusted advisor for executives and organizations across the globe. He honed his own leadership skills as an Executive in the consulting and software industries.Brad is a Certified Leadership Agility® 360 Coach, Certified Agile Leadership® (CAL) Educator®, Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), Certified Agile Coach (Certified Enterprise Coach® - CEC), Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), and Certified LeSS Practitioner (Large Scale Scrum). He is a member of the Agile Leadership Journey, a global federation of Leadership coaches. Brad has been an Agile practitioner since 1999, is former President of Agile Denver and co-founder of the Mile High Agile conference, and a speaker at international conferences including numerous Global Scrum Gatherings in the USA and Asia (8 times), Agile 20xx (4 times), Mile High Agile (7 times), Agile Tour Toronto, AgilePalooza, Agile Development Conference East & West, PMI Mile Hi Symposium, and many Meetups in the USA, South America and Asia.
Schedule:
5:30 - 6:10 PM Snacks, drinks and networking.
6:10 - 6:15 PM Quick Announcements/sponsor recognition
6:15 - 7:15 PM Presentation and Discussion
7:15- 7:30 PM Final Questions and Wrap Up
Sponsored by Innovar Group IT staffing. https://innovargroup.com/ - Kanban Community of PracticeLink visible for attendees
What is a Community of Practice?
A Community of Practice develops over time, with committed members engaging in many “informal conversations” about a shared domain of interest. This creates a set of cases and stories that become a shared repertoire for their practice, whether they realize it or not. To learn a bit more about the concept of a “Community of Practice”, check out this link https://bit.ly/2YTyyZh.What is the Agile Denver Kanban CoP?
The Agile Denver Kanban CoP is a long-running meetup that started in June of 2011. We are a “Community of Practice”, where core members, who are practitioners, have regularly engaged with each other over several years.
Our meetups generally consist of us sharing our personal experiences and stories, learning from each other more about how to apply lean thinking, lean management (leadership), and agile principles, along with pull, flow, kanban, and system thinking concepts.
Our specific focus is on how to catalyze and manage change, improve business workflow processes, and predictably forecast and answer the question “When will it be done?” We are associated with the broader Agile Denver group, which has several other “special interest groups” (SIGs) associated with it, of which we are one. And we are also connected with the U.S. and global Lean Kanban community.Agile Denver Kanban CoP Meetup Events
Starting from 2024, we’ve updated our schedule to better accommodate our community. We host two different types of meetups: Public Meetups and Core Member Meetups.Public Meetups
These will now be held on the 3rd Thursday of the month on a quarterly basis. Public meetups are open to everyone and feature presentations on various topics where attendees can interact, engage, and ask questions:- January: Lean Coffee
- April: TBD
- July: TBD
- October: TBD
Core Member Meetups
- These will now be held every month on the 1st Thursday.
Core Member Meetups are smaller gatherings exclusively for a limited number of active core members, designed for deeper discussions and two-way interactions.
If you’re interested in becoming a core member to engage in these smaller interactions, we encourage you to demonstrate commitment through regular attendance at our public meetups and interaction with core members in between. For more information on becoming a core member, feel free to reach out on the #leankanban channel in Agile Denver Slack, and connect with the organizers or other core members.
We look forward to seeing you at our meetups! Make sure to check back frequently for updates, posted comments and questions, and announcements as our meetup dates approach each month.
Take care,
Ed Schaefer, Trevor Peterson and John Bannister
