[Virtual] Scaled Agile Minnesota MeetUp - May 2020

Want to exchange ideas, strategies, opportunities, and challenges related to scaling agile beyond a team? Come and check out this MeetUp Group.

The general flow of the MeetUp:
5:00 to 5:15 p.m. - Online introductions
5:15 to 6:30 p.m. - Meeting Topic: Kanban in Scaled Agile Teams

Kanban: a lean approach to agile

Understanding Kanban by comparing it to a more widely used agile framework, Scrum.

1. Kanban and Scrum - genesis
2. Role of Culture
3. Key similarities, and how do they differ
4. 'How-to' Kanban
5. Measuring progress: KPIs, metrics
6. Kanban to DevOps

Speaker: Kushal Amin
16 years of Program management experience with Fortune 500 companies, such as AT&T, Accenture, Best Buy, Disney, Target, and now U.S Bank, leading key strategic & transformation enterprise initiatives. APAC PMO lead for AT&T and IBM global networks.

Current role: Day job is Scrum master / RTE for U.S bank's Financial Compliance Crimes group. Night job: supporting agile transformation and leading CI/CD, DevOps transformation, program lead for Modernization & Innovation program which will design & implement Microservices, CI/CD, Cloud, ML & AI capabilities for Financial Compliance & Crimes.

Education

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering
Graduate Program in BioChemical Engineering, with projects in microgravity for NASA.
Masters in Software Engineering

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushal-amin/

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A big thank you to Experis for their tremendous support!