Agile Denver

Deema Dajani is a SAFe Fellow, SPCT, and seasoned expert in business agility and digital transformation, specializing in Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and Product Strategy. With extensive experience advising Fortune 500 companies, she helps organizations drive data-driven investment decisions, accelerate digital transformation, and achieve measurable business results from the transformation. She advised in many contexts including Travelers Insurance, USAA, Aetna, FBI, and American Express. Deema is the CEO and Cofounder of Outcomes360.
A former Product leader and VP of Portfolio Strategy at Scaled Agile, Inc., she enabled the shift to a platform-based B2B model, and supported AI-driven innovation strategies. She played a pivotal role in shaping LPM practices adopted by leadership teams, to advance transformation impact beyond the early years.
Deema holds an MBA from Kellogg Northwestern University and a certificate in AI Business Strategy from MIT. As Co-founder of Women in Agile, she champions diversity and inclusivity in the agile community.

Who should attend this session? Agilists, Agile coaches, Portfolio managers, Product people in Agile environment.

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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