Agile Planning & Tracking

On the 3rd Wednesday of each month we gather at MadLab Manchester to discuss all things Lean, Agile, and Kanban.

The #hashtag for this group is #LAManc

Agenda for the evening:
6:30 - Doors open
6:55 - Sponsors slot
7:00 - Talk 1 - Planning for the Unknown: The Apollo Mission to the Moon (James Brookes, Cake Solutions)
7:30 - Talk 2 - Taming Uncertainty: “I’m thinking of a number…“ (Ethar Alali, Axelisys)
8:00 - Talk 3 - What do you do when the plan fails? (Aaron McKenna, McKenna Consulting)
8:30 - Talk 4 - Transformation Maps (Darren Haken, ThoughtWorks)
8:40 - Networking
9:00 - Close

Theme / Topic Calendar:

• Jan - Expert Panel

• Feb - Workplace Visualisation

• Mar - Productivity Toolkit

• Apr - Agile Planning & Tracking

• May - Agile for Digital Agencies

• Jun - Governance, Controls, and Risk

• Jul - Measures of Effectiveness

• Aug - Lean Portfolio Management

• Sep - Agile Engineering Practices (for non-technical folk)

• Oct - Scaling Agile & Lean Practices

• Nov - Coaching & Transformation

Call for participation (CfP) is open for this months meet-up.

The theme is Agile Planning & Tracking and we're looking for talks, presentations, demonstrations, case studies, or experience reports to cover the following or related topics:

• Burn-up charts or Burn-down charts

• Agile planning basics

• Estimation techniques and practices

• Expectation management

• Sizing vs Estimates

• Risk profiling

• Output vs Outcome

• Effective estimation and planning language

On the evening there will be three 30 minute slots for speakers. Any unused slots will be used as networking time.

Talk / Speaking submission guidelines:

• Email the title of your talk and a brief description to ian@solutioneers.co.uk

• You don’t have to fill the whole 30 mins! 10 minute lightning talks are fine.If you want more than 30 minutes then let us know and we’ll try to accommodate.

• If this is your first time speaking then support and guidance is available to help you. We are a really friendly bunch who can help you to prepare your talk.

• If you are a seasoned speaker and are speaking at an upcoming conference then feel free to test out your talk on our group. What a better way to polish your talk!

• Please note: this CfP is only for the April event. The CfP for future events will be announced each month. However, if you’d like to discuss future themes and topics in prep then get in touch.

Refreshments sponsored by BJSS (http://www.bjss.com/), CDL (http://www.cdl.co.uk/), and Hivemind (http://www.hivemindnetwork.com/) will be served at 6.30pm with the talks starting at 7.00pm. Following the talk there will be plenty of time for networking.