Scrum Professionals

Every 2nd & 4th Monday of the month, you are invited to join Chris Sims and Season Hughes for an open office hour: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Pacific. This is a chance to ask your questions and get free advice and coaching.

Zoom Security Note
As much as we’d like to see you, we will now be locking our meeting at 3:10 PM to help minimize the risk of zoom bombing.
You will need to be signed in to your Zoom account in order to access this event. You don’t need a paid account, a free Zoom account will work just fine. Additionally, you will need to have your camera to check-in with the hosts when entering the meeting. This helps us to create a friendly, interactive, and safer environment.

Every 2nd & 4th Monday of the month, you are invited to join Chris Sims and Season Hughes for an open office hour: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Pacific. This is a chance to ask your questions and get free advice and coaching.

Zoom Security Note
As much as we’d like to see you, we will now be locking our meeting at 3:10 PM to help minimize the risk of zoom bombing.
You will need to be signed in to your Zoom account in order to access this event. You don’t need a paid account, a free Zoom account will work just fine. Additionally, you will need to have your camera to check-in with the hosts when entering the meeting. This helps us to create a friendly, interactive, and safer environment.

As a coach, I help people find their best way through challenging situations. When I needed help navigating a challenge in my personal life, I got a surprise extra benefit: new tools for being a better coach. In this workshop we’ll explore four ideas from marriage and couples counseling that can help you become a more skillful coach too. This session is rated R, for references to physical intimacy in committed long-term emotional relationships.

Our Presenter:
Oluf Nissen is an agile coach and facilitator with a deep background in software development. He holds several advanced credentials in the agile software development coaching space and has been a presenter at our meetup before, with his Introverted Facilitator’s Survival Guide. His recent personal travels led him to the topics that we will be exploring in this session.

Zoom Security Note
You will need to be signed in to your Zoom account in order to access this event. You don’t need a paid account, a free Zoom account will work just fine. Additionally, you will need to have your camera on to check-in with the hosts when entering the meeting. This helps us to create a friendly, interactive, and safer environment. The event will be locked at 10 minutes past its start time. We will not be recording this event.

Every 2nd & 4th Monday of the month, you are invited to join Chris Sims and Season Hughes for an open office hour: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Pacific. This is a chance to ask your questions and get free advice and coaching.

Zoom Security Note
As much as we’d like to see you, we will now be locking our meeting at 3:10 PM to help minimize the risk of zoom bombing.
You will need to be signed in to your Zoom account in order to access this event. You don’t need a paid account, a free Zoom account will work just fine. Additionally, you will need to have your camera to check-in with the hosts when entering the meeting. This helps us to create a friendly, interactive, and safer environment.

Unveiling the 5 Deadly Sins of Agile Transformation: Why Agile Transformations are Consistently Inconsistent in Achieving Success

Agile transformation, once heralded as the panacea for organizational agility, often meets unexpected hurdles that impede its success. Almost all agile initiatives inevitably ask the following questions during the lifecycle of an agile transformation: Have we chosen the correct framework? Is the organization ready for the transformation? Are our product owners, and agile coaches effectively skilled to play their roles? Can we achieve these outcomes in this timeframe? Drawing parallels with the seven deadly sins from ancient doctrine, this abstract presents 5 most commonly overlooked "sins" that identifies and addresses the critical pitfalls hindering agile transformations. From prideful overconfidence in the scrum master's omnipotence to slothful complacency in the product owner's decision-making – and unveils their adverse impacts on agile initiatives. By understanding these sins and their manifestations within organizations, leaders can devise proactive strategies to mitigate risks, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and steer their agile transformations towards sustainable success.

About Melissa Betts:
Agile enthusiast, world traveler, lifelong learner. Digital Transformations often mimic the grace of me and my friends trying to hit a high note fresh out of a Beyonce concert. I bring 10 yrs and a host of collected acronyms and certifications (SPC, ICP-ACC, ICP-CAT, ICP-ENT, A-CSM, SASM, CSPO, POPM, KMP I, KMP II) that rival the alphabet city of agile courses, working with various Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. During this time, I have honed my skills by helping my clients achieve healthy outcomes sweetly, swiftly, and sanely. Whether it’s aiding the PMO in transitioning to lean portfolio management, standing up an agile center of excellence, or helping a team of scrum masters learn how to facilitate more effectively, I’ve failed forward and delivered lasting value within my ecosystem.

Zoom Security Note
You will need to be signed in to your Zoom account in order to access this event. You don’t need a paid account; a free Zoom account will work just fine. Additionally, you will need to have your camera on to check in with the hosts when entering the meeting. This helps us to create a friendly, interactive, and safer environment. The event will be locked at 10 minutes past its start time. We will not be recording this event.

15-20% of the world population are neurodivergent, and their numbers are increasing as more is found and understood about how human brains work and function. In the tech world, the numbers might be even higher yet there is not enough talk about what it means for the workforce. In this interactive workshop, we'll address the most common neurodiversity conditions (e.g., ADHD and autism) and learn how we can support our colleagues. At the end of the workshop, participants will walk away with some actionable ideas they can try with their teams. Regardless of your level of familiarity with neurodiversity, this workshop welcomes all who are interested in fostering inclusivity and maximizing team potential.

Our Speaker
Anita Kalmane-Boot is a scrum master and neurodiversity advocate. She's passionate about spreading the word, starting discussions, and breaking stigma about autism and other neurodiversity conditions. Her close family and friends include people with autism, ADHD, dyslexia and bipolar disorder, and even more neurodiversity traits are visible in the teams she has worked with.
When not talking about neurodiversity, she’s helping software development teams improve their agile processes and ways of working.

Zoom Security Note
We are using a new Zoom link just for this December event. You will need to be signed in to your Zoom account in order to access this event. You don’t need a paid account, a free Zoom account will work just fine. Additionally, you will need to have your camera on to check-in with the hosts when entering the meeting. This helps us to create a friendly, interactive, and safer environment. The event will be locked at 10 minutes past its start time. We will not be recording this event.

DING! A meeting invite pops into your email inbox. What is your first thought?

A.) HOORAY!!! Another chance for collaboration where I can hear and expand on the creative thoughts of my colleagues!
B.) Great…another of those meetings. This will be a waste of time!

If you are like most people, all too often it’s “B”.

Research indicates that more than half of participants (57%) in any given meeting have a preferred collaboration style that is not being served. Our outcomes and organizations would be far better if all the brains and voices in any session could contribute fully. This presents a huge opportunity, if you have the awareness and skills to engage a diverse range of collaboration styles. This workshop will introduce you to the three collaboration styles. You will recognize your own style, as well as come to understand and empathize with the collaboration styles of others. Experience the power of invoking collaboration from each of the diverse styles.

Our Speakers:

Bryan Stallings is a respected thought leader in agile product development and visual collaboration. Across 25 years of diverse experience, he has trained and coached hundreds of teams across diverse industries. A Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Organization and Relationship Systems Coach (ORSC), and Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Bryan specializes in agility, workplace culture, and human-centric dynamics. He holds an International MBA and has expertise in SaaS, consulting, IT, finance, and manufacturing.

Jessica Guistolise brings nearly a decade of experience as an Agile consultant, facilitator and coach. Jessica engages with teams across the globe to share her expertise in scaling Agile practices and leadership coaching, as well as her passion for experiential learning and organizational transformation. Over the course of her career, Jessica has been responsible for advising and guiding the rollout of Agile Transformations at Fortune 100 and 500 companies. She is a certified professional coach through the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), as well as being a trained ORSC coach.

Zoom Security Note
You will need to be signed in to your Zoom account in order to access this event. You don’t need a paid account, a free Zoom account will work just fine. Additionally, you will need to have your camera on to check-in with the hosts when entering the meeting. This helps us to create a friendly, interactive, and safer environment. The event will be locked at 10 minutes past its start time. We will not be recording this event.