For September, we're going to be back together in person with a BANG! We're excited to bring our friend and mentor Lyssa Adkins to present Immersion: Professional Coaching Skills for Agilists.

From Lyssa, describing her session:

"It is broadly held that both mentoring skill and professional coaching skill are useful for scrum masters, agile coaches, and managers -- and more often, agilists of all roles. Yet the differences between these approaches is not crystal clear for most people. In addition, most people have never seen a professional-coaching-only approach to helping someone solve their Agile problem. It’s time to show that!

“Measuring Software Craftsmanship”

Join us in July when Ben Scott will discuss building and measuring a culture of Software Craftmanship in your organization:

It's only when your employees care about the quality of their work and when your organization rewards quality over speed that you'll make a lasting impact. To improve the quality of your deliverables, a lasting solution is to instill a cultural change. It starts with developers, but it is reinforced and encouraged by leadership.

In this session you will learn where to start and how to measure your progress.

- Fallacies of Software Craft
- The metrics that matter
- Which techniques/activities impact which metric
- How to start a Software Craft initiative

“Leveraging Beauty and Brains for Effective Data Storytelling”

Anyone can make a pretty bar graph, but can you make sound decisions based on that graph? Is it actionable, or is it only fluff? How do you turn flashy concepts into actionable visualizations? Can you see the end result of those concepts; will they ever become reality? Do you have the vision to combine beauty with brains, thereby driving decisions with data? Or do you settle for destroying direction with disaster?

American mathematician John Tukey once said, "The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see." What value do you see in your data? And what ideas do you have when you see it? Learn how you can capitalize on your ideas by blending internal with external, leveraging them into a cohesive strategy for both the short term AND the long term. See the five "Stages of the Spectrum" in action while discovering the difference between impact and influence, and how that difference plays into making data actionable. Catch the right blend of art and science, or beauty and brains, as you go from concept to reality.

In April, we're happy to invite Shari Glover back to the Agile Richmond community with an encore presentation of her talk from InnoVAte 2022: "The Importance of Mindset: How to Uncover the Hidden Ceiling to Your Potential":

We all want to live our “best” lives in our careers, finances, and relationships, and yet, that life can seem out of reach to us or is it? We are powerful creators–sometimes, for what we don’t want and that limits our potential.

Scrum Guide 2020: 20 Tips in 20 Minutes

Scrum. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt… but did we really? Join Jim York and Mike Vizdos as they glean insights from The Scrum Guide 2020. The audience is invited to join a pragmatic discussion after Jim and Mike share 20 tips in 20 minutes and walk away with a new understanding of Scrum.

Value at the Enterprise Level

Agile Richmond is excited to open our (virtual) doors to Young Kim and Tracie Fenderson of Cigna to our Monthly Meeting series, where they’ll discuss how Cigna has shifted their thinking and process around value for the enterprise.

Our monthly meetings are powered by the people in our communities – the Agile community and the Richmond community.

Have an idea you’d like to share with our members?

We’d love to hear from you!