Upcoming Agile Events in NYC (end of September / October)

1) IIBA NYC

Speaker: Emiliano Soldi, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM

Topic: “Agile PM: A Tradeoff Between Proactivity & Reactivity”

Day / Date:  Monday, August 13, 2012

Time: 5:30 – 9:00 PM

Location: Microsoft – 1290 Avenue of the Americas (6th Floor: Tavern / Carousel)

Key take-aways:

• Understanding how complexity can be reduced and faced through an agile approach
• Learning about how the requirements are gathered, managed and decomposed through an iterative approach
• Appreciating the ProductOwner role in Scrum (similar to a BA) as a pivotal figure in balancing the two approaches above mentioned.

Registration Link

2) Agile Day 2012 (Agile NYC)

Day / Date: Thursday, September 20, 2012

Time: 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

Location: Pace University, NYC

Leader: Jochen Krebs

Speakers: Ken Schwaber, Harrison Owen, Stanley Pollack, Richard Sheridan, Don McGreal, Peter Bell, Ilio Krumins-Beens, Jordan Houbanov, Angela Druckman, Andrew Burrows

NOTE – This VERY popular annual event will probably sell out fast.   There are 3 tracks to the schedule as follows:

• Track #1 – “ADVANCE” (Advancing Agility in teams & enterprises)
• Track #2 – “SELF-ORGANIZE” (Proactivity, empowerment)
• Track #3 – “EXPERIMENT” (Hands-on Agile skill-improvement sessions)

Registration Link

• My recent blogpost: “Did You Know You Could Choose Any 5 (out of 20) courses for NYU’s Certificate In PM?” 

• My book: “The Project Management Answer Book” (Management Concepts, 2011)