Lean Agile Community of Practice April Shimitz 11/19/2014

The Community Welcome to the PMI Sioux Empire Lean Agile Community of Practice The Lean Agile Community of Practice focuses on delivering knowledge and providing a virtual networking forum for lean agile practitioners. This includes anyone interested in, working in, or impacted by developments in the collection of good practices, principles and techniques in lean agile project management. The Community: ●Enables lean agile practitioners to contribute and share their knowledge with the local PMI Sioux Empire community. ●Explores the relationship between lean agile principles and practices. ●Communicates how lean agile may differ from, or complement the teachings within, PMI's A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). Council Leader: Les Sorge PMISD Lean Agile CoP

An Agile Developer’s perspective to Lean Software Development A software development team lead's perspective on applying Lean principles and utilizing Agile methodologies to produce and deliver software products that fulfill business needs incrementally, effectively, and efficiently. PMISD Lean Agile CoP

Keiretsu Discussion In your organization, how long does it take for an idea to get from business charter (the document used to build the business case and a vision for justifying the project) to delivered capability (months, years)? This is considered the cycle time, which any new system should minimize. Does batching ideas into projects increase or decrease this cycle time? What are impediments to smaller, more frequent deliveries in your organization? How can you influence your organization to make visible the costs due to delays? PMISD Lean Agile CoP

Next Keiretsu Discussion What are some of the most effective tools you have used to implement your lean / agile approach? At what levels are these tools implemented, i.e. development team, scrum master, etc.? How are the tools aligned to facilitate the communication of the information within and external to the team? What are the benefits to using tools that serve as information radiators? PMISD Lean Agile CoP