Agile NYC

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Wilfredo Pena from Pace University. They speak about how the partnership between Agile NYC and the Seidenberg school within Pace University in New York. For the past two years, Pace University has created sustainable pace for our community, but in return the Agile NYC community has also impacted the curriculum, activities and how they approach university events. In this recording, Wilfredo shares some of his thoughts and motivations why this association is so fruitful and why other universities across the world should consider similar partnerships with local agile communities.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Stephen Hardisty about his presentation 'screwing up for less' to the agile nyc community. Stephen is the engineering manager at Etsy, a company that has no business analysts or testers but rely on fully self-organized, empowered teams. Stephen provides great metrics from Etsy's business as well as Etsy's agile maturity.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Achim Nowak, author of the book 'Infectious - how to connect deeply and unleash the energetic leader within' and the opening keynote speaker at the Agile Day'13 in New York (9/19/13). Achim's work provides help for a key ingredient for the success with agile projects; communication and collaboration.Achim is a performance coach who has inspired Fortune 500 executives around the globe. His work has been featured on 60 minutes, CNN, NPR and in the Miami Herald.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs announces the program of the Agile Day'13 held 9/19/13 at Pace University in New York City. This year, Mary Poppendieck, Ken Schwaber, Karl Scotland and Scott Ambler will present in the morning in the Lean and Agile tracks. In the afternoon, Suzanne Daigle will facilitate the Open Space followed by a social hour. During lunch, we will host a book table with the speakers and authors of the event. This year's keynote will be delivered by Achim Nowak, author of Infectious.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Chas Mastin, Director of Sprints at ControlGroup, about a variety of agile topics, such as face to face communication, agile and hardware, politics, comedy and tooling in no specific order.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Bruce Eckfeldt about the state of agile in the industry since the manifesto in 2001. They discuss challenges and hurdles for example the impact of offshore development. Bruce, who founded Cyrus Innovation 10 years ago, focused initially on eXtreme Programming (XP). He explains why XP, although programming in the title, has great impact on business value. Sorry for the slowly but steadily deteriorating audio quality beginning at minute 8 of the recording.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Damon Poole about panning for user story gold, a talk he gave to the Agile NYC user group. They discuss certain business drivers for agile and challenges when agile processes are introduced to large enterprises.

This is the audio track of Dave's presentation at the Agile Day'12 in New York City. The title of his presentation is Scaling Agile in the Enterprise. Dave, who recently joined Tasktop as the Chief Product Officer, has extensive agile know-how through his work with Forrester Research and IBM Rational.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Jeff Gothelf about Lean UX and his upcoming book with the same title in Washington Square Park. Jeff shares a few trends and observations from Lean/Agile UX community observed in recent years. He provides some tips and tricks for new usual designer job seekers interested in agile work. We are expecting his book to be released during the south by southwest festival in March 2013 in Austin

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Niels Pflaeging about 'Bye-Bye Management', a talk he will give to the Agile NYC community on 11/19/12/. Niels is also the author of the book with the same title, and the Financial Times Germany raved about. Niels talks about the changes when organization switch from management to leadership and when self-organization takes over command and control cultures. They speak about how these principles map to agile cultures and project management in the 21st century.

This is the audio recording of Harrison Owen's presentation during the Agile Day. The title of his presentation was 'Organizational Agility: A Natural Act' which opened the track 'Self-Organize' of the conference day.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Harrison Owen about the Open Space movement and how universally applicable this lightweight, yet powerful, facilitation method is. Harrison shares a few metrics and pointers no executive should never ignore when evaluating Open Space format. They also speak his contribution to the Agile Day'12 in which an entire track is dedicated to Self-Organization. On 9/21 you have the opportunity to work with Harrison through a full-day Open Space during the Agile NYC OPEN.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs announces the Agile Day'12 in New York and highlights elements of the program. The theme of the Agile Day'12 is 'Advance', 'Self-Organize' and 'Experiment' which mirrors the three tracks of the conference. Dave Thomas will kick off the day with the opening keynote. Dave West, Harrison Owen and Stanley Pollack will each open the track for the day. Richard Sheridan, Don McGreal, Andrew Burrows, Ilio-Krumins-Beens, Mariya Breyter, Heang Ly, Angela Druckman, Jordan Houbanov, Peter Bell, Andre Dhondt and Ellen Grove will complete the official speaker program. In addition, we will run a speakers corner and a poster session through which everyone attending the Agile Day'12 can influence and shape this Agile Day. At the end of the day, our three track-openers as well as Dave Thomas will come back together for a panel discussion and summarize the conference.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs announces the 2nd Full-Day Open Space event, organized by Agile NYC. This Open Space will be held on Friday September 21st at Pace University in New York City. He introduces the facilitator Ellen Grove, Harrison Owen (the creator of Open Space), Stanley Pollack (Moving beyond Icebreakers) and Heang Ly (Teen Empowerment). The theme of this Open Space is "Self-Organization" and we will explore self-organization with this self-organizing format. Find and register to this event through www.agilenyc.org

Mariya and Ilio will present at the Agile Day'12 in New York City about their 1-year journey to take traditional PMO to embrace agility. Terrence, the Scrum Master of this transformation project, joins us for this podcast to share his experiences as well.