Agile NYC

Jordan will present in the self-organize track of the Agile Day'12 in New York City. The title of his talk is Manufacturing Motiviation on Marathons, which focuses on motivating agile teams working on long-term projects together. He focuses on distributed vs. co-located teams as well the agile ceremonies of agile process to help motivate teams. Jordan's passion for agile processes does not stop at the work-level. He also investigates if agile principles can be applied to raise children.

Stanley and Heang will open the track called 'Experiment' part of the Agile Day on 9/20/2012 using facilitation patterns from Stanley's book 'Moving Beyond Icebreakers'. The track is dedicated to experimental learning and hands-on application of proven facilitation techniques. Both will also convene a session about self-organization during the Agile NYC OPEN on 9/21/2012.

This is the audio of Jurgen's talk How to change the world he delivered 6/20/12 to the Agile NYC user community.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Ken Schwaber at the birthplace of Scrum in Boston which is today the home of Scrum dot org again. They go back in history and talk about how things began back then. Ken also touches on the future of Scrum and the work he has recently done with Jeff Sutherland by publishing their first book Software in 30 Days together.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Peter Bell about his talk at the Agile Day'12, his work at the General Assembly and his upcoming book about managing software development. Peter will speak about "Large Backlogs and Small Teams" and the challenges a team faces when backlogs grow too big. Peter shares practices how to resolve this issues, for example through work in progress limits and story maps. Peter is home to software engineering as well as management topics. He delivers roughly 100 talks every year about technical as well as agile processes and we are excited having him in the "advance" track of the Agile Day'12 in New York City.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with the Oxygen Media Team during a reunion with Gerry Laybourne, Oksana Udovitska, Wendy Matthews, Lee Bankewitz, Robert Zurer, Bob Calvano, Ilio Krumins-Beens, Luke Melia and Ken Judy. The Oxygen team was a unique agile team in the NYC metro area, driving not only a successful project, but also created a highly valuable product and company. When Oxygen media was sold to NBC in 2007, the team members departed from Oxygen and influenced numerous other projects in the New York try-state area. Gerry, who founded Oxygen together with Oprah Winfrey, speaks also about her vision at that time and the values of agile processes from an executive perspective.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Andrew Burrows and his team about the agile implementation at Large Animal Games. First Andrew provides insights about his talk he will be giving at the Agile Day’12 in New York City and then the entire team shared their experiences and perspective on that topic. They discussed hiring into an agile organization, the gaming industry in NYC, challenges with user story task break-down as well the overall agile culture at Large Animal Games.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Jeremy Kriegel about personas in the user experience process. They talk about agile user experience design (AgileUX) and how personas and business goals tie together. Jeremy, equipped with more than 15 years in UX experience, shares his thoughts on staggered sprints, integration and the need for focus when designers identify personas. After their conversation, Jeremy presented "Who is the user in your stories?" to the Agile NYC user group.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Jean Tabaka about collaboration, communication and the influence other great authors have on Jean's career. Jean also elaborated on her talk she will give to the agile community as part of the 5th Anniversary of Agile NYC.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks Pollyanna Pixton and Sue McKinney about leadership, risks and opportunities for large enterprises. They touched on various leadership types and what good leaders should do… stand back. Sue also shared her experience about opportunities and potential challenges for large enterprises interested in agile processes.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Brad Murphy, CEO of GearStream, about business agility, the cloud, off-shore development trends and how organizations prepare themselves with agility for the time during and after the economic challenges. Brad also shares his thoughts on sustainability, challenges of a global economy and issues related to good education available world-wide. This episode was recorded on the floor of the Agile NYC OPEN Space Conference.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Bill Joiner about Leadership Agility, a topic he covered in his book and shared with attendees of the Agile NYC OPEN (Open Space Conference). 'What is so executive about agile?' was the theme of the day and Bill's topic did fit so well with our theme. Listeners will also get a feeling of the vibe and energy of the Open Space floor in the background of the conversation.

Scott Ambler, Christopher Avery, Jim McCarthy, Ellen Gottesdiener, Lyssa Adkins, Bernie Kahn, Bill Greenbaum, Dan Mezick, Zainab Alikhan, Andrew Kazarinoff, Teresa Hsu and others

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with LeFebvre about his upcoming presentation to the Agile NYC community. They discuss the cultural impact of agile transitions and what that means for internal and external coaches.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Christopher Avery about executives in an agile culture, about his leadership gift and of course his contribution to the AGILE NYC OPEN conference in February'12