The Agile Professionals Network (APN) is non-profit, member-run community of New Zealand professionals focused on exploring and disseminating all facets of business agility in organisations in order to help New Zealand businesses maximize their return on investments and reduce overall time to market.

Founded by Fronde in 2007, the APN is a group of New Zealand Agile practitioners committed to supporting each other in their use of Agile techniques and assisting businesses to experience ?business agility.?

The Declaration of Interdependence and the Agile Manifesto (see sections below) further describe business agility and the values this group holds with respect to running projects in today?s chaotic world.

We are in the process of becoming the Auckland Chapter for the Agile Project Leadership Network at http://apln.org. 

Mission

The mission of the APN is to be the leading forum for promoting appropriate use of, and increasing expertise in Agile techniques (Project Management, Enterprise Architecture, Business Analysis, Development, and Testing) throughout New Zealand.

Objectives

·         To promote the agile values of openness, honesty, trust, courage and value.

·         To promote the business value of agile techniques.

·         To develop awareness of agile best practices and methodologies.

·         To represent the interests of the group with other agile organisations.

·         To promote professionalism within agile projects.

APN Structure

APN Board

Once other APN chapters open up (e.g. APN Wellington, Christchurch etc) an APN Board will be created to ensure consistency of the values and objective of the APN throughout New Zealand.

APN (Auckland) Working Party

 o        The current Working Party is found here

Membership

o        Individual (free)

o        Sponsor (details to follow)

Meeting Sponsorship

o        The company presenting has the initial option of sponsoring the meeting.

o        If they do not want or are unable to sponsor a meeting then have option to refuse another sponsor e.g. if their competitors.

o        Marketing material is limited to small logos on presentation and a printout of their presentation. No additional marketing material e.g. course schedules or product briefs.

International Agile Organisations and Values

Declaration of Interdependence (www.pmdoi.org)

Agile and adaptive approaches for linking people, projects and value

We are a community of project leaders that are highly successful at delivering results. To achieve these results:

• We increase return on investment by making continuous flow of value our focus.
• We deliver reliable results by engaging customers in frequent interactions and shared ownership.
• We expect uncertainty and manage for it through iterations, anticipation, and adaptation.
• We unleash creativity and innovation by recognizing that individuals are the ultimate source of value, and creating an environment where they can make a difference.
• We boost performance through group accountability for results and shared responsibility for team effectiveness.

We improve effectiveness and reliability through situational specific strategies, processes and practices.

Agile Manifesto (www.agilemanifesto.org)

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more