Here is the link to Jean's presentation: 

https://rallydev.box.net/shared/9muioouh0o5g545ysfvr

And here is a link to the Flip the Chip game:

https://rallydev.box.net/shared/gppyh43uebfxk9b5ia42

Keen to hear one of the Key Note speakers from Agile Australia conference and one of the world's leading software visionaries speak in Auckland?

 
You are in luck!!
Sponsored by Rally Software, Slice Consulting, Bedarra Research Labs and Cube People Recruitment in conjunction with the Agile Professionals Network

Jean Tabaka and Dave Thomas have kindly agreed to come to Auckland after speaking at this year’s Agile Australia conference. 
They are both globally recognised experts on Value Driven Development and implementing tools and processes that support this. 
Each talk will be approximately 1hr with a short Q&A session afterward.
At the end of the event there will be an opportunity for open forum networking and discussion.

Tickets for this special one off event are only $55 incl GST

Payments are to be made via Internet Banking to the following account:  
03 0195 0681108 025
Please use your name as the reference. and email agileeventinfo@sliceconsult.co.nz for a receipt & entry ticket to be emailed to you

For more information ph 021 438133

  
Introducing Jean:
Jean Tabaka is an Agile Coach with Rally Software Development in Boulder Colorado. With over 25 years of experience in the software development industry, she has navigated numerous plan-driven methodologies in a variety of contexts (government, IT, consulting) and in a variety of roles (programmer-remember paper tape?, architect, project manager, methodologist). Her move to Agile software development approaches came in the late 90's as a result of studying DSDM in the UK. Since that time, she has become an Agile devotee, consulting with teams of all sizes worldwide seeking to derive a continuous flow of value through the adoption of Agile principles and practices. She specialises in scaling Agile practices, applying lean principles and practices, and building continuous planning and testing into organisations. She also creates a strong collaborative approach in how she guides organisations in adopting Agile. Jean is a Certified ScrumMaster and Practitioner, a Certified Scrum Trainer, and a Certified Professional Facilitator. She holds a Masters in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders published in the Addison-Wesley Agile Software Development Series, 2006.
Jean has a wealth of experience and has agreed to give us a talk focusing on  Agile in the PMO. This is an area that seems to be a struggle in the NZ environment. Come along and share Jean's insights and experience.
Approx 1 hour followed by 15 minutes Q&A
 
Introducing Dave:
Successful businesses have large application and product legacies which require care and feeding over their useful lifetime. In major product companies significant revenue comes from customers of existing legacy products and their support revenues. Hence it isn't surprising that 70-85% of the software development budget is allocated to the operation and enhancement of Legacy Code. For many companies their most successful product/application has become their worst enemy. Painfully we have learned that languages, tools, methods and practices we have often been unable to replace or even substantially reduce the entropy of our legacy code. Indeed it is generally accepted today that a major rewrite of any large legacy application has way too much risk and way too little business value to be given serious consideration. We have no choice but to live with and improve our Legacy! 
Unfortunately major Legacy Systems is an area where most in Agile community fear to tread. This is due in part to their lack of experience in these environments. 
In this talk Dave Thomas will discuss how Lean thinking and Agile have been applied to real legacy systems spanning mainframe, military, embedded and multi-vendor integration of legacy and EAP applications. He will  illustrate by example how organisations can benefit by using Lean and Agile to reduce the entropy (improve Agility) of their legacy systems and hence maximize the value they can get from them. We discuss appropriate investments in training, tooling and practices for different legacy environments.
Approx 1 hour followed by 15 minutes Q&A
 
Followed by open forum networking and discussion.
 

This will be an half-day event 3-6pm (note change of time) and will be chargeable.

Due to the cost of bringing these international speakers to our shores there will be a small charge to attend this event - $55 per person.  This is great value compared to the thousands of $$$ to attend Agile Australia. 

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