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Addressing Your Agile/Scrum Challenges 

Fixing What is Broken & Maximizing What You Have Educational Workshop  (8 PDUs) 

Presented by Neil Potter

Do you have any of these symptoms:

• Poorly defined backlog of requirements — little clarity about what the need is, what to build or test.
• Overcommitment — each sprint is bursting at the seams with incomplete work flowing from one sprint to the next with no predictable release date.
• Chronic technical, resource and customer surprises that consume the team.Customer and management 
• delivery expectations not accurately set or met.
• Chaos (a smokescreen) is used to avoid accountability.
• Agile feels more like a sweat shop than the new cool way of developing systems.

In 2016, The Process Group polled 450 people and two-thirds were not happy with their Agile implementation. They experienced chronic chaos and quality problems. One-third were meeting deadlines with few quality problems.

There is a huge difference in the practices used by the teams that do well, and the teams that are challenged. The difference will be the subject of this seminar.

Workshop Instructor

Neil Potter is co-founder of The Process Group, a company formed in 1990 that consults on leadership challenges, process improvement, CMMI, Scrum, software engineering and project management. He has 28 years of experience in software and process engineering. Neil is a CMMI-Institute certified lead appraiser for SCAMPI appraisals, Introduction to CMMI instructor (development and services), Six Sigma Greenbelt and Certified Scrum Master. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Essex (UK) and is the co-author of, Making Process Improvement Work - A Concise Action Guide for Software Managers and Practitioners, Addison-Wesley, and Making Process Improvement Work for Service Organizations, Addison-Wesley. The Process Group consults to software, IT, systems and hardware organizations.