Meeting Agenda:
6:00 - 6:50: Networking
6:50 - 7:00: Welcome
7:00 - 8:20: Presentation
8:20 - 8:30: Close
Starting your project off right with Agile Release Planning
Mario E. Moreira, Author, Writer, and CA Agile and Configuration Management Champion
This session will describe Agile Release Planning and Sprint 0 and provide the participants with a working example. It starts by discussing when you would initiate Agile Release Planning and illustrating the envisioning work involved in Sprint 0 and how it feeds into an effective Agile Release Planning session. It will then get into the details of Agile Release Planning focusing on the roles involved, and the key elements including the business context, product vision, architecture, vision (including QA and CM vision), and all important team backlog scrubbing. This will be followed by a case study of an actual Agile Release Planning session that we will walk through.
Bio
Mario Moreira is an industry expert in both the Agile and Configuration Management (CM) fields. He has been writing for the Agile Journal and CM Journal since 2002, has authored several books, and has worked in the CM field since 1986 and in the Agile field since 1998. He has a blog dedicated to Agile adoption and the CM for Agile topics at Agile Adoption Roadmap. At CA, Mario is the company Agile Champion and provides both Agile and CM leadership. He works with both the engineering side and the business side in establishing a robust Agile method and provides Agile coaching for several key product teams.
He is a certified ScrumMaster, an active Agile Coach, and has implemented Scrum and XP practices including continuous integration and build. Mario is the author of a recent book entitled “Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams” (via Wiley Publishing). It provides an Agile Primer and a CM Primer, infrastructure to support Agile with discussion on Cloud infrastructure, how to adapt CM practices for Agile Teams, evaluating Agile tools, and considerations for standards and frameworks in an Agile setting. Mario is also the author of the SCM book entitled, “Software Configuration Management Implementation Roadmap”. It includes step-by-step guidance for implementing SCM at the organization, product, and project levels.
In addition, Mario holds an MA in Mass Communication with an emphasis on Communication Technologies from Bowling Green University. He also holds a Project Management degree from Boston University. Mario brings years of Requirement Engineering, Release Management, Architecture, Project Management, Quality Assurance, facilitation, and team building skills and experience.
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