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 Location: 5:30 p.m. - Cocktail Hour and Networking Locaton: Americano Bar (Hotel Vitale) - 8 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94105
7:00 p.m. - Main Event - David Hussman presents Designing Agility with Personas and Story Maps
Location: The Gap - 2 Folsom Street; San Francisco
9:00pm - Raffle & wrap up. We will be raffling two laser pointers from Outformations , one seat in one of Agile Learning Labs ' upcoming workshops, one Agile eLearning Album from Industrial Logic as well as two licenses for JetBrains products. Note: Special benefit to attendees, you are welcome to a two-user license from AccuRev .
TOPIC: Designing Agility: Using Personas and Story Maps to Build Better Products
Agile methods are consistently helping project communities deliver products. But are they building the right products? In some cases yes, but in other cases the rush to get to iteration 1 inhibits the discovery of who will use or buy a product and why? This session will discuss a short list of tools which I am using the help project communities discover the deeper value of what they are delivering and learn something about their users and buyers in the process. Please arrive ready to participate, question and learn.
Presenter Bio: David Hussman
David Hussman is a principal consultant of Devjam Agile Collaborators based in Minneapolis, MN. He coaches and partners with development groups for agile adoptions and training to help companies improve, innovate and improvise around the world.David was one of this years winners of the Gordon Pask Award Winners 2009
Joe Rainsberger captured the essence of David Hussman’s work by saying “David is not just someone who builds agile communities, but someone who is building community builders”. David’s coaching is centered on getting to know communities and their members so he can help foster real value using a meaningful collection of agile methods which amplify existing strengths and confront existing challenges. For each engagement, David works hard to grow internal coaching and coaches. He is genuinely inquisitive and insightful about people. His coaching style is non-dogmatic, well-grounded, challenging and pragmatic. Focusing on getting to know project communities helps David seed self-discovery and avoid falling into the expert trap of telling people what they “should do”. David’s coaching includes introducing agile methods to large international project communities as well as working side by side with members of small collocated teams, helping them to tune and improve their agility. Along with his coaching, David has helped create or produce a variety of agile gatherings including Agile Egypt, Practical Agility, CodeFreeze and Agile Palooza to name a few. In his home town of Minneapolis / St Paul, David leads several local groups like Practical Agility and the Twin Cities chapter of Agile Philanthropy.
For more information about David, his company, or to view a variety of his presentations and publications, check out his website: www.devjam.com
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