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2014 Portland Agile and Scrum MeetUp January 27 2013. Vision.
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Vision To foster and empower the Agile community in Portland where people can share their experiences and learn from others. To create a local network for agilists to meet like minded people to learn and find opportunities in the Agile space.
Sponsors ISITE Design • Preferred vendor for some of the world's most respected companies and organizations. Delivered full-service web solutions for more than 200 clients ranging from startups, non-profits and small businesses to Fortune 25 industry leaders. RamanTech • Scrum Alliance and Project Management Institute REP • Provides Certified and Approved Agile Training • Provides Agile Coaching and Transformation Services
2014 GOALS • Monthly Speaker to present on a relevant Agile topic and share their experiences. • To Get more people to join the Meetup and LinkedIn groups. Currently, we have 93 members for our Meetup and just started our LinkedIn group. • To Run two, one day Agile Coach Camps that will include keynote, presenters, workshops, and open space. • To Create a local Agile Job and Announcement network for people to find opportunities.
THE ASK • Spread the word about the group and bring people to the Meetup that are interested. • Volunteers to help with Agile Coach Camp – looking for seasoned Agilists to facilitate workshops, present on topics, help coordinate, etc. • Looking for space to host Agile Coach Camp (Hint: Intel and Nike). • Looking for seasoned Agile speakers. In general, anyone that wants to volunteer and be apart of a growing, exciting community, we want your help!
FUTURE EFFORTS • To record the monthly presentations and post it on our Video Blog for people to watch incase they missed the talk or would like to listen to it again. • How we can leverage the Portland Agile Community to help the Portland Startup Community (e.g. mentoring/advising Startup companies how to implement Agile practices and value when developing their products). • Hackathon to test drive new Agile tools on the market or tools that people haven’t experimented with. • Bring Jeff Sutherland, Ken Schwaber, or Mike Cohn as a Speaker in the Fall.
GROUPS & EMAIL IDS • PDXAGILISTS PORTLAND AGILE AND SCRUM MEETUP GROUP Sanjeev Raman, s.raman@ramantech.com