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Agile ABCD Monthly Events are held on 2nd Thursday of the month, to provide a safe space for Agile Practitioners to share and learn from each other. These meetings have been either in presentations, workshop, or lean coffee format. Registrations for these events are through the Harvard Training Portal. We encourage community members to reach out if they would like to present their agile story or would like to host a workshop for others in the community or anything else agile related. Please email agile_info@calists.harvard.edu |
Recordings from "Agile in Practice (at Harvard)" Series Spring 2023 Pilot get posted here after the event:
| Event Date | Event Description | Recording Link |
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| April 13th 2023 | Xenia Parker - Director, Agile Program Delivery, Digital Transformation for HBS, presented at our April meeting: Digital Transformation (DTx) at Harvard Business School has a quickly growing team tasked with building the DTx organization, while building several products. Xenia shared the Agile planning and reporting framework that supports operational and development activities across DTx. | HBS-DTx |
| May 11th 2023 |
Annie White is the Director of Digital Tools at Harvard’s Growth Lab where she oversees the strategy and creation of all Growth Lab web applications, from research to design, development, and launch. By leveraging an array of Agile-driven methodologies, the Lab’s team of software developers and designers have built award-winning tools used by academics, policymakers and economic development practitioners worldwide. The Lab’s flagship tool, the Atlas of Economic Complexity, is visited by hundreds of thousands of users per year. Annie presentated and demonstrated some of the tools she uses to implement Agile practices across the Growth Lab’s portfolio of 30+ digital tools and their useful cross-platform integrations that make daily product management efficient and effective. |
Growth-Lab |
| June 8th 2023 | Kaitlyn Santa Lucia and Celeste Scott from HUIT presented next month on how the FAS Data Hub project has utilized Agile to support stakeholder needs under a tight timeline to build a brand new product. | FAS Data HUB |
| July 13th 2023 | Anne Barleon provided insights from her experience in leading scrum for Technology Automation Development team and the Tools team and collaborating with two other teams - Collaboration Architecture and Engineering and AD Architecture and Engineering 3 times a year for demos/presentations for a group share of the accomplishments. Adriana De Souza will share why and how the Harvard phone project moved from a phased waterfall approach to agile with flash cut migration of all Harvard VOIP lines at once. | TPS-Shared Services Group |
| November 9th 2023 | Atlassian Cloud Highlights by Adaptavist | Adaptavist |
| February 8th 2024 |
Kaitlyn Santa Lucia and Celeste Scott from HUIT discussed their method for creating burnups that are used to assess sprint progress, while working with the fact that everything in the backlog and sprint is not always perfectly estimated. They will discuss their team evolution using burnup charts and how this impacted the overall ability to measure their agile maturity and success Resources: Presentation pdf file, Burn up chart template |
Burn up Charts - Cone of Uncertainty |
| Questions, requests, comments, feedback, offer to present at an Agile ABCD meeting, desire to practice facilitating a lean coffee meeting: Please email agile_info@calists.harvard.edu |