Growing Up Agile

Margaret is a Director EBC Program Management in Foster City, California.

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Volunteering is a great way to learn and to grow. When I started with PMI Agile, it was in its infancy...just at the very beginning of the initial grassroots wiki building.

I was very new to agile at that time…I was trolling around the web and had discovered  Jesse Fewell’s blog looking for information on the intersection of PMI and Agile. This was late 2008, Jesse had been at this a while. Evangelizing, championing, and persistently believing that a PMI Agile CoP was possible. He was not alone. There was a small but dedicated group of passionate volunteers! It takes a village…

Collaborative learning
I soon joined that small community of online volunteers on the Knowledge Management team. It was a perfect fit. The goal of the team was to populate a PMI Agile special wiki with links and references to information about the intersection of PMI and agile. All I needed to do was continue my own learning journey and post the best learning links with brief descriptions up to a shared area where collaborative people would either validate or iterate my learning. This was a win-win all around!

Valuing people and relationships
One of the important community building aspects of my PMI Agile volunteer role was joining in a weekly “scrum of scrums” conference call. The call was a valuable way to connect with the other volunteers and …

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