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Day Two of the 2009 PMI EMEA Global Congress in Amsterdam.
| After tweeting almost the entire time at PMI’s Leadership Institute Meeting we started at the Global Congress yesterday. Unfortunately the service is weak and expensive, so I’ve fallen behind in my posts. Some quick Agile highlights…. The most significant event at PMI’s GC this year (IMHO) was the Agile Pecha Kucha sessions. This has been a long time coming and I hope we see a lot more of it. For those who are unfamiliar, the format is 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide. So, rather than watching someone read slides to you for 60 minutes. He now get to watch a much more vibrant presentation in 6:40 seconds. The style also focuses heavily on slides featuring large images or small amount of tax. The lightweight slide format forces the presenter to carry the show instead of the other way around. This is an alternative that has been greatly needed for some time at PMI Congress and Leadership events. With each of the presentations focusing on Agile it made the sessions even more cutting edge. While Agile is certainly not new in the technology space it still represents an innovative approach for the traditional project management crowd. There were four agile sessions over all during Global Congress. Each of them was well attended and the information presented was well received. The last agile session of the Congress was a roundtable discussion featuring Juliette Andrew from EMC, Mattias Petrén from Leadway and PMI Sweden, Excella Consultant and PMI Agile Forum Founder, Jesse Fewell and myself with Bob Tarne, IT&T SIG VP of PR and former Chair as moderator. We had a great crowd with some lively discussion. There is a definite spark within the PMI Community that is picking up on Agile as an important way of adding to the toolset that enables you to solve project problems. Quote of the day: “It’s really easy to pick the Agile people out in the crowd. They are the ones who don’t look stressed out.” There is a lot more to tell, but I have to head downstairs for the Taste of Holland reception. |
Posted on: May 19, 2009 11:10 AM
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PMI EMEA Leadership Meeting - Amsterdam
| It is Day 3 of the PMI LIM. Rather than blogging each day, I've been tweeting under @pmiittelecom and @mrsungo. Jesse Fewell, founder of the PMI Agile Forum has been posting Tweets under @pmiagile Sessions have been good and I will post a wrap up later. I have posted a video podcast interview on the Virtual Communities Project with Dan Tuten. You can view it here: Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/pmiittelecom iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/co7g4q This is a big deal for me because I've been trying to post video from LIM/Congress for the past two years and this is the first time I've been able to get anything live from the event. The Agile folks who will be presenting during the Pecha Kucha sessions will arrive today and I'm looking forward to getting to hang out with them this evening. Also, Frank Blome (Project Wizard's Merlin - http://projectwizards.net/en/) will be arriving today, can't wait to see him again. Tomorrow I am hoping to meet up with (and interview) Bas de Baar. Bas is the creator of ProjectShrink http://blog.softwareprojects.org/. If you are a PM and aren't reading his blog, you need to start. Oh - and in the way of shameless self promotion, Gantthead posted the video we shot of my Scrum in the Waterfall presentation. Go see -> http://tinyurl.com/p8yr47 More to come... |
Posted on: May 17, 2009 06:35 AM
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PMI Leadership and Congress in Amsterdam
| I'll be tweeting from PMI meetings in Amsterdam under @pmiittelecom and using #pmi beginning later today. Blog posts and video podcast interviews will also be forthcoming. |
Posted on: May 15, 2009 04:11 AM
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Ken Schwaber Interview from the Scrum Gathering in Orlando 2009
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Categories: EMEA, Leadership Meeting, Scrum Alliance, Scrum Gathering, Ken Schwaber, PMI, IT&T SIG, Scrum, Agile
 One of my favorite parts of the Scrum Gathering in Orlando this Spring was getting to spend a few minutes talking with Ken Schwaber about Scrum, PMI and "Scrum, but..." Here is a link to the IT&T SIG Video Podcast on iTunes Next stop, Amsterdam! Look for blog postings, tweets and video interviews from the PMI EMEA Leadership Meetings and Congress. I'm especially psyched to see what happens when PMI takes on Pecha Kucha... should be quite the mashup. |
Posted on: May 12, 2009 09:53 AM
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Updates....
| It has been awhile since I posted anything, but a lot has been going on. I’ve been working on preparing for PMI’s Congress and the other events happening this fall, as well as the project that the IT&T SIG is doing with the Scrum Alliance. So far we’ve held four webinars with the Scrum Alliance and they’ve gone quite well. We’ve had good attendance and great questions. There will be another one this coming Tuesday at 8 PM Easten and the beginning on October 7 we will switch to a 12 Pm Eastern start so that we can make the calls easier for our friends in the EMEA region. I’ll be posting a listing of events that the SIG is putting on in Denver and beyond sometime over the weekend. In the meantime, if you are planning on attending the PMI Congress, will be there on Saturday night (10/18) and find yourself often waking in the week hours, in a cold sweat because you can’t stop thinking about how to make Scrum and traditional project management work better together, please send me an email and let me know ([email protected]) we’ve got something in the works you might like to get involved with. |
Posted on: September 25, 2008 12:22 AM
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