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AGILE NYC OPEN 2012 - Monday February 27th 2012
"What is so executive about agile?"
with Christopher Avery, Bill Joiner, Jochen Krebs, Dan Mezick (Facilitator) and 150 others for example YOU!
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PLEASE REGISTER HERE ($49 Includes food, beverages and a 1-year free Membership with the Agile Alliance)
The Agile NYC community has spoken. One of the most popular formats during the past two Agile Day conferences returns as a stand-alone full-day event. Open Space is a platform for learning and collaborating and because attendees loved it we will keep organizing it. A very special thanks goes out to the Agile Alliance which supports Agile NYC and our OPEN which is 100% self-funded, sponsor free.
Because for many of you the time between our yearly Agile Day conferences might be too long, we offer a halfway marker on your calendar. We call it the Agile NYC OPEN, and we use this wordplay because NYC is home to the US Open. Only you will decide if our OPEN will be a grand slam as well.
Program:
09.15 - 10.00 BREAKFAST
10.00 - 10.45 OPENING (Welcome and Marketplace Creation)
11.00 - 11.50 SESSIONS
12.00 - 12.50 SESSIONS
01.00 - 01.50 SESSIONS
02.00 - 02.50 SESSIONS
03.00 - 03.50 SESSIONS
04.00 - 04.45 CLOSING
The Agile NYC Open is a unique full-day Open Space event with only one topic, the open space itself. As many of you know, during open space conferences, the participants will create a marketplace and agenda in the morning of the event. So you will have an opportunity to either convene a session of your choice or participate in somebody else's session. It is the nature of an open space that we won't know what we will be discussing until the morning of the event. Based on our two previous Open Space events one thing is for sure though; it will be great. We have themed this year's OPEN with the question What is so executive about agile? We invite participants to work through topics relevant for project managers, middle management, executives, CEO's alike. The limit is 150 attendees. Here are some impressions from the Open Space during our Agile Day 2011. In Open Space events, the sessions are continuous and we are not breaking at a specific time for lunch. We will be offer lunch within the room and you can eat whenever you feel like. We will have time and space for at least 25 different sessions that day.
Our trained open space facilitator Dan Mezick will guide us through the day and will make sure that everyone will feel comfortable and has a great learning experience. We will share more details about possible conveners and participants in the upcoming weeks.
Agile NYC, organizer of the OPEN, is a non-profit organization. We run all of our events as low cost as possible and to provide the best possible value to the community. We offer this full-day Open Space for $39 during the limited early bird (first 75 attendees or 12/27/2011) and for $49 as the regular ticket price. The cover charge will include not only wonderful full-day learning experience, it also includes lunch, and refreshments and a very special offer we want you to be aware of:
Attendance at the Agile NYC OPEN will include an automatic free 1-year membership in the Agile Alliance (value of $100), which will give you access to papers, videos, and additional discounts for example a video catalog from the Agile 2012 conference in Salt Lake City with keynotes from Linda Rising who also presented the opening keynote at the Agile Day in New York City a month ago. It will also give you special member discounts to attend the future Agile Conferences. We want to thank the Agile Alliance for their ongoing support and in particular for this special offer.
Dan Mezick is a coach and Open Space facilitator serving teams, project sponsors, executives and entire communities in NYC, Connecticut and Boston. Dan has direct experience facilitating Open Space meetings with up to 100 persons participating. He has planned or facilitated six Open Space meetings for various corporate clients in 2011 alone. His most recent experience includes facilitating a private, 70-person, corporate-retreat Open Space event, executed completely out-of-doors under a large tent!
Dan's (upcoming) book, The Culture Game, provides specific step-by-step guidance on how to use and leverage Open Space to help develop a more open, adaptive, and collaborative company culture. Learn more about Dan here.
The following industry experts have committed to the Agile NYC OPEN and offered to convene a session and work with us throughout the day:
 
Christopher Avery is a sought-after, international speaker, author, and business advisor on responsible leadership, teamwork, and change for companies like GAP, Wells Fargo, and eBay. Known for his cutting-edge work to demystify and then develop practical team leadership skills for engineers and other technical professionals, Christopher wrote the popular classic Teamwork Is An Individual Skill for everyone who is fed up with working in bad teams.
As the visionary force behind the worldwide Leadership Gift community, Christopher applies groundbreaking discoveries about personal responsibility and performance to support leaders intent on rapidly building highly reliable, agile, sustainable, and accelerating teams and cultures.
Christopher is president of Partnerwerks Inc., the company he co-founded in 1991 to document best practices for collaborating under competitive conditions. He is an agile coach with Rally Software. Christopher is also a Senior Consultant with the IT and Agile Project Management practices of the Cutter Consortium, a Boston-area think tank. He co-authored the Declaration of Interdependence and co-founded the Agile Project Leadership Network dedicated to connecting, developing, and supporting great project leaders.
Christopher earned his Doctorate in Communication of Technology from The University of Texas at Austin where he occasionally lectures. He is a Visiting Scholar at Capella University.
The author of hundreds of articles and commentaries about individual and collective performance at work, Christopher is a popular source for the media.
 
Bill Joiner is an international speaker and thought-leader on agile leadership. He is lead author of Leadership Agility , an award-winning book, rooted in 5 years of deep research, filled with dozens of real-life stories. Bill's work brings a new perspective to agile leadership that draws on over 30 years of experience as an Organization Development consultant. His extensive research on the subject has shown that, as leaders move through successive stages of personal development, they develop the mental and emotional capacities needed to become increasingly agile leaders. He has articulated a framework of leadership agility levels (in leading change, leading teams, and pivotal conversations) that informs his consulting, coaching, and training work with senior leaders and their organizations, and his training workshops for leadership coaches. He is President of ChangeWise , a Boston-based firm that has partnered with Cambria Consulting to create the Leadership Agility 360. ChangeWise also certifies coaches in the use of this next-generation feedback instrument. Bill received his doctorate in Organization Development from Harvard University.
 
Jochen (Joe) Krebs Jochen (Joe) Krebs is an agile coach, trainer, consultant and practitioner. Joe started Agile NYC in 2007 with the goal to create a community of agile professionals in NYC who have a platform to learn from each other. Since then, Agile NYC steadily grew to over 1,300 professionals interested in agile topics in the tri-state area alone. Joe is also the host of the Agile NYC podcast.
Since 2005, Joe coaches and delivers trainings and workshops to organizations through his company Incrementor. He helps organizations with the successful adoption of agile processes (Scrum, XP, Lean and other iterative-incremental processes) either on a corporate enterprise-level or team-level. His programs are characterized by a unique blend of knowledge transfer with hands-on work. Joe is the author of two books, "Agile Portfolio Management" and the "RUP Reference and Certification Guide". He also published numerous articles in magazines about agile practices and processes. When time permits, he speaks at conferences, private client events or presents at other local user group meetings. You will find more information about Joe at www.jochenkrebs.com.
During the Agile NYC OPEN, Joe is planning on convening a session as well as recording segments for the Agile NYC Podcast. So please stop by at the Agile NYC Podcast booth.
Frank Saucier is a creative project leader and team coach with over 20 years of experience spanning web projects, technology marketing, software development, technical writing, application engineering, and technical training. By leveraging the depth and diversity of his background, he’s able to help teams bridge the knowledge gaps that often manifest themselves as impediments. He calls it “knowing the in-betweens”. Paired up with his style as a collaborative leader, he’s able to champion teams that include executives, marketers, designers, developers, and engineers. His industry background includes Telecommunications, Design Automation Software, Defense Systems, Electronics, and Manufacturing.Frank's focus during the Agile NYC OPEN will be the proceedings.
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