A Look Back - the Agile Austin Community Reflects Through Innovation Games®

Location:Microsoft Technology Center, Quarry Oaks Atrium, Bldg. 2 - 2nd Fl., 10900 S. Stonelake Blvd. Austin, TX 78759

Join the Agile Austin community for a its annual retrospective – this year run as Innovation Games®. See http://innovationgames.com/ for more information, but let's just say that we'll have a fun and collaborative evening playing serious fun games. Everyone is welcome to help examine where Agile Austin is coming from, and help shape the priorities and goals of Agile Austin in the future.

Jeff Brantley is the President of Brantley Marketing and a certified Innovation Games® trainer. Jeff’s passion is ‘collaborative innovation’ and he tries to help companies harness the creativity and problem-solving power that seems to be locked inside individual cubicles everywhere. A sold out “Agilist,” Jeff believes most companies really need to adapt their business models and their software development practices to compete. He uses his work with Innovation Games facilitation and consulting to help companies make breakthroughs in product, process, communications, and strategy.

John Heintz is the founder and principal technologist of Gist Labs. He is an experienced agile manager, particularly in lean and kanban. In 2008, John founded Gist Labs to further focus on the essential criteria for innovative success. On a recent project, he coached a 100-person agile/lean game studio, helping the organization increase its throughput of game features per month while coordinating cross-team communication paths, resulting in a doubling of features in one year. John began his career as a technologist and coach, always seeking solutions with greater leverage and deeper simplicity. His approach to systems and team building emerged in 1999 while leading his first Scrum team, coaching XP and test-driven development. John has consulted with clients on various engagements, including for enterprise architecture, development practices, XP and Scrum leadership, lean value stream mapping, and RESTful/messaging architectures.

Cost: Free
Contact: www.AgileAustin.org or info@AgileAustin.org
Proof of Attendance forms will be provided for PMI (PDU), ASQ (RU) and PDMA (PDH) re-certifications