5-Year Anniversary
Photos from five years of Agile Coaching DC meetups, 2016 to 2021.
2021 1 event
2020 1 event
Story Mapping Workshop
Want to learn more about Story Mapping and how it can help you create better products and meet your deadlines? In this hands-on, interactive, Story…
2019 2 events
Big Room Prioritization
This was a wonderful event at Marriott Headquarters and I loved working with Trisha Mulcahy. Lots of lively discussion and everyone learned…
Agile/SAFe in a Waterfall World
After a short break we’re back in action as Marriott is our new host and they offer a fabulous space. As can expected, this was a lively topic with…
2018 8 events
Agile Community of Practice
I realized that for over 2 years I’ve been coordinating and facilitating Agile Coaching DC on a monthly basis and haven’t taken the time to talk. So…
People, HR and the Agile Organization
Wow! Just when you think you know a lot about Agile, someone comes in and opens up a new world. Arlen helped us refocus on People, Human Resources…
Lean and Agile Principles explained and discussed
This was a fabulous presentation. Dan really knows what he’s talking about and has a great way of expressing it. Everyone walked out with a much…
Come learn from Michael Feathers
Michael Feathers is a powerful speaker and there’s a reason why his books are considered gold. This was a great interactive event with lots of…
Are you delivering the right product or just delivering?
Mathias Eifert and Paul Boos hosted a wonderful workshop to help ensure your’re developing the right product at the right time. This was entertaining…
Testing in Continuous Delivery
Emily Bache put on an amazing workshop where people created products and walked through the entire process of continuously testing. It was a lot of…
Come one, Come all to DevOps: In the Round!
Do you like Shakespeare? What’s about poetry? How about Men in Tights? We had all of that while learning about DevOps. Richard Stanley is a great…
Better Stories through Behavior Driven Design!
Amitai Schleier is such an amazing individual and taught a lot about cucumber and why we no longer use PERL 🙂 The session started out very technical…
2017 9 events
UX in an Agile World
This was a wonderful topic and over 50 people attended the lively discussion. The world is realizing how important a good User Experience is for…
Mob Programming with Llewellyn Falco
Mob Programming is a simple concept that brings huge rewards but is somewhat counter intuitive. Llewellyn broke it down into simple and powerful…
Commitment, (not time management)
Dr. Saya Sone provided an amazing presentation on making the right commitments so teams can deliver the right things on time. We had many new people…
Story Mapping with Leading Agile
This was a great hands on session with 4 groups creating story maps and learning to work together. Amaing time.
Scaling Agile with Joe Truppo
This was a great event with Joe Truppo leading a lively topic that was informative and provocative. There was a lot of back forth and great…
Kanban in Action: Thoughtfully Observing Flow
Trent Hone and Mark Grove did such a great job that every wanted to stay and we ended much closer to 9:00 then 8:00. It was very lively discussion…
Better software through Empathy Mapping
Empathy mapping is a team tool to increase collaboration and gain a deep understand of customers. This was a very hands on meeting where we…
Awesome Lean Coffee
This was great as old friends connected again. We’re always glad to get people together to meet new friends and see friends they haven’t seen in some…
Thrive and Survive in an Agile Transformation
International speaker Katy Saulpaugh delivered an amazing and lively presentation to over 40 people. The room was charged with great discussions and…
2016 9 events
December’s Impact Mapping
The Impact Mapping meeting was amazing. John Hughes and Rachel Whitt came to lead the workshop of nearly 2 dozen attendees. The meetups at FINRA…
November’s Lean Coffee at FINRA
Two dozen people arrived at the first Wednesday night meeting right after day light savings. Our friends from Celerity to host the meeting and it was…
Velocity, The Good, Bad and Ugly
This was a great presentation. Almost 40 people came out to listen to Jonathon deliver a somewhat controversial presentation that brought on lots of…
October, Candies and Beer at Enterprise Knowledge
Another fantastic night with the Arlington team. We had some great discussion, EK opened the taps so we had beer, cheese and candies! The team even…
Agile Game Night at FINRA!
This was really awesome. We had 30+ people and the airplane game was so much fun that didn’t have time for the ball point game. As you can see there…
FINRA Hosted Agile Meetup in Rockville!
This is one the best meetups we’ve ever had. The and energy and excitement was thrilling. 3 tables of great people sharing ideas and learning from…
July Meetup at Enterprise Knowledge
The Enterprise Knowledge Team is so amazing. Some of the sharpest and most welcoming people I’ve ever met.
May Meeting
I would like to thank Bob Payne and Jason Hall of Lithespeed for being such great hosts. We discussed Scaling, the perils of comparing velocity…
April Meeting
This was a our first meeting and Michelle Lapin was the perfect energetic and thoughtful host. We had a nice round-robin style discussion. What a…