Brandon Raines
Agile Coach
Shokunin LLC
location_on United States
Member since 7 years
Brandon Raines
Specialises In (based on submitted proposals)
Over a career spanning 20 years, Brandon has been a developer, tester, project manager, architect, Certified Scrum master, Certified Scrum Practitioner and Certified Scrum Coach. Mr. Raines has helped teams mainly in the federal government as an Agile coach in their transition to Agile ranging in size from 10 people to 1500. Mr. Raines was first introduced to Agile through eXtreme Programming techniques. Since then, he has helped teams doing mission critical work in the U.S. Federal Government and commercial entities using Scrum, xP and Lean principles to work more effectively by focusing on work that provides the highest business value and continuously improving. In addition to project teams, Brandon has been instrumental in helping these government agencies usher in the acceptance of Agile principles to such an extent that it is the preferred way of working for software projects and the enterprise. His passion is working with motivated people to achieve success.
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Are there any responsibly Agile Ways to Perform Long Term Planning?
45 Mins
Workshop/Game
Intermediate
Sometimes, a good debate is what’s needed. Conventional wisdom is boring. Agile is old enough now to inject some alternative thoughts. This session seeks to use the idea of the French Salon. A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation. The intent is to combine learning, good manners, and conversational skill. Salonnières provided a place to gather, a topic, a structure or starting point for the gathering, and ensured that there would be a good mix of opinions among the guest list. “Salonnières therefore had to perform a difficult balancing act, cultivating individual merit without letting one guest overshadow the others.” Therefore, the goal is to facilitate the topic of Long Term Planning in Agile and whether there are any responsible ways to perform and execute it. Participants will bring their ideas along with an open mind to developing new possibilities.
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Coaching Tools for All Levels: Single Agile team, Multi team, Executive
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
Agile Adoptions and maintaining Agility often requires coaching at different levels within an organization. Some organizations begin their transformation with a single team launching off to explore Agility and what it will mean to be Agile where there never has been any. Some teams start or eventually get to Agile with multiple teams, while others begin at the Executive level. No matter the starting point, as Agile continues to permeate the organization, coaching at some level is employed, yet there are different skills and techniques more conducive to each. Let’s explore the needs of individuals and groups at each level of the organization along with skills every good coach will need to be effective in getting the organization to raise its level of Agile to build the best products. In this workshop, we will define different levels of the coaching experience based upon the size of an organization. For each level of the organization, we will define specific and appropriate coaching techniques
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Self Care Tips and Practices for the Agile Mind: From a Therapist and Coach
Nicole WardMarriage and Family TherapistSelf EmployedBrandon RainesAgile CoachShokunin LLCschedule 3 years ago
Sold Out!45 Mins
Workshop/Game
Beginner
In order to be an effective coach, it is important to maintain and sharpen your core tool, you.This means attending to every aspect of you including mental health. Practicing good mental hygiene through self-care is one way to maintain an agile mind.There are no set rules for practicing self-care but it is important to establish some markers for how you continue to nurture your relationship with self. Unfortunately, many of us don’t recognize this need.We simply jump from event to event or engagement to engagement without ensuring we are whole, present and charged.This despite one of the essential values of Agility being, ‘maintaining a sustainable pace’.It doesn’t just apply to the teams we are coaching, but for the coach as well.
Come hear self care techniques from a practicing Agile coach and a practicing therapist?Join us as we explore practical self care practices applied to the Agile principles and typical stressors that show up while we partner with organizations to grow.Our hope is the workshop will provide an experiential space for participants to gain tools to kick start or add to their mental and emotional wellness regimen.
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Coaching Tools for All Levels: Single Agile team, Multi team, Executive
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
Agile Adoptions and maintaining Agility often requires coaching at different levels within an organization. Some organizations begin their transformation with a single team launching off to explore Agility and what it will mean to be Agile where there never has been any. Some teams start or eventually get to Agile with multiple teams, while others begin at the Executive level. No matter the starting point, as Agile continues to permeate the organization, coaching at some level is employed, yet there are different skills and techniques more conducive to each. Let’s explore the needs of individuals and groups at each level of the organization along with skills every good coach will need to be effective in getting the organization to raise it’s level of Agile to build the best products.
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The Life of a User Story
45 Mins
Talk
Beginner
User Stories are a fantastic way of bringing together someone who is requesting a need and someone(s) who will transform that need into a working increment. Inevitably, we encounter needs that are large in nature, too big for a sprint. What do we do about those things? What if we are working in a multi-sprint release? How do we break those large things into smaller sprint size chunks and maintain the concept of potentially shippable increments? Let’s explore that world with a few techniques.
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Agile Planning and Estimating Techniques in a Federal World
45 Mins
Talk
Beginner
The government is seeing the merit of using agile practices to develop software. However, the fallacy that you can’t estimate projects using agile in the government still exist. The result is that many projects that want to use Agile begin in a very waterfall way developing the initial plan and are forced to stick to that plan throughout the project despite using sprints throughout the ‘development phase’. Many falsely believe they are stuck in the tradition of estimating everything in the beginning. During this presentation, through lecture and based upon real experiences, we will demonstrate techniques for developing a project plan and estimating techniques to satisfy the typical government compliance requirements using Agile practices and principles. In essence, we will together learn how to build the bridge from the traditional government practices to a brave new world where we can plan, estimate and still inject agility.
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Team Development Patterns - A Catalog of Team Dynamic Patterns and How to Use Them
60 Mins
Talk
Beginner
Most software professionals have read and internalized the Gang of Four Book on Design Patterns. Every team and it's individual members have experienced the cycle of team development described through the Tuckman Model. This session combines those two concepts by describing typical patterns of behavior during the team development phases of forming, storming, norming and performing. Moreover, we will describe techniques to help teams overcome the pains of forming and storming and techniques to thrive while norming and performing.
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No Way! Agile in the Federal Government
Brandon RainesAgile CoachShokunin LLCJudy NeherPresident/CEOCelerity Technical Services, Inc.schedule 7 years ago
Sold Out!60 Mins
Experience Report
Intermediate
There are so many challenges that organizations face. Healthy organizations continuously tool and re-tool themselves to go from good to great. This session will describe the road taken to transform a major government organization using Agile, Lean and Scrum principles, practices and techniques. From the contracting process to initiating, executing and closing projects, to redesigning the physical workspaces, and moving from a matrix to a team centric structure, this organization completely re-tooled how it did business, for the better.
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