Brian Sjoberg
Agile Coach
Excella Consulting
location_on United States
Member since 8 years
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Brian Sjoberg (@onek2go) is an Agile Coach with Excella Consulting. He comes from sunny Florida where he earned his Computer Engineering degree from the University of South Florida. He is a former XP Java programmer, turned Project Manager, turned Program Manager, turned Agile Coach. He recently acquired his Certified Scrum Professional certificate. He has been living on the front lines of implementing Scrum and engineering best practices for the past 4 years with multiple teams and is fueled with a passion to help individuals, teams and organizations to frequently deliver high quality products at a sustainable pace that customers LOVE!!
Organizer of local DC Scrum User Group. Stop on by some time and enjoy great agile-related presentations and workshops. And we usually serve ample amounts of Pizza and drinks and have been known to giveaway some stuff at the end of each meeting. You can thank Excella for that stuff.
He blogs @ anagilemind.net
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Pump Life Back into Your Local User Group
45 Mins
Talk
Beginner
Do you want to help your local community connect, learn and share from each other as they journey towards agility (or any endeavor)? Do you have a local user group that is struggling and needs a resuscitation? This talk will help you pump life back into your local user group. I have taken the local DC Scrum User Group that was starting to fade and brought it back to life with a fast growing membership base that regularly connects, learns and shares with each other multiple times per month. How did I do this? Come find out as I walk you through the various steps I took to reestablish the user group and engage thought leaders and luminaries to come speak at the user group.
When I took over, last year, our local DC Scrum User Group was just over 500 members and growing at a pace of about 20 members per month. Since then, we have grown to almost 1300 members and growing at 50-60 new members per month. We typically have multiple meetings a month that are a mix of presentations, workshops and webinars.
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Moving at the Speed of Molasses ... This Might Have Something to do with It!
45 Mins
Demonstration
Beginner
Are you struggling with delivering a potentially releasable working product every iteration? Ever wonder what one of biggest reasons we have difficulty getting things done at the individual, team and organizational level are? Do you keep doing something even though you know it reduces your productivity and lowers quality? We are going to run an exercise that highlights one of the major culprits that you have all experienced and continue to experience. The exercise will likely ignite a fire that will help you, your team and your organization to become more productive and improve product quality. We will discuss ways to improve this at the individual, team and organization levels.
Knowing this will help anyone to understand the consequences of not prioritizing and increase their desire to. This will lead to producing faster, higher quality products that should lead to delighted customers.
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Pee-ew, It Stinks in Here (anti-Agile smells)
3 Mins
Talk
Beginner
“Being agile” seems easy on paper. At the beginning, everyone will be on board with the adoption. But, as time goes on, things will begin to smell funny. Some will say “we need more documentation” or “we need to do big design up front.” Others will mention that “we need to do more planning” or ask “why does it matter if the sprint takes longer than two weeks?” Eventually, you’ll begin to hear, “that’s not my job”, and then you’re on the verge of losing everyone.In this presentation we will identify some of these common smells and help prioritize which smells to tackle first. We will then talk about how to help remove those smells so that everyone can reap the benefits of truly becoming agile. -
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Using games to influence change
60 Mins
Talk
Beginner
As experienced Agilists, we’ve all come to understand complex concepts such as time boxes, just-in-time planning and retrospectives. And, even if we haven’t, we’ve successfully gotten away with pretending that we understand exactly what each of these things mean! But, what happens when you have to explain one of these concepts to someone that is new to Agile? Can we simply provide these eager people with a textbook definition and assume that they get it?Similarly, a mindset shift to the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto can be difficult for anyone to comprehend. When we talk about individuals and interactions over processes and tools, among many other catchy phrases, what does that really mean? How do we explain this to experienced Agilists, not to mention people that are just embarking on their Agile journey?Games can expedite the understanding of these concepts and mindset shifts. They help create individual “aha” moments that can really move a person to embrace Agile. In this presentation we will identify some of these complex concepts and talk about various games that can be used to help convey these difficult to understand concepts. In the end, you can add these games to your toolkit and use them to help teach your teams and others in your organization. -
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