Laura M. Powers
Vice President & Product Owner
Agile Learning Labs
location_on United States
Member since 7 years
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Laura M. Powers
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Laura M. Powers has followed an eclectic career path with over 25 years of engineering and management experience. She has been involved in the design of aircraft engines, diapers, electric cars, as well as software systems at Hewlett Packard, Sales.com, Collabnet and eBay. Ironically, the lean concepts practiced eons ago at the start of her career have migrated into the world of software!
At Agile Learning Labs, Laura is the Product Owner and is involved in sales, business development, trainer coaching, training development, and whatever else is needed to deliver scrum value to our clients. She is passionate about the magic, mayhem and unbelievable value produced by high performing teams. When she first stumbled across scrum - she instinctively knew that it was the missing link she'd been searching for throughout her career. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech, and is a CSP, CSM, CSPO and a board-certified trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
In her personal life, Laura and her scrummy husband use these same techniques to manage their household. Some evenings, you can find the two of them discussing the relative "family value" of a vacation to Italy versus Hawaii, as well as the top of the "honey-do" backlog.
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Business Value Estimation
45 Mins
Workshop
Intermediate
Most scrum teams create effort estimates, often using story points. As a product owner, you also want to have an estimate of the business value of each user story. Business value estimates help you create a more rational backlog and maximize the value the team delivers.
This workshop explores the art and science of estimating the business value of user stories. Participants will gain an understanding of the essence of business value, and why it is more complex than just revenue or profit. Then we will then learn a surprisingly simple technique to estimate and quantify business value.
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keyboard_arrow_downUnderstanding How Collaboration Improves Productivity
Paul BoosIT Executive CoachExcellaLaura M. PowersVice President & Product OwnerAgile Learning Labsschedule 7 years ago
90 Mins
Workshop
Intermediate
We've all heard how we need to collaborate better, but what does this really mean? What results can I expect to see with better collaboration?
This workshop will demonstrate how productivity increases with greater collaboration and how to create better a more collaborative environment. In the session you will not only have an opportunity to experience this relationship with a relatively simple learning game, but we'll look behind the curtain at the science and how some various behavioral models explain why this relationship exists. We'll then explore some tactics you can use to help teams collaborate better and close with an exploration of what either helps or hinders collaboration and how you can use this information as well as the game with your teams.
If you have an interest in improving productivity of your team or the teams you serve, then this is the session for you.
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