Grabel David – Agile New England https://agilenewengland.org Networking Events for Agilists, Agile Software Development, GamingWordPress Mon, 23 May 2022 09:36:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://agilenewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-ANE_Logo_512x512Transparent-32x32.png Grabel David – Agile New England https://agilenewengland.org 32 32 15th Anniversary Celebration of Agile New England https://agilenewengland.org/15th-anniversary-celebration-of-agile-new-england/ Fri, 02 Jun 2017 03:46:42 +0000 https://dev.agilenewengland.org/?p=9230 Our monthly meeting on June 1 will be a special event to celebrate the founding of Agile New England a decade and a half ago. (Did you know we were originally called Agile Bazaar?) It will feature special food, music, and socializing.

Current and past presidents of Agile New England and illustrious  guests will offer short observations about Agile, Agile New England, and related topics over the past 15 years and into the future.

David Grabel
Vistaprint, Past President of Agile New England
Helping bring our best ideas to customers faster

 

 

Damon Poole
Nexxle, Past President of Agile New England
Reflections on the past, present and future of Agile

 

 

Tom Woundy
Mentor Graphics, Current President of Agile New England
Reflections on Agile New England and the role of the president

 

 

Brian Bozzuto
athenahealth, Founder of the Agile Games Conference
Looking at Agile transformations from the perspective of an internal coach

 

 

Steve Daukas
ScrumInc
Tips on how to get leadership to support Scrum transformation across the organization

 

 

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]]> Lightning Talks! Highlights from the Agile Games & Mob Programming conferences https://agilenewengland.org/lightning-talks-highlights-from-the-agile-games-mob-programming-conferences/ Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:00:37 +0000 https://dev.agilenewengland.org/?p=9224 This was a joint presentation with the Agile Games and Mob Programming 2017 conferences, held at the Microsoft NERD center in Cambridge, not at Constant Contact in Waltham!

This a special edition of Agile New England! We’re hosting the Agile Games and Mob Programming conferences during the week of April 6.  That’s the same week as our monthly meeting. We’ll share highlights from both conferences via a series of lightning talks.

Want a quick taste of Agile Games? Curious about Mob Programming? Join us April 6, and you won’t be disappointed.

Featured lightning talk speakers include:

 

Kim Pfluger, Agile marketer, manager, master of organizational change, and musician

 

 

2017-04 Kim Pluger

 

 

Jon Odo, Agile coach and recovering program manager

 

 

Wendy Wong, head of program management at Constant Contact Download the slides

 

 

 

Woody Zuill, keynote speaker, co-originator of Mob Programming, and author of Mob Programming: a Whole Team Approach

 

 

 

Gillian Lee, ICAgile certified coach at Rangle.io, co-organizer of the AgileTO Meetup and lead facilitator for bi-monthly interactive breakout group activities such as Lean Coffee, Lego Shared Visioning, Decider Protocol and Resolution Protocol the Agile Work Game and Retrospectives

 

Harold Shinsato, keynote speaker, founder of the Montana Code School, and co-author of The OpenSpace Agility Handbook

 

 

2017-04 Harold Shinsato

 

 

 

Marah Rosenberg, Artist and agilist

 

 

2017-04 Marah Rosenberg

 

 

David Grabel, enterprise Agile coach bringing agile beyond engineering at Vistaprint, introduced Scrum, Kanban, XP, and SAFe to organizations of sizes varying from single team startups to large organizations with over 500 teams

 

 

2017-04 David Grabel

 

Wendy Closson, Lead Code Whisperer at Corgibytes

 

 

 

 

Llewellyn Falco, technical coach extraordinaire

 

 

2017-04 Llewellyn Falco

 

 

 

]]> Agile Beyond Engineering: Transforming an Advertising Agency https://agilenewengland.org/agile-beyond-engineering-transforming-an-advertising-agency/ Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:46:49 +0000 https://dev.agilenewengland.org/?p=8434 When Vistaprint transformed its software development teams to Agile, the bottleneck shifted to Creative (the company’s in-house advertising agency). Could Agile work for a marketing group?

This presentation will explore the challenges of bringing Agile to a marketing organization. It will describe the engagement model of the Agile coaches at Vistaprint, and explain how they applied the Agile Marketing Values and Principles and combined in-depth training, embedded coaching, big visible boards, and a focus on the Agile mindset.It will also review the outcomes, including reduced lead times, soaring on-time delivery rates, and eliminating late night and weekend work.

About the speakers:

Staci Dubovik is an Agile Coach at Vistaprint. She is facilitating the adoption of Agile by 140 marketing and creative employees on three continents.

 

 

 

David Grabel is currently an Enterprise Agile Coach at Vistaprint, a Cimpress company. He is currently bringing Agile to marketing and the executive team at Vistaprint. David has introduced Scrum, Kanban, XP, and SAFe to organizations ranging from single team startups to organizations with over 500 teams. Previous clients include PayPal, Bose, and Trizetto. He is certified as CSM, CSP & SPC and is studying at the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership.

David is a former treasurer of Agile New England and a former president of the chapter. Previously, he was Vice President of Engineering at Monetrics, a startup that was acquired by JM Family Enterprises. Other previous senior management positions include Vice President of Product Technology at Thomson Gale and Vice President of Development at Politzer & Haney.

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]]> Patterns for Scaling Agile https://agilenewengland.org/patterns-for-scaling-agile/ Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:38:26 +0000 https://dev.agilenewengland.org/?p=8518 Scaling Agile is risky. No matter what framework you use to scale Agile in a large enterprise, what are the patterns which lead to success, and what are the anti-patterns which lead to disasters? We invite all experienced Agile practitioners to explore and form a list of scaling patterns and anti-patterns. We will share our experience on how to create the successful patterns or avoid/resolve the anti-patterns. This is a highly interactive workshop with a goal to help the Agile community be more successful with enterprise transformations. Attendees can choose to be participants or observers.

Some of the aspects of enterprise transformations to be explored for patterns and anti-patterns include:

  • Large scale planning
  • Geographically distributed teams
  • Agile mind set
  • Agile metrics

About the speakers:

David Grabel is a passionate enterprise agile coach. He has introduced Scrum, Kanban, XP, and SAFe to organizations of sizes varying from single team startups to large organizations with over 500 teams. Previous clients include PayPal, Bose, and Trizetto. He helped develop a process for integrating Lean UX design with Scrum delivery teams that was rolled out to 15 Lean UX teams supporting over 100 delivery teams around the world. He is certified as CSM, CSP & SPC and is studying at the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. He recently presented a workshop at Agile 2015 on Patterns for Scaling Agile.

David is a past president of Agile New England. He is currently bringing agile beyond engineering at Vistaprint. Previously, he was Vice President of Engineering at Monetrics a startup that was acquired by JM Family Enterprises. Other previous senior management positions include Vice President of Product Technology at Thomson and Vice President of Development at Politzer & Haney.

Monica Yap is an Agile coach at Twitter. She has previously been an Agile coach, Agile trainer, and Agile transformation coach for Agile consulting firms cPrime and SolutionsIQ, working at clients such as Symantec and PayPal. Monica is a regular presenter at conferences, including Agile Conferences, ADP West, and Scrum Gathering.

 

 

2015-11 Grabel Yap

 

 

]]> Distributed Agile – Lessons Learned from One Success and One Failure https://agilenewengland.org/distributed-agile-lessons-learned-from-one-success-and-one-failure/ Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:25:13 +0000 https://dev.agilenewengland.org/?p=10162 More and more organizations are running projects with globally distributed teams, despite the common wisdom that Scrum works best with co-located personnel. Given that decision, what are the keys to success? What are the pitfalls to avoid?

This talk is based on real life experience. The first project was a successful one year Scrum-based effort with four US locations and one India-based team. The second case – a multi-year co-development project with teams in the US and India – failed. The lessons learned align very well with the Agile Manifesto.

About the speaker:

David Grabel is Agile Coach & Director of Applications Development at Monetrics in Beverly, MA. He brought Scrum to Monetrics in 2003 where he has served as Scrum Master, Product Owner and Coach. He is currently an internal agile coach for Monetrics and DataScan, a sister company in Atlanta, GA. David has also been involved in off-shore co-development and geographically distributed teams using Scrum.

David started as a software developer in the dark ages of Structured Programming and has managed development in start-ups and large companies for over 30 years. Prior positions included VP of Application Development and Internet Technology at Thomson/Gale, VP of Engineering at Politzer & Haney, and VP of Product Development at F3 Software. He has a BA in Applied Math from Columbia and an MS from Harvard in Applied Math/Computer Science.

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