Moreira Mario – Agile New England https://agilenewengland.org Networking Events for Agilists, Agile Software Development, GamingWordPress Tue, 22 Aug 2023 01:03:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://agilenewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-ANE_Logo_512x512Transparent-32x32.png Moreira Mario – Agile New England https://agilenewengland.org 32 32 Create Your Own Agile Methodology https://agilenewengland.org/create-your-own-agile-methodology/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 03:51:43 +0000 https://agilenewengland.org/?p=15378 Why do so many Agile transformations fail? Could it be that we begin with the mechanics over mindset? Many initiatives start by applying methods such as Scrum, SAFe, etc (aka, doing Agile). Often people don’t understand the “why” behind what they are doing (aka, being Agile), therefore leading to a lower likelihood of accepting and retaining change. Is there a better way?

Mario Moreira will guide you through the construction of your own Agile method by starting with the mindset and the “why” (aka, being Agile). You will collaborate with your colleagues in small groups and craft processes that align very closely with the Agile values and principles. You will create an Agile method that you can experiment with when you return to your company.

About the Speaker:

Mario E. Moreira is an Enterprise Agile consultant and Master Agile Coach. He helps companies achieve better business results with cutting-edge practices to increase customer value and optimize speed of delivery. He works at all levels, including executives, product, project, and portfolio managers, scrum masters, and product owners. He has led Agile initiatives at Fidelity Investments, CA Technologies, Walmart, and Vistaprint.

Mario is the Author of several Agile books including The Agile Enterprise: Building and Running Agile Organizations and Being Agile: Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption of Agile, and the first Agile for Dummies.  He writes regularly for his Agile Adoption Roadmap blog at cmforagile.blogspot.com.

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]]> Building and Running a True Customer Value-Driven Enterprise https://agilenewengland.org/building-and-running-a-true-customer-value-driven-enterprise/ Thu, 04 May 2017 17:21:29 +0000 https://dev.agilenewengland.org/?p=8278 Are you looking for ways to ensure your teams are always working on the highest customer value work?  Do you want to more quickly adapt to the incoming high value ideas?  Do you want to have end-to-end visibility of the work from inception to delivery? If so, this session will help you craft an Agile customer value-driven enterprise that utilizes concepts such as the enterprise kanban, cost of delay, Agile budgeting, discovery mindset, incremental thinking, customer feedback loops, and more. It will also help you avoid the dangers of certainty thinking, annual planning, big batches, and big upfront thinking.The result: your enterprise and teams will build the highest value products and services for customers.

About the Speaker

Mario E. Moreira is an Enterprise Agile consultant and Master Agile Coach. He specializes in transforming enterprises to Agile and introducing cutting edge business and Agile concepts and practices. He coaches and educates executives, management, and distributed teams in Agile mindset, concepts, methods and practices such as Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, VFQ, Story Mapping, Value Stream Mapping, Psychological Safety, Self-organizing teams, and more.

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]]> Customer Feedback Vision – Persona to Requirements to Demonstration to Product Success! https://agilenewengland.org/customer-feedback-vision-persona-to-requirements-to-demonstration-to-product-success/ Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:33:42 +0000 https://dev.agilenewengland.org/?p=8549 Effective customer feedback is elusive. How do you ensure you identify the right customers, get customers to feedback sessions, and capture the most effective feedback? This session will help you: • Establish a Customer Vision focused on gaining elusive customer feedback.

• Identify customer types via personas for your product, service, or value stream.

• Incorporate customer types into the way you capture requirements.

• Identify types of customer feedback loops.

• Devise strategies to get customers to your feedback sessions.

Instead of barely hitting the broad side of the customer barn, wouldn’t you rather hit the customer bullseye?

About the speaker:

Mario E. Moreira is a VP of Client Engagement and Agile Consultant at Emergn Ltd helping organizations achieve business success through a focus on building more valuable products, optimizing flow for faster delivery to market, and increasing quality by gaining customer feedback. He is an enterprise change agent who has worked in the agile, lean, innovation, education, strategy, and transformation fields. He is a certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Scrum Professional (CSP) with Scrum, XP, and Kanban experience in the context of enterprise-level Agile transformations, coaching, and team-building.

As a Business and IT professional in networking, communications, product, open source, and financial industries for over 20 years, Mario has experience in software configuration management, software quality assurance, project management,requirements engineering, architecture, and IT governance. He served as Vice President of Engineering and Methodologies at Fidelity Investments and as the Head of the Agile Transformation at CA (Computer Associates).

Mario is the author of the new book entitled, Being Agile – Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption which currently has nine 5-star ratings on Amazon. He has also written Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams, Software Configuration Management Implementation Roadmap, and Agile for Dummies. He is writes activity for his blog at Agile Adoption Roadmap(cmforagile.blogspot.com) and is a regular speaker on Agile topics at US and European conferences.

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]]> Importance of Agile Readiness – Success Factors for a Transformation to Agile https://agilenewengland.org/importance-of-agile-readiness-success-factors-for-a-transformation-to-agile/ Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:24:36 +0000 https://dev.agilenewengland.org/?p=8948 The Agile movement may have reached a tipping point. Many are finding that deploying Agile has not gained them the business benefits they are looking for. Looking deeper into what has occurred in many of the “Agile deployments”, there seems to be a focus on “doing Agile” and very little on “being Agile”. “Doing Agile” focuses on skills and process change. What is needed to gain the business benefits from Agile is a strong focus on the cultural and behavioral changes for “Being Agile” which focuses on a willingness to continuously adapt toward customer value.

In this interactive session, we will walk-through the Ready, Implement, Coach, and Hone (RICH) Deployment Framework that is discussed in the new Agile book entitled, “Being Agile”. The primary focus will be on the Agile Readiness activities that can help you lay the ground work for achieving an Agile transformation and the business benefits it can bring.

This will include:

  • Establishing a vision for moving to Agile
  • Embracing the Agile principles
  • Evaluating buy-in and willingness
  • Considering measures of success
  • Highlighting risk factors preventing you from achieving the Agile mindset
  • And much more

If you are contemplating Agile, you will walk out with an Agile Roadmap focused on transforming and if you are in the midst of an Agile adoption and not seeing the benefits you were hoping for, you will gain insight into improving your direction.

About the speaker:

Mario Moreira is an Agile/Lean Consultant with Emergn Limited.  He is an Enterprise Agile Coach who helps companies transform to Agile and gain the business benefits of doing so. He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Professional (CSP) having implemented Scrum, XP, and Kanban at the product and organizational levels Mario has worked in the Technology, Software, Product, Architecture, and Methodology fields since 1986 and has been involved with Agile since 1998. He has written several Agile books (“Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams” and “Agile for Dummies”) and has recently released his new book entitled, “Being Agile – Your Roadmap to Successful Adoption of Agile.” He has written for the “Agile Journal” and “CM Journal” and currently writes articles for the Agile Adoption Roadmap Blog (http://cmforagile.blogspot.com/).

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