Scrum Alliance - NYC Scrum User Group

Scrum practitioners of New York!

Please join us for the August meeting of the NYC Scrum User Group on Thursday, August 16th at Euro RSCG!

Time: 6:00 - 8:00pm

Place: Euro RSCG, 350 Hudson Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10014

Agenda:

6:00 - 6:30pm - Pizza and networking

6:30 - 8:00pm - Ram Srinivasan - The Lean Startup Game

Most often we build products with minimal customer involvement. Lean Startups take a different approach and involve customers at every stage of product development. In this session, participants run a business based on the "Lean Startup" approach. The session starts off by playing a collaborative game that explores the marketplace. Participants organize themselves as self-organizing teams and try to run a profitable business by making "widgets". They sell the "widgets" to customer and during the course of game the teams learn what the customer wants (and is willing to pay for). The teams also track a few metrics to remain profitable. At the end of the game the facilitator debriefs with the participants.

Ram Srinivasan is a transformation catalyst and works as an Agile Coach at InRhythm Inc., a boutique management consultancy firm based out of NJ. He has more than 10 years experience in the software industry and is passionate about people, process and product. As an agile coach his primary focus is on organizational agile transformation, executive and leadership coaching, and creating high performance teams. He trains his clients on Scrum, XP and Lean Kanban. He is a Project Management Professional (PMI), Certified Scrum Professional (Scrum Alliance), Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI) and Innovation Games Trained Facilitator. He also leads the webinar team with the PMI Agile Community of Practice.

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The NYC Scrum User Group meets on the third Thursday of every month to talk about Scrum, to share experiences, to network, and to provide support for local Scrum practitioners.

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