Collaboration at Scale: Inception/Kickoff Meetings for Distributed
Teams

With Jesse Fewell, CST® and Laura Richardson

 

 

A best practice for Agile teams is the inception or kickoff meeting: a chance to agree and align on priorities, establish a vision, situate the work in the context of roadmaps or longer-term initiatives, identify risks and enablers and negotiate scope before undertaking a substantial piece of work. Unfortunately, these meetings are especially challenging for large and distributed teams. Too often Product Owners simply blast PowerPoint at developers who are focused on their latest build instead of deeply engaged in exploring the problem.
 
In this Collaboration at Scale webinar, we'll explore frameworks that distributed teams can use before and during all forms of "let's start this next release right" meetings: project kickoffs, release planning, bootcamps, liftoffs, and inceptions. These frameworks will help teams stay engaged and enable them to finish better by starting well.

 

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CAL EDUCATOR PRESENTER

Jesse Fewell
Jesse FewellJesse Fewell is an author, coach, and trainer who helps senior leaders transform their teams and organizations. A global entrepreneur and the founder of VirtuallyAgile.com, he has distilled his experiences in the handbook “Can You Hear Me Now: Working with Global, Distributed, Virtual Teams”.

A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he is a double-certified leadership coach and an accredited instructor with Scrum Alliance.



Laura Richardson
Jesse FewellLaura works with companies and communities to incorporate people in the process of building better solutions. Through the development and use of frameworks for collaboration that leverage teams, tribes, and serious game design principles, she helps companies scale Agile and innovate with customers and employees. In her role at The Every Voice Engaged Foundation, a non-profit co-founded by Conteneo's CEO Luke Hohmann, she works with cities like San Jose and Santa Fe to launch participatory budgeting and “Make My Neighborhood Great” programs that engage residents in addressing the most pressing needs cities and school districts are tackling. Laura regularly speaks at conferences and delivers training courses and workshops designed to help people solve business and social problems using framework collections invented or curated through Conteneo.