Join Bob Sarni, only one of nine Certified Scrum Coaches in the world, and a panel of Minneapolis / St. Paul business leaders as they address the questions most often asked:

What are Agile best practices?
How can Agile be brought to bear in today’s troubled economy?
What are other Minnesota companies doing with Agile?

The Benefits of Using Agile in the Current Economic Times: Views and Experience from CIBER, Inc. and Fellow Minnesota Business Community Thought Leaders

As a leader today, your work has become increasingly high-risk, high-reward, with little tolerance for error. You can assist your company in embracing new ways to strategically improve the bottom line by managing risk aggressively, especially during this time of economic uncertainty where projects and programs are under higher scrutiny and budgetary pressure.

Learn how your company can be better positioned for the future with a more structured approach to agile by dealing with uncertainties and risk mitigation.

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Agenda:

7:30 – 8:15 Check-in and buffet breakfast
8:15 – 8:40 Overview presentation by Bob Sarni
8:40 – 10:00 Panel discussion

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About The Speaker:

Bob Sarni is the Agile Practice Leader for CIBER’s National Agile Practice. Bob provides guidance to the CIBER Agile consulting community and is focused on helping clients realize maximum value on their investments by leveraging Agile methods for product development. Bob’s expertise is in guiding enterprise transition and implementation of Agile’s value and principles.

Bob is a project leadership professional with eighteen years experience in program and project leadership. He is an Agile thought leader and practitioner who is certified by the Scrum Alliance as a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), a Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP), a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC), a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and also maintains his Project Management Professional (PMP) designation from the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Bob is an active member of the Scrum Alliance, the Agile Alliance, and the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). Bob was a member of the 2008 Spring (Chicago) and Fall (Stockholm) Scrum Gathering program review committees, as well as a member of the Scrum Alliance committee that developed the new Certified Scrum Coach program. He is currently helping the Scrum Alliance develop a new certification test for newly certified Scrum Masters and Scrum Product Owners. Additionally, Bob is a reviewer of CSP and CSC applications for the Scrum Alliance.