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 Thanks to Ravi Verma of SmoothApps for sharing his knowledge and personal experiences in successfully implementing Agile in organizations by focusing on three key patterns – change, personality and conflict – which form the pillars of transformation. Ravi – “the Org Whisperer” - provided approaches and tips to address these pillars to achieve successfully adoption of agile methods to organizations resistant to or unfamiliar with Agile.
Presentation available:  We also want to thank TekSystems for sponsoring Ravi's trip to Houston as well as CPP, Inc., publisher of the Myers-Briggs® for providing food and refreshments for our pre-meeting network session. Accelerating Agile Transformation – Reusable Patterns and Solutions  Organizations undergoing Agile Transformation encounter some common obstacles – silos with misaligned metrics, inaccessible customers and a lack of well defined release content up-front, to name just a few. In most cases, Agile teams and sponsors are not trained to remove these common obstacles. A blended strategy of “Hope and Winging It” is probably going to generate mixed results at best, with the possibility of decelerating or even destroying the Agile Transformation. But it does not have to be so! With the right training, Agile teams can be equipped with a frame-work and techniques to remove these decelerators. Attend this session to learn about a simple frame-work for Accelerating Agile Transformation, with practical techniques you can apply the moment you finish the session! You will be introduced to the three pillars of this frame-work- - Patterns in Change: Based on the 8 Step Change Leadership Model by Harvard Business School Professor and Change Leadership Guru – Dr. John Kotter.
- Patterns in Type: Based on the world’s best selling Personality Type Assessment – the MBTI.
- Patterns in Conflict: Based on the world’s best selling Conflict Resolution Assessment – the TKI.
Each of the three techniques is described using real-world examples from the presenter’s own practical experience. Each section ends with an introspective challenge to the attendees. Ravi Verma - Principal Consultant at SmoothApps Ravi is a Certified Scrum Master and a Professional Scrum Master 1, with 11+ years experience delivering multi-million dollar enterprise class applications in giants like Cisco, Avaya, HP and Siemens. He has also worked at a startup – Voyence (now part of EMC) and in a mid-sized company – Network Associates (now part of Netscout) and is intimately familiar with the challenges of delivering software in companies of different sizes. Most recently, Ravi was a Program Manager in Cisco’s IP Communication Business Unit and helped with the training, customization and roll-out of Scrum in a hybrid Agile-Waterfall environment. Before joining Cisco, Ravi was a Technical Manager at Avaya and participated in the Agile Transformation of a global engineering team delivering Contact Center Reporting solutions. As a Program Manager and Technical Manager at Voyence, Ravi helped design and implement a hybrid engineering methodology that contained elements of iterative software development in a waterfall environment. Ravi has a Bachelors in Computer Science from R.V. College of Engineering, India and Certificates in Entrepreneurship and Organizational Development from SMU, Dallas and De Paul University, Chicago respectively. He is an MBTI Certified Practitioner, has a certificate in Advanced Conflict Resolution Using the MBTI and TKI, and is a Licensed Facilitator for Leading Bold Change workshops based on the writings of Harvard Business School Professor – Dr. John Kotter. Sponsorships
Please join us in thanking TekSystems for their generous sponsorship of tonight's speaker. For more information about TekSystems please visit http://www.teksystems.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Food and Refreshments! 
Also we want to thank CPP for sponsoring food and refreshments for our pre-meeting networking session. For more information about CPP please visit www.cpp.com For local information on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator,
see APT-Houston events or a summary of Type. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please join us in thanking Sysco for their generous support in
hosting tonight's meeting. 1390 Enclave Parkway - Houston, Texas - 281-584-1390 Parking Guidance Has Changed: Please park in front of either Sysco building (1370 & 1390 Enclave Parkway). If front lots are full, park on the street along Forkland Drive and walk around to the front entrance of 1390. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PMPs may file for 1 PDU under Continuing Certification Requirements’ “Category 4: Other Providers.”
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