Enterprise Agile San Francisco Bay Meetup

​Come join us as our panel of Virtual Agile Planning experts will share their real-life experiences, tips, pointers, and answer questions. Our panel has experience executing and leading Big Room Planning, SAFe PI Planning, Agile Lean Portfolio (LPM) Planning, LeSS APO Pre-Sprint Planning, and Product Discovery / Innovation at scale. The panel will provide their experiences of overcoming challenges for remote or virtual large planning sessions.

Many organizations had to suddenly adopt remote Agile ways of working while some companies have been doing large scale remote planning as the norm. As we all know doing work virtually can be challenging. Performing large scale planning for a large endeavor with 50 to 100+ people is difficult when everyone is in the same room, much less when it is done 100% by using remote distributed team members. We will share our experience and discuss some adjustments, tips, and ideas that help to perform virtual large scale planning successfully.

This session will use Zoom and will be recorded and will be sent to participants. RSVP here and you will receive a link to join the meeting.

Agenda:

1. Introductions
2. Panel Shares and Discussion
3. Q&A
4. Closing

Panelists

Gervais (Jay) Johnson has been part of the Agile Way and Ecosystem since the beginning and has helped many organizations adopt new ways of thinking, new ways of working, and evolve. Jay helps companies create and deliver new innovative products. Currently VP of the Agile Practice at MATRIX Resources and co-founder of the Institute of Engineering and Management. Jay has led many virtual Agile Planning sessions, Product Discovery sessions, Lean Portfolio Management sessions, Scrum teams, and Lean/Kanban teams at large enterprises, including large banks.

Joseph Barjis, PhD, SAFe® 5.0 SPC, PMP - Joseph is an Agile Transformation Leader with 20+ years of experience from Europe to Silicon Valley, start-ups to Fortune 50, top research universities to “The Big 4” consulting companies. He exercised virtual interaction via online teaching when universities just started online programs, particularly in computing. Joseph strongly believes in the synergy of academic rigor and practical relevance, therefore, while he is full time coaching Agile Implementation in companies, he is a part-time professor of Agile Systems Engineering, the course he founded at San Jose State University.

Rob Trivetti-Salvat - Experienced Enterprise Agile Coach/Delivery Manager helping organizations become Agile from any starting point. An aspirational leader with a keen ability to see the path through the complexities of real-world business problems with pragmatic, custom-fit Agile programs. Deeply experienced in multiple scaling frameworks (SAFe, LeSS, DAD, etc.) and team/engineering practices (Scrum, KANBAN, XP). Rob thrives in technical leadership roles since graduating from West Point and continues to expand his influence as an Agile thought-leader today. Rob has led and participated in large remote planning sessions, including for a large bank.

Jainam Utpal - Agile Coach, Practitioner, and Delivery Owner with 20 years of experience across multiple technologies and business domains. Current focus areas involve coaching enterprise-wide programs to adopt Agile way of working to ensure an effective business outcome for the enterprise. Experience spans across agile consulting, agile coaching, and delivery management for large transformation programs. Successfully managed delivery of multi-million USD engagements for key clients across Telecom, Information Services, Retail, Shipping, Banking, and Insurance domains. SAFe 5 SPC. Scaling Agile way of working for enterprise-wide programs, program delivery using Location Independent Agile (LIA), and improving time to market, quality, and team productivity. Masters of Engineering, Electrical Power Engineering