June Virtual Chapter Meeting

Presenter:
Jim Bates, PMP; the founder, President and CEO of Business Improvement Group, Inc. (BIG) and an Adjunct Professor in several schools at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Jim is President of the PMI Alaska Chapter (PMIAK) Board. Jim’s vast career spans 36 years with proficiencies in business management, project management, and information technology.

Abstract:
Having challenges understanding how to use Agile to provide the answers we understood in traditional Waterfall methods? Does your sponsor or stakeholders ask the age-old question "So, when will you be done?" or “What’s the status?”

Let’s explore ways to go from a traditional WBS to our Backlog and Kanban. We will discuss Iterations, MVP, Done Rules, Work-in-progress (WIP) limits, Burn-down Charts, Cumulative Flow Diagrams, and Agile EVM. The session will provide an overview of the skills, tools, and techniques used to provide the best answers to the questions above.