[INCOSE San Francisco] INCOSE SFBAC May 09 Meeting - Primate, Projects, and Prussians.

Why does work sometimes seem like such hard work?

Are we racing ahead or to the bottom?  Why is one man's methodology another man's madness?  Are our prejudices impairing our productivity?  This Monday, Andrew Webster will present Primate, Projects, and Prussians, which proposes pragmatic principals to get to the heart of it all.  This will be a fun and enlightening presentation, and we hope to see you there!

Monday Evening Monthly Program - May 9

5:30 - 6:00 PM   Social half hour and Networking

6:00 - 7:00 PM   Presentation

Place:  Rinconada Library, Embarcadero Room

            1213 Newell Rd.

            Palo Alto, CA 94303

            Map to Library

Virtual Attendance Details:

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Meeting Details Web Address:  https://incose.pgimeet.com/GlobalmeetSeven

Access Number:  1-719-234-7872

Guest Passcode:  529 771 4673

Speaker:  Andrew Webster

Over the last 18 years, Andrew Webster has worked in software product development in the UK, Australia, Alabama, and California.  He's seen large and small projects both fail and succeed.  Prior to 2004, most of the work he was involved in followed either a heavyweight process or no process at all – and typically failed.  In 2004, he was introduced to Agile thinking.  This taught him to pay close attention to aligning how people work with how their work works.  This helped him to have huge success in Australia with projects in banking, heavy engineering procurement and construction, environmental engineering, and government.  In 2009, the love of a good woman brought him to America, initially to Alabama, where his wife-to-be was studying neurobiology.  There, he became a Certified Scrum Master with renowned Scrum trainers and coaches Brian Rabon and Tom Mellor.  He immediately applied his experience to the most difficult, resistant, and awkward transformation of his career: BBVA Compass's struggling data warehouse.  His work improved the team's effectiveness by an order of magnitude within 3 years.  His wife graduated and they moved to California in early 2013, where Andrew joined the V.Me team at Visa as a Senior Program Manager and Senior Scrum Master.  Recruited by Solutions IQ later that year, he proudly joined their team as an Agile Coach as part of the enormous Agile transformation program at PayPal, one of the largest transformation efforts on the planet.  Now well versed in the history of work and the variety of ways to approach the many disciplines within software engineering, Andrew coaches and trains for PayPal in San Jose, London, and Berlin, and is pursuing his own work as a speaker and budding author here in the Bay Area.

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Thank you,

Robin Reil

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INCOSE SFBAC Secretary

robin.reil@incose.org