Refactory News

Joe will once again be in São Paulo and is collaborating an organizing an event with USP Universidade de São Paulo on "How to create extraordinary software" on December 8th. We will have talks by Sandro Manteiga, Ceci Fernandes, Alfredo Goldman, and Alex Freire. Find more information at: https://refactory.com/como-construir-software-extraordinario/.

Joe is looking forward to participating with the second edition of this event. It will be presential and online. You can register for free here.

Instructors: MaryLynn Manns and Joseph Yoder
                      (email for more information)

Date: May 21, 2021 11:00am-2:30 pm EDT (New York timezone)

Instructors will be available after the workshop (2:30-3:30 pm EDT) to discuss your challenges in Making Agile Happen.

Description:  If you are reading this, you know that Agile is cool. But perhaps, everyone in your organization does not. Are you facing challenges in making Agile happen? Are there resistors that are standing in your way? Bring your frustrations!

This is an interactive overview of Fearless Change strategies and how they can be used to help you make Agile happen in your organization.

In this workshop, you will:

• Identify some challenges you face in convincing people to make Agile happen
• Identify some well-defined solutions to some of your challenges
  (and discover how you can find more solutions later)

You will leave this workshop with some specific strategies you can use right away!

Joe will attend the Scrum Rio where he will give a keynote and more. He is excited to visit Rio once again. It has been a long time since he has been back to Rio. He is looking forward to a good trip and it is always good to visit with Ademar Aguiar and others.

Joe is lookling forward to presentaing a workshop with Ademar about Scrum Patterns and more. The book will be released soon. This promised to be an exciting adventure. After Scrum Rio Ademar and I will visit Sampa (Sao Paulo) for a few days. Rio is beautiful.