Beyond Agile - Tools from the Darkside: Charette January 23, 2013

Tools from the Dark Side: Charrette
Wednesday, January 23 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Event Location:
MARCHEX, 520 Pike Street, Suite 2000 Seattle, WA 98101
Elevators will run until 7:00 PM. Call 206-390-5956 for access after 7:00.

Parking:
Commercial Parking is available next door with an entrance just West of the 520 building off Pike street.


Tools from the Darkside: Charette
by Ardith Lanstra-Nothdurft, Whitewater Projects

Interested in new way to mine and filter piles of design suggestions from a huge team?

Charrette is a tool that grows from the architecture, engineering and arts professions with roots in the 19th Century École des Beaux-Arts School of Paris. Why on earth would such an archaic tool be of interest to the modern Agile project team? Like mind mapping, stand-ups and storyboards it is a powerful tool that brings people together to collaboratively tackle complex problems. When used well, charrette allows a project complex (build team, stakeholders, management, client, users etc) to mine and filter creative information from a diverse group of contributors in a proactive and energized way. Is your team tired of watching one person push pieces of architecture or UI around on a screen while everyone else watches? Do you need a fast planning spike between sprints one and two? Here is alternative method to electrify the process. A brief talk on the charrette process will be followed by fun and interactive team exercises demonstrating its practical use; providing attendees with hands-on skills to put this process to work immediately. Creative controlled chaos ahead!

Speaker Bio:
Ardith has been agile-ing around the Pacific Northwest with Joseph Flahiff of Whitewater Projects for two years now. She has a Master's degree from University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Design and an MBA from University of Washington with a focus in Change Management. For the past seventeen years she has worked with some of the least Agile organizations in the northwest: enormous distributed, matrixed teams on large government capital improvement projects. Whitewater Projects has worked with governmental teams, setting them free of process for process sake and introducing a new concept, a delivered deliverable.

Would you like to have Ardith demonstrate Charrette to your team? Email Ardith at Ardith@WhitewaterProjects.com or visit Whitewater Projects at www.WhitewaterProjects.com.


Questions?:
Visit our Google Group (BeyondAgile), or take a peek at our Google Site at beyondagile.org

What's BeyondAgile?:
It's the Puget Sound-area group for meeting and learning from others who are using Agile, Lean, and other innovative approaches to improve how they work with others.


When Do We Meet?
We generally meet on the *4th* Wednesday of the month, unless we have a chance to grab a fantastic presenter on another date.