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Are you currently leveraging Agile on a daily basis? Trying to get a grasp on how to use Agile? Want to know what Agile is? Well if you said yes to any of the questions this event is for you!
In an effort to help cultivate and enhance the Agile community here in Baton Rouge we are opening our doors at IBM for an Agile User Group that will be held, in our downtown offices, once a quarter. Attendance is open to anyone with a desire to learn more and join in active discussions on Agile best practices and procedures. Whether you are able to come to the event in person or need to join via our live stream we invite you to sign-up today as spots will fill quickly!
In this first event we will be discussing how to effectively transition your projects from a Waterfall methodology to Agile. This will include:
- A brief intro to Agile
- An outline of Scrum teams/roles
- How to build an agile culture
- How to prepare your teams
- Tips and traps
For anyone attending our User Group onsite you will want to show up to our offices at:
100 North ST,
Baton Rouge, LA on
October 23, 2017 at 6:00pm
The event will start with a 30 minute networking event in which we will provide some refreshments and allow everyone to settle in. Our presentation will begin around 6:30 and will run for about an hour. We will close with a 30 minute Q&A where the group will have an opportunity to ask any questions they might have.
Guest speakers for this event:
- Terrie Johnson is a Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Master and Certified Project Manager with over 25 years of IT Leadership and Agile training experience.
- Isaac Duraisiingh is a Certified Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Master and Certified Project Manager with over 12 years of IT Leadership experience in the Agile space.
Client Innovation Centers
With support from the State of Michigan, and in close partnership with Michigan State University, IBM opened the Client Innovation Center: Lansing. This center provides innovative application development and support services to modernize older and less efficient IT systems for state and local government agencies and universities. Additionally, IBM supports solutions for North American-based, cross-industry Commercial and Federal clients with a focus on modernizing IT applications through technology excellence, tooling automation, and innovation.
Establishment of the center helps to centralize application support and increase efficiencies. In its network of global delivery centers, IBM has a set of integrated tools, processes and disciplines that are leveraged seamlessly in the Michigan center to deliver superior applications and services for clients.
Located in Cumberland, West Virginia, CIC Rocket Center is one of IBM’s Federal Data center sites. In this secure, shared space, IBM provides a full complement of management services specifically tailored for agencies with rigorous security standards.
The IBM ABL Data Center sites offer hosting services for customers requiring security capabilities from unclassified up to and including Top Secret (TS)/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). This is a recognized regional delivery center for technology, cloud, data center, analytics, service desk, application maintenance and development, enterprise content management and virtual engineering.
The Client Innovation Center Monroe opened in April 2015. The Center is currently located in Tower Place, midtown Monroe, and will move to its permanent location in the fall 2017, as the anchor tenant in Century Tower a 5-story state of the art office building and the centerpiece for Century Village. A brand new 88-acre planned community, Century Village will feature homes, restaurants, hotel, fitness center, market and so much more all within walking distance.
The CIC: Monroe at Century Village will be conveniently located directly across from the corporate headquarters for CenturyLink, an Anchor Client for the Center. IBM and CenturyLink will partner on research, development and product innovation initiatives.
The Center’s strategic location along the I-20 corridor in northern Louisiana makes it a natural fit for clients based in Dallas, Jackson and Little Rock; while its multi-faceted delivery capabilities and emerging skills make it a great choice for clients from across the US.
The center delivers high-quality, cost-competitive technology services to clients in North America demanding technical expertise in Business Analytics & Strategy, Enterprise Applications (SAP, Oracle), Interactive Experience & Mobile, and Application Development & Innovation. The Baton Rouge Center is part of IBM’s global network of GBS Client Innovation Centers and offers the benefits of a global center, plus additional advantages associated with close proximity to our clients in the US. This enables us to increase productivity, quality, efficiency, and speed, as well as offer access to a wide array of skills that help clients innovate faster and rapidly adopt new technologies.
The Client Innovation Center in Halifax supports the Canadian healthcare, financial and industrial sectors through a priority focus in mobile and analytics.
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