The demands on IT organizations of today continue to grow. Software delivery professionals strive to provide increasingly complex software to business users with ever tightening budgets and timelines. How many large IT groups are looking to Agile/Lean delivery practices to help address these challenges? Are any of these organizations adopting agile practices to provide improved outcomes?

Deloitte has recently launched the Deloitte Lean Extended Agile for Enterprises (LEAN) initiative in an attempt to evangelize the use of agile techniques to our clients as well as to get an understanding of how agile is currently being used by our client base. As part of the LEAN initiative, Deloitte conducted a Financial Service roundtable discussion dedicated to getting an understanding of what Agile means to IT leadership within the big banks. The roundtable was attended by select IT executives from the 5 major Canadian financial services institutions from within Canada. Topics discussed included current and planned adoption, value of agile, and how best to measure agile success.

Deloitte would like to share the results of this roundtable (in an anonymzed fashion) with members of the Toronto Agile User Group. We will present the results of an agile survey completed by member of the roundtable an present a synthesis of the subsequent roundtable dialogue. Deloitte would also like to share an overview of the Deloitte LEAN toolkit.

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Lightning Talks – Agile 2009 & Agile Tour Toronto

Lightning Talks are short presentations on a specific topic followed by open discussions. We try to keep each topic to about 20 minutes and cover about 5 topics per meeting. The theme for the November meeting is the Agile 2009 and Agile Tour Toronto conferences – short presentations on what folks learned at these conferences that they found interesting.  Topics and speakers are TBD.

Ryerson University George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church St. (Room ENG 288 / 289 )

Tuesday November 17, 2009 at 07:00PM

Welcome to XPToronto – XP/Agile Toronto Users Group.

Location:

Marriott Courtyard Downtown Toronto
475 Yonge Street
Toronto ON M4Y 1X7
(416) 924-0611

Date: November 25-27, 2009

$1195 + GST per person
To save a spot click on Registration.

:: 20 Spots Available in Total

2009-11-25: 3 Day Agile Project Management/Certified ScrumMaster Training – Toronto (Downtown) | Berteig Consulting.

Berteig Consulting is a silver sponsor for the 2009 Toronto leg of the Agile Tour conference. The date for Toronto is October 20th. You can find more information at the Toronto Agile Community web site – http://www.torontoagilecommunity.org/.

The summer is quickly coming to an end, and with it will end our summer special of 50% off Certified ScrumMaster training or only $995.00 CAD.  Our special offer is still available for the next 25 people to register and pay, but that offer ends on September 21.  Check out our course listing page – every CSM course we have scheduled in Canada is available at this fantastic price (Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa).

Even without the discount, our course is a better value than many out there.  It’s a three day course instead of the normal two.  This gives you a chance to really dig into the concepts and practices of Scrum and Agile Project Management.  Our course is especially designed for project managers, team leads and aspiring leaders.  This course is a perfect way to help you expand your knowledge and skills in a practical and effective way.

Our list of scheduled courses is here.  Do not miss this great deal.

We’ve been asked, why don’t we bounce around offering courses in other cities like other Scrum Trainers? The simple answer is because we live here in Canada, and we offer courses in locations where we can support you and your organization after the training course is over. Trainers who parachute in from south of the border don’t do that. We are committed to helping you get the most out of Agile in your organization. Give Berteig Consulting a call and let us show you the quality consulting and coaching services we provide.

Our summer special is proving to be very popular!  We started with 100 spots at our 50% discount price of CAD 995.00.  We’re down to 59 spots.  Check out our course listing page – every CSM course we have scheduled in Canada is available at this fantastic price (Toronto, Waterloo, Edmonton, Ottawa).

Even without the discount, our course is a better value than many out there.  It’s a three day course instead of the normal two.  This gives you a chance to really dig into the concepts and practices of Scrum and Agile Project Management.  Our course is really designed for project managers, team leads and other managers, instead of being for anyone interested in Scrum.  Of course, if you are interested in a leadership role, but aren’t there yet, you are still welcome to come!

Not only that, we don’t run courses in locations where it is not easy for use to support you after you take the course.  We run our business in Canada, and our consulting and coaching work is there to help you if you want further assistance with doing agile in your organization.  Even if you aren’t in Canada, maybe your organization has a group in Canada or you have professional contacts in Canada – if so, let them know about this fantastic opportunity.

Find our list of scheduled courses here.

Even without the discount, our course is a better value than many out there.  It’s a three day course instead of the normal two.  This gives you a chance to really dig into the concepts and practices of Scrum and Agile Project Management.  Our course is really designed for project managers, team leads and other managers, instead of being for anyone interested in Scrum.  Of course, if you are interested in a leadership role, but aren’t there yet, you are still welcome to come!

Not only that, we don’t run courses in locations where it is not easy for use to support you after you take the course.  We run our business in Canada, and our consulting and coaching work is there to help you if you want further assistance with doing agile in your organization.  Even if you aren’t in Canada, maybe your organization has a group in Canada or you have professional contacts in Canada – if so, let them know about this fantastic opportunity.

Find our list of scheduled courses here.