Agile Philippines Meetup 2018.06
This June’s meetup was hosted by Willis Towers Watson! WTW hosted our first ever Bonifacio Global City meetup, and have supported the Agile Philippines community ever since — it’s good to be back for 2018!
Lili Pattuinan, Regional Software Development Leader, formally welcomed us again to WTW and to tonight’s meetup.
Always good to see new and familiar faces!
The food was AWESOME as well!
We used Open Space to facilitate the meetup. We had 5 topics spread across 3 rounds of 20 minutes each, forming W-T-W-H-R:
Topics and schedule were:
Round 1: 7:50 PM–8:10 PM
- W: Scrum Master meetup: a retrospective exercise
- T: Change request management
- W: What is Agile Model Driven Development?
- H: Enterprise Agile Metrics?
- R: Do you need to follow Agile by the book or you just need to pick specific concepts that may apply to your team?
Round 2: 8:15 PM–8:35 PM
- W: Distributed teams: how do you sync up?
- T: Competing priorities
- W: How do we gauge the team’s motivation?
- H: Is it possible to apply Agile practice to recruitment process?
- R: Is Agile applicable for group-up projects/tech upgrades/etc?
Round 3: 8:40 PM–9:00 PM
- W: Product Owner
- T: How to gauge team performance/improvement?
- W: Agile: Pros & Cons
- H: Story points sizing: what are the best practices in case of a tie?
- R: SAFe
We started wrapping up at around 9:00 in the evening with a raffle and big circle sharing session:
As always, we think we could have gone longer, but that will have to wait until the next meetup!
Thank you again to Willis Towers Watson for warmly welcoming us to their office. Special thanks to Lili Pattuinan, Yuki Yukimteng, Cza Grau, Greziel Quiroz, Warren Santiago, Gino Peñaloza, Brent Que, Justin Chua, and KC Pahinag for making this meetup happen!
Agile Philippines meetups happen every last Wednesday of a month. This is a community event, and is only made possible by the people who go to the meetups, and the organizations who open their doors to allow us to meet as a community.
Please do reach out to our Facebook group if your organization is interested in hosting a future meetup.
See you in July at Globe in Bonifacio Global City!
