Agile Philippines Meetup 2019.09
AXA Philippines hosted the Agile Philippines meetup for September 2019! This is the first time AXA is hosting the community, and we are very thankful for their support!
Jiovani Gumafelix, Scrum Master, and Revolt Salvanera, Product Owner, formally welcomed us to AXA Philippines and to tonight’s meetup!
We had a huge space, and some time for everyone to connect. Great to see new faces and familiar ones too!
We used Open Space to facilitate the meetup. We had 5 topics (A-X-A-P-H) each round, and 3 rounds in total. Each round was 20 minutes long, with 5 minute gaps in between to figure out where to go next:
Topics and schedule were:
8:05 PM — 8:25 PM:
- A: AXA PH Agile Journey
- X: User stories vs. tasks, story points vs. effort in hours
- A: How to do Agile test automation
- P: Burndown chart is it a good metric of team performance
- H: Agile with fixed dates
8:30 PM — 8:50 PM:
- A: KPIs for Scrum Masters
- X: Psychology of Agility
- A: Agile practices of distributed teams
- P: Traits on how to be an effective Product Owner
- H: How does Kanban compliment Scrum?
8:55 PM — 9:15 PM:
- A: Agile adoption vs. transformation
- X: Design Thinking + Lean UX + Agile is it possible?
- A: Common sentiments of your Scrum Team?
- P: Should Agile Scrum Masters and practitioners pursue certification?
- H: How to teach Agility with fun examples?
We started wrapping up past 9:00 in the evening with a quick raffle, followed by our big closing circle:
As always, we think we could have gone longer, but that will have to wait until the next meetup!
Thank you again to AXA Philippines for warmly hosting us for September! Special thanks to Jiovani Gumafelix, Revolt Salvanera, G-Ronn Mendoza, Raymond Iti, and to everyone in AXA Philippines for making this event a success!
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 or Slack if your organization is interested in hosting a future meetup.
See you in October at Emerson in Ortigas Center, Pasig City!
