0900 – 0930 Registration, mingle & meet
0930 – 0945 Welcome & How the Day Will Work (ground rules)
0945 – 1000 Organize! (Self-Register into groups, each will explore the same topic, also place types of things you estimate on the board with your name)
1000 – 1100 1st Sessions
1100 – 1115 *Break w/quick news*
1115 – 1215 2nd Sessions
1215 – 1300 *Lunch w/quick news*
1300 – 1400 3rd Sessions
1400 – 1415 *Break w/quick news*
1415 – 1515 4th Sessions
1515 – 1530 *Break w/quick news*
1530 – 1630 5th Sessions
1630 – 1645 *Break w/quick news*
1645 – 1700 Wrap-Up
1700 – 1730 Retrospective (Optional Attendance)
After this if anyone is still wanting to hang out for a bit, we can retire to a local bar-restaurant for food, libations, and conversations.
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1st Sessions – Explore the questions:
- “Tell your stories. What successes AND failures have you had when using either of these approaches?”
- “And how have the techniques you have chosen helped or hindered you?”
- Expectation – each group will record how techniques help or hinder on flip chart paper to allow other groups to see what they did during the break.
2nd Sessions – Explore the questions:
- ““What objectives are you trying to achieve by using estimates or in specifically not using them?”
- “And what techniques do you use to achieve those objectives?”
- Expectation – each will group record the objectives and techniques on flip chart paper to allow other groups to see what they did during the break.
3rd Sessions – Explore the question:
- “What fundamental assumptions are being made when you use estimates?”
- Expectation – each group will record assumptions on flip chart paper to allow other groups to see what they did during the break.
4th Sessions – Explore the question:
- “What fundamental assumptions are being made when you don’t use estimates?”
- Expectation – each group will record the assumptions on flip chart paper to allow other groups to see what they did during the break.
5th Sessions – Explore the question:
- “Now that you have heard more about the other side’s perspective and how they use or don’t use estimates, what learnings can you take back to improve what you do?” [This does not meaning you have to adopt their position, just is there some nugget that you learned today that will be something you’d like to try?]
- Expectation – each group will record the learnings on flip chart paper to and present during the break.
Agile Dialogues 