With regret Steven "Doc" List has had to change his schedule and is unable to present his Facilitation Patterns and Antipatterns program as planned.  While we work to reschedule with Doc, APLN Houston is proud to present the following program.

Innovation Games for Agile Teams and Organizational Change

Innovation Games® are a powerful set of collaborative analysis techniques and tools.  Unlike dot-voting, requirements spreadsheets, or process diagrams, they engage the “hard-wired” deep mental structures of our brains to uncover hidden needs and build true consensus.

Join Derek Wade for this special preview of next month's two day training class to learn how the games can be used to help agile teams improve their products -- and their processes -- without heavy analysis, quantitative research, or other “big effort up front” methods that slow teams down.

You’ll find that if you use them, you’ll come to understand what your stakeholders really want. You’ll have fun doing it. Perhaps more importantly, they’ll have fun doing it. Armed with this understanding, you’ll be able to create the breakthrough, innovative products and process changes that are the foundations of lasting success.

Derek W. Wade is a collaboration expert and team coach at Kumido Adaptive Strategies. His passion for helping teams apply group-centered models — and his 14 years of experience across a broad range of industries — has enabled him to improve many group efforts, especially those leveraging distributed teams. Derek is the author of “Multidimensional Management: Avoiding Calcification or Fragmentation on Distributed Teams” (with J. Puopolo) and “Emergent Design: Leveraging Agile Retrospectives to Evolve Your Architecture” (with Scott Barnes).

Derek is a Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP), Innovation Games(tm) Certified Facilitator, Core Passion Authorized Facilitator, serves on the Board of Directors for the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), and is a founding member of the APLN-Chicago. He has spoken at numerous public forums, including Agile2008, the Chicago APLN, the Tulsa Area Agile Group (TAAG), CITCON, Ignite! Chicago, and OOPSLA. Derek is also a licensed Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor; these have more relevance to the Agile world than he ever expected.