Velocity in the Enterprise (Please note: meeting is at CC Pace)

Having a stable team velocity is critical to delivering a well run and predictable agile project.  When organizations begin comparing velocity between teams, or trying to roll-up velocity across teams, many find that team level performance doesn’t necessarily provide an accurate picture of project or portfolio level performance.  This talk explores where velocity works, and where velocity fails, and outlines several approaches for tracking project and portfolio performance in more complex software development organizations.  

Speaker Bio 

Mike Cottmeyer is the Vice-President and General Manager of Pillar Technology Southeast. Pillar Technology is the leading provider of agile transformation services helping companies develop the technical practices and leadership competencies required for sustainable organizational change.

Prior to joining Pillar, Mike was an agile consultant, coach, and evangelist for VersionOne. Before VersionOne, Mike was a senior project manager for CheckFree Corporation where he led a portfolio of projects for their online banking and bill payment business unit. Mike has 20 years of experience leading IT initiatives using a combination of traditional, agile, and lean project management best practices.

Mike is a certified PMP Project Manager and a certified ScrumMaster. He co-created the DSDM Agile Project Leader certification and holds Foundation, Practitioner, and Examiner level certificates. Mike is an honorary member of the DSDM Consortium, a founder of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium, and helping lead the AgilePMI Community of Practice.

Note: CC Pace is in "Fairfax Corner" in Fairfax near the Fairfax County Government Center.  Ruth's Chris restaurant is in the first floor of the building.    www.ccpace.com     www.fairfaxcorner.com