Agile Office Spaces - A Physical Metaphor for Agility, Richard Cheng

Your Agile team has the right processes, engineering practices, tools, people, and technology, but what about your office space?   Sure, you have a prominently displayed Scrum board, but does your physical environment enhance your collective Agility?

Having experienced office settings at places like the Motley Fool, Agile start-ups, the NASDAQ Stock Market, and government sites, Richard Cheng is no stranger to implementing Agile in different environments.  Drawing from these experiences, and in collaboration with his wife (Conni Gutierrez Cheng, a professional interior designer specializing in office spaces), Richard Cheng will lead an interactive conversation focusing on optimizing Agile workspaces. 

Key conversation points include:

• Characteristics of an Agile workspace
• What to avoid in an Agile workspace
• Creating an Agile workspace
• The good, the bad, and the ugly - examples of Agile workspaces  in pictures, floor plans, and 3-D designs
• The pros and cons of Agile team rooms and minimizing distractions

Session attendees will come away with a sense of how their office space can better support team collaboration and overall agility.

About the speaker

Richard Cheng is a Managing Consultant at Excella Consulting, providing consulting services to companies in the Washington, DC area. Having worked at and consulted for companies such as the NASDAQ Stock Market, Thompson Financial, and the Motley Fool, Richard has a deep specialty in the financial vertical. Richard has successfully used Agile ideas in managing web projects, implementing data transactions services, creating an international general ledger application, and implementing enterprise level financial packages. As a management consultant, Richard has coached and mentored clients on the adoption and implementation of Agile and Scrum. Richard also leads Excella’s Agile Center of Excellence. Currently, Richard is working to bring Agile to Federal government and is managing an Agile iterative solution on an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) project.

 A graduate of Virginia Tech, Richard has authored several publications on project management, presented at Agile and PMI sponsored industry events, and is a member of Mensa. Richard is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), and a Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP). Richard is an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), Scrum Alliance, and Agile Alliance.

Pizza will be served at this event!

Special Directions: Parking garage and entrance is next to the building, from Boone Blvd.  Please wait at the guard desk until instructed to proceed to lower-level conference room.  Please take elevator down one level to event room.