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4/28/2009 Subteam Meeting

Attendees:

• Randy Bennett 
• Rodney Bodamer
• Alexander Lesnevsky 
• Margaret Motamed 
• Lucas Persona
• Sellers Smith 
• Randy Tangco

Time/Date/Location: 

4/28/2009 12 - 1pm EST

Agenda

• 5 minutes - Introductions
• 5 minutes - High Level Recap of PMI Agile initiative
• 5 minutes - Review other in-flight subteam activities (e.g. Knowledge Base, Chapter Involvement, etc.)
• 10 minutes - Develop initial Intro to PMPs Subteam mission and objectives
• 5 minutes - Shared work area and other meeting logistics
• 25 minutes - Brainstorm initial subteam Product Backlog
• 5 minutes - Next Steps and Wrap-up
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Notes

• Introductions
• High Level Recap of PMI Agile initiative
  • This is a grass-roots initiative between a group of Agilists and the Project Management Institute (PMI) to create a new Agile Community of Practice (CoP) within the PMI, with the stated purpose "to equip PMI members with Agile knowledge and skills".    
  • An interim, online portal was created to provide information on both PMI and Agile practices, principles, and values to members of both communities in the form of articles, presentations, webinars, podcasts, speaking engagements, news, and event notifications.  
  • April  – Business Plan submitted and approved for a mid-June launch.  
• Develop initial Intro to PMPs Subteam mission and boundaries with other subteams
  • First Cut on Mission:  Leveraging work performed by the other subgroups (e.g. Knowledge Base, Chapter Involvement, Recommended Speakers, etc.), our subteam will serve as a launching point for PMI PMPs members curious about or transitioning to agile and who want help in how to get started as they make the conversion to a full-fledged agile project manager.  We will take a mentoring approach and customize based upon requests, need, questions, advice, training coming from the community. 
  • We also discussed what is our relationship and boundaries with the other subteams - we will be referencing content generated from the other subteams and organizing it in such a way that is most useful from the perspective of a project manager that is new to Agile.  
  • We committed to  Knowledge Base – Section 2 PMBOK Alignment to Agile

Action Items

• Provide and categorize an initial 2 dozen questions to seed the initial Agile PM FAQ and post on Agile-PM wiki (Sellers Smith, by 5/1/2009)
• Each subteam member to contribute at least 5 questions for the Agile PM FAQ (Team, by 5/5/2009) 
• Develop and Post initial Subteam Backlog to wiki (Rodney Bodamer, by 4/29/2009)
• Post Open Questions and Contributions section to wiki  (Rodney Bodamer, by 4/29/2009)
• Post Subteam Meeting Minutes to wiki  (Rodney Bodamer, by 4/29/2009) 
• Request/confirm 'ownership' of agile PM FAQ from Knowledge Base subteam (Rodney Bodamer, by 4/29/2009)