Agile Practitioners Community of Practice is a FREE professional development community for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners, and project managers implementing agile methodologies across diverse organizational contexts.

Agile Practitioners Quarterly Sessions: May 19th, 12:00-1:30 PM Pacific

Why Agile Practitioners CoP Exists:

Agile practitioners face evolving challenges including:

• Scaling agile beyond individual teams
• Navigating hybrid agile-waterfall environments
• Managing distributed and remote agile teams
• Convincing stakeholders to embrace agile principles
• Addressing agile implementation anti-patterns
• Evolving from methodology compliance to agile mindset
• Balancing agility with governance requirements
• Supporting teams through agile transformation
• Measuring agile success beyond velocity
• Adapting frameworks to organizational reality

Agile Practitioners CoP addresses these challenges through collaborative problem-solving, experience sharing, and exploring agile evolution beyond textbook implementations.

Q2 Session: 📅 Tuesday, May 19, 2026 ⏰ 12:00-1:30 PM Pacific 💻 Virtual via Zoom 💰 FREE for Puget Sound PMI Members / $10 per session for non-PMI Members

Q2 Topic: "Distributed Agile Teams: Practices That Actually Work"

Agenda:

• Welcome and community check-in
• The remote agile reality: What changed post-pandemic
• Synchronous vs. asynchronous collaboration strategies
• Tools and techniques for distributed ceremonies
• Maintaining team cohesion and psychological safety
• Case study: Successful distributed agile implementation
• Breakout discussions: Your distributed team challenges
• Resource sharing and next steps

What Agile Practitioners CoP Offers:

✨ Practitioner Community - Connect with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners navigating real-world agile

✨ Beyond Certification - Move past CSM/PMI-ACP theory to practical implementation

✨ Anti-Pattern Recognition - Learn from collective mistakes and course corrections

✨ Tool & Technique Library - Retrospective formats, facilitation techniques, agile artifacts, coaching resources

✨ Framework Agnostic - Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, DAD - all approaches welcome

✨ Psychological Safety - Honest discussions about where agile fails and why

This is for you if:

• You practice agile in any role (Scrum Master, Coach, Product Owner, PM)
• You hold PMI-ACP, CSM, CSPO, or other agile certifications
• You are implementing or supporting agile transformation
• You struggle with scaling agile or hybrid environments
• You want peer community beyond your organization

Pilot Phase: We are launching this community as a pilot through June 2026 to evaluate ongoing interest and value. Help us shape what this community becomes.

Q1 Session (Completed): February 17, 2026 - "Agile in Name Only: Recognizing and Addressing Agile Theater"

Future Topics (if community continues beyond pilot):

• Product Owner Effectiveness
• Agile Metrics Beyond Velocity
• Coaching Difficult Teams
• Scaling Frameworks Comparison
• Agile Contracting and Procurement

Share with agile practitioners in your network. Agile communities thrive through collaboration.

For questions, contact Dr. Tricia Diamond at [email protected] or [email protected]