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Intelligent Swarming Practices
Wednesday, March 21 - Friday, March 23
Wednesday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am to 12 noon
Attend this program team meeting to participate in interactive discussions on Intelligent Swarming and Collaboration. Organizations or individuals considering, planning or already doing swarming and collaboration within their support organization will benefit from attending this program team meeting.
The meeting agenda offers time for Open Space discussions where participants bring specific questions and challenges that they would like to brainstorm and explore with others.
Preliminary Topics Include: (see detailed agenda)
- Overview of Intelligent Swarming
- Member experiences: getting started with intelligent swarming in a support organization.
- Communicating purpose
- Selecting a team (how many, who)
- Designing the process
- Leadership's role
- Milestones
- Lessons learned
- Measuring the current state of a team's effectiveness using the Collaboration Health Survey and comparing results from the survey at different stages of implementation
- Assessing the value of using Social Network Analysis for measuring the health of the network and identifying actions to improve weaknesses
- Learning from Agile development and Kanban to implement swarming.
Hosted by:
Oracle
1900 Oracle Way
Reston, VA 20190
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Logistics
Airport:
Washington Dulles (DIA) - 5 miles, Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) - 25 miles, or Baltimore (BWI) - 53 miles
Transportation recommendations:
Shuttle or Rental car
Hotels:
HYATT REGENCY RESTON
1800 Presidents Street
Reston VA 20190
WESTIN RESTON HEIGHTS
11750 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston VA 20191
SHERATON RESTON HOTEL
11810 Sunrise Valley Dr
Reston VA 20191
Map of hotels in the area.