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This is a community meeting designed for PMI Chapter members in the Asheville metro area

Topic: Starting up an Agile Development Company/Team

Join us at {SAW} Software Mill to hear about and discuss the lessons the leaders have learned while building their Agile team to develop products serving the Construction industry. The knowledge you gain will accelerate your decision-making process and provide insights into how other organizations are tackling problems as they establish Agile teams. Learn what unique tools and best practices project managers need to know about and why to successfully manage an Agile project.

The presentation will be structured as follow:

1. Tool selection

2. Hiring / Team selection

3. Initial Training Requirements

4. Initial Project(s) decomposition and structure

Speaker:Abel Lineberger

Abel Lineberger is the lead project manager for {SAW} Software Mill in Asheville, NC. SAWSoft is an award-winning, internationally recognized agile development group focused on providing new and improved products to Tier 1 software companies. Their client list includes Sage Software in the European Union, with 6 million customers across 24 countries, for which SAWSoft has developed a Construction Management solution based upon the Sage Enterprise Management Business Cloud platform. Prior to joining SAWSoft, Abel was the contract manager for the $350m technology initiative for the $7.2b Port Khalifa project in the UAE, on behalf of Page Europa, a division of General Dynamics. He has worked in the software, integration, and construction spaces as a project manager for over 20 years. Abel Lineberger graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and went on to read Strategic Analysis and Conflict Resolution at the London School of Economics. He maintains a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.

PDU Category:Technical

POC: asheville@pmi-metrolina.com

Community Chapter Meeting 

As a means of helping chapter and local community members who are certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP®) satisfy the continuing education requirements for re-certification, PMI Metrolina Chapter arranges its monthly meeting schedule to allow a 1 hour PDU training session to be incorporated into its normal meeting.

Topics presented during these sessions are designed to not only satisfy the PDU requirement for re-certifying as a PMP, but to also provide wide appeal to people involved in project management regardless of whether or not they are certified PMPs. The 1-hour sessions meet the educational requirements to qualify for 1 PDU credits for maintaining PMP® certification or to meet the requirement for attending 35 hours of formal project management education prior to applying to sit for the PMP® exam.

The sessions are open to all.