Agile World Better English discusses Nightmare User Stories on Friday the 13th with Arlen Bankston and David Bulkin. Learn how to avoid Nightmare User Stories and how Agility has evolved over the past 20 years with these brilliant early adopters of agile.

Arlen Bankston is an industry leader in the application and evolution of Agile software development processes such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum, as well as process management methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer and Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Arlen also has twenty years of experience in product design and management, focusing on aspects of user experience such as information architecture, interaction design and usability to develop innovative products. Arlen has led Agile and Lean deployment and managed process improvement projects at diverse clients such as NBC Universal, CNBC, Capital One, T. Rowe Price, Freddie Mac, and the Armed Forces Benefits Association. Arlen’s recent work has centered on combining Lean principles and methods with Agile execution to dramatically improve both the speed and quality of business results. He has also led the integration of interaction design and usability practices into Agile methodologies, presenting and training frequently at both industry conferences and to Fortune 100 clients.

David Bulkin is Managing Director of Training Services at Grow-Lean LLC, helping individuals, teams, and organizations apply agile and lean methods to grow capability. This reduces complexity, bureaucracy, and burden. David delivers agile training and coaching. He’s helped many thousands of people journey from plan-driven to adaptive methods, training over 20,000 people on agile and coaching hundreds more.

David is known for high energy, never boring, practical, fun, training and coaching. He has 35 years’ experience delivering software and systems applying agile methods for 18 years across the entire value stream from strategy and product ideation to development and support.

Co-Hosts

• Cynthia Kahn
• Steve Moubray

Big Thank You to:

• Sabrina “Brains and Braun” C E Noto
• Karl “Eye Candy” Smith

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