Agile Philippines Meetup 2022.01

Ealden Escañan
Agile Philippines
Published in
2 min readFeb 1, 2022

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Happy New Year!

Our first Agile Philippines meetup for 2022 is again an online meetup. We can probably expect this for the remainder of the year. This is our *82nd* meetup, as we inch towards 1–0–0 meetups.

It was great to see everyone again :)

The cover photo was from our January 2020 meetup, the last in-person meetup before we went online.

2020.01 Meetup

We made use of Lean Coffee to facilitate the meetup. We had 20 minute timeboxes for each topic, for a total of 4 topics tonight. We as a group decided not to do breakout rooms again.

Topics and schedule were:

7:05 PM–8:20 PM:

  • Snake oil or not? Agile related certifications (link)
  • More: Snake oil or not? Agile related certifications (link)
  • Has anyone practiced Scrum of Scrums? (link)
  • Teaming around value streams / Are value streams the new silos? ;-) (link)

As an improvement item from last year, we decided to do a closing circle to get the attendees perspectives on the meetup. We self-managed to “passing the baton”, making sure that everyone had a chance to speak and share their thoughts with everyone else.

We then closed the meetup, and look forward to the next :)

Agile Philippines meetups happen every last Wednesday of a month. This is a community event, and is only made possible by the people who go to the meetups, and the organizations who open their doors to allow us to meet as a community.

See you in February!

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