Neil Potter

Neil Potter

Neil Potter has been working in software design, engineering and process management since 1985. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Essex in England and Six Sigma Greenbelt certification from the University of Michigan.

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Neil Potter's Talks
Date    August 13, 2009
Time    76 min
You're thinking about using the CMMI or conducting an appraisal and arriving at Maturity Level X soon? This webinar shares lessons that can help you spend your efforts well while avoiding common pitfalls and hazards.
Date    June 10, 2010
Time    76 min
In this webinar, CMMI and Scrum are compared and explored, since they are two commonly used frameworks - frameworks that groups often struggle with when using together.
Date    February 12, 2013
Time    92 min
This webinar will study lessons learned from working with different Scrum teams around the world.
Date    March 13, 2014
Time    77 min
In this webinar, we will examine various practices that you can add to scrum in order to take your scrum implementation to the next level.
Date    June 7, 2016
Time    80 min
Don’t worry whether you are Agile, a couch potato or a CMMI Level 5 superstar. Lets talk about some great practices that organizations do when they build software that works.
Date    November 16, 2016
Time    68 min
Your team is Agile. Management is used to Waterfall. Teams are upset and feel constrained; management is nervous and getting more in the way. There is a way to proceed!
Date    September 27, 2017
Time    85 min
This webinar will enumerate the problems to look out for with scrum/agile implementations and will provide examples of corrective actions.
Date    March 15, 2018
Time    81 min
The objective of this session is to give attendees a summary tool kit of practices to improve requirements elicitation, development and management.
Date    February 26, 2019
Time    83 min
In a poll of agile organizations, two-thirds said they experience chronic chaos. Learn more in this webinar!
Date    April 28, 2020
Time    30 min
This webinar outlines six immediately usable tips for elicing and defining software requirements.
Date    March 10, 2021
Time    81 min
This webinar will cover the hard skills that you need to be successful with Agile (e.g., requirements engineering, design, estimation, negotiation, risk management and verification).
Date    September 9, 2021
Time    74 min
Agile teams often start strong after their initial Agile class, but unless they are very careful, small breakages can recur over time. In this webinar, we will review the top 10 breakages to look out for.
Date    January 13, 2022
Time    20 min
When “done” is either poorly defined, or not defined at all, then it is easy for projects to miss deadlines and become completely unpredictable. In this webinar we will discuss actions that project teams can take to define “done” for any type of project.
Date    March 24, 2022
Time    26 min
In this webinar we will give examples of how to reduce the volume of documentation, making it concise, useable and more fun (which is a very low bar to exceed).
Date    September 15, 2022
Time    35 min
This presentation is a summary of 10 Leadership Practices that the author has observed in his best clients over 30 years. They include: Deadlines, Communication, Skills, Risk, Lessons-learned, and Leading by example
Date    April 4, 2023
Time    43 min
A death march is when project staff members believe the project is destined for failure, or that it requires a stretch of unsustainable effort to achieve any success. This session will cover the common causes of death marches, how to develop data and options used in negotiation, and a simple negotiation approach to address the concerns of customers and managers