Hello:
My name is Elizabeth Shaw and I represent a group called UXL
(http://uxleague.org) that is involved in research on user experience design and
Agile development. Currently we are researching Agile use in a distributed team
environment (a team whose members who are not located in the same place).
We have created an online survey asking questions about people's experiences
working on a distributed product development effort. The survey is available
at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=jWGOF2TRjRhADtR7r6hZrA_3d_3d
Participation is entirely optional. There are no required questions in the
survey and it is possible to exit the survey at any time. We do not require any
personal information. All data collected is completely confidential and is not
associated with the respondent. We would be happy to share our results with
anyone interested after we have completed our data compilation.
Thank you very much for your time and attention! Please feel free to contact me
anytime with any questions or comments about this post, about the survey or any
other topic.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Shaw
elizabeth@...
This two-day ScrumMaster certification course taught by Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainers provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile project management frameworks, Scrum is a simple software management technique that has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately.
This course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs,planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more!
On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters(CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance,(www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs.
Agenda
Introduction to Agile Principles
Introduction to Scrum Principles
Scrum Core Elements & Practices
Product Visioning
Roles & Responsibilities
Product Backlog & Release Planning
Sprint Backlog & Sprint Planning
Sprint
Daily Standup Meeting
Burn down Charts & Project Reporting
Sprint Review & Retrospective
The 59 Minute Scrum
Participants of this course will be eligible to apply for 16 PDU's toward their continuing education requirements with the PMI (Program Management Institute)
Hi Everyone,
We're looking for a Java Developer with strong TDD skills for some
contract work in Ohio or Iowa. We're looking at paying between $40-50
/ hour + expenses. The team you will be joining is an agile
development team. You will be working with some of the top agile
practitioners in the industry (really). This is a great opportunity
for anyone who LOVES to deliver working software.
Email me at niraj@... if you're interested.
Thanks,
Niraj.
You participated in a Certified Scrum Master training but you have not had the chance to actually "do" Scrum?
You have a good understanding of the concepts of Scrum but you are not sure "how to" kick-start a Scrum sprint and keep the momentum?
You are an experienced project manager, and you like to know which techniques "apply" to agile project management?
This hands-on course will answer the questions above and many more. The workshop-style session will provide you with a toolkit of different agile project management techniques and practices to get your Scrum project off the ground or rejuvenated. Through a variety of learning methods, including role-playing, pair-learning, instructor-led exercises, case-studies and group exercises every participant will leave equipped a large set of best project management practices.
Certified ScrumMaster Training, LitheSpeed
Date: 04/07/08 - 04/08/08 Location: Atlanta, GA Trainer: Sanjiv Augustine and Arlen Bankston
Date: 05/05/08 - 05/06/08 Location: Atlanta, GA Trainer: Sanjiv Augustine and Arlen Bankston
Date: 06/23/08-06/24/08 Location: Herrndon, VA Trainer: Sanjiv Augustine and Arlen Bankston
This two-day ScrumMaster certification course provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs.
This course will introduce the essential concepts and tools of Scrum, highlighting differences between agile processes and traditional "waterfall" methodologies and providing a roadmap for adopting Agile. Participants will learn how to lead development teams towards agile operations by: managing product backlogs, planning releases and sprints, tracking and reporting progress, and conducting retrospectives. This course is taught by active Agile practitioners with decades of real-world industry experience at companies ranging from small business to the Fortune 100. Exercises, case studies, and examples are interwoven throughout the course to illustrate the principles being taught.
The Compleat Agile Manager™: A Workshop Exploring the Eight Competency Areas for Managing in the Agile Organization
Date: 04/01/2008 Location: Fairfax, VA Trainer: Micheal Spayd CCPace
At the end of the workshop you will be capable of adding significant value to your Agile project teams and the supporting organization.
Specifically, you will gain the following:
An overview of the eight competency areas needed as a manager to effectively contribute in an Agile environment
An understanding of how these competencies play out in real life situations, both in general and in one or more of your own situations
A grasp of how your own managerial values align-or conflict-with the Agile approach, and mitigations for when they do not align
Experience in how an Agile process works in a real world situation beyond a software development team (e.g., the workshop will be run as an Agile backlog)
Agile Roadmapping
Date: 06/19/08 Location: Atlanta, GA Trainer: Peter Hodgkins
Agile Roadmapping is an intensive, one-day course that provides product managers and engineering teams with the skills that they need to create successful product roadmaps using agile techniques.
Designed by Enthiosys, the leading provider of agile consulting services, this course will provide you with the tools to plan, design, build and manage your roadmaps for products throughout their lifecycle. When you're finished, we'll also provide you with comprehensive notes, worksheets, templates, and books to help you your learning's into practice.
Wow, it's been a while. It seems like interest in live meetings died down a bit when winter weather started, but perhaps we'll try another get-together soonish.
In the meantime, Dmitri brought this to my attention, and since there were a few people on this list involved/interested in start-ups, I thought I'd pass it along. Rick Segal, a prominent Canadian VC/blogger, will be visiting Halifax in April for a free roundtable session. Basically a chance to pick his brain about the process of pitching your startup, getting funding, etc.
The following are some upcoming courses for Agile Software to help anyone interested in Agile further expand their knowledge level about Agile. Give a course a try, and enjoy learning more about Agile in good company. Thanks.
This hands-on course will answer the questions above and many more. The workshop-style session will provide you with a toolkit of different agile project management techniques and practices to get your Scrum project off the ground or rejuvenated. Through a variety of learning methods, including role-playing, pair-learning, instructor-led exercises, case-studies and group exercises every participant will leave equipped a large set of best project management practices.
Certified ScrumMaster Training, LitheSpeed
Date: 04/07/08 - 04/08/08 Location: Atlanta, GA Trainer: Sanjiv Augustine and Arlen Bankston
Date: 05/05/08 - 05/06/08 Location: Atlanta, GA Trainer: Sanjiv Augustine and Arlen Bankston
Date: 06/23/08-06/24/08 Location: Herrndon, VA Trainer: Sanjiv Augustine and Arlen Bankston
This two-day ScrumMaster certification course provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs.
This course will introduce the essential concepts and tools of Scrum, highlighting differences between agile processes and traditional "waterfall" methodologies and providing a roadmap for adopting Agile. Participants will learn how to lead development teams towards agile operations by: managing product backlogs, planning releases and sprints, tracking and reporting progress, and conducting retrospectives. This course is taught by active Agile practitioners with decades of real-world industry experience at companies ranging from small business to the Fortune 100. Exercises, case studies, and examples are interwoven throughout the course to illustrate the principles being taught.
The Compleat Agile Manager™: A Workshop Exploring the Eight Competency Areas for Managing in the Agile Organization
Date: 04/01/2008 Location: Fairfax, VA Trainer: Micheal Spayd CCPace
At the end of the workshop you will be capable of adding significant value to your Agile project teams and the supporting organization.
Specifically, you will gain the following:
An overview of the eight competency areas needed as a manager to effectively contribute in an Agile environment
An understanding of how these competencies play out in real life situations, both in general and in one or more of your own situations
A grasp of how your own managerial values align-or conflict-with the Agile approach, and mitigations for when they do not align
Experience in how an Agile process works in a real world situation beyond a software development team (e.g., the workshop will be run as an Agile backlog)
Agile Roadmapping
Date: 06/19/08 Location: Atlanta, GA Trainer: Peter Hodgkins
Agile Roadmapping is an intensive, one-day course that provides product managers and engineering teams with the skills that they need to create successful product roadmaps using agile techniques.
Designed by Enthiosys, the leading provider of agile consulting services, this course will provide you with the tools to plan, design, build and manage your roadmaps for products throughout their lifecycle. When you're finished, we'll also provide you with comprehensive notes, worksheets, templates, and books to help you your learning's into practice.
This two-day ScrumMaster certification course provides everything you need
to get started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile project
management methodologies, Scrum is a simple software management technique that
has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive
and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost
immediately.
Delivered by Certified ScrumMaster trainers, this course shares time-tested
practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations
(Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run
Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint
Retrospectives and more!
On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs),
which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance,
(www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are
available exclusively to CSMs.
Important Note: Certification and membership to the Scrum Alliance is not
available through the "Agile Program Management with Scrum" courses.
Product Owner Training
Date: 02/20/2008-/2021/2008: CCPace Office – Fairfax, VA
Product Owners are the guiding force for an agile team. One of the key
factors for a successful agile team is a product owner who is fully dedicated
to the team and equipped with the understanding of agile principles, knowledge
and understanding of business needs and wants. The CC Pace Product Owner
Training class provides tools, questions and a frame work to ensure that
participants have a working knowledge and understanding of the Product Owner
Role.
The Compleat Agile Manager™: A Workshop
Exploring the Eight Competency Areas for Managing in the Agile Organization
At the end of the workshop you will be capable of adding significant value
to your Agile project teams and the supporting organization.
Specifically, you will gain the following:
An
overview of the eight competency areas needed as a manager to effectively
contribute in an Agile environment
An
understanding of how these competencies play out in real life situations,
both in general and in one or more of your own situations
A grasp of
how your own managerial values align-or conflict-with the Agile approach,
and mitigations for when they do not align
Experience
in how an Agile process works in a real world situation beyond a software
development team (e.g., the workshop will be run as an Agile backlog)
Product Owners are the guiding force for an agile team. One of the key
factors for a successful agile team is a product owner who is fully dedicated
to the team and equipped with the understanding of agile principles, knowledge
and understanding of business needs and wants. The CC Pace Product Owner
Training class provides tools, questions and a frame work to ensure that
participants have a working knowledge and understanding of the Product Owner
Role.
CC Pace Product Owner Training
Participants engage in a highly interactive approach that stimulates the
thoughts and understanding of an Agile team and Agile principles. The CC Pace
Product Owner Training course is designed to stimulate the questions, tasks and
thoughts on how to capture the existing and changing business needs through the
development and delivery of a project. Attendees will develop a set of tools,
skills and an understanding of the responsibilities of a Product Owner.
Join CC Pace's for a Certified ScrumMaster training on February 4th and 5th in Fairfax, VA.
CC Pace's Certified ScrumMaster Trainers engage the participants with a highly interactive approach that gives participants hands-on practice applying Scrum in multiple project settings and situations. This course will equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and tools to successfully implement Scrum as ScrumMasters.
As a result of their successful completion of the program, each participant receives an individual license and copy of the Scrum methodology, Scrum training materials, and Scrum software. In addition, Certified ScrumMasters receive a complimentary 1-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, and are listed as certified ScrumMasters on the Scrum Alliance website.
In this workshop you will learn to:
Remove the barriers between development and the customer so the customer directly drives development;
Teach the customer how to maximize ROI and meet their objectives through Scrum;
Improve the lives of the development team by facilitating creativity and empowerment;
Improve the productivity of the development team in any way possible; and,
Improve the engineering practices and tools so each increment of functionality is potentially shippable
Aparna at Rally Software emailed me and asked me to pass it along. If anyone's interested in moving to Colorado to work for a dyed-in-the -wool agile shop, now's your chance. :)
Cheers, Ryan
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aparna Natarajan <Aparna.Natarajan@...>
Date: Nov 29, 2007 12:23 AM Subject: Rally Software - Job posting To: ryan.p.cooper@...
Ryan,
My name is Aparna Natarajan and I am a corporate recruiter
with Rally Software in Boulder
Colorado. We have several openings
for Java Web Application Developers and I was hoping that you would send out
this job posting to your members. I have included the postings below –
one for an entry level role and the other is for a more senior role.http://www.rallydev.com/careers_java_entry.jsp
- Java Web Application Developer - Entry level role
This is the third week of September, and the time for our meeting. Thursday, September 20th 7pm @ Wired Monk, on the corner of Morris and Hollis streets.
Diaspar Software and Thoughtworks is proud to present another installment of the XP Day North America series: XP Day Manhattan taking place on October 13, 2007.
The focus of XP Day is to bring top extreme programming practitioners to North American XP communities to share their successes, failures and perspectives on how to release high-value software sooner.
Our program for Manhattan includes:
1)A keynote address by Steve Freeman. Steve is a fixture in the London software development community, a regular organizer of the original XP Day, well known for his contributions to test-driven development practice and co-recipient of the 2006 Gordon Pask Award.
2)A tutorial by JB Rainsberger, a recipient of the 2005 Gordon Pask award. JB will talk about why XP works using the Theory of Constraints model developed by Goldratt.
3)A tutorial by George Dinwiddie, a respected member of the XP community, and author of an insightful blog about coaching XP teams:http://blog.gdinwiddie.com. George will talk about sustainability at multiple levels in XP.
4)Open Space. There’s plenty of room, the space is superbly run and the conversation is lively.Collaborate intensively with both local and invited advanced practitioners on issues that interest you most.
Cost of the conference is $249 (US) and includes breakfast and lunch.Registration is limited to 100 attendees.To register visit http://www.xpday.info.For group rates, contact me at the address provided in the header of this message.
Join us for Product Owner Training in Richmond, VA on Oct 24th and
25th at the Bull and Bear Club in Richmond, VA.
Course Overview
Product Owners are the guiding force for an agile team. One of the key
factors for a successful agile team is a product owner who is fully
dedicated to the team and equipped with the understanding of agile
principles, knowledge and understanding of business needs and wants.
The CC Pace Product Owner Training class provides tools, questions and
a frame work to ensure that participants have a working knowledge and
understanding of the Product Owner Role.
CC Pace Product Owner Training
Participants engage in a highly interactive approach that stimulates
the thoughts and understanding of an Agile team and Agile principles.
The CC Pace Product Owner Training course is designed to stimulate the
questions, tasks and thoughts on how to capture the existing and
changing business needs through the development and delivery of a
project. Attendees will develop a set of tools, skills and an
understanding of the responsibilities of a Product Owner.
For more information and to register, please go to
http://www.agileuniversity.org/course_product_owner.jsp
For an update listing of courses in your area, please visit
www.agileuniversity.org.
Thanks
Jennifer Beaupre
Agile University
Hi all;
I was just doing some research on an idea for an essay / blog post,
and came across this great article about "Agile Documentation" by
Scott Ambler:
http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/agileDocumentation.htm#CriticalPoints
If anyone's working in a documentation-heavy environment (you write
the XYZ Report because it's part of The Process, but no one's really
sure who reads it, how much value it brings to the organization, or
it's TCO), this might help you convince folks to have a harder look at
the energy you're putting into those documents and the value you're
getting out of them.
Cheers,
Ryan
Diaspar Software and Thoughtworks is proud to present another installment of the XP Day North America series: XP Day Manhattan taking place on October 13, 2007.
The focus of XP Day is to bring top extreme programming practitioners to North American XP communities to share their successes, failures and perspectives on how to release high-value software sooner.
Our program for Manhattan includes:
1)A keynote address by Steve Freeman. Steve is a fixture in the London software development community, a regular organizer of the original XP Day, well known for his contributions to test-driven development practice and co-recipient of the 2006 Gordon Pask Award.
2)A tutorial by JB Rainsberger, a recipient of the 2005 Gordon Pask award. JB will talk about why XP works using the Theory of Constraints model developed by Goldratt.
3)A tutorial by George Dinwiddie, a respected member of the XP community, and author of an insightful blog about coaching XP teams:http://blog.gdinwiddie.com. George will talk about sustainability at multiple levels in XP.
4)Open Space. There’s plenty of room, the space is superbly run and the conversation is lively.Collaborate intensively with both local and invited advanced practitioners on issues that interest you most.
Cost of the conference is $249 US)and includes breakfast and lunch.Registration is limited to 100 attendees.To register visit http://www.xpday.info.For group rates, contact me at the address provided in the header of this message.
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