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June Meeting - “Coaching and Being Coached on Agile Projects”

[ June 3, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, June 3rd at noon. "Coaching & Being Coached on Agile Projects" In this talk, Adam will describe the intricate role of coaching and being coached on agile projects, positioning it as one of the core skills that a team has to acquire to be successful with [...]

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• Many thanks to Dustin Friel for presenting his lessons learned on a challenging, distributed agile project.  For those of you who could not attend, Dustin has kindly allowed us to post his slide deck for your viewing pleasure. You can download the deck from Agile Edmonton by clicking on this link #
• Mishkin Berteig gave an enlightening and involved presentation on the subject of project retrospectives.  For those of you who could not attend, Mishkin has kindly provided a copy of his slides for your reading pleasure. You can download the deck from Agile Edmonton by clicking on this link #
• On March 4th, Russell Bryant gave a presentation titled "Agile Architecture".  He was kind enough to make his presentation available to Agile Edmonton.  Thanks Russell for the material and presenting to the group! We've posted the PDF version of the presentation on our site for download. #
• On February 4th, Janet Gregory gave a presentation titled "Focus your testing using the Agile Testing Matrix". "The agile testing matrix provides a common vocabulary to agile teams for customers, testers and developers. It is a  powerful tool which focuses on the purpose of different types of testing necessary for any agile project. There are  tests that support the team and drive development, and tests which critique the product. Janet talked about the  different roles on a team and how they can work together to get all your testing done." Janet was kind enough to make her insightfull presentation available to Agile Edmonton.  Thank-you Janet! We've posted the PDF version of the presentation on our site for download. #
• Jim Whitelaw gave a great presentation to the Agile Edmonton crowd in December.  Jim talked about the lessons that he's learned with Agile over the past three years at BioWare.   After consulting with his legal team at BioWare, Jim's offered to make his presentation available.  We've posted the PDF version of the presentation on our site for download. Thanks Jim! #