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[20 Apr 2009 | Comments Off | ]

[ May 6, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, May 6th at noon.

“Scrum & XP across multiple remote sites – the things we learned!”

It was a challenging (but utterly necessary) to lead change across the various sites.  We learned the importance of embedding QA within the Scrums.  We will discuss the perils of [...]

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[6 Apr 2009 | Comments Off | ]

[ May 6, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The Agile Edmonton is currently looking for a presenter for May/09.  If you or someone you know is  interesting in presenting to the group, please let us know.  We would be happy to hear from you.

We would be interested in presentations on, but not confined to:

Lean/Agile Development
Scrum/Kanban
Software best practices and techniques
Patterns
Architecture
Team Management

You can send your [...]

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[6 Apr 2009 | Comments Off | ]
“The Value of Retrospectives” slide deck available

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

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[12 Mar 2009 | One Comment | ]

[ April 1, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, April 1st at noon.

“The Value of Retrospectives”

Agile methods have become popular, but many organizations struggle to get the full benefits of the methods.  The most common reason is that retrospectives are not being properly used.  In this presentation, we will look at the critical [...]