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[ December 2, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, December 2nd at noon.
The Agile PMP: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
Agile methods emphasize trust, empowerment, and collaboration—moving us away from command and control project management to harness the passion, creativity, and enthusiasm of the team. In established organizations, success with agile practices hinges [...]
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[ November 4, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, November 4th at noon.
PAS: Scaling Agile – A real life experience
PAS was a joint venture development initiative by 4 major oil and gas companies and CGI. Devon, Encana, Husky and Talisman joined with CGI to develop a new Production and Revenue Application. Each company [...]
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[ October 27, 2009; 5:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ] On Tuesday, October 27th, Agile Edmonton is having it’s second social night at Hudson’s Taphouse in downtown Edmonton. Thanks to TEK Systems and Hudsons Tap House for sponsoring the event.
We’ll get started at Hudson’s at 5:30. See you there.
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[ October 7, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, October 7th at noon.
Case Study: Implementing Agile on a Large Project
Implementing Agile methods on a large project can be extremely difficult. There can be significant overhead involved in team communication along with a lack of “big picture” perspective. This gets even more challenging when [...]
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[ November 2, 2009 to November 5, 2009. November 2, 2009 to November 5, 2009. November 2, 2009 to November 5, 2009. ] It looks like Agile Vancouver is running Much Ado About Agile IV from November 2 – November 5, 2009
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[ September 2, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, September 2nd at noon.
“Software Project Estimation”
Software estimation has been called a “black art”. Standard industry methods for estimating software projects are highly complex, geared toward very large waterfall projects and require a myriad of complex and non-intuitive inputs. Often Agile estimation approaches focus on [...]
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[ 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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[ 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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[ 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 [...]
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[ March 4, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, March 4th at noon.
“Agile Enterprise Architecture”
This may sound like an oxymoron but in this presentation I will show that it is not. At the same time I will challenge the traditional roles and definitions of “Architecture”, “Architect”, and “Enterprise”. I believe that architecture is [...]
