Agile Edmonton

[ December 7, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, December 7th February 1st at noon.

Fishbowl conversation

We are trying something a bit different for this meeting, a fishbowl conversation.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about Fishbowl conversations.

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[ November 2, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ]

The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, November 2nd at noon.

Distributed Agile

While collocation is the preferred choice, it is not always possible. We are seeing a trend where teams are dispersed for a variety of reasons.

Can distributed teams become Agile? If so, how? What challenges will they [...]

[ October 5, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ]

The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, October 5th at noon.
Agile 2011 Conference

Some folks from Alberta Pensions attended the Agile 2011 Conference. They have agreed to share what they learned.

About the folks from Alberta Pensions

Sean Feehan has been in the Software Development industry for over 7 years and he is currently [...]

[ September 7, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ]

The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, September 7th at noon.

Kanban versus Scrum: What is the One True Agile Way?
Many associate Scrum as an Agile methodology – but Scrum is not the only Agile methodology available. There is also Kanban – a methodology that focuses on just-in-time delivery and pull work [...]

[ June 1, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, June 1st at noon.

Agile Planning
Every software project considers one of his main goals to provide early and continuous delivery of valuable software to the customer. In order to do so is important to accept three principles:

1. It is impossible to gather all the requirements [...]

[ May 4, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, May 4th at noon.

How Not To Do Agile
As a consultant I get to work with a lot of different companies who are trying to implement agile techniques into their organizations. Sometimes things don’t go so well. I would like to share some of the [...]

[ April 6, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, April 6th at noon.

Mass Effect 2 for PS3: A case study of mixed development methodologies

Many large projects require the use of more than a single development methodology, whether by organizational or subject matter requirement (sometimes both). Nowhere is this more true than in game [...]

[ March 2, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] There was a water leak in the Innovation Centre and the room won’t be available for tomorrow. So the meeting is moved to March 2nd.
Agile Integration and Enterprise Architecture
One common theme with many of Russell’s recent engagements involving Enterprise Architecture is to battle the anti-pattern of silo systems. The solution to this anti-pattern is integration [...]

[ February 2, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, February 2nd at noon.
Agile Integration and Enterprise Architecture
One common theme with many of Russell’s recent engagements involving Enterprise Architecture is to battle the anti-pattern of silo systems. The solution to this anti-pattern is integration of its many forms. Organizations have struggled with the promise [...]

[ January 5, 2011; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, January 5th at noon.
Open Discussion
This meeting will have open discussion about topics suggested and voted on by members.

Possible topics include:

How do you handle tasks that don’t fit into a single iteration?

How often do you/can you change interation lengths?

Cowboy team members. How do you [...]