Agile Edmonton

[ March 3, 2010; 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. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, March 3rd at noon.

What is Velocity?

Velocity is a project’s or team’s rate of progress. How does your project calculate Velocity?

Should a team focus on increasing Velocity? Or getting better at being Done? What should a team do if their velocity continues to [...]

[ February 3, 2010; 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, February 3rd at noon.

Knowing Your Rate of Discovery
Discovered work is all those little surprises that pop up during the course of a sprint and that appear to disrupt the planned work. My premise in this talk is that by tracking and understanding how much [...]

[ January 6, 2010; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, January 6th at noon.

A Framework for Continuous Improvement: Building a Learning Organization
In this presentation I discuss what continuous improvement is and why it is critical in today’s world, then introduce the framework: a five-stage model that covers the entire life-cycle of an improvement. I [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ 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 [...]