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[ December 1, 2010; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, December 1st at noon.
Leveraging Games and Simulations for Agile Coaching and Training
This fun and interactive session will focus on applying games and simulations as a means to experience, learn and internalize Agile principles and practices. Experience and discuss the application of games and [...]
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Come join us on Wednesday, November 3th as Dave Harris comes all the way from Winnipeg, MB, to talk to us about one of the agile tools out there: Telerik TeamPulse.
Description: This talk will focus on two core areas: a detailed walkthrough of the TeamPulse product, showing off its key features and explaining how it [...]
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[ October 13, 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, October 13th at noon.
Hit YOU With Your Best Shot
Think you know agile? Come and test your mettle to see how you would handle these real life agile horror stories.
* Why delivering working software isn’t enough.
* What to do when test automation is too easy.
* [...]
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[ September 1, 2010; 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, September 1st at noon.
Scrum Burndown Signatures
Scrum burndown charts often display similar patterns or signatures. In many cases these signatures can indicate some form of dysfunction in the team or environment. We will examine a number of common burndown signatures and their causes. Expect plenty [...]
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[ June 2, 2010; 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, June 2nd at noon.
Dynamic Test Plans
Test plans are useful for describing the current state of testing and communicating that information to others. The downside is that if they are not updated regularly, they fail to provide accurate information. If the information is [...]
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[ May 5, 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. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, May 5th at noon.
Leveraging GIT in the Enterprise
Git was born from the need to better manage large open source projects. How is integrity of the repository ensured? How easy is it to start working with it? How much faster is it than the rest [...]
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[ April 7, 2010; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, April 7th at noon.
Software Manufacturing
Why does it seem so much easier to manufacture physical things than it does to manufacture software? There seems to be a lot of lessons that the manufacturing industry learned long ago that we in the software industry struggle with. [...]
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[ 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 [...]
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[ 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 [...]
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[ 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 [...]
