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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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[ 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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[ 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 [...]
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[ February 17, 2009; 5:30 pm to 10:30 pm. ] On Tuesday, February 17th the Agile Edmonton User Group is having it’s first social night at Hudsons Taphouse in downtown Edmonton. Thanks to the generousity of TEK Systems and Hudsons Tap House, there will be some food and drink available. Feel free to visit us after 5:30pm and say Hi.
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[ February 4, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, February 4th at noon.
“Focus your testing using the Agile Testing Matrix”
The agile testing matrix provides a common vocabulary to agile teams for customers, testers and developers. It is a powerful tool which focuses on the purpose of different types of testing necessary for any [...]
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[ January 7, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, January 7th at noon.
This month’s speaker is author and Agile guru J.B. Rainsberger. J.B. is a developer and consultant who has been a leader in the Agile and JUnit communities since 2001. He is the founder of XP Day North America. His popular online [...]
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[ December 3, 2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Jim Whitelaw, a Development Director at BioWare EA, will be our featured speaker at the December meeting. Join us during the lunch hour on December 3rd. Please note that this presentation will be in the Matrikon offices at Suite 1800, 10405 Jasper Avenue.
