The following are events scheduled in the United States that are related
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Sep 14, 2010: What We Learned in 8,829 Hours of Pair Programming at Menlo Innovations
Presenters: Kealy Opelt & Ted Layher...
Eight thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine hours of pair programming, does that make us experts yet? No, but we sure have learned a few things in five plus years. Many agile programmers see pair programming as too hard but don’t have the advantage of pairing all the time. Without applying pairing consistently team members will not gain trust quickly. Without trust pairing is difficult. This presentation will examine how practice makes perfect when it comes to being a good pair partner.
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Sep 20, 2010: Certified Scrum Master - Minneapolis, MN at Normandale Community College
Certified ScrumMaster
2 Days - This course results in a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) designation from the Scrum Alliance.
Expand beyond classic product/project paradigms and learn why agile/scrum works.
Understand Scrum • Use Agile Metrics and Reports • Apply Adaptive Planning
Who Should Attend and Prerequisites
This course is suited for people who have experience being on development teams or are faced with complex product/project development efforts. Individuals from all levels of the corporate structure who deal with rapidly changing demands and complex efforts. Managers, Testers, PM, Analysts, Developers, managers, directors, C-level functions
Participants should have some familiarity with Agile, either by attending the Intro to Agile Methods training course or through practical Agile experience.
Why?
Agile project management is as radically different from traditional project management as agile processes are different from traditional methodologies. Rather than plan, instruct and direct, the agile project manager facilitates, coaches and leads. In the agile framework known as Scrum, this person is called a ScrumMaster to denote the difference and remind the person filling this role of their new responsibilities. Accepted course participants learn how to be a ScrumMaster and how to make a development team, a project, or an organization agile. The ScrumMaster is responsible for the proper execution of the Scrum framework, and manages the resulting changes within the organization. Exercises, case studies, simulations and experiences are used throughout the course to bring home the realization of how Scrum can work. We will also show how the roles of ScrumMaster, Product Owner and Team form a critical tripod for effective agile development. All participants are expected to understand Scrum basics prior to attending this course.
Why 3Back?
It is vital that today’s agile practitioners be able to retain what they have learned and apply it to their jobs. Our training leverages modern adult learning with both robust simulations and discussion. We train so that participants can put the ideas presented to practical use: your results are our validation.
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Agenda
The course is an intensive interactive session designed to leverage your experiences so that you can learn the practice of Scrum in the context of what you know. We will be leveraging the diverse backgrounds of the attendees through facilitated discussion and simulation. The following concepts will be covered:
• Overview of Scrum and Agility
• What Agility is and why it works
• What Scrum is and why it works
• Balancing Structure and Conversation
• Sprints and Natural Rhythms
• Leveraging Natural Rhythms and Time boxing
• Connecting Sprints Together
• Inspect & Adapt
• Establishing a flow of product delivery
• Roles and Responsibilities
• ScrumMaster, Product Owner and The Team
• Sprint Planning and Release Planning
• Product Backlog & Sprint Backlog
• Informed strategic and tactical views
• User Stories, Other Stories and Building Robust Capabilities
• Building ROI in one step at a time
• How to maintain team focus
• Plans which adapt to emerging situations
• Sprint Review (Demo and Retrospective)
• Engaging critical business involvement to validate
• How to encourage ownership and accountability
• Engaging awareness to foster self-organization
• Emerging design to deal with unforeseen demands
• The power of done and incremental development
• Well Formed Teams
• What is a Well-Formed Team*
• Build trust, gain rapport and move faster
• Great teams & Scrum environments
• From fully collocated to fully distributed
• Cross-functional teams and how to build them
• Building and sustaining teams that perform
• Teams as Capital Assets
• Scaling, the Enterprise and Multi-Team Environments
• Tracking Progress to Inform Decision Making
• Estimating and sizing work items
• Burndown charts & Burnup charts
• Schedule performance, cost performance and business value
What You Will Learn - What For?
• Tap the power of the Scrum framework, navigate extreme complexity
• How to apply and leverage the rhythm of time-boxes
• Inform decision making based on realities encountered
• Break down work with agile analysis
• Enable rapid business response to changing markets
• How to stimulate well-formed teams and how to deploy them to business needs
• Balancing product development
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Examination & Scrum Alliance Membership
Upon successful completion of the 2 day course and online exam, you will receive the Certified ScrumMaster designation as well as a 1 year membership into the Scrum Alliance.
Professional Development Units (PDU's)
PMP's - You can receive 16 PDU's upon successful completion of this course.
Read Scrum In A Nutshell before attending.
Other Event Details
• Morning and afternoon breaks will be served
• Parking is free and conveniently located right outside
• Lunch is served
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Sep 22, 2010: Certified Effective Scrum Developer - Minneapolis, MN at Normandale Community College
Become a Certified Scrum Developer (CSD)
by taking this qualifying professional development course
Effective Scrum Developer (3 days)
Using .Net With Visual Studio 2010
Part of the Scrum Alliance Certified Developer Program
This course is aimed at helping software development professionals and teams be more effective when implementing Scrum and other agile software development methodologies. In an effort to raise the effectiveness of Scrum, the Scrum Alliance has created the Certified Scrum Developer program. This course is designed to deliver the core Agile Development Practices Learning Objectives of that program and should prepare the participant to successfully pass the Scrum Alliance CSD Candidate Assessment.
Combine with our Certified Scrum Master Training July 17-18, 2010 (2 days) to fully qualify for the CSD program or find another scrum training event that works for you.
Audience
This course is intended for professional software developers who are on a Scrum team and want to understand how Scrum and Agile engineering practices are applied and how they affect their role in the team. The participant should have an understanding of Scrum or Agile methods.
The Approach
One of the agile practices commonly used by Scrum teams is the breakdown of requirements into User Stories. This course was designed to meet this user story.
As a .NET Developer on a Scrum team, I want to use Agile Engineering Practices, so that my team delivers business value with Production Quality Software in every Sprint.
To meet this goal, this course meets the Scrum Alliance Learning Objectives for the Certified Scrum Developer Program in these areas.
Collaboration
The teamwork and collaboration on a Scrum team
Architecture and Design
The principles that drive code quality and support quick delivery of business value from testable, understandable and correct code.
Test Driven Development
Using the practice of Test First to help ensure the requirements are well understood and automated tests can be added to the build process to validate the system in the future.
Refactoring
The process of improving the design of software to increase the understandability and testability of the code and allow for easy and safe additions to the system in the future.
Continuous Integration
The process of creating and running automated build and test cycles as new code is checked in so that cross-application issues are discovered as soon as possible.
Course Outline
The course is structured around these user stories that provide the goals for each section.
The Developer Role In Scrum
As a Developer I want to understand my role on a Scrum Team So that the team is successful in meeting Sprint and Release goals.
Test First
As a Developer I want to clearly understand the story So that I can deliver the right functionality.
Writing Unit Tests in .NET
As a developer I want to write effective Unit Tests Using C# So that I will know when the code is done.
Agile Analysis for Developers
As a Developer I want quickly and accurately break down requirements So that the work of delivering the business value can be planned effectively.
What is Quality Code?
As a Developer I want to write high quality code and be able to evaluate code quality So that the project is not slowed down in the future by poor quality code.
Scrum Teamwork
As a Developer I want to work collaboratively and efficiently with the other members of my Scrum team So that the Sprint and Release Goals are achieved.
Test Driven Development
As a Developer I want to write small tests then write the code to pass the tests and clean up the code So that I can work quickly and efficiently.
Agile Architecture
As a Developer I want to create software components that are maintainable and efficient So that the product will have a long life and adapt to new requirements easily.
Talking About Design
As a Developer I want to have a common language to use when discussing application design with other developers So that we can quickly and accurately describe the system design.
Refactoring
As a Developer I want to clean up my new code safely So that the new code is flexible and easy to understand.
Automated Refactoring
As a Developer I want to use automatic tools to Refactor So that I can concentrate on delivering the functionality.
Integrating Often
As a Developer I want to verify that my code works in the system and does not break the system as often as possible So that issues are discovered quickly and the project is almost always in a state that can be demonstrated.
Continuous Integration
As a Developer I want use a build system that automatically builds the system and runs all automated tests So that integrating often is as easy as possible.
This Course Satisfies these Learning Objectives the Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Developer Program
Architecture and Design
Test Driven Development
Collaboration Refactoring
Continuous Integration
For more information, see 3Back’s website on ESD and CSD programs
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Sep 22, 2010: Sean Kingston at San Diego Zoo
The focal point of the bears' exhibit is, naturally, the pool. From the underwater viewing room you can see how agile and playful these Arctic bruins really are. In fact, they're known to swim right up to the glass to check out all the humans on display.
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Sep 25, 2010: Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Commonweal Theater
Steve Martin's comedy is sure to have you roaring with laughter from start to finish! Two guys walk into a bar, order up one part Einstein, one part Picasso, and add a splash of the zaniest characters to ever hit our stage "all shook up."
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Oct 4, 2010: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Training at Doubletree Lloyd Center
SolutionsIQ Certified Scrum Master Training gives you all the tools and information you need to effectively apply Agile Scrum Project Management principles to your project or program.
Students will learn how to:
* Maintain and use a burndown chart
* Manage Product Backlogs
* Plan Releases and Iterations (Sprints)
* Conduct Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews & Retrospective meetings
* Track and Report progress
* Effectively apply the principles of the Agile Manifesto
All SolutionsIQ Agile training courses are highly interactive. Students will participate in discussions group-based exercises, and simulations.
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Oct 5, 2010: The Mirror Test: How Your Company Must Adapt or Die at Minneapolis Airport Marriott
As the economy recovers, does your
business pass the mirror test?
Former Kodak CMO, award-winning author and Celebrity Apprentice star Jeffrey Hayzlett will teach business people a new way to look at their sales & marketing strategy during a one-night only appearance at the October Sales and Marketing Executives International Minnesota meeting
Most savvy business owners have survived the latest economic recession by cutting their costs. Now it is time to transition to a growth mode. According to Jeffrey Hayzlett, social media and marketing expert and author of the best seller The Mirror Test, you must ask some hard questions if you hope to position your business for growth. Hayzlett, who became familiar to millions of Americans when he participated in TV’s Celebrity Apprentice, will make a rare appearance in the Twin Cities in October 5, 2010 to help companies learn how to breathe new life into their businesses by taking the mirror test.
“I teach you to ask the questions that most business managers are afraid to ask. But if you aren’t willing to look at what’s working and what isn’t – and then take the necessary steps to fix them – you and your colleagues and employees are in for a tough ride,” says Hayzlett.
During the landmark evening, Hayzlett will regale the audience with hard-nosed, but creative approaches to how to run and market their businesses. He explains that growth requires different tests including the Proof of Life test. Will your business fog the mirror? “If you’re not growing in terms greater than what you’re losing, then you are dying. A lot of businesses forget to look at the fundamentals,” says Hayzlett.
Among the other mirror test elements he will discuss are:
•Learn how to look beyond yourself for answers. “Some people find that hard to do and they get comfortable instead. My belief is that as a leader, I have to create tension, continue to ask people whether I want to do it this way or that way, more innovative. Not resting on my behind, so to speak.”
•People can go anywhere for price but can’t go anywhere for ‘happy’. “Choose either high quality or low price. I don’t think it’s possible to do both. It’s like you’re on a seesaw. When you push one side down, the other has to go up.”
•Be more responsive than the big guys. “You may not have the scale or leverage of the big boys, but there are things you can do better. You can be more agile than the other guy and you don’t have to go through all the steps to make decisions.”
•Start talking about the ROI – Return on Ignoring. “Some people freeze up or companies freeze, because they are so busy trying to measure rather than do. The biggest ROI measurements that you need to know are, One: Is your business growing? Second: Are you expanding your margins? And third: Do you have customer satisfaction? If you’re heading in those ways at the pace you need to, then that’s the only measurement you need to have.
“The key is to know exactly what your product categories are, the areas in which you want to play, and then specifically get to the value proposition around those areas to the people you want to reach. I’m not a believer in a lot of brand advertising, because a brand is nothing but a promise delivered. So, if I’m outlining what the promise is I’m going to do for the customer, then that’s the kind of message I want to take out there.”
During the evening, Hayzlett also will teach attendees:
•How to ask the RIGHT questions about your business – and to boldly act on the answers.
•How to look in the mirror and see the real leader there.
•How not to let gadgets and gimmicks replace solid planning and executions.
•How to tell the difference between what works and what doesn’t (you might be surprised by the answers).
•How to discover your real competitors, and how to beat them clean and simple by adding value.
•How to pare down the marketing plan and win by simply selling.
Hayzlett’s book will be available for sale at the event and a book signing will be held. His appearance is sponsored by Mid-Country Bank, Kocina Branding & Marketing, and InTouch.
Sponsored by Sales & Marketing Executives International of Minnesota, the event will take place at the Minneapolis Airport Marriott from 5:30-7:00. To register, visit www.SMEIMinnesota.org. The fee is $30 for students, $40 for members and $60 for non-members.
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Oct 6, 2010: Course: Agile & High Speed Software Testing Techniques at Centriq Foss
Course: Agile & High Speed Software Testing Techniques
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Oct 12, 2010: Course: Agile Boot Camp at UC Davis Extension
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Oct 20, 2010: Anselma Farmers & Artisans Market at San Diego Zoo
The focal point of the bears' exhibit is, naturally, the pool. From the underwater viewing room you can see how agile and playful these Arctic bruins really are. In fact, they're known to swim right up to the glass to check out all the humans on display.
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Oct 26, 2010: Polar Bears: A Tundra in San Diego at San Diego Zoo
The focal point of the bears' exhibit is, naturally, the pool. From the underwater viewing room you can see how agile and playful these Arctic bruins really are. In fact, they're known to swim right up to the glass to check out all the humans on display.
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Oct 28, 2010: Flamingos: A Flamboyant Welcome at San Diego Zoo
The focal point of the bears' exhibit is, naturally, the pool. From the underwater viewing room you can see how agile and playful these Arctic bruins really are. In fact, they're known to swim right up to the glass to check out all the humans on display.
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Nov 1, 2010: QCon San Francisco at The Westin San Francisco Market Street Hotel
http://qconsf.com/?utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=listing&utm_campaign=upcoming
Tutorials: Nov. 1 - 2, 2010
Conference: Nov. 3 - 5, 2010
This 4th annual San Francisco enterprise software development conference is back! QCon is practitioner-driven conference designed for team leads, architects and project management. Bloggers wrote about most of the 70+ sessions at last year’s event, read this article to see what the attendees said. There is no other event in the US with similar opportunities for learning, networking, and tracking innovation occurring in the enterprise software development community.
Some of our QConSF 2010 speakers include:
Patrick Copeland, Google Dir of Engineering; Saved Google 700 engineering years;
Michael Nygard, Author of "Release It!";
Dan Ingalls, The principal architect of five generations of Smalltalk environment;
Randy Shoup, eBay Chief Engineer;
Nick Kallen, Twitter Engineer; FlockDb co-creator;
Stu Halloway, Author of "Programming Clojure" and "Rails for Java Developers";
Dan North, Agile troublemaker, developer, originator of BDD;
... and over 80 more speakers expected.
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Nov 2, 2010: Monkeys: Forest Tales at San Diego Zoo
The focal point of the bears' exhibit is, naturally, the pool. From the underwater viewing room you can see how agile and playful these Arctic bruins really are. In fact, they're known to swim right up to the glass to check out all the humans on display.
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Nov 4, 2010: The Wright Picture Photo Exhibition at San Diego Zoo
The focal point of the bears' exhibit is, naturally, the pool. From the underwater viewing room you can see how agile and playful these Arctic bruins really are. In fact, they're known to swim right up to the glass to check out all the humans on display.
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Nov 10, 2010: Course: Agile Boot Camp at To Be Determined
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Dec 6, 2010: Course: Agile Boot Camp at TBD
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Jan 24, 2011: Agile and Certified Scrum Training in Cupertino from Mike Cohn at Cypress Hotel
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