Report from the First “New” Agile Ottawa Meetup

I’d say we had a pretty successful meeting for the first of the renewed Agile Ottawa group get togethers. Fourteen people came out to join us. I heard of one person that was stuck in the lobby and could not make it up to the 2nd floor — keep pressing that buzzer — someone will [...]

Meeting still on

The Agile Ottawa meetup is still on for this Monday November 24th. I look forward to seeing you all there and hearing what every one is up to. As mentioned on a previous post, this meeting will be fairly unstructured so we can all get to hear lots of stories and figure out what the [...]

Agile Agenda for the Agile First Meetup

I would like to start off by commenting on the interest so far: it has been GREAT! It appears by some of the interest that I have been receiving that there is a fair bit of pent up demand for an Agile venue in Ottawa. Indeed, there was a venue in the past, as I [...]

Suggestions for Lightning Talks

If you have an idea for a lightning talk for the first meeting, please post a comment. We will prioritize against what people are interested in hearing about. If you have an idea for a talk but don’t want to stand up, still post your idea here. This is a great opportunity to get to [...]

Agile Meetup set to go

The first meeting of the Agile Ottawa group is set to go! The agenda for this first meeting is still being hashed out, however, one item for sure is to have a work queue priority setting meeting (Agile talk for let’s see what the group wants to hear about, and then work towards getting those [...]

What are Lightning Talks

Having a Meetup is about getting people together to learn from each other and network. So why have talks at a Meetup? Of course they will disseminate some information, and, hopefully useful information. More than that a lightning talk helps to break the ice and give everyone some common ground to start a bit of [...]

Ottawa needs to talk agile!

Agile discussions in Ottawa region have dried up. There are no posts on the Agile mailing lists, the great seminars with guest speakers have vanished, companies that are using agile seem to have retreated back into their shells. It is high time to change this! I am proposing a meetup where we can all gather [...]