Learning Best Approaches for your Brain Slide Deck

The slide deck from the October Agile Ottawa meeting is now online. You can find the link in Mark’s post found here.

Don’t Do Agile

Tim Bacon will be talking this month about the focus in an Agile rollout is the change required and not so much on “Agile”. This will be an exciting discussion and will certainly give pause to think of Agile in a different light.
Tim specialises in assisting teams or organisations to introduce Agile software development methods [...]

How to Communicate so your Clients will Remember

Mark Levison is presenting this month at Agile Ottawa. Reprising his Agile 2009 talk/workshop, this will be a fun evening looking at a much different side of Agile. The following from his blog…
“How to Communicate so your Clients will Remember”

I’m presenting at Agile Ottawa this month. The presentation is a reprise of my Agile [...]

2009-2010 Kickoff Meetup

Hello all, I hope you all had a great summer, weather notwithstanding!
We’re pleased to announce our schedule for the coming season. The meetings are going to be held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, so mark the following dates: September 8th, October 13th, November 10th, December 8th, January 12th., February 9th, March 9th, [...]

Informal Meetup

An Agile Ottawa informal meetup has been planned for Monday June 15th at the Clocktower Pub at 575 Bank St.  Meeting time is 7PM. Come enjoy a pint while discussing Agility in Ottawa!

May Agile Meetup: Season Retrospective

For the Agile Ottawa May meeting we will be doing some self-reflection on the season 2009-2010 season. The retrospective, like many other Agile retrospectives, will be to look back on the season ending with this meeting and look at what we did well, what we need to improve, and in this case what we want [...]

Correction…

Oops — off by a week. The Agile Meetup date is Tuesday, April 28th — not on the 21st as I so exuberantly published previously. Previous post updated with correct date.

Discussing Product Owner Role at April Meeting

This month we have an experienced Scrum Product Owner joining us. Paul Relf, has helped to implement Scrum at Nortel, will discuss his experiences learning about Agile and rolling out Agile on a large distributed project. Paul has also helped train other product owners.
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting at The Code [...]

User Group Meeting Tonight

Reminder that there is an Agile Ottawa user group meetup tonight at the Code Factory from 6-8PM. Location details on the blog.
We have two speakers tonight discussing the topic of testing in an Agile environment.
See you tonight!

March meetup: Testing and Agile

The topic for the upcoming meeting on Tuesday March 24 is Testing and Agile. We have a speaker lined up to talk about automated test in an Agile environment. We are hoping to also have a second speaker on integrating traditional test function into Agile.
Look forward to seeing you all there.