December Talk: Agile Business

Just wrapped another Agile Ottawa meeting with a great talk on Agile Business. Interesting perspectives on an area that not many are talking about (yet!). The slides from the evening can be found here and the video will be available shortly (this post will be updated once video available).
I also want to mention that we [...]

What is Business Value?

The next Agile Ottawa meeting is on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 at The Code Factory. This discussion topic is Business Value; a particularly interesting topic since the Agile backlog revolves around the Product Owner prioritizing the highest business value. While some see a clear path for determining business value, other people perspectives are often different.
Product [...]

Don’t Do Agile Slides

The slides from the Agile Ottawa meetup on November 10th, 2009 are now available. Interesting session!

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.