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#763 From: gjedynak@...
Date: Thu Dec 1, 2005 2:03 pm
Subject: Parking Instructions for Twin Spin Presentation 		gary_jedynak
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Hi Twin-SPINners,

There's an 'Event Parking' restriction happening that coincides with our
Thursday's  meeting.  No problem.  When you arrive at the Washington Ave garage,
simply tell the attendant that you are attending Twin-SPIN and that we have made
reservations for you.

Best regards,
Paul W. Kraska PhD
Twin-SPIN Coordinator
612.823.6217


--
Gary Jedynak
Co-founder of C4DSD
http://www.c4dsd.com
Consultant
Summerhill Associates
http://www.summerhillassociates.com
763-482-9218 cell
gjedynak@...

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#764 From: gjedynak@...
Date: Thu Dec 1, 2005 2:03 pm
Subject: Parking Instructions for Twin Spin Presentation 		gary_jedynak
Send Email Send Email
  
Hi Twin-SPINners,

There's an 'Event Parking' restriction happening that coincides with our
Thursday's  meeting.  No problem.  When you arrive at the Washington Ave garage,
simply tell the attendant that you are attending Twin-SPIN and that we have made
reservations for you.

Best regards,
Paul W. Kraska PhD
Twin-SPIN Coordinator
612.823.6217


--
Gary Jedynak
Co-founder of C4DSD
http://www.c4dsd.com
Consultant
Summerhill Associates
http://www.summerhillassociates.com
763-482-9218 cell
gjedynak@...

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#765 From: "Larry Winship" <lwinship@...>
Date: Fri Dec 2, 2005 2:37 am
Subject: Twin Spin Presentation 		larrywinship
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Thanks again for the good and interesting presentation.
 
I am going to try think of how to use the stages in my mentoring role.
 
If you do have some references on how experts learn I would appreciate them.
 
Thanks,
Larry Winship

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#766 From: "Kyle R. Larson" <kylel@...>
Date: Fri Dec 2, 2005 5:26 pm
Subject: The Product Owner / Customer Role in Agile Development, Dec. 6 		KyleRLarson
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        Agile Experience Group Meeting Notice
               Tuesday, December 6, 2005


  The Product Owner / Customer Role in Agile Development
                          and
                       Free Pizza


   *** Don't forget to RSVP to kylel@... for Pizza! ***

Agile development has proven itself to be successful, especially
with small teams of 6-10 developers.  The two most popular
small-team agile methods are eXtreme Programming (XP) and Scrum,
and they have much in common.  One of the major things they have
in common is a close working relationship with their Product
Owner, or Customer.  In fact, the existence of a qualified,
empowered, Product Owner / Customer is one of the major success
factors in these processes.  

Unfortunately, there is little written about the Product Owner /
Customer Role other than what the benefits and responsibilities
are.  It is arguably the hardest job in software development, but
there is little guidance about how to be a good one.  

The basic responsibilities of the Product Owner / Customer will
be introduced,

   * Determine what the Stakeholders want the Product to do
   * Decide what will actually be delivered
   * Describe the requirements to the development team
   * Validate that the product delivered is the one asked for

and for each of these areas the challenges and some clues about
how to solve them will be offered.  

Biography of Presenter:

Dan Rawsthorne is a Certified Scrum Trainer and Use Case expert
who lives at the process end of things at Net Objectives.  His
focus is on helping organizations get products out the door
using agility, and he has been doing so for over 20 years.  He
has a PhD in mathematics from the University of Illinois, and is
currently writing a book on use cases.  He concentrates his
training and coaching in Use Case Driven Analysis and becoming a
Certified Scrum Master.


                Agile Experience Group
                
               Tuesday, December 6, 2005
                    
           6:15 - 6:30 p.m. : Pizza and socailizing               
            
           6:30 - 8:30 p.m. : Presentation + Q & A

                O' Shaughnessy Science Hall
                     3M Auditorium
               University of St. Thomas
                      St. Paul, MN

*** Please RSVP to kylel@... for the FREE PIZZA & DRINKS ***


COST:

There is no cost to attend, but please RSVP to kylel@... for
free pizza and refreshments.

*** Do not reply (RSVP) to this message! ***

Thanks.



ABOUT THE AGILE EXPERIENCE GROUP:

The Agile Experience Group meets and collaborates to
share experiences, suggestions, and ideas about moving
software development efforts towards more agile, more
lightweight practices.  Extreme Programming (XP), SCRUM,
Crystal, Lean, and ASD are agile approaches.  
See www.agilealliance.com.

We meet in the Twin Cities, Minnesota area and are a
special interest group (SIG) of the Object Technologies
Users Group (OTUG).  See www.otug.org.

To get meeting announcements, subscribe to our
low-volume list server by sending an email to:
Agile_Experience_Group-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or
subscribe from the web at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Agile_Experience_Group/


DIRECTIONS:

From Downtown Minneapolis (Eastbound I-94):

Exit I-94 at Cretin-Vandalia.
Go right (south) on Cretin about one mile,
   past Selby Ave to...
Just past (south of) the football stadium, turn left.
Go through 1st parking lot, turn left.
Enter Visitors Parking ramp.

From Downtown St. Paul (Westbound I-94):

Exit I-94 at Cretin-Vandalia.
Go left (south) on Cretin about one mile,
   past Selby Ave to...
Just past (south of) the football stadium, turn left.
Go through 1st parking lot, turn left.
Enter Visitors Parking ramp.

From the south on I-35:

When I-35 splits into 35E and 35W, follow 35E toward St. Paul.
Take 35E north to the Randolph Avenue exit.
Make a left on Randolph (crossing over 35E) and follow it
   a little more than two miles to Cretin Avenue.
Turn right onto Cretin and go about 1.5 miles,
   past Summit Ave to...
Just before (south of) the football stadium, turn right.
Go through 1st parking lot, turn left.
Enter Visitors Parking ramp.

From the Airport:

Take Highway 5 east from the airport.
Exit at Shepard Road-Edgcumbe where there will be a
   fork in the road.
Veer left at the fork onto Edgcumbe.
At the second stoplight, turn left onto St. Paul Avenue.
In about three-fourths of a mile, St. Paul Avenue becomes
   Cleveland Avenue.
Stay on Cleveland for about two miles to Summit Avenue.
Turn left on Summit. The first stoplight is Cretin Avenue.
Turn right onto Cretin Avenue.
Just before (south of) the football stadium, turn right.
Go through 1st parking lot, turn left.
Enter Visitors Parking ramp.

Parking:

Lot parking: Enter the University from Selby Avenue at Finn
Street and follow the road down towards the stadium playing field
to the underground visitors pay lot.  You can also enter from
the northeast lot at Summit and Cretin, cross the lot, and
drive in back of the stadium to the same underground visitors pay
lot.

Street parking: In general, parking on the street is not allowed
within three blocks of campus without a permit, and this rule is
enforced by city police.  Permits are not required where the
streets border campus.  Signs are posted where permits are
required or other restrictions apply.  Parking on a street that
is posted as permit-only will cost you $20.  

Campus Maps:

http://www.stthomas.edu/campusmaps/stpaul.asp


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#767 From: Thomas Becker <Thomas.G.Becker@...>
Date: Sun Dec 4, 2005 7:45 pm
Subject: Next AMPG meeting postponed 		Thomas.G.Becker@...
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Due to the interest many of us in the AMPG group have in the next AEG meeting, our next AMPG meeting which had been scheduled for Dec. 6 will be postponed. We will reschedule it for some time in January, though a firm date has not been set yet. The AEG meeting will be on The Product Owner / Customer Role in Agile Development and is being presented by Dan Rawsthorne, a Certified Scrum Trainer and Use Case expert.

I look forward to seeing many of you at the AEG meeting.

I will send out an announcement for the new time for the AMPG meeting as soon as it is established.

Thomas



  Agile Experience Group Meeting Notice
               Tuesday, December 6, 2005


  The Product Owner / Customer Role in Agile Development
                          and
                       Free Pizza


   *** Don't forget to RSVP to kylel@... for Pizza! ***

Agile development has proven itself to be successful, especially 
with small teams of 6-10 developers.  The two most popular 
small-team agile methods are eXtreme Programming (XP) and Scrum, 
and they have much in common.  One of the major things they have 
in common is a close working relationship with their Product 
Owner, or Customer.  In fact, the existence of a qualified, 
empowered, Product Owner / Customer is one of the major success 
factors in these processes.  

Unfortunately, there is little written about the Product Owner / 
Customer Role other than what the benefits and responsibilities 
are.  It is arguably the hardest job in software development, but 
there is little guidance about how to be a good one.  

The basic responsibilities of the Product Owner / Customer will
be introduced,

   * Determine what the Stakeholders want the Product to do
   * Decide what will actually be delivered
   * Describe the requirements to the development team
   * Validate that the product delivered is the one asked for

and for each of these areas the challenges and some clues about 
how to solve them will be offered.  

Biography of Presenter:

Dan Rawsthorne is a Certified Scrum Trainer and Use Case expert 
who lives at the process end of things at Net Objectives.  His 
focus is on helping organizations get products out the door
using agility, and he has been doing so for over 20 years.  He 
has a PhD in mathematics from the University of Illinois, and is 
currently writing a book on use cases.  He concentrates his 
training and coaching in Use Case Driven Analysis and becoming a 
Certified Scrum Master.


                Agile Experience Group

                

               Tuesday, December 6, 2005

                    

           6:15 - 6:30 p.m. : Pizza and socailizing               

            

           6:30 - 8:30 p.m. : Presentation + Q & A 

                O' Shaughnessy Science Hall
                     3M Auditorium 
               University of St. Thomas
                      St. Paul, MN

*** Please RSVP to kylel@... for the FREE PIZZA & DRINKS *** 


COST:

There is no cost to attend, but please RSVP to kylel@... for 
free pizza and refreshments.

*** Do not reply (RSVP) to this message! ***

Thanks.



ABOUT THE AGILE EXPERIENCE GROUP:

The Agile Experience Group meets and collaborates to
share experiences, suggestions, and ideas about moving
software development efforts towards more agile, more 
lightweight practices.  Extreme Programming (XP), SCRUM, 
Crystal, Lean, and ASD are agile approaches.  

We meet in the Twin Cities, Minnesota area and are a
special interest group (SIG) of the Object Technologies
Users Group (OTUG).  See www.otug.org.

To get meeting announcements, subscribe to our
low-volume list server by sending an email to: 
subscribe from the web at: 


DIRECTIONS:

From Downtown Minneapolis (Eastbound I-94): 

Exit I-94 at Cretin-Vandalia. 
Go right (south) on Cretin about one mile, 
   past Selby Ave to... 
Just past (south of) the football stadium, turn left. 
Go through 1st parking lot, turn left. 
Enter Visitors Parking ramp. 

From Downtown St. Paul (Westbound I-94): 

Exit I-94 at Cretin-Vandalia. 
Go left (south) on Cretin about one mile, 
   past Selby Ave to... 
Just past (south of) the football stadium, turn left. 
Go through 1st parking lot, turn left. 
Enter Visitors Parking ramp. 

From the south on I-35: 

When I-35 splits into 35E and 35W, follow 35E toward St. Paul. 
Take 35E north to the Randolph Avenue exit. 
Make a left on Randolph (crossing over 35E) and follow it 
   a little more than two miles to Cretin Avenue. 
Turn right onto Cretin and go about 1.5 miles, 
   past Summit Ave to... 
Just before (south of) the football stadium, turn right. 
Go through 1st parking lot, turn left. 
Enter Visitors Parking ramp. 

From the Airport: 

Take Highway 5 east from the airport. 
Exit at Shepard Road-Edgcumbe where there will be a 
   fork in the road. 
Veer left at the fork onto Edgcumbe. 
At the second stoplight, turn left onto St. Paul Avenue. 
In about three-fourths of a mile, St. Paul Avenue becomes 
   Cleveland Avenue. 
Stay on Cleveland for about two miles to Summit Avenue. 
Turn left on Summit. The first stoplight is Cretin Avenue. 
Turn right onto Cretin Avenue. 
Just before (south of) the football stadium, turn right. 
Go through 1st parking lot, turn left. 
Enter Visitors Parking ramp. 

Parking: 

Lot parking: Enter the University from Selby Avenue at Finn 
Street and follow the road down towards the stadium playing field 
to the underground visitors pay lot.  You can also enter from 
the northeast lot at Summit and Cretin, cross the lot, and
drive in back of the stadium to the same underground visitors pay
lot.

Street parking: In general, parking on the street is not allowed 
within three blocks of campus without a permit, and this rule is 
enforced by city police.  Permits are not required where the 
streets border campus.  Signs are posted where permits are 
required or other restrictions apply.  Parking on a street that 
is posted as permit-only will cost you $20.  

Campus Maps:




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#768 From: Animikh Sen <drsen@...>
Date: Thu Dec 8, 2005 2:50 am
Subject: Charlotte, NC Agile Users Groups 		animikhsen
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Apologize for posting to multiple groups.

I am coordinating an effort by several Agile practitioners in the
Charlotte, NC and surrounding areas to set up a Charlotte Area Agile
Practitioners Group (CaAP-G).  The purpose is to provide networking,
practical support, training and consulting opportunities, and organize
BoF events.  We are also looking to partner with enterprises who are
adopting/using agile to provide them with a forum.  People who are
motivated to learn, practice and preach the principles found in the
AgileAllience using any of the management and engineering frameworks (
Scrum, Lean, TDD, XP, DSDM, ARAD) are strongly encouraged to join and
contribute to and learn from each others experience.
We are in the early stage of a planning a launch event January next year.
If you are interested, please feel free to contact me at
drsen-at-thesengroup.com

Animikh
--
Animikh Sen, PhD
-------------------------------------
The SenGroup
"Stop Not Till Your Goal is Reached"

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#769 From: "Peter Berman" <peterb@...>
Date: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:53 pm
Subject: introduction - seeking informational interviews 		pbmath
Send Email Send Email
 

Hi everyone,

 

My name is Peter Berman. I just joined this group. I work for ActiFi, a startup based in Plymouth MN that does consulting and product development involving workflow in financial services. I am a business analyst. My main job is gathering and communicating requirements, including communicating with an offshore development team for some projects. I am interested in learning more about agile development – in learning more about software development in general, to tell the truth. I am a career changer (a former mathematician and math teacher) and new to the software industry.

 

I am looking for people who have experience with rapid requirements communication. I would like to know about things like:

1.       Is there an online collaboration tool that you recommend? I have experience with Wiki’s and love them.

2.       How do you manage tradeoffs among speed, precision, flexibility?

Question 1 is straightforward. Question 2 is, well, not-so-straightforward J

 

If you have experience in these areas and are able/willing to do an informational interview, or if you just have random suggestions, please email me offlist (peterb@... ) – I would be most grateful for any comments.

 

Peter Berman

Business Analyst

ActiFi, Inc.

peterb@...

work: (763) 746-1263

mobile: (612) 597-7387

 


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#770 From: "Jan Emter" <jemter@...>
Date: Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:20 pm
Subject: Re: [AEG] introduction - seeking informational interviews 		jemter@...
Send Email Send Email
  
Hi Peter,

If you receive offline answers and information, would you be willing to
summarize your
findings and share them with the group?  I, and probably others, would be
interested in
hearing the results...

Thanks!
Jan Emter

------------------------------------- Original Message
-------------------------------------
Subject: [AEG] introduction - seeking informational interviews
From:    "Peter Berman" <peterb@...>
Date:    Tue, December 13, 2005 10:53 am
To:      Agile_Experience_Group@yahoogroups.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
------------

Hi everyone,



My name is Peter Berman. I just joined this group. I work for ActiFi, a startup
based in
Plymouth MN that does consulting and product
development involving workflow in financial services. I am a business analyst.
My main job
is gathering and communicating requirements,
including communicating with an offshore development team for some projects. I
am interested
in learning more about agile development - in learning more about software
development in
general, to tell the truth. I am a career changer (a former mathematician and
math teacher)
and new to the software industry.



I am looking for people who have experience with rapid requirements
communication. I would
like to know about things like:

1.       Is there an online collaboration tool that you recommend? I have
experience with
Wiki's and love them.

2.       How do you manage tradeoffs among speed, precision,
flexibility?

Question 1 is straightforward. Question 2 is, well,
not-so-straightforward :-)



If you have experience in these areas and are able/willing to do an
informational interview,
or if you just have random suggestions, please email me offlist
(peterb@... ) - I
would be most grateful for any comments.



Peter Berman

Business Analyst

ActiFi, Inc.

peterb@...

work: (763) 746-1263

mobile: (612) 597-7387

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#771 From: "Peter Berman" <peterb@...>
Date: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:50 pm
Subject: RE: [AEG] introduction - seeking informational interviews 		pbmath
Send Email Send Email
 

I’ll be glad to.

 

Peter Berman

Senior Business Analyst

ActiFi, Inc.

peterb@...

work: (763) 746-1263

mobile: (612) 597-7387

From: Agile_Experience_Group@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Agile_Experience_Group@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jan Emter
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:20 AM
To: Agile_Experience_Group@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [AEG] introduction - seeking informational interviews

 


Hi Peter,

If you receive offline answers and information, would you be willing to summarize your
findings and share them with the group?  I, and probably others, would be interested in
hearing the results...

Thanks!
Jan Emter

------------------------------------- Original Message -------------------------------------
Subject: [AEG] introduction - seeking informational interviews
From:    "Peter Berman" <peterb@...>
Date:    Tue, December 13, 2005 10:53 am
To:      Agile_Experience_Group@yahoogroups.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi everyone,



My name is Peter Berman. I just joined this group. I work for ActiFi, a startup based in
Plymouth MN that does consulting and product
development involving workflow in financial services. I am a business analyst. My main job
is gathering and communicating requirements,
including communicating with an offshore development team for some projects. I am interested
in learning more about agile development - in learning more about software development in
general, to tell the truth. I am a career changer (a former mathematician and math teacher)
and new to the software industry.



I am looking for people who have experience with rapid requirements communication. I would
like to know about things like:

1.       Is there an online collaboration tool that you recommend? I have experience with
Wiki's and love them.

2.       How do you manage tradeoffs among speed, precision,
flexibility?

Question 1 is straightforward. Question 2 is, well,
not-so-straightforward :-)



If you have experience in these areas and are able/willing to do an informational interview,
or if you just have random suggestions, please email me offlist (peterb@... ) - I
would be most grateful for any comments.



Peter Berman

Business Analyst

ActiFi, Inc.

peterb@...

work: (763) 746-1263

mobile: (612) 597-7387






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#772 From: David Allen <davidkallen@...>
Date: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:51 pm
Subject: Fw: An online presentation on refactoring basics 		davidkallen
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The link below is to an online tutorial on basic refactoring.
It relies on Fowler's classic book on refactoring.
I went through it and thought it would be a nice introduction for
any new OO programmers you may have hired.
They appear to have some other good training resources for agile OO programmers.
Rob used to be a regular at our OTUG meetings when he still lived here.
If I read this right, they offer free Ezines periodically.
 
David Kreth Allen
 

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Rob Myers <rob@...>
To: rob@...
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 2:16:28 PM
Subject: An online presentation on refactoring basics

Friends,
 
Take a look if interested.  The presentation requires Flash.  The audio is somewhat rough and inconsistent.  I was playing with various recording configurations during this, my very first "streamzine."  (And I'm getting a different mic for the next one.)  The voice you hear on the 2nd slide, and the promo material at the very end, is Scott Bain's.
 
 
Share with other developers during December and probably half of January.  Eventually it will roll off the list of free streamzines.
 
Thanks!
 
Rob
 
Effective software development without suffering.
Rob Myers
Senior Consultant 		Net Objectives
2314 Parkwood Court
Santa Rosa, CA 95409
rob@...
www.netobjectives.com
mobile: 707.704.9371
 
Upcoming courses

Design Patterns Explained  Jan 24-26   Bellevue, WA
Design Patterns Explained  Feb 6-8      Cupertino, CA

Design Patterns Explained  Mar 28-30  Denver, CO

ScrumMaster Certification   Mar 29-30  Cupertino, CA

 

 

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#773 From: Nick Bauman <nick.bauman@...>
Date: Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:35 am
Subject: Re: [AEG] introduction - seeking informational interviews 		nixnixnix
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Regarding your offshore collaboration tools problem:

Offshoring is a specific situation where any kinds of remote teams have to collaborate. And offshoring has some specific issues with Agility in general because of the lengthening of feedback loops required to best leverage expertise. This is a big and touchy subject on many levels that can't be answered patly, and jumping to answering a question about tools in conjunction with offshoring is cart before the horse IMHO.

Software Development Magazine this month had a special on offshore development. In all the case studies citing "successful" offshoring projects, I noticed there was an almost willful effort to disguise or downplay the total cost of the effort and the ROI. I think there is a good reason for this from my own experience with offshore development, having been on both sides of the equasion: being an experienced developer on an offshore team and being an experienced developer having offshore code dumped in my lap. In the latter case, the offshore code has been almost the worst code I have ever seen in my life. Colleages of mine have confirmed this experience independently. In the former case the frustration of not getting timely feedback from the customer and the communication bandwidth being so constrained, I thought there was no way we could possibly succeed. In a nutsheel, offshore developers don't suck: they are just developing with their hands tied behind their back: being one-legged participants in a butt-kicking contest.

I put to you that software offshoring is not a rising trend. It is in an ocillating trend that has been going on for my whole life. Companies that can't manage a software project to save their lives find that -- big surprise -- software projects are costly and often fail. So they do the one thing that will rely on stellar management skills, which they don't have: sending the project far away where it can't be managed (for lack of a better term in this case) as well as it was before. And they find out that while they are bleeding a little less money on the front end, they are paying an even higher price in the long run and still not solving the software / IT management problem. So they take it back in house. The trend starts again.

On the other hand the best offshore team I have ever worked with, which is not saying much, shipped a single MS xls spreadsheet with their code drop every day, which was the main form of communication. So the tools for collaboration do not need to be sophisticated for the team to get the job done well. Be advised you will not fix the problem by sprinkling lightly with tools until desired consistency is achieved. Perhaps the moment of truth will come when you learn this the hard way.

Kent Beck in his second edition of "eXtreme Programming Explained - Embrace Change" talked about the converting of the story CRC cards into tools like XPlanner. He said he has never seen any program succeed in converting these story cards because the important thing about them is the communication and social forces that they create, not the information on the cards by themselves. This gives me even greater pause on the offshoring question. I'm on an XP team and we are using XPlanner and I have more than once thought there was something strange about how it worked on the team.

Fundamentally you have to ask yourself why organizations exist, if not to provide an umbrella organization, or organization of organizations, where experts come together to leverage each others skills. If everyone in a knowledge industry could work remotely at their own workstation all over the world and never have to come into the office and only collaborate via email or the telephone, we would be doing it. We don't do that because it doesn't work, or at least it will never be cost effective. I just finished a gig where they thought that they could run a company that way. It was one of the most technically constipated organizations I have ever worked at. Innovation, at its heart, is about social change, often radical in nature. History is filled with examples. You can't change much when you're bandwidth constrained in communication, no matter how wonderful offshoring sounds in the boardroom meeting.

Good luck and thanks for the soapbox.

On 12/13/05, Peter Berman <peterb@...> wrote:

I'll be glad to.

 

Peter Berman

Senior Business Analyst

ActiFi, Inc.

peterb@...

work: (763) 746-1263

mobile: (612) 597-7387

From: Agile_Experience_Group@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Agile_Experience_Group@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jan Emter
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:20 AM
To: Agile_Experience_Group@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [AEG] introduction - seeking informational interviews

 


Hi Peter,

If you receive offline answers and information, would you be willing to summarize your
findings and share them with the group?  I, and probably others, would be interested in
hearing the results...

Thanks!
Jan Emter

------------------------------------- Original Message -------------------------------------
Subject: [AEG] introduction - seeking informational interviews
From:    "Peter Berman" <peterb@...>
Date:    Tue, December 13, 2005 10:53 am
To:      Agile_Experience_Group@yahoogroups.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi everyone,



My name is Peter Berman. I just joined this group. I work for ActiFi, a startup based in
Plymouth MN that does consulting and product
development involving workflow in financial services. I am a business analyst. My main job
is gathering and communicating requirements,
including communicating with an offshore development team for some projects. I am interested
in learning more about agile development - in learning more about software development in
general, to tell the truth. I am a career changer (a former mathematician and math teacher)
and new to the software industry.



I am looking for people who have experience with rapid requirements communication. I would
like to know about things like:

1.       Is there an online collaboration tool that you recommend? I have experience with
Wiki's and love them.

2.       How do you manage tradeoffs among speed, precision,
flexibility?

Question 1 is straightforward. Question 2 is, well,
not-so-straightforward :-)



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#774 From: "James McGovern" <james@...>
Date: Sat Dec 24, 2005 3:58 pm
Subject: Agile in Fortune 200 Enterprises 		enterprisear...
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Still interested in networking with employees (not consultants) of Fortune 200 enterprises (non-software or hardware oriented). I haven't made much progress in putting together the panel for an upcoming conference on the topic of: incorporating agility into the enterprise culture. If you are interested in being a member of the panel, please do not hesitate to drop me a note.
 
On a separate note, I would also like to add to my blogroll, those who blog on agile software development as described here: http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2005/12/software-development-has-absolutely.html
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Kern [mailto:jonkern@...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 8:38 PM
To: agilealliance@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [agilealliance] Agile in Fortune 200 Enterprises

Two new posts:
  • i'll be at the pittsburgh JUG Dec 13th, Agile MDA
  • Oh, You Mean Henry! Unintendend biases

http://blogs.compuware.com/cs/blogs/jkern/

-- jon kern

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#775 From: Animikh Sen <drsen@...>
Date: Sun Jan 1, 2006 5:48 pm
Subject: Happy New Year 		animikhsen
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Wishing you and your loved ones the best for 2006.

Anik, Ahana, Debjani and Animikh

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#776 From: Thomas Becker <Thomas.G.Becker@...>
Date: Mon Jan 9, 2006 1:17 pm
Subject: Next AMPG meeting on Tuesday, February 7 at Simacor 		Thomas.G.Becker@...
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The next meeting of the Agile Methodology Project Group is on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at Simacor from 6:30-8:30. We've been hearing a lot lately about FIT and FitNesse as an excellent way to implement acceptance tests. In fact the next OTUG meeting scheduled for January 17 will be on FIT. At our previous meeting in November we began implementing it/them into a project. We will continue this effort at our next meeting.

For more information on the AMPG group or directions to Simacor, see our Wiki at 
or following the links at www.otug.org.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Thomas




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#777 From: "Aleh Matus" <aleh_matus@...>
Date: Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:09 pm
Subject: OTUG Reminder: Tue, January 17, 2006 - David Hussman "Automating Acceptance Testing with Fit" 		aleh_matus
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Tue, January 17, 2006
Topic: "Automating Acceptance Testing with Fit"
Presenter: David Hussman 
 
 
Abstract

 

Community collaboration is at the heart of agile development. A great example is the story sign off process, where customers validate story completion by executing story (acceptance) tests. FIT allows the automation of story tests and increases collaboration by providing customers and testers a better way to communicate story tests in an unambiguous form. The presentation will discuss collaboration around stories and story (acceptance) tests, and then proceed to a demonstration of how FIT and FitNesse (FIT living within a Wiki) can be used to automate acceptance tests.

About Speaker

David has coached large and small teams in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and Ukraine. As well as speaking and presenting at agile conferences in the U.S. and Europe, David has contributed to several books, published at numerous agile conferences, and completed a series of interviews and presentations for Capella University courses. David is co-owner of SGF Software and a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Agile Software Development and Project Management Practice.

Logistics
 
    6:15 - 6:30 Free Pizza and Socializing
    6:30 - 9:00 Presentation and Q/A

Please, register online at http://www.otug.org
 


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#778 From: "Aleh Matus" <aleh_matus@...>
Date: Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:50 am
Subject: .NET Developer Positions at NorthStar CMS 		aleh_matus
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I would like to share with you a couple of open positions in our company. If you are interested in applying, please, reply with your resume and contact information or submit your information directly to itjobs@...
 
Sincerely,
 
Aleh Matus
Enterprise Architect, NorthStar CMS
 
--------------------------------------------------------------

.NET Application Developer

NorthStar Capital Markets Services is one of the most respected names in the student loan industry. Quickly becoming a key ingredient of NorthStar’s success are the T.H.E. Loan Programs making NorthStar one of the top student loan originators in the country.

 

We are currently looking for a .NET Application Developer to join our team in downtown St. Paul.

 

If you

  • would like to be a part of a high-energy team
  • have a passion for developing complex business application
  • have an interest in learning new technologies

And you

  • have 2+ years of real-life development experience
  • are proficient with .NET framework, including C#, VB.NET, and ASP.NET
  • are familiar with SQL Server
  • have working knowledge of object-oriented concepts and design principles
  • have experience with refactoring and automated unit testing
  • have had prior exposure to Visual Basic

Please, email your resume and contact information to itjobs@...

 

.NET Web Application Developer

NorthStar Capital Markets Services is one of the most respected names in the student loan industry. Quickly becoming a key ingredient of NorthStar’s success are the T.H.E. Loan Programs making NorthStar one of the top student loan originators in the country.

 

We are currently looking for a .NET Web Application Developer to join our team in Minnetonka.

 

If you

  • would like to be a part of a high-energy team
  • have a passion for developing complex web application
  • have an interest in learning new technologies

And you

  • have 2+ years of real-life development experience
  • are proficient with .NET framework, including C#, VB.NET, and ASP.NET
  • are capable of creating rich user interface functionality for web applications
  • are familiar with SQL Server
  • have working knowledge of object-oriented concepts and design principles
  • have experience with refactoring and automated unit testing

Please, email your resume and contact information to itjobs@...

 

 
 

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#779 From: Alex Viggio <aviggio@...>
Date: Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:42 am
Subject: Agile 2006 CFP Deadlines 01/31 & 02/28 		aviggio
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AGILE 2006
July 23-29, 2006
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA


*** CFP SUBMISSION DEADLINES WILL SOON ARRIVE ***

- January 31, 2006:  Discovery Session, Experience Reports, Hands-on
    Sessions, Tutorials

- February 28, 2006:  Research Papers, Educators' Symposium

Agile 2006 will be an exciting conference about techniques and
technologies, attitudes and policies, research and experience, and the
management and development sides of agile software development. The
agile approach focuses on delivering business value early in the project
lifetime and being able to incorporate emergent requirements. It
accentuates the use of rich, informal communication channels and
frequent delivery of running, tested systems, while attending to the
human component of software development.

Agile 2006 gives attendees access to the latest thinking in this domain,
and bridges communities that rarely get a proper chance to exchange
ideas and thoughts. It brings together researchers from labs and
academia with executives, managers, and developers in the trenches of
software development. The conference is not about a single methodology
or approach, but rather provides a forum for the exchange of information
regarding all agile development technologies.

Visit the conference website at http://www.agile2006.com for details on
all submission categories and links to the online submission areas.

We invite submissions for the following:

**Research paper
An original contribution to the field of agile development. These
submissions have the potential to promote reflection in the field, to
deepen our understanding of agile approaches, to influence future
developments, and to inspire innovation.

**Educators' Symposium
A one-day event targeted particularly for agile educators. Sessions here
may take a variety of forms, such as papers, panels and activities.

**Experience Report
An opportunity to describe what did or didn't work for you on a project.
Experience reports allow practitioners to share practical advice and
warnings to other teams.  The proposal is a short summary of your
experience which will result in a paper presentation at the conference.

**Discovery Session
An opportunity for conference attendees to learn from each other about a
relevant topic and share the concrete outcomes after the session. These
90 or 180 minute sessions may take several formats including a think
tank, a goldfish bowl or a workshop.

**Tutorial
An opportunity for an expert to share knowledge with others through a
combination of lecture and exercise. Tutorials may be either 90 or 180
minutes.

**Hands-on session
An all-day or multi-day event during which participants are encouraged
to drop in and stay from one hour to all day to work hands-on developing
software. In past years, hands-on events featured the FIT Fest, which
provided opportunities to use FIT and FitNesse.

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#780 From: "Aleh Matus" <aleh_matus@...>
Date: Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:43 am
Subject: Announcement from Twin Cities Ruby User Group 		aleh_matus
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FYI
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:39 AM
Subject: OTUG President form submission

The following message was sent from the OTUG website to the OTUG President:

Hello! I'm one of a few folks that have started a Twin Cities Ruby User's Group (Ruby the programming language), and I was hoping you could pass on an announcement about our second meeting. It's out in Eden Prairie prairie this time, but perhaps a few folks from your user group will be interested in coming along. Perhaps we can have a co-located meeting some time too!If anyone there feels like posting something about this on other appropriate bulletin boards, I would have no objections! Thanks very much!

- Charlie

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URLs:
Group page: twincitiesrb.com
Ruby: ruby-lang.org

The details:
Ok folks, we're on for the second TC RUG meeting!

Date: January 31st, Tuesday
Time: 7:30PM
Venue: Digital River, in Eden Prairie, MN (directions below); wireless net access provided

Agenda:

1. Announcements - please send me any announcements you want to share with the group, or stand up when the time comes
2. Introductions - we'll go around again with some quick 10-second intros, to help remind everyone of names and get new folks into the mix
3. Outstanding RUG questions: group name? status of web site and related services? status of non-profit work potential? We will probably try to vote on a group name, so don't complain if you miss out!
4. Presentation #1: "JRuby: Bringing Ruby to the JVM" by Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo
We'll try to make it relevant to both the Ruby and Java worlds, with lots of cool demos and discussion time to follow. We're the two active members of the JRuby team, and JRuby is under heavy development ahead of our JavaOne presentation.
5. Breather/discussion time
6. Presentation #2: WATIR demonstration by Nick Sieger
By popular demand, we finally pinned down a WATIR demo. Nick has graciously volunteered to take this on.
7. Conclusion and post-meeting discussion over beers
If anyone knows a good barley-pop venue in the Digital River area, please share it. What good is a geekfest without a tasty beer to follow it?

Directions to Digital River (thanks again to Nick Sieger for hooking us up!):

Google Maps:
http://tinyurl.com/dvlwa

Details:
1. There are two DR-owned buildings, one on the north side of 76th and one on the south.  We're in the south (9625) building.  at the eastern-most door, by the large "Digital River" sign on the building -- this is the main lobby entrance.  There will be a MINI (the car
brand) parked near the door.
2.  When you get inside, you'll need to sign in and receive a "visitor" badge.
3.  Proceed to the meeting -- we'll have a few folks from DR to help you find the meeting room once in the building.
4.  When finished, you'll need to go back through the lobby, drop off your badge, and sign out.

If you think you'll be late, please send an email to the group mailing list ahead of time and we'll help you out!


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#781 From: Nick Bauman <nick.bauman@...>
Date: Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:57 am
Subject: Waterfall 2006 Call For Papers 		nixnixnix
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http://www.waterfall2006.com/

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#782 From: Thomas Becker <Thomas.G.Becker@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 3:09 am
Subject: Next AMPG meeting on Tuesday, February 7 at Simacor 		Thomas.G.Becker@...
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The next meeting of the Agile Methodology Project Group is on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at Simacor from 6:30-8:30. We've been hearing a lot lately about FIT and FitNesse as an excellent way to implement acceptance tests. In fact the last OTUG meeting on January 17 was on FIT. At our previous meeting in November we began implementing it/them into a project. We will continue this effort at our next meeting.

For more information on the AMPG group or directions to Simacor, see our Wiki at 
or following the links at www.otug.org.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Thomas





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#783 From: "Kyle R. Larson" <kylel@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 9:22 pm
Subject: Wanted - Skilled OO developers for agile team in SW suburbs 		KyleRLarson
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Wanted - Skilled OO developers for agile team in SW suburbs

Great opportunity for people with strong OO development skills, effective collaboration skills, who deliver clean code;

People who enjoy pair-programming, test-driven-development, and software development best-practices;

To work on an effective existing agile development team that develops digital photography systems.


Required Experience / Expertise

  • Ability and desire to work in a small, focused, effective XP/Scrum team
  • Effective collaboration and communication skills
  • Strong Object-Oriented design and implementation skills
  • Solid Java skills


Desired Experience / Expertise 

  • Knowledge of image manipulation/processing (JAI)
  • Thick-client GUI development, especially Swing
  • JUnit, and mocking tools
  • Functional testing tools (Fit, Fitness, etc.)
  • Automated build tools (Ant, AntHill, CruiseControl)
  • Java-based Linux and Windows development and deployment
  • Work-flow / Process control
  • Production / Operations experience
  • Object-relational mapping tools (Hibernate)
  • Lightweight component configuration tools (Spring)

For More Information

Do not reply to this list. Instead, please send resume to:

Kyle R. Larson



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#784 From: "Aleh Matus" <aleh_matus@...>
Date: Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:24 am
Subject: OTUG Reminder: Tue, February 21, 2006 - Michael Dalton and Karl Lacher "Gaining Business Intelligence" 		aleh_matus
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Tue, February 21, 2006
Topic: "Gaining Business Intelligence"
Presenter: Michael Dalton and Karl Lacher
 
 
Abstract

 

For the first time in 2004 Business Intelligence (BI) was listed as a Top 10 concern for CIOs in the Fortune 500. In 2005, based on data from a recent Gartner survey, business intelligence jumped from the No. 10 slot to the second-highest priority on CIOs' agendas. Also in 2005, businesses using or planning to use BI software expect to spend approximately 5 percent to 10 percent of their software budgets on BI.

The presentation will discuss Business Intelligence (BI) including the development of data warehouses, the use of analytical tools, the challenges of ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Load), data quality issues, ERP data warehousing, new trends in data mining and real time analytics as well as some of the differences between an ODS, data mart and data warehouse.


About Speakers

Karl Lacher has worked on data warehousing and business intelligence projects since 1996. He has played various roles in data warehouse initiatives: manager, project manager, business analyst, data modeler, ETL developer, DBA, and report developer. Industries covered include health care (MCC Behavioral Care), food (Pillsbury), retail (Dayton-Hudson, Best Buy), financial services (Reliastar Financial), transportation (Koch Logistics, Logistics Specialists), manufacturing (Plastics Inc.), and education (Wisconsin State Technical Colleges, Capella University). Mr. Lacher holds an MBA in Finance from the University of St. Thomas and a Master's

Michael Dalton has been involved in data warehousing efforts for over 10 years including projects with GMAC, Duke Medical Center and Capella University. He is a Microsoft Certified DBA (MCDBA) and has given presentations on data warehousing and database performance tuning for Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS).


Logistics
 
    6:15 - 6:30 Free Pizza and Socializing
    6:30 - 9:00 Presentation and Q/A

Please, register online at http://www.otug.org


 

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#785 From: "jeantmiles" <jeanmiles@...>
Date: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:41 pm
Subject: Reminder: Java SIG Meeting Tuesday March 14, 2006 at 6:30pm 		jeantmiles
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Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 (2nd Tuesday)
Time: 6:30pm
Location: 3M Auditorium at Owens Science Hall
Topic: Practical Tools and Techniques for Improving Development
Productivity
presented by Tom Wadzinski

Abstract
Practical Tools and Techniques for Improving Development Productivity
Software professionals often balance their time between interacting
with business people, performing technical design, and coding,
testing and debugging. If insufficient time is available for these
activities due to factors such as tight deadlines and changing
requirements, software quality will suffer, and projects may fail.
Increasing the number of developers on a project to meet a tight
deadline many argue is actually likely to have a negative effect on
overall project success.

Successful projects employing Agile principles reveal that individual
and process efficiency is essential to success, through face-to-face
communication, lightweight design tools, etc. In that same vein, if
developers can code, test and debug more efficiently without
compromising quality, they are more valuable and project success is
more likely.

The presenter will show how such development efficiency can be
achieved through optimizing repetitive tasks. The presentation will
provide a hands-on look at a variety of techniques. Examples of
techniques and tools to be shown are:

Time-saving IDE conveniences/plugins (most applicable to both Eclipse
and IntelliJ IDEA) Ant build script optimizations
Firefox Developer plugins - Selenium IDE, Live HTTP Headers, "Web
Developer" Runtime Control of Application Logging for troubleshooting
Weblogic-specific deployment time reduction techniques

About The Speaker Tom Wadzinski is a Senior Software Consultant at
Object Partners, Inc., in Minneapolis. A recent returnee to the
Midwest, Tom worked at software startup companies in Boston for the
last several years. Tom is an Agile methodologies enthusiast and has
been developing primarily on JEE.

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#786 From: "Kyle R. Larson" <kylel@...>
Date: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:00 pm
Subject: Use Case Driven Agile Development - March 22 		KyleRLarson
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Use Case Driven Agile Development
Presented by Dr. Dan Rawsthorne
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
http://www.netobjectives.com/events/pr_min_2006_03_ucdad.htm

Abstract:
Capturing functional requirements with Use Cases is a software
development best practice. Agile development processes are proving
themselves to be effective. How do we marry the two in a seamless,
painless, way?

The answer is to combine the iterative nature of agility with
incremental development of use cases. It turns out they work very well
together, as this talk explains.

Contents:

- Discussion of Agile Software Development
        - Purpose and Philosophies
        - Managing the work being done

- Use Case Development (the six questions)
        - What Does The System Do?
        - What Does This Use Case Do?
        - How Do We Make It Do That?
        - What Pieces Do We Need?
        - What Could Go Wrong?
        - How Do We Handle This One?

- Integrating Use Cases into Agile Development
        - Introducing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
        - Use Cases Populate the WBS
        - Calculating Earned Business Value (EBV)

Who Should Attend:
Anyone who wants to understand how to develop requirements for a
software system. It is applicable for all who must be familiar with
developing requirements for a software project, including analysts,
architects, programmers, and so on...

Biography of Presenter: Dan Rawsthorne is a Certified Scrum Trainer and
Use Case expert who lives at the "process end" of things at Net
Objectives. His focus is on helping organizations get products "out the
door" using agility, and he has been doing so for over 20 years. He has
a PhD in mathematics from the University of Illinois, and is currently
writing a book on use cases. He concentrates his training and coaching
in Use Case Driven Analysis and becoming a Certified Scrum Master.

You must register to attend:
Although this seminar is free, you must register to attend.  Follow this
link to register:
http://www.netobjectives.com/events/pr_min_2006_03_ucdad.htm

Date and Times:
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
6:30-7:00       networking and pizza
7:00-8:30       the talk
8:30-8:40       evaluations and break
8:40-9:00       extended Q&A

A charitable contribution to the Tyler-Domer Community Center of $1-3 is
requested for food and drink.

Location:
Room: Lake Calhoun
Courtyard Minneapolis Bloomington/Mall of America
7800 Bloomington Avenue South
Bloomington, Minnesota 55425

For map/directions, click here:
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Class notes will not be handed out.  Check the seminar webpage the week
of the seminar to get a copy of them on-line.

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#787 From: "lisagallmeyer" <Lisa.Gallmeyer@...>
Date: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:53 pm
Subject: Business Analyst Consulting Role - Agile Environment 		lisagallmeyer
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Hello All,

My name is Lisa Gallmeyer, and I am with Modis IT.  I am searching
for a Business Analyst with experience in an Agile environment.  This
is an immediate need on the west side of Minneapolis, and the length
of the engagement is a minimum of three months.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you, and I will fill you in on
the details!  Thank you for allowing me to post to your group!!

Warm regards,

Lisa Gallmeyer
Resource Development Manager
Modis IT
952-876-2989 (direct)
www.modisit.com

At Modis, we place consultants on engagements locally and
nationally.  We have about 100 consultants in the Twin Cities and
4000 nationally.  We also work with clients to place candidates in
direct hire and contract-for-hire roles.

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#788 From: "scofaw" <Scott.Fawcett@...>
Date: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:55 pm
Subject: software development openings 		scofaw
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MTS has several software development positions currently open.  If
interested, feel free to visit www.mts.com.

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#789 From: "Adam W" <javatechnologist@...>
Date: Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:47 pm
Subject: Re: [AEG] software development openings 		javatechnologist@...
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Would it be too much to get a job list like tcjug-jobs list for this stuff with OTUG so we don't have to deal with looking at email like the one below?  I know we join these groups partly to network, but this doesn't make me want to join the group.

Thanks,
Adam

On 3/16/06, scofaw <Scott.Fawcett@...> wrote:
MTS has several software development positions currently open.  If
interested, feel free to visit www.mts.com.







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#790 From: Thomas Becker <Thomas.G.Becker@...>
Date: Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:38 pm
Subject: Next AMPG meeting on Tuesday, April 4 at Simacor 		Thomas.G.Becker@...
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The next meeting of the Agile Methodology Project Group is on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 at Simacor from 6:30-8:30. We've been hearing a lot lately about FIT and FitNesse as an excellent way to implement acceptance tests. We are working on implementing them into a small project of our own so that we can learn how they work. This experience will help us use them on our own projects. We began this effort at earlier meetings and will continue our efforts at our next one.

For more information on the AMPG group or directions to Simacor, see our Wiki at 
or following the links at www.otug.org.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Thomas

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#791 From: Jeanette Takaoka-Miles <jeantmiles@...>
Date: Sun Apr 2, 2006 5:30 pm
Subject: Reminder: Java SIG Meeting Tuesday April 11, 2006 at 6:30pm - JRuby: Bringing Ruby to the JVM presented by Charles Oliver Nutter & Thomas E Enebo 		jeantmiles
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OTUG link:    http://www.otug.org/
OTUG Java SIG link:    http://www.otug.org/groups/javasig.html
 
Date:
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 (2nd Tuesday)
Time:
6:30pm Pizza
7:00pm Presentation
Location:
3M Auditorium at Owens Science Hall
Topic:
JRuby: Bringing Ruby to the JVM
presented by Charles Oliver Nutter & Thomas E Enebo
Registration:
Please register by Friday, April 7th.

Abstract

JRuby: Bringing Ruby to the JVM
JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language targeted at the Virtual Machine for the Java™ (JVM) platform. Ruby is a dynamically-typed object-oriented language with support for blocks, continuations, and all the usual OO trimmings. JRuby aims to not only support the full Ruby platform, but also provide an enhanced m:n threading model, a heap-allocated "stackless" call stack, AOT and JIT compilation of Ruby to bytecodes, and extensive, pervasive integration between Ruby and Java technology.
Ruby has become a very popular language recently, in part because of the popularity of the Rails web framework, but also due to the careful, cautious evolution of the language and libraries. Because of this popularity, many powerful tools and frameworks are available that would fit well into existing Java applications. We plan for JRuby to run all the high-visibility Ruby applications in concert with existing Java applications and frameworks. Imagine Rails with JDBC ActiveRecord connectors, session or entity beans implemented in Ruby, middle-tier Ruby-based business rule engines, or building your application using the elegant Rake build tool. JRuby will help both Ruby and the JVM language benefit from all these possibilities.

About The Speakers

Charles Oliver Nutter has been developing applications in Java since 1996, and is currently one of two active members of the JRuby development team. He has been working to redesign JRuby's core interpreter and improve compatibility with Ruby 1.8. Recently, work has also turned toward getting key Ruby applications to work, like Rails, RubyGems, and IRB. Charles is currently employed as lead J2EE architect at Ventera corporation. His current project is Ventera's ongoing development contract at the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, where he leads development of new applications and maintenance and support of existing ones. Charles presented JRuby at RubyConf 2005 and will co-present with Thomas Enebo at JavaOne 2006.
Charles can be contacted at headius@..., and maintains a blog at headius.blogspot.com.
Thomas E Enebo is project manager and a developer of the open source project JRuby, a developer at the University of Minnesota, and a consultant with Aandtech Inc. Tom is interested in large-scale web application development and the Ruby programming language.

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#792 From: "Aleh Matus" <aleh_matus@...>
Date: Sun Apr 9, 2006 12:04 am
Subject: Fw: MinneBar 		aleh_matus
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FYI
 
- Aleh
 
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Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 2:27 PM
Subject: MinneBar

Aleh,

Not sure if you've seen this yet (apologies if this is old news) but I
think it'd be of interest to the OTUG group...

http://barcamp.org/MinneBar

Would you be willing to send some information to your group or maybe
post something on the OTUG site?  Thanks,

NT
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