I know it's late notice, but I highly recommend hearing Esther & Diana.
   It will be worth the trip.

   - George

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  ANN: AgilePhilly has Esther Derby and Diana Larsen Wed 11/18
Date:  Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:19:10 -0000


A reminder to RSVP for tomorrow's meeting.

RSVP will close at 10AM on Weds

Big thanks to ClickEquations http://www.clickequations.com/ and Siemens
http://www.usa.siemens.com/entry/en/  for bringing us Esther Derby and
Diana Larsen.

Location Siemens (in Malvern, PA)

Date and Time  Wed 11/18 starting at 6pm

RSVP @ http://agilephilly. ning.com/ events/esther- derby-and- diana-larsen


Topic:  Esther Derby and Diana Larsen co-authored the classic Agile
Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great [http://www.pragprog
.com/titles/ dlret/agile- retrospectives]

The topic for this session is still in the making. Of course there will
be some retrospective content but Diana and Esther might want to cover
some hot topics (your questions?) about Agile Alliance and/or humans &
software project.


Bio:

Esther Derby is one of the rare breed of consultants who blends the
technical and managerial issues with the people-side issues. She is well
known for her work helping teams grow to new levels of productivity and
is recognized as one of the world's leaders in retrospective
facilitation. Esther's articles have appeared in Better Software
(formerly STQE), Software Development, Cutter IT Journal, and CrossTalk.
She writes regular columns for stickyminds. com and Computerworld. com,
and publishes the quarterly newsletter, insights. Esther is also a host
and session leader at the Amplifying Your Effectiveness (AYE) conference.

Diana Larsen partners with leaders of software development projects to
improve project performance, support and sustain change, and build
collaborative workplaces. Diana serves on the boards of the Agile
Alliance and the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference,
participates in planning for the XP 200x and Agile 200x conferences, and
speaks at several software conferences every year.. She's written
articles for Software Development, At Work, Cutter IT Journal, and
Cutter's Executive Update and e-Advisor series. Diana is a founder of
the Annual International Retrospective Facilitators Gathering.

With Norm Kerth, Esther and Diana are founders of the annual
Retrospective Facilitators Gathering. They are recognized as two of the
world's leaders in retrospective facilitation







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In case anyone is interested:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  Manning Agile Books for User Groups
Date:  Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:02:10 -0500
From:  Todd Green <togr@...>
Hello George,

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Last call for this course. Learn from Dr. Sutherland, one of the co-creator's of
Scrum.

Regards, Joe


--- In MarylandXP@yahoogroups.com, "julia.kittyhawk" <julia.hill@...> wrote:
>
> We have a great group coming together, and I hope you or a friend can join us.
> There are still seats available in the upcoming Certified ScrumMaster Course
with Jeff Sutherland. The course will be held in Richmond from July 23-24.
>
> See below or contact me with any questions:
> http://bit.ly/14vMW
>
>
> Regards,
> Julia Hill
>
>
>
> --- In MarylandXP@yahoogroups.com, "julia.kittyhawk" <julia.hill@> wrote:
> >
> > Just a reminder:
> > There are still seats available in the upcoming Certified ScrumMaster Course
with Jeff Sutherland. The course will be held in Richmond from July 23-24.
> > See below or contact me with any questions.
> > Regards,
> > Julia
> >
> >
> > --- In MarylandXP@yahoogroups.com, "julia.kittyhawk" <julia.hill@> wrote:
> > >
> > > On July 23-24, Jeff Sutherland and Joe Little will lead a Certified
ScrumMaster course in Richmond, VA.
> > >
> > > Jeff Sutherland is the co-creator of Scrum. Joe is an experienced Agile
coach and trainer.
> > >
> > > See here for more details:
> > >
http://leanagiletraining.com/Sutherland%20RIC%20CSM/Sutherland%20RIC%20CSM.html
> > >
> > > Or contact me.
> > >
> > > Thanks, Julia
> > >
> >
>

Hi,

It's rare that anyone in government IT is looking for input from outside. The
site listed below provides us an opportunity to expound on the virtues of Open
Source, Agile Development processes and Ruby on Rails in particular. If you work
in the government space, improving government is in your immediate self
interest, but even if you don't, we are all tax payers and it's in everybody's
interest to grow government applications that meet citizen needs quickly, cost
effectively using solid tools like Rails and agile processes.

http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/

While the specific IT infrastructure topic I mentioned at a previous DCRUG seems
to have closed, other topics can be opened and discussion is invited.

Camille

We have a great group coming together, and I hope you or a friend can join us.
There are still seats available in the upcoming Certified ScrumMaster Course
with Jeff Sutherland. The course will be held in Richmond from July 23-24.

See below or contact me with any questions:
http://bit.ly/14vMW


Regards,
Julia Hill





--- In MarylandXP@yahoogroups.com, "julia.kittyhawk" <julia.hill@...> wrote:
>
> Just a reminder:
> There are still seats available in the upcoming Certified ScrumMaster Course
with Jeff Sutherland. The course will be held in Richmond from July 23-24.
> See below or contact me with any questions.
> Regards,
> Julia
>
>
> --- In MarylandXP@yahoogroups.com, "julia.kittyhawk" <julia.hill@> wrote:
> >
> > On July 23-24, Jeff Sutherland and Joe Little will lead a Certified
ScrumMaster course in Richmond, VA.
> >
> > Jeff Sutherland is the co-creator of Scrum. Joe is an experienced Agile
coach and trainer.
> >
> > See here for more details:
> >
http://leanagiletraining.com/Sutherland%20RIC%20CSM/Sutherland%20RIC%20CSM.html
> >
> > Or contact me.
> >
> > Thanks, Julia
> >
>

Hello:

My name is Elizabeth Shaw and I represent a group called UXL
(http://uxleague.org) that is involved in research on user experience design and
Agile development.  Currently we are researching Agile use in a distributed team
environment (a team whose members who are not located in the same place).

We have created an online survey asking questions about people's experiences
working on a distributed product development effort.  The survey is available
at:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=jWGOF2TRjRhADtR7r6hZrA_3d_3d

Participation is entirely optional.  There are no required questions in the
survey and it is possible to exit the survey at any time. We do not require any
personal information. All data collected is completely confidential and is not
associated with the respondent.  We would be happy to share our results with
anyone interested after we have completed our data compilation.

Thank you very much for your time and attention!  Please feel free to contact me
anytime with any questions or comments about this post, about the survey or any
other topic.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Shaw
elizabeth@...

Just a reminder:
There are still seats available in the upcoming Certified ScrumMaster Course
with Jeff Sutherland. The course will be held in Richmond from July 23-24.
See below or contact me with any questions.
Regards,
Julia


--- In MarylandXP@yahoogroups.com, "julia.kittyhawk" <julia.hill@...> wrote:
>
> On July 23-24, Jeff Sutherland and Joe Little will lead a Certified
ScrumMaster course in Richmond, VA.
>
> Jeff Sutherland is the co-creator of Scrum. Joe is an experienced Agile coach
and trainer.
>
> See here for more details:
>
http://leanagiletraining.com/Sutherland%20RIC%20CSM/Sutherland%20RIC%20CSM.html
>
> Or contact me.
>
> Thanks, Julia
>

On July 23-24, Jeff Sutherland and Joe Little will lead a Certified ScrumMaster
course in Richmond, VA.

Jeff Sutherland is the co-creator of Scrum. Joe is an experienced Agile coach
and trainer.

See here for more details:
http://leanagiletraining.com/Sutherland%20RIC%20CSM/Sutherland%20RIC%20CSM.html

Or contact me.

Thanks, Julia

Given that Ruby on Rails is big in the Agile community, I thought some of our
audience might be interested in the one day training that David Bock will be
giving.

While automated deployment has not yet become an Agile mantra the way CI has, it
should, given what an incredible headache deployment can be. With the tools and
techniques available today, not automating your deployment is like not having a
code repository.

For those of you only interested in Java or .Net, some of the tools and
techniques will apply to you, but not all. If interested you might want to drop
David Bock an email and ask about applicability, or whether he later plans to
provide training on your specific deployment concerns.

For those of you who don't know David Bock, he's smart, agile, an incredible
speaker, pragmatic to the core, an all around nice guy and a pillar of the DC
technical community.

The training price is also pretty darn good for a full day. Short of free, it's
the best I've seen from a professional. Check it out.

Camille

--- On Tue, 4/28/09, David Bock <dbock@...> wrote:

From: David Bock <dbock@...>
Subject: [novarubygroup] Rails Deployment Training + RubyNation Conference = 3
days of Ruby  Nirvana
To: novarubygroup@yahoogroups.com, novajug@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 9:48 PM











   
           
           


     
      I'm going to be teaching a 1-day class on Rails deployment,

performance tuning, and production monitoring the day before our

regional RubyNation conference.  It is going to cover a *lot* of

material.



http://www.codesher pas.com/training



If you have been to a RUG or JUG meeting, you know the venue - the

large FGM conference room in Reston, VA



If you use the registration code RUBYFAN the training is only $125.



And don't forget to register for RubyNation for 3 days of Ruby and

Rails immersion!  Last year we sold out weeks before the event; seats

are going fast.



-db




     

   
   
   
     
   
   








   


   
   

Intridea is happy to announce the launch of our training division -
Intridea University.  Our first offering will be an Introduction to
Ruby on Rails, February 27th-March 1st.  In the course you will learn
the fundamentals of Ruby on Rails development from Intridea experts.
Our classes focus on real-world skills and applications to help you
hit the ground running with techniques and practices that will help
you write better code faster.

The course will be help at the Hotel George in Washington, DC, which
is conveniently located 1.5 blocks from Union Station, making it
easily accessible by Metro or Amtrak.

We're pleased to offer a user group discount of 10% using the discount
code USERGROUP-10.  Please feel free to pass this code along to anyone
that might be interested.  To find out more and sign up, visit
http://intrideauniversity.com

XPers,

I'm not working with agile embedded teams currently, but I know some of you do
and from what I know following the Agile Embedded community, James Grenning is
about as good as it gets within it. James' blog
   http://www.renaissancesoftware.net/blog/
is chock full of useful tips on how to agilely approach some of the toughest
things and James has been leading the Agile Embedded Yahoo group
   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AgileEmbedded/
for years.

Mike Cohn posted the following on his mail update about James upcoming Embedded
TDD class, which I thought I'd pass along:

"Training Course on TDD from James Grenning

Speaking of training, I also want to mention that embedded agile development
expert James Grenning will be teaching a couple of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
classes in March. He's got TDD for Embedded C++ and TDD for Embedded C classes
coming in March in Weston, Florida. Check out his website for details. I highly
recommend these classes to anyone doing embedded development."

Here's the link:

http://renaissancesoftware.net/publictrainingmenu.html

thought you should know,

Camille

On 01/17/09 17:42:51, Camille Bell wrote:
> Hey I'm on this side of the river Monday for a change, so I'll be
> there.
>
> What time are we meeting? What's the earliest anyone comes?
>
Schedule is 7 PM; I've been getting there a bit earlier, since I'm
between gigs at the moment. Location is the Panera in the north end of
Laurel, off of 198 just south of the BW Parkway.
That is, right here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=3301
+Corridor+Marketplace+Laurel,+Maryland
+20724&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=59.379225,75.498047&ie=UTF8&z=17

> I haven't been in ages. What exactly are we working on currently? Are
> we building Ruby refactoring tools like the email implies?
>
We had been working on a Merb-based wiki, but by general concencus,
that's about done (in the "not gonna work on it any more" sense, not
the "ship it" sense).

Jeff and I both agree that Ruby refactoring tools _ought_ to be
straightforward, given existing libraries, so we thought we'd give it a
try. At best, we'll end up with refactoring tools for Ruby; at worst,
we'll learn where the limits of RubyParser and Ruby2Ruby are.

First story is to just get a parse-tree of an arbitrary chunk of Ruby
displayed in a treeview widget; last week, we spent playing with the
Gtk tree widget and the RubyParser gem, just to get a feel for both.

-John

--
John Maxwell  (jmax@...)
Customer: I'm using Windows/XP Home
Tech Support: Uh-huh
Customer: My computer isn't working
Tech Support: Yes, you said that

Hey I'm on this side of the river Monday for a change, so I'll be there.

What time are we meeting? What's the earliest anyone comes?

I haven't been in ages. What exactly are we working on currently? Are we
building Ruby refactoring tools like the email implies?

Anyone besides me going to Ruby RX?

Camille

--- On Fri, 1/16/09, John Maxwell <jmax@...> wrote:

> From: John Maxwell <jmax@...>
> Subject: Re: [MarylandXP] Meeting this Monday?
> To: MarylandXP@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 1:59 PM
> On 01/16/09 13:28:32, George Dinwiddie wrote:
> > Maybe I'll make it this week.  Since Monday is a
> holiday, I'm not
> > heading back to Ohio until O-dark-hundred Tuesday.
> >
> >   - George
>
> That'd be fun; haven't seen you in a while.
>
> BTW, Jeff and I started a new project last week; seems like
> RubyParser
> and Ruby2Ruby should make it pretty easy to build
> refactoring tools for
> Ruby, so we're gonna see how far we can push it. Last
> week was a spike,
> just to get familiar with the packages.
>
> -John
>
> --
> John Maxwell  (jmax@...)
> "I am not a Church numeral; I am a free
> variable!"
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> See: http://agilemaryland.orgYahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

Jim Kingdon wrote:
> Anyone coming to the meeting in Laurel this Monday (the 19th)?  I was
> planning on showing up, but don't want to make the trip unless there
> will be someone there.
>
> The location and time is at http://agilemaryland.org/ assuming nothing
> has changed.
>
I can't make it, alas, but somebody should bring a copy of The Raven and
read it aloud:

Monday is the 200th birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, who died in nearby
Baltimore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe


--George  <gpaci@...>

   Waterfall?  Nevermore!

On 01/16/09 13:28:32, George Dinwiddie wrote:
> Maybe I'll make it this week.  Since Monday is a holiday, I'm not
> heading back to Ohio until O-dark-hundred Tuesday.
>
>   - George

That'd be fun; haven't seen you in a while.

BTW, Jeff and I started a new project last week; seems like RubyParser
and Ruby2Ruby should make it pretty easy to build refactoring tools for
Ruby, so we're gonna see how far we can push it. Last week was a spike,
just to get familiar with the packages.

-John

--
John Maxwell  (jmax@...)
"I am not a Church numeral; I am a free variable!"

Maybe I'll make it this week.  Since Monday is a holiday, I'm not
heading back to Ohio until O-dark-hundred Tuesday.

   - George

Jeff Waltzer wrote:
> We've changed the location a few months ago.   We're now meeting at the
> Laurel Panera Bread
>
>
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Panera+Bread+in+Laur\
el+md&sll=39.107633,-76.846118&sspn=0.010007,0.017767&g=3+Riverview+Ct,+Laurel,+\
MD+20707&ie=UTF8&ll=39.104622,-76.80748&spn=0.080058,0.142136&t=h&z=13&iwloc=A&i\
wstate1=dir
>
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Panera+Bread+in+Lau\
rel+md&sll=39.107633,-76.846118&sspn=0.010007,0.017767&g=3+Riverview+Ct,+Laurel,\
+MD+20707&ie=UTF8&ll=39.104622,-76.80748&spn=0.080058,0.142136&t=h&z=13&iwloc=A&\
iwstate1=dir>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:28 PM, John Maxwell <jmax@...
> <mailto:jmax@...>> wrote:
>
>     On 01/16/09 11:22:52, Jim Kingdon wrote:
>      > Anyone coming to the meeting in Laurel this Monday (the 19th)? I was
>      > planning on showing up, but don't want to make the trip unless there
>      > will be someone there.
>      >
>     Ayup; Jeff Waltzer and I are there pretty regularly. We have a few more
>     people who are there sometimes.
>
>
>      > The location and time is at http://agilemaryland.org/ assuming
>      > nothing
>      > has changed.
>      >
>     That information is correct.

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