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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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* George Dinwiddie * http://blog.gdinwiddie.com
Software Development http://www.idiacomputing.com
Consultant and Coach http://www.agilemaryland.org
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm really sorry for the short notice, but we've finally worked out the
location for this seminar:
APLN-MD/GB SPiN will be presenting a low-cost seminar on Friday
afternoon, January 29th, 2010, at the Emerging Technology Center in
Baltimore, MD. George Dinwiddie, Software Development Coach, will be
presenting "A Lingua Franca to Ensure You Get the Right
System." You'll want to bring your business partners, testers, and
developers to this seminar. Where else can you find such inexpensive
training in the convergence of requirements definition and automated
testing. For additional information, including directions, check out
the NextMeeting page (http://apln.agilemaryland.org/moin/NextMeeting).
A ''Lingua Franca'' to Ensure You Get the Right
System
Presenter: George Dinwiddie, Software Development Coach
Description:
The business tells the IT department what it wants. The developers
build it. The testers expect it to do something different. And neither
of these turn out to be what the business had in mind. Has this ever
happened to you?
IT departments have always struggled with getting clear and unambiguous
requirements. Automated acceptance tests that check the system with
examples make a big impact on coordinating the work of developers and
testers. Unfortunately, they’re often incomprehensible code to the
business people asking for the system. What if they test the wrong
thing? What if the examples are wrong?
Advances in testing frameworks make it possible to express these
examples in the language of the business. The person commissioning the
development can look at these examples and say, "Yes, that's what I
mean." The tester can automate the examples as acceptance tests without
changing the way that they're expressed. The developer can check the
code as it's being written and know when it meets the stated
requirements.
Additionally, the automated examples form the basis for regression
tests in the future. Automated scripts alone can't ensure bug-free
applications, but they can provide a big step up in correctness and
reliability - freeing testers to spend time looking for more elusive
problems.
In this seminar, you'll learn how you can develop a specification
language to bridge the gap between the business and IT. You'll see
patterns of these languages that are easily automatable as tests that
can be run throughout the development process - demonstrating the
progress being made. You'll discover open-source tools that can help
you get the right system more reliably, and ensure that it continues to
stay that way as development proceeds.
Who Should Attend?
* IT Directors, Project Managers, Tech Leads, PMPs, ScrumMasters,
Business Analysts, Developers, Testers
* Everyone should bring their business partners with them.
Presenter Bio:
George Dinwiddie fully intended to remain a developer of software,
hardware, firmware, and combinations of those, but it was not to be.
The harder problems were almost invariably organizational ones. And
these problems did not seem to respond to engineering solutions.
Today, George helps organizations develop software more effectively.
Effectiveness may be achieved by improved engineering practices,
enhanced design and testing skills, reduced waste effort, clarified
goals, better communication and teamwork, or a number of other ways.
George helps teams address their current impediments to further
excellence. He works with developers, testers, scrummasters, product
owners and managers to address issues at both personal and systemic
levels.
Kicked off by an early start in television repair, George's career has
included electronic hardware development, embedded firmware in
assembly, C, and C++, Information Technology in Java, C#, and Ruby, as
well as dalliances with other languages. He has shared his expertise at
such venues as the Agile Conference, XP Day North America, APLN
Maryland Chapter, Agile Maryland, and the Simple Design and Testing
Conference. As a consultant, he has helped companies, large and small,
including Wells Fargo, Autodesk, and Nationwide Insurance. He has a BA
in English, an MS in Computer Science, and has worked in software
development for more than a quarter century.
When: Friday Afternoon, January 29, 2010
Opens at 12:30
Seminar: 1:00-3:00
Where: The conference room at Baltimore's
Emerging Technology Center
2400 Boston Street
The Factory Bldg., 3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD. 21224
Cost: $15.00 per person
* Refreshments will be served
Please RSVP at aplnmd@... so
we know how many are coming.
At George's talk yesterday, Linda Cook handed out some flyers to an interesting Open Space for Agile Coaches and I lost the flyer.
Does anyone have a link to the Open Space?
thanks,
Camille
--- On Fri, 1/22/10, George Dinwiddie <lists@...> wrote:
From: George Dinwiddie <lists@...> Subject: [MarylandXP] [ANN]APLN Maryland presents seminar on Requirements & Testing To: AgileProjectManagement@yahoogroups.com, MarylandXP@yahoogroups.com, XpWdc@yahoogroups.com, aplndc@yahoogroups.com, xpevents@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 22, 2010, 4:34 PM
I'm really sorry for the short notice, but we've finally worked out the
location for this seminar:
APLN-MD/GB SPiN will be presenting a low-cost seminar on Friday
afternoon, January 29th, 2010, at the Emerging Technology Center in
Baltimore, MD. George Dinwiddie, Software Development Coach, will be
presenting "A Lingua Franca to Ensure You Get the Right
System." You'll want to bring your business partners, testers, and
developers to this seminar. Where else can you find such inexpensive
training in the convergence of requirements definition and automated
testing. For additional information, including directions, check out
the NextMeeting page (http://apln.agilemaryland.org/moin/NextMeeting).
A ''Lingua Franca'' to Ensure You Get the Right
System
Presenter: George Dinwiddie, Software Development Coach
Description:
The business tells the IT department what it wants. The developers
build it. The testers expect it to do something different. And neither
of these turn out to be what the business had in mind. Has this ever
happened to you?
IT departments have always struggled with getting clear and unambiguous
requirements. Automated acceptance tests that check the system with
examples make a big impact on coordinating the work of developers and
testers. Unfortunately, they’re often incomprehensible code to the
business people asking for the system. What if they test the wrong
thing? What if the examples are wrong?
Advances in testing frameworks make it possible to express these
examples in the language of the business. The person commissioning the
development can look at these examples and say, "Yes, that's what I
mean." The tester can automate the examples as acceptance tests without
changing the way that they're expressed. The developer can check the
code as it's being written and know when it meets the stated
requirements.
Additionally, the automated examples form the basis for regression
tests in the future. Automated scripts alone can't ensure bug-free
applications, but they can provide a big step up in correctness and
reliability - freeing testers to spend time looking for more elusive
problems.
In this seminar, you'll learn how you can develop a specification
language to bridge the gap between the business and IT. You'll see
patterns of these languages that are easily automatable as tests that
can be run throughout the development process - demonstrating the
progress being made. You'll discover open-source tools that can help
you get the right system more reliably, and ensure that it continues to
stay that way as development proceeds.
Who Should Attend?
* IT Directors, Project Managers, Tech Leads, PMPs, ScrumMasters,
Business Analysts, Developers, Testers
* Everyone should bring their business partners with them.
Presenter Bio:
George Dinwiddie fully intended to remain a developer of software,
hardware, firmware, and combinations of those, but it was not to be.
The harder problems were almost invariably organizational ones. And
these problems did not seem to respond to engineering solutions.
Today, George helps organizations develop software more effectively.
Effectiveness may be achieved by improved engineering practices,
enhanced design and testing skills, reduced waste effort, clarified
goals, better communication and teamwork, or a number of other ways.
George helps teams address their current impediments to further
excellence. He works with developers, testers, scrummasters, product
owners and managers to address issues at both personal and systemic
levels.
Kicked off by an early start in television repair, George's career has
included electronic hardware development, embedded firmware in
assembly, C, and C++, Information Technology in Java, C#, and Ruby, as
well as dalliances with other languages. He has shared his expertise at
such venues as the Agile Conference, XP Day North America, APLN
Maryland Chapter, Agile Maryland, and the Simple Design and Testing
Conference. As a consultant, he has helped companies, large and small,
including Wells Fargo, Autodesk, and Nationwide Insurance. He has a BA
in English, an MS in Computer Science, and has worked in software
development for more than a quarter century.
When: Friday Afternoon, January 29, 2010
Opens at 12:30
Seminar: 1:00-3:00
Where: The conference room at Baltimore's
Emerging Technology Center
2400 Boston Street
The Factory Bldg., 3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD. 21224
Cost: $15.00 per person
* Refreshments will be served
Please RSVP at aplnmd@... so
we know how many are coming.
http://www.agilecoachcamp.org/
Camille Bell wrote:
>
>
> At George's talk yesterday, Linda Cook handed out some flyers to an
> interesting Open Space for Agile Coaches and I lost the flyer.
>
> Does anyone have a link to the Open Space?
>
> thanks,
>
> Camille
>
> --- On *Fri, 1/22/10, George Dinwiddie /<lists@...>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: George Dinwiddie <lists@...>
> Subject: [MarylandXP] [ANN]APLN Maryland presents seminar on
> Requirements & Testing
> To: AgileProjectManagement@yahoogroups.com,
> MarylandXP@yahoogroups.com, XpWdc@yahoogroups.com,
> aplndc@yahoogroups.com, xpevents@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, January 22, 2010, 4:34 PM
>
>
>
> I'm really sorry for the short notice, but we've finally worked out
> the location for this seminar:
>
> APLN-MD/GB SPiN will be presenting a *low-cost seminar* on Friday
> afternoon, January 29th, 2010, at the Emerging Technology Center in
> Baltimore, MD. George Dinwiddie, Software Development Coach, will be
> presenting "*A /Lingua Franca/ to Ensure You Get the Right System*."
> You'll want to bring your business partners, testers, and developers
> to this seminar. Where else can you find such inexpensive training
> in the convergence of requirements definition and automated testing.
> For additional information, including directions, check out the
> NextMeeting page (http://apln.agilemaryland.org/moin/NextMeeting).
>
>
> *A ''Lingua Franca'' to Ensure You Get the Right System*
>
>
> *Presenter*: George Dinwiddie, Software Development Coach
>
> *Description*:
>
> The business tells the IT department what it wants. The developers
> build it. The testers expect it to do something different. And
> neither of these turn out to be what the business had in mind. Has
> this ever happened to you?
>
> IT departments have always struggled with getting clear and
> unambiguous requirements. Automated acceptance tests that check the
> system with examples make a big impact on coordinating the work of
> developers and testers. Unfortunately, they’re often
> incomprehensible code to the business people asking for the system.
> What if they test the wrong thing? What if the examples are wrong?
>
> Advances in testing frameworks make it possible to express these
> examples in the language of the business. The person commissioning
> the development can look at these examples and say, "Yes, that's
> what I mean." The tester can automate the examples as acceptance
> tests without changing the way that they're expressed. The developer
> can check the code as it's being written and know when it meets the
> stated requirements.
>
> Additionally, the automated examples form the basis for regression
> tests in the future. Automated scripts alone can't ensure bug-free
> applications, but they can provide a big step up in correctness and
> reliability - freeing testers to spend time looking for more elusive
> problems.
>
> In this seminar, you'll learn how you can develop a specification
> language to bridge the gap between the business and IT. You'll see
> patterns of these languages that are easily automatable as tests
> that can be run throughout the development process - demonstrating
> the progress being made. You'll discover open-source tools that can
> help you get the right system more reliably, and ensure that it
> continues to stay that way as development proceeds.
>
> *Who Should Attend?*
>
> * IT Directors, Project Managers, Tech Leads, PMPs,
> ScrumMasters, Business Analysts, Developers, Testers
> * Everyone should bring their business partners with them.
>
> *Presenter Bio*:
>
> George Dinwiddie fully intended to remain a developer of software,
> hardware, firmware, and combinations of those, but it was not to be.
> The harder problems were almost invariably organizational ones. And
> these problems did not seem to respond to engineering solutions.
>
> Today, George helps organizations develop software more effectively.
> Effectiveness may be achieved by improved engineering practices,
> enhanced design and testing skills, reduced waste effort, clarified
> goals, better communication and teamwork, or a number of other ways.
> George helps teams address their current impediments to further
> excellence. He works with developers, testers, scrummasters, product
> owners and managers to address issues at both personal and systemic
> levels.
>
> Kicked off by an early start in television repair, George's career
> has included electronic hardware development, embedded firmware in
> assembly, C, and C++, Information Technology in Java, C#, and Ruby,
> as well as dalliances with other languages. He has shared his
> expertise at such venues as the Agile Conference, XP Day North
> America, APLN Maryland Chapter, Agile Maryland, and the Simple
> Design and Testing Conference. As a consultant, he has helped
> companies, large and small, including Wells Fargo, Autodesk, and
> Nationwide Insurance. He has a BA in English, an MS in Computer
> Science, and has worked in software development for more than a
> quarter century.
>
> *When*: Friday Afternoon, January 29, 2010
> Opens at 12:30
> Seminar: 1:00-3:00
>
> *Where*: The conference room at Baltimore's
> Emerging Technology Center
> 2400 Boston Street
> The Factory Bldg., 3rd Floor
> Baltimore, MD. 21224
>
> Cost: $15.00 per person
>
> * Refreshments will be served
>
> Please RSVP at aplnmd@... so we know how many are coming.
>
>
>
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> * George Dinwiddie * http://blog.gdinwiddie.com
> Software Development http://www.idiacomputing.com
> Consultant and Coach http://www.agilemaryland.org
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> * George Dinwiddie * http://blog.gdinwiddie.com
> Software Development http://www.idiacomputing.com
> Consultant and Coach http://www.agilemaryland.org
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
--
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* George Dinwiddie * http://blog.gdinwiddie.com
Software Development http://www.idiacomputing.com
Consultant and Coach http://www.agilemaryland.org
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Early Bird Registration is open for the 5th Annual Philly Emerging Tech
Conference (a.k.a. Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise), which is
set for April 8 - April 9 at the Society Hill Sheraton:
www.phillyemergingtech.com
The Agile content includes the following sessions:
* Jon Kern -- Airplanes and Application Development? What I Learned from
Aircraft Design
* Brian Marick -- I think I finally understand mocks
* Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin -- Bad Code, Craftsmanship, Engineering, and
Certification (keynote); Agility and Architecture (session)
* Mary Poppendieck -- Cost Center Disease
* Linda Rising -- Deception and Estimation: How We Fool Ourselves
* Venkat Subramaniam -- Creating Multithreaded Code using TDD
The conference features a diverse array of languages and technologies.
The program includes Clojure creator Rich Hickey; Twitter API platform
lead Alex Payne (author of Programming Scala); and Ruby on Rails core
team member Yehuda Katz. In all, more than 4 dozen speakers will cover
topics ranging from iPhone development to Google Wave to alternatives to
relational databases like MongoDB.
The speaker roster can be viewed here:
http://www.phillyemergingtech.com/speakers
The Early Bird rate, available through February 15, is $275 per person.
The rate goes down to $206 per person if you can take advantage of the
group discount (4 colleagues or friends, not necessarily from the same
company, registering at the same time).
To register, or for more information: www.phillyemergingtech.com
--
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* George Dinwiddie * http://blog.gdinwiddie.com
Software Development http://www.idiacomputing.com
Consultant and Coach http://www.agilemaryland.org
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Make sure and use your special User Group discount of $50 by using the promo code nfjsusergroup50 when registering. If you are registering with a group, the highest discount will apply - group or User Group discount.
REGISTRATION FEES:
Early Bird Individual: $850/person good thru April 5th
Excellent Group Discounts Available - bring your entire development team to the show:
Topics for the 2010 NFJS Tour ----------------------------------------------------------- * Languages on the JVM * HTML5 * Enterprise Java * Core Java, JVM Internals * No SQL: MongoDB * Groovy, Grails, Gradle * REST, RDFa, Resource Oriented Architectures * GIT Version Control * jQuery, Ajax, Flex, RIA * Mobile Applications - iPhone and Android * And more...
Why attend? ----------------------------------------------------------- * Excellent Speakers: Authors and Project Leaders * Network with your local developer community * No vendor promos * Locally Based Event
* Great Venue
* Limited Attendance * Meaningful Keynote * Insightful BOFs - including a Hands on Refactoring BOF
Just a reminder that this is coming up Wednesday.
- George
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [dcaltnet] DC ALT.NET Meeting - 2/24 - Getting the Right System
with George Dinwiddie
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:04:06 -0000
From: matthew.podwysocki <matthew.podwysocki@...>
Reply-To: dcaltnet@yahoogroups.com
To: dcaltnet@yahoogroups.com
The next meeting of DC ALT.NET is on 2/24 from 7-9PM at the usual Motley
Fool. This time we're bringing back George Dinwiddie to talk to us
about a common language between analysts, testers, developers and
everyone else on the team.
In the upcoming months, we have meetings on ASP.NET MVC view engines,
Git for the .NET developer, the Reactive Extensions for .NET, Domain
Driven Design and much more. But as always, this group can't do
anything without your help. So if you'd like to see a particular topic,
please do not hesitate to ask, and likewise if you'd like to speak, we'd
love to have you.
Details Below and be sure to RSVP Here:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/570508406
A ''Lingua Franca'' to Ensure You Get the Right System
Presenter: George Dinwiddie, Software Development Coach
Description:
The business tells the IT department what it wants. The developers build
it. The testers expect it to do something different. And neither of
these turn out to be what the business had in mind. Has this ever
happened to you?
IT departments have always struggled with getting clear and unambiguous
requirements. Automated acceptance tests that check the system with
examples make a big impact on coordinating the work of developers and
testers. Unfortunately, they're often incomprehensible code to the
business people asking for the system. What if they test the wrong
thing? What if the examples are wrong?
Advances in testing frameworks make it possible to express these
examples in the language of the business. The person commissioning the
development can look at these examples and say, "Yes, that's what I
mean." The tester can automate the examples as acceptance tests without
changing the way that they're expressed. The developer can check the
code as it's being written and know when it meets the stated requirements.
Additionally, the automated examples form the basis for regression tests
in the future. Automated scripts alone can't ensure bug-free
applications, but they can provide a big step up in correctness and
reliability - freeing testers to spend time looking for more elusive
problems.
In this seminar, you'll learn how you can develop a specification
language to bridge the gap between the business and IT. You'll see
patterns of these languages that are easily automatable as tests that
can be run throughout the development process - demonstrating the
progress being made. You'll discover open-source tools that can help you
get the right system more reliably, and ensure that it continues to stay
that way as development proceeds.
Who Should Attend?
IT Directors, Project Managers, Tech Leads, PMPs, ScrumMasters, Business
Analysts, Developers, Testers
Everyone should bring their business partners with them.
Presenter Bio:
George Dinwiddie fully intended to remain a developer of software,
hardware, firmware, and combinations of those, but it was not to be. The
harder problems were almost invariably organizational ones. And these
problems did not seem to respond to engineering solutions.
Today, George helps organizations develop software more effectively.
Effectiveness may be achieved by improved engineering practices,
enhanced design and testing skills, reduced waste effort, clarified
goals, better communication and teamwork, or a number of other ways.
George helps teams address their current impediments to further
excellence. He works with developers, testers, scrummasters, product
owners and managers to address issues at both personal and systemic levels.
Kicked off by an early start in television repair, George's career has
included electronic hardware development, embedded firmware in assembly,
C, and C++, Information Technology in Java, C#, and Ruby, as well as
dalliances with other languages. He has shared his expertise at such
venues as the Agile Conference, XP Day North America, APLN Maryland
Chapter, Agile Maryland, and the Simple Design and Testing Conference.
As a consultant, he has helped companies, large and small, including
Wells Fargo, Autodesk, and Nationwide Insurance. He has a BA in English,
an MS in Computer Science, and has worked in software development for
more than a quarter century.
------------------------------------
Yahoo! Groups Links
--
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* George Dinwiddie * http://blog.gdinwiddie.com
Software Development http://www.idiacomputing.com
Consultant and Coach http://www.agilemaryland.org
----------------------------------------------------------------------
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [dcaltnet] Re: DC ALT.NET Meeting - 2/24 - Getting the Right
System with George Dinwiddie
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:12:02 -0000
From: matthew.podwysocki <matthew.podwysocki@...>
Reply-To: dcaltnet@yahoogroups.com
To: dcaltnet@yahoogroups.com
Be sure to come out tonight, as we have a special guest to come join us,
none other than Uncle Bob Martin himself who is in town teaching a TDD
course in Baltimore. Hope to see you all there, snow or no snow.
Matt
--- In dcaltnet@yahoogroups.com, "matthew.podwysocki"
<matthew.podwysocki@...> wrote:
>
> Just a reminder that our meeting is tomorrow, so if you haven't signed up and
want to attend, please do so today. Hoping to have a special guest attend and
I'll confirm on the list should it happen.
>
> --- In dcaltnet@yahoogroups.com, "matthew.podwysocki" <matthew.podwysocki@>
wrote:
> >
> > The next meeting of DC ALT.NET is on 2/24 from 7-9PM at the usual Motley
Fool. This time we're bringing back George Dinwiddie to talk to us about a
common language between analysts, testers, developers and everyone else on the
team.
> >
> > In the upcoming months, we have meetings on ASP.NET MVC view engines, Git
for the .NET developer, the Reactive Extensions for .NET, Domain Driven Design
and much more. But as always, this group can't do anything without your help.
So if you'd like to see a particular topic, please do not hesitate to ask, and
likewise if you'd like to speak, we'd love to have you.
> >
> > Details Below and be sure to RSVP Here:
> > http://www.eventbrite.com/event/570508406
> >
> > A ''Lingua Franca'' to Ensure You Get the Right System
> >
> > Presenter: George Dinwiddie, Software Development Coach
> >
> > Description:
> >
> > The business tells the IT department what it wants. The developers build it.
The testers expect it to do something different. And neither of these turn out
to be what the business had in mind. Has this ever happened to you?
> >
> > IT departments have always struggled with getting clear and unambiguous
requirements. Automated acceptance tests that check the system with examples
make a big impact on coordinating the work of developers and testers.
Unfortunately, they're often incomprehensible code to the business people asking
for the system. What if they test the wrong thing? What if the examples are
wrong?
> >
> > Advances in testing frameworks make it possible to express these examples in
the language of the business. The person commissioning the development can look
at these examples and say, "Yes, that's what I mean." The tester can automate
the examples as acceptance tests without changing the way that they're
expressed. The developer can check the code as it's being written and know when
it meets the stated requirements.
> >
> > Additionally, the automated examples form the basis for regression tests in
the future. Automated scripts alone can't ensure bug-free applications, but they
can provide a big step up in correctness and reliability - freeing testers to
spend time looking for more elusive problems.
> >
> > In this seminar, you'll learn how you can develop a specification language
to bridge the gap between the business and IT. You'll see patterns of these
languages that are easily automatable as tests that can be run throughout the
development process - demonstrating the progress being made. You'll discover
open-source tools that can help you get the right system more reliably, and
ensure that it continues to stay that way as development proceeds.
> >
> > Who Should Attend?
> > IT Directors, Project Managers, Tech Leads, PMPs, ScrumMasters, Business
Analysts, Developers, Testers
> > Everyone should bring their business partners with them.
> >
> > Presenter Bio:
> >
> > George Dinwiddie fully intended to remain a developer of software, hardware,
firmware, and combinations of those, but it was not to be. The harder problems
were almost invariably organizational ones. And these problems did not seem to
respond to engineering solutions.
> >
> > Today, George helps organizations develop software more effectively.
Effectiveness may be achieved by improved engineering practices, enhanced design
and testing skills, reduced waste effort, clarified goals, better communication
and teamwork, or a number of other ways. George helps teams address their
current impediments to further excellence. He works with developers, testers,
scrummasters, product owners and managers to address issues at both personal and
systemic levels.
> >
> > Kicked off by an early start in television repair, George's career has
included electronic hardware development, embedded firmware in assembly, C, and
C++, Information Technology in Java, C#, and Ruby, as well as dalliances with
other languages. He has shared his expertise at such venues as the Agile
Conference, XP Day North America, APLN Maryland Chapter, Agile Maryland, and the
Simple Design and Testing Conference. As a consultant, he has helped companies,
large and small, including Wells Fargo, Autodesk, and Nationwide Insurance. He
has a BA in English, an MS in Computer Science, and has worked in software
development for more than a quarter century.
> >
>
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Software Development http://www.idiacomputing.com
Consultant and Coach http://www.agilemaryland.org
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Make sure and use your special User Group discount of $50 by using the promo code nfjsusergroup50 when registering. If you are registering with a group, the highest discount will apply - group or User Group discount.
REGISTRATION FEES:
Early Bird Individual: $850/person good thru April 5th
Excellent Group Discounts Available - bring your entire development team to the show:
Topics for the 2010 NFJS Tour ----------------------------------------------------------- * Languages on the JVM * HTML5
* Enterprise Java * Core Java, JVM Internals * No SQL: MongoDB * Groovy, Grails, Gradle * REST, RDFa, Resource Oriented Architectures * GIT Version Control * jQuery, Ajax, Flex, RIA * Mobile Applications - iPhone and Android * Agility
Why attend? ----------------------------------------------------------- * Excellent Speakers: Authors and Project Leaders * Network with your local developer community * No vendor promos * Locally Based Event
* Great Venue
* Limited Attendance * Meaningful Keynote * Insightful BOFs - including a Hands on Refactoring BOF
Topics for the 2010 NFJS Tour ----------------------------------------------------------- * Languages on the JVM * HTML5 * Enterprise Java * Core Java, JVM Internals * No SQL: MongoDB * Groovy, Grails, Gradle * REST, RDFa, Resource Oriented Architectures * GIT Version Control * jQuery, Ajax, Flex, RIA * Mobile Applications - iPhone and Android * Agility
Why attend? ----------------------------------------------------------- * Excellent Speakers: Authors and Project Leaders * Network with your local developer community * No vendor promos * Locally Based Event
* Great Venue
* Limited Attendance * Meaningful Keynote * Insightful BOFs - including a Hands on Refactoring BOF
On June 16-17, 2010 Joe Little will lead a Certified ScrumMaster course in the
Washington, DC area.
Joe is an experienced Agile coach, with in-depth practical experience in helping
teams become very productive with Scrum and Agile. Joe's blog is Agile &
Business, available here: http://agileconsortium.blogspot.com/
ScrumMaster training provides an applied understanding of the Scrum process and
helps participants begin to develop the tools, insights, and skills required to
apply Scrum on their projects and across their organizations.
For more details and to register, see below.
http://bit.ly/cVX91y
Or, contact me with any questions.
Regards,
Julia Hill
Registration Open!....2010 Greater Maryland Software Symposium comes to Columbia, MD!
**Local Venue, World Class Experience **
Event Name: 2010 Central Maryland Software Symposium
URL: http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/columbia/2010/08/home
Dates: August 13-15th
Location: Columbia, MD
Venue: Sheraton Columbia
Make sure and use your special User Group discount of $50 by using the promo code nfjsusergroup50 when registering.
If you are registering with a group, the highest discount will apply - group or User Group discount. REGISTRATION FEES:
Early Bird Individual: $850/person good thru July 19th
Excellent Group Discounts Available - bring your entire development team to the show:
5-9 Attendees: $750/person
10-14 Attendees: $725/person
15-24 Attendees: $700/person
25-over Attendees: $675/person
Topics for the 2010 NFJS Tour
----------------------------------------------------------- * Languages on the JVM
* HTML5
* Enterprise Java
* Core Java, JVM Internals
* No SQL: MongoDB
* Groovy, Grails, Gradle
* REST, RDFa, Resource Oriented Architectures
* GIT Version Control
* jQuery, Ajax, Flex, RIA * Mobile Applications - iPhone and Android
* And more... Why attend?
----------------------------------------------------------- * Excellent Speakers: Authors and Project Leaders
* Network with your local developer community
* No vendor promos
* Locally Based Event
* Great Venue
* Limited Attendance
* Meaningful Keynote
* Insightful BOFs - including a Hands on Refactoring BOF
* Excellent Giveaways including Apple iPads
Go to http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/columbia/2010/08/home for more details on the 2010 Greater Maryland Software Symposium.
See you there! Jay Zimmerman
2010 NFJS Symposium Tour Series Director
jzimmerman@...
Registration Open! Join us for the 2010 Northern Virginia Software
Symposium returning November 5-7th!
**Local Venue, World Class Experience**
Event Name: 2010 Northern Virginia Software Symposium: Fall Edition
URL: http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2010/11/home
Dates: November 5-7th
Location: Reston, VA
Venue: Sheraton Reston
Make sure and use your special JUG discount of $50 by using the promo
code nfjsusergroup50 when registering.
If you are registering with a group, the highest discount will apply -
group or JUG discount.
REGISTRATION FEES:
Early Bird Individual: $850/person good thru October 11th
Excellent Group Discounts Available - bring your entire development
team to the show:
5-9 Attendees: $750/person
10-14 Attendees: $725/person
15-24 Attendees: $700/person
25-over Attendees: $675/person
Topics for the 2010 NFJS Tour
-----------------------------------------------------------
* Languages on the JVM
* HTML5
* Enterprise Java
* Core Java, JVM Internals
* No SQL: MongoDB
* Groovy, Grails, Gradle
* REST, RDFa, Resource Oriented Architectures
* GIT Version Control
* jQuery, Ajax, Flex, RIA
* Mobile Applications - iPhone and Android
* Agility
Why attend?
-----------------------------------------------------------
* Excellent Speakers: Authors and Project Leaders
* Network with your local developer community
* No vendor promos
* Locally Based Event
* Great Venue
* Limited Attendance
* Meaningful Keynote
* Insightful BOFs - including a Hands on Refactoring BOF
* Excellent Giveaways including a $500 Visa Gift Card
Go to http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2010/11/home
for more details on the 2010 Northern Virginia Software Symposium:
Fall Edition.
See you there!
Jay Zimmerman
2010 NFJS Symposium Tour Series Director
jzimmerman@...
Mark your Calendar! Join us for the 2010 Northern Virginia SoftwareSymposium returning November 5-7th!
Here is your opportunity to select from over (60) technical talks focused on the Java Platform and Agility. Join us for another great No Fluff, Just Stuff Event featuring excellent sessions, engaged speakers and great networking opts! **Local Venue, World Class Experience** Event Name: 2010 Northern Virginia Software Symposium: Fall Edition URL:http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2010/11/home Dates: November 5-7th Location: Reston, VA Venue: Sheraton Reston Make sure and use your special JUG discount of $50 by using the promocode nfjsusergroup50 when registering. If you are registering with a group, the highest discount will apply -group or JUG discount. REGISTRATION FEES: Early Bird Individual: $850/person good thru October 11th Excellent Group Discounts Available - bring your entire development team to the show: 5-9 Attendees: $750/person 10-14 Attendees: $725/person 15-24 Attendees: $700/person 25-over Attendees: $675/person Topics for the 2010 NFJS Tour ---------------------------------------------------------- * Languages on the JVM * HTML5 * Enterprise Java * Core Java, JVM Internals * No SQL: MongoDB * Groovy, Grails, Gradle * REST, RDFa, Resource Oriented Architectures * GIT Version Control * jQuery, Ajax, Flex, RIA * Mobile Applications - iPhone and Android * Agility Why attend? ---------------------------------------------------------- * Excellent Speakers: Authors and Project Leaders * Network with your local developer community * No vendor promos * Locally Based Event * Great Venue * Limited Attendance * Meaningful Keynote * Insightful BOFs - including a Hands on Refactoring BOF * Excellent Giveaways including a $500 Visa Gift Card Go tohttp://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2010/11/homefor more details on the
2010 Northern Virginia Software Symposium:Fall Edition. See you there! Jay Zimmerman 2010 NFJS Symposium Tour Series Director jzimmerman@...
Join us for the first Agile Tour DC on October 22, 2010. This one day conference aims to serve agile practitioners in the DC area through the following 3 tracks.
Agile Essentials - Get the skills you need to get started.
Enterprise and Government Agility - See how it works in the large and hear from a Panel of practitioners working in government.
Open Talks Track - Create the conference you want in this Open Space (like) track. Don't see a talk on one of the other two tracks propose one or attend one of the 4 concurrent Open Talks.
Forwarding this since I think folks on this list may be interested in it.
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Join us for the first Agile Tour DC on October 22, 2010. This one day conference aims to serve agile practitioners in the DC area through the following 3 tracks.
- Agile Essentials - Get the skills you need to get started.
- Enterprise and Government Agility - See how it works in the large and hear from a Panel of practitioners working in government.
- Open Talks Track - Create the conference you want in this Open Space (like) track. Don't see a talk on one of the other two tracks propose one or attend one of the 4 concurrent Open Talks.
Speakers include (More to Come)
- Sanjiv Augustine
- Paul M. Boos
-David Bock
- Richard Cheng
- George Dinwiddie
- Bob Payne
- Manoj Vadakkan
Registration & Price
Register for this conference at http://agiletourdc.eventbrite.com/
Early bird discounted Fee : $75 Available until Oct 1st.
Regular registration Fee : $95
Forwarding this since I think folks on this list may be interested in it.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bob<bob@...>
Date: Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 3:20 PM Subject: [XpWdc] Agile Tour DC Oct. 22 - Agile Essentials, Enterprise and Government Agility To: XpWdc@yahoogroups.com
Join us for the first Agile Tour DC on October 22, 2010. This one day conference aims to serve agile practitioners in the DC area through the following 3 tracks.
- Agile Essentials - Get the skills you need to get started.
- Enterprise and Government Agility - See how it works in the large and hear from a Panel of practitioners working in government.
- Open Talks Track - Create the conference you want in this Open Space (like) track. Don't see a talk on one of the other two tracks propose one or attend one of the 4 concurrent Open Talks.
Speakers include (More to Come)
- Sanjiv Augustine
- Paul M. Boos
-David Bock
- Richard Cheng
- George Dinwiddie
- Bob Payne
- Manoj Vadakkan
Registration & Price
Register for this conference at http://agiletourdc.eventbrite.com/
Early bird discounted Fee : $75 Available until Oct 1st.
Regular registration Fee : $95
Our seats are going fast and our schedule is nearly finalized. for more
information go to.
http://AgileDC.org
Join us for the first Agile Tour DC on October 22, 2010. This one day
conference aims to serve agile practitioners in the DC area through the
following 3 tracks.
-Agile Essentials - Get the skills you need to get started.
-Enterprise and Government Agility - See how it works in the large and hear from
a Panel of practitioners working in government.
- Open Talks Track - Create the conference you want in this Open Space (like)
track. Don't see a talk on one of the other two tracks propose one or attend
one of the 4 concurrent Open Talks.
Registration & Price
Register for this conference at http://agiletourdc.eventbrite.com/
Early bird discounted Fee : $75 Available until Oct 1st.
Take an additional $10 off by using this discount code.
Discount Code: AgileDC
Regular registration Fee : $90
Location:
Conference Center
4000 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Easy metro access from Tenlytown AU metro stop on the Red Line
Early Bird ends Oct 11th...Don't delay, register today for the 2010 Northern Virginia SoftwareSymposium returning November 5-7th!
Here is your opportunity to select from over (60) technical talks focused on the Java Platform and Agility.
Join us for another great No Fluff, Just Stuff Event featuring excellent sessions, engaged speakers and great networking opts! **Local Venue, World Class Experience** Event Name: 2010 Northern Virginia Software Symposium: Fall Edition URL:http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2010/11/home Dates: November 5-7th Location: Reston, VA Venue: Sheraton Reston Make sure and use your special JUG discount of $50 by using the promocode nfjsusergroup50 when registering. If you are registering with a group, the highest discount will apply -group or JUG discount. REGISTRATION FEES: Early Bird Individual: $850/person good thru October 11th Excellent Group Discounts Available - bring your entire development team to the show: 5-9 Attendees: $750/person 10-14 Attendees: $725/person 15-24 Attendees: $700/person 25-over Attendees: $675/person Topics for the 2010 NFJS Tour ---------------------------------------------------------- * Languages on the JVM * HTML5 * Enterprise Java * Core Java, JVM Internals * No SQL: MongoDB * Groovy, Grails, Gradle * REST, RDFa, Resource Oriented Architectures * GIT Version Control * jQuery, Ajax, Flex, RIA * Mobile Applications - iPhone and Android * Agility Why attend? ---------------------------------------------------------- * Excellent Speakers: Authors and Project Leaders * Network with your local developer community * No vendor promos * Locally Based Event * Great Venue * Limited Attendance * Meaningful Keynote * Insightful BOFs - including a Hands on Refactoring BOF * Excellent Giveaways including a $500 Visa Gift Card Go tohttp://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2010/11/homefor more details on the 2010 Northern Virginia Software Symposium:Fall Edition.
See you there! Jay Zimmerman 2010 NFJS Symposium Tour Series Director jzimmerman@...
Join us for the first AgileDC Conference on October 22, 2010. This one day
conference aims to serve agile practitioners in the DC area through the
following 3 tracks.
-Agile Essentials - Get the skills you need to get started.
-Enterprise and Government Agility - See how it works in the large and hear from
a Panel of practitioners working in government.
- Open Talks Track - Create the conference you want in this Open Space (like)
track. Don't see a talk on one of the other two tracks propose one or attend
one of the 4 concurrent Open Talks.
Lots of great speakers a wonderful venue, local food, 8 PDUs and all proceeds go
to charity. Who could ask for anything more.
Our seats are going fast and our schedule is finalized. for more information go
to.
http://AgileDC.org
Registration & Price
Register for this conference at http://agiletourdc.eventbrite.com/
Early bird discounted Fee : $75 Available until Oct 1st.
Take an additional $10 off by using this discount code.
"AgileDC"
Regular registration Fee : $90
Location:
Conference Center
4000 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Easy metro access from Tenlytown AU metro stop on the Red Line
Last Call... Register today for the 2010 Northern Virginia SoftwareSymposium returning November 5-7th!
Here is your opportunity to select from over (60) technical talks focused on the Java Platform and Agility.
Join us for another great No Fluff, Just Stuff Event featuring excellent sessions, engaged speakers and great networking opts! **Local Venue, World Class Experience** Event Name: 2010 Northern Virginia Software Symposium: Fall Edition URL:http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2010/11/home Dates: November 5-7th Location: Reston, VA Venue: Sheraton Reston Make sure and use your special Agile UG discount of $50 by using the promocode nfjsusergroup50 when registering. If you are registering with a group, the highest discount will apply -group or JUG discount. REGISTRATION FEES: Early Bird Individual: $950/person Excellent Group Discounts Available - bring your entire development team to the show: 5-9 Attendees: $850/person 10-14 Attendees: $825/person 15-24 Attendees: $800/person 25-over Attendees: $775/person Topics for the 2010 NFJS Tour ---------------------------------------------------------- * Languages on the JVM * HTML5 * Enterprise Java * Core Java, JVM Internals * No SQL: MongoDB * Groovy, Grails, Gradle * REST, RDFa, Resource Oriented Architectures * GIT Version Control * jQuery, Ajax, Flex, RIA * Mobile Applications - iPhone and Android * Agility Why attend? ---------------------------------------------------------- * Excellent Speakers: Authors and Project Leaders * Network with your local developer community * No vendor promos * Locally Based Event * Great Venue * Limited Attendance * Meaningful Keynote * Insightful BOFs - including a Hands on Refactoring BOF * Excellent Giveaways including a $500 Visa Gift Card Go tohttp://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2010/11/homefor more details on the 2010 Northern Virginia Software Symposium:Fall Edition.
See you there! Jay Zimmerman 2010 NFJS Symposium Tour Series Director jzimmerman@...
On 01/11/11 19:06:50, George Dinwiddie wrote:
> It's not too far away in time or space. So put April 27 & 28, 2011
> on
>
> your calendar and check out http://phillyemergingtech.com/2011/
>
> - George
>
Sigh. Why do people keep scheduling these thing during the week, so I'm
forced to choose between not going and burning vacation days?
Rhetorical question; I know the answer: If it's during the week, it's
"Professional Development"; if it's on the weekend, it's recreation. As
if recreation were somehow less respectable.
-John
--
John Maxwell KB3VLL jmax@...
For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they
like.
George,
The speakers list looks pretty cool. Definitely a strong Agility and Rails
focus. Don't know if I'll make it; depends on my current gig.
BTW, for those who don't know Rails Conf http://en.oreilly.com/rails2011 is
returning to Baltimore this year.
I seem to remember that Linda (I think) and some others missed last year's Rails
Conf, so here is your chance again.
Camille
--- On Tue, 1/11/11, George Dinwiddie <lists@...> wrote:
> From: George Dinwiddie <lists@...>
> Subject: [MarylandXP] Philly Emerging Tech conference
> To: "APLN Maryland Chapter" <aplnmd@...>,
MarylandXP@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 7:06 PM
> It's not too far away in time or
> space. So put April 27 & 28, 2011 on
> your calendar and check out http://phillyemergingtech.com/2011/
>
> - George
>
> --
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> * George Dinwiddie *
> http://blog.gdinwiddie.com
> Software Development
> http://www.idiacomputing.com
> Consultant and Coach
> http://www.agilemaryland.org
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> See: http://agilemaryland.orgYahoo! Groups Links
>
>
> MarylandXP-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>
Here's the full announcement for Philly Emerging Tech, as well as the
call for proposals.
-------- Original Message --------
Early Bird registration, as well as an Agile Track call for proposals,
are open for the 6th Annual Philly Emerging Tech conference (a.k.a.
Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise and Philly ETE 2011).
The conference is set for April 27 and 28 at the Society Hill Sheraton
in Philadelphia, near Old City and South Street.
We already have a stellar line-up in place for the Agile Track including:
* Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson (co-authors of the Agile Manifesto)
* Johanna Rothman (author of Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic
Project Management)
* Jim Weirich (creator of the Ruby rake tool)
* Linda Rising (author of The Patterns Handbook; co-author of Fearless
Change)
* David Chelimsky (RSpec lead developer)
* Eduardo Jezierksi (the VP of Engineering for InSTEDD -- innovative
Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disasters: http://instedd.org/ --
which uses agile techniques to expedite getting technology-based
initiatives off the ground in times of crisis)
* and Davis Frank (Jasmine BDD/JavaScript framework committer).
In addition to agile content, the 2-day, 5-track program features a
variety of technologies and languages.
Confirmed speakers include Bruce Tate (author of Seven Languages in
Seven Weeks), Yehuda Katz (SproutCore project team and Rails Core),
Molly Holzschlag (Web Standards Evangelist), Ryan Dahl (creator of
node.js), Ola Bini and Nick Sieger (JRuby Core Team), David Black
(author of Ruby for Rails and The Well-Grounded Rubyist), Mark Fisher
(Spring Integration project lead), Josh Clark (author of Tapworthy:
Designing iPhone Interfaces for Delight and Usability) and Jonathan
Stark (author of Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).
We will be adding more speakers and posting abstracts over the next few
weeks, but you can view the roster-in-progress here:
http://phillyemergingtech.com/2011/speakers
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DETAILS:
Early Bird tickets are $295 each. The Early Bird price goes down to
$221.25 per ticket if you can take advantage of the "4 for 3 deal" (4
colleagues or friends, not necessarily from the same company, on one
registration).
You can register here: http://phillyemergingtech.com/2011/register
Early Bird registration is open and will continue through February 15,
when the the price goes up.
The conference sold out last year.
AGILE TRACK CALL FOR PROPOSALS DETAILS:
The call for proposals for Agile track talks is open through 9:00 AM on
Tuesday, January 25, 2011.
To participate in the CFP, email the following to
ETE2011_AgileCFP@... :
* an abstract (up to 200 words, but we won't be counting),
* a brief bio,
* and optionally a supplemental statement making a case for your topic
(which will not be printed on the website or the conference program).
* Also send us an alternative email address if you did not mail your
proposal from the email address where you would prefer to hear from us.
Within 24 hours of submitting your proposal, you should receive
confirmation that we received it. We will complete the selection process
by the end of the first week of February. All participants can expect to
hear from us on or before Friday, February 4.
There is a limit of 3 proposals per person.
If your talk is accepted you'll receive a ticket to the conference --
and if you'll be traveling from outside the Philadelphia area, the
conference will cover your flights or train fare, transportation to and
from the airport or train station, and hotel room.
If you have any questions, send them to:
ETE2011_AgileCFP@... .
If you submit a paper for the Agile CFP, we'll keep a ticket reserved
for you up until a couple of days after we send out CFP notifications.
Thanks!
Ahsen Jaffer
Andrea O. K. Wright
Agile Track Co-Chairs
Consultants, Chariot Solutions
Do you love Ruby? Are you Agile? Would you like to work in a really cool domain
agilely developing Ruby and Rails apps on a really fun team?
We're looking for a few sharp agile Rails developers.
I'm the lead agile coach for the program and if you know me, you know the
project is really agile. Not just Scrum, but real agile technical practices as
well. So if you are proud of your rspec and cucumber code coverage you are
probably our kind of developer. If you practice ATDD, BDD or TDD and write your
automated tests first, you definitely are. If you don't yet write your tests
first, but are willing to learn, we'll teach you.
This is agile, so naturally you are sharing with and learning from your
teammates. The existing team members are really sharp, but they are new to
Rails, so you will be informally mentoring them. Meanwhile you will be learning
cyber security from them.
Cyber security is fascinating domain with complex object relationships and
associations. So while like most all Rails apps, we will include a relational
database, we also will be using non-relational databases, probably MongoDB, or
possibly another DB if you have an even better idea. Also later releases will
include social media type of functionality.
The existing team is the opposite of the typical stuffy CYA government
contracting team. They are team players, who jump in to help each other. Lunch
and hall conversations may include lively technical debates, but they also
include discussions of on-line gaming and paintball. Planned team outings
include go-carting and laser tag as well as traditional things like picnics and
swimming.
Hours are pretty reasonable. We track our velocity and plan future iterations
realistically. We do expect dedication and we expect you to care about the
quality of your work and your customer, but we don't assume heroics. People have
lives and we respect that.
The team is in Fairfax, VA just off of 66.
U.S. Citizenship is required. You don't need to have a active security clearance
(any clearance current or past is a plus), but eventually you will need to get
one.
Interested? Drop me a line at my business email camillescareer@...
Camille
The only exclusively Agile technical conference in the DC area!
Join local experts and practitioners to boost your agile technical skills. This
small conference is dedicated to Agile Engineering Practices and broken into
three tracks to allow diversity of content and interaction:
- Technical Essentials – Get the skills you need to get started.
- Hands on tools track (Limited Seating)
- Open Talks Track – Create the conference you want in this Open Space (like)
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one of the 4 concurrent Open Talks.
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Get an additional $10 off with the discount code - xp
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I'd like to introduce the DC Agile Software Testing meetup group,
which is having its inaugural meeting on Tuesday 3/22 in Arlington.
We're calling ourselves D-CAST.
We're looking for "Better Ways To Make Better Software".
Agile software development is a great way to make good software that
satisfies real needs and creates real value to those who build and use
that software. Everyone on the team is concerned with the quality of
the product. However, sometimes it can be an overwhelming task being
the team member whose job it is to insure that the quality of the
product is sufficient.
DCAST was created to develop a community of those interested in agile
software testing who are also interested in testing agile products
more effectively and more efficiently. By sharing our hard won
knowledge we can all help make each other's lives easier and more
productive.
If you're interested in sharing how you have raised the quality bar of
your agile processes, we would love it if you were a part of this
community. If you're interested in learning (or want to all learn
together), you're even more welcome.
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