Naresh,

I would love to see more hands on stuff (writing code) than mere talks. That
will surely help me :)

--- In agileindia@yahoogroups.com, Naresh Jain <nashjain@...> wrote:
>
> http://www.agileindia.org/agileindia2010/agile-india-2010-program
>
>
> Comments/Suggestions?
>
> Interested in Presenting @ the conference? Read our Proposal Submission
Guideline.
> --
> Naresh Jain
> http://agilefaqs.com
> http://agileIndia.org
> http://agilecoachcamp.org
> http://sdtconf.com
>

Naresh,
The Program looks great. A little bit ambitious though because late Sunday the audience tends go home.
I am wondering how many people do you expect to attend this event.
Regards,
Anurag
(Xebia)


-----Original Message-----
From: agileindia@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Naresh Jain
Sent: Tue 12/8/2009 12:07 AM
To: agileIndia@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [agileindia] Tentaive Program Layout

http://www.agileindia.org/agileindia2010/agile-india-2010-program


Comments/Suggestions?

Interested in Presenting @ the conference? Read our Proposal Submission Guideline.
--
Naresh Jain
http://agilefaqs.com
http://agileIndia.org
http://agilecoachcamp.org
http://sdtconf.com



     

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http://agilefaqs.com
http://agileIndia.org
http://agilecoachcamp.org
http://sdtconf.com

Hi,

Constraining to a specific technology would hamper adaptation of XP/Agile. I
would be more than happy to see general best practices shared and later followed
in technology specific subgroups.
Java is something I would be interested in, but I won't shy away from knowing
how deployment is done in Ruby.

Rather than having a session on an agile topic, I would prefer a series of such
events happening.I guess its too soon to talk about these, a practicing set of
individuals forming a critical mass and then going forward should be fun!

Vineet has been generous and forthcoming in offering their office space, but to
spread it among noida folks, people from other-many corporations should do a
show of hands!

Another way of spreading/adapting agile among corporations can be: Let people
start working XP/Agile manner for internal projects in their respective
corporations.The clients(peer employees of the same corp) are always available,
right infront of eyes and the folks writing/receiving the internal apps can
experience XP/Agile closely, rather live it!
This ways any corporation can evaluate this approach with minimal risk.

That said,to draw an analogy, I am hoping people coming forward for a "Test
Match" kind of longevity for the community, and not a Twenty-Twenty!

~rohit

--- In agileindia@yahoogroups.com, "Ravichandran J.V." <jvravichandran@...>
wrote:
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> Thanks for the contrib. Please indicate the technology/language/technique that
you want a technical agile/XP session on like Pair Programming, TFD, Mock,
Continuous Integration etc. This will help everyone to come forward and announce
a session  based on their own comfort levels.
> We would also require a formal place for conducting such a session. Vineet,
please indicate how to go about organizing a tech session on Agile.
>
> Regards,
>  
> Ravichandran J.V.
> Read my blog: http://ravichandranjv.blogspot.com/ 
>
> --- On Mon, 11/16/09, rohitsz2 <rohitsz2@...> wrote:
>
> From: rohitsz2 <rohitsz2@...>
> Subject: [agileindia] Re: Summary of Meeting on Noida Agile Chapter (Friday,
13th November, '09)
> To: agileindia@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 4:11 PM
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> --- In agileindia@yahoogro ups.com, "Ravichandran J.V." <jvravichandran@ ...>
wrote:
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> > Hi,
>
> > The meeting at Nirula's on Friday to discuss the way to go about
establishing Noida in the map of visiting Agile practitioners, started off with
some cold & hot drinks. Thanks to ThoughtWorks for sponsoring the drinks!
>
> > Puneet Kataria from Thoughtworks, Bangalore, was on a business visit in
Delhi and had expressed his willingness to be part of the meeting. Puneet shared
his views on how ThoughtWorks could help in the cause.
>
> > We had a surprise visitor by the name of Rohit from Dell Perot Systems,
Noida. Young and 2.5 years of experience, Rohit shared a lot of his views on
what he thought was the right way to go about with our goals. 
>
> > Naveen Kumar from my company, JKTechnosoft, and Kumar Shailove from Adobe
made up for the rest of the participants.
>
> > Vatsalya and Vineet were absent from the planned list of attendees.
>
> > We ended the discussion with a game - The Compatibility Game, that was
thoroughly enjoyed by us all. We have decided to play this game for two more
weeks/meets before playing some other game.
>
> > Rohit, Kumar, Puneet - as agreed, please contribute with your own thoughts
and also indicate the next meet and venue..
>
> >
>
> > Regards,
>
> >  
>
> > Ravichandran J.V.
>
> > Read my blog: http://ravichandran jv.blogspot. com/ 
>
> >
>
> Hello All,
>
>
>
> I was present at the Noida chapter (re-initiative) of the ASCI meet.
>
> I had gone with zero expectations, and was wanting to absorb what all would
have to say, it turned out that we were small in number but had an active
discussion on the way to take forward the activities.
>
>
>
> <the-meet>
>
> We met at around 1930, had a little bit of introductions, had our beverages
served(thanks to TW), and then went on to play the compatibility game.
>
> It was fun knowing about each others understanding of a common concept and how
people relate to each other based on the understanding.
>
> Post the game, we had this discussion about how to take the Noida- chapter
forward, that was the best part of the meet, hearing out why people were there
for!
>
> The discussion lasted around an hour or so, it was ~2230, when we called it a
day!
>
> </the-meet>
>
>
>
> <about-me>
>
> I have been a silent/occasional  reader on the group for more than an year,
and had participated in talks initiated by Anurag and Vineet earlier and
benefited greatly from their initiatives! :-).
>
>
>
> I am more of an XP-ied agilist, given my domain of having fun while coding,and
therefore would want people who are early in their careers, come forward,share
and learn from each other.
>
> </about-me>
>
>
>
> <view>
>
> For this I had proposed the notion of running a project in an XP manner among
interested people on the group and learn from each others experience.
>
>
>
> Also, I would want more presence from development point of view from people
experienced on this group.
>
>
>
> I like the occasional NCR meet where proven practitioners from around the
world come to share their perspective. But what more I would want from the Noida
chapter is getting the developer community active together, where *local*
agilist share their skills with the locals!That' s my definition for a
community.
>
>
>
> For this,IMO the notion that was arrived at during this discussion was to have
committed individuals arrange for meets/BoF in their respective corporations or
even universities for that matter, under the ASCI banner, have hands on where
experienced locals share and build XP patterns.
>
>
>
> Contributions from corporates can and happen later on, but for that we would
need the critical mass, to continue with the spirit of learning/growing in-spite
of a funding.
>
> <view>
>
>
>
> In all I am happy I made it to the meet, it gives me a clear picture as to
where the geographically- closest-agile- chapter to me is headed.
>
>
>
> I would want/request you if you stay/commute near noida, please be part of the
meet, when it is planned, to build upon these initial ideas or possibly start
afresh!
>
>
>
> ~rohit.
>

Hi,

I just found these links to A3 sized quick reference sheets for Agile
and Kanban from Jeff Patton. (Note: both are in PDF)

Agile Quick Ref - http://bit.ly/4jIumw
Kanban Quick Ref - http://bit.ly/NYKh4

--
Siddharta Govindaraj
http://www.ToolsForAgile.com

Oh, what a marvelous evening it was.
Forward it to people who say these kind of meetings are boring. We sat for
almost two and a half hours and we were willing to sit more. I wish we could
have started early; it was already 10:15 and we had to leave. The game was
really exiting (though my partner was Rohit, but I later realized that I have a
great compatibility with JV :).

I sincerely felt privileged to be part of this initiative. Though I am a very
novice agile practitioner, but I really want to learn more and more in this area
and to adopt agile in my future projects.

And looking at the website (agileindia.org), I felt that this is a community
full of great and energetic people.

I would really want to be an integral part of this initiative.

Thanks
Kumar Shailove


--- In agileindia@yahoogroups.com, "rohitsz2" <rohitsz2@...> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> --- In agileindia@yahoogroups.com, "Ravichandran J.V." <jvravichandran@>
wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > The meeting at Nirula's on Friday to discuss the way to go about
establishing Noida in the map of visiting Agile practitioners, started off with
some cold & hot drinks. Thanks to ThoughtWorks for sponsoring the drinks!
> > Puneet Kataria from Thoughtworks, Bangalore, was on a business visit in
Delhi and had expressed his willingness to be part of the meeting. Puneet shared
his views on how ThoughtWorks could help in the cause.
> > We had a surprise visitor by the name of Rohit from Dell Perot Systems,
Noida. Young and 2.5 years of experience, Rohit shared a lot of his views on
what he thought was the right way to go about with our goals. 
> > Naveen Kumar from my company, JKTechnosoft, and Kumar Shailove from Adobe
made up for the rest of the participants.
> > Vatsalya and Vineet were absent from the planned list of attendees.
> > We ended the discussion with a game - The Compatibility Game, that was
thoroughly enjoyed by us all. We have decided to play this game for two more
weeks/meets before playing some other game.
> > Rohit, Kumar, Puneet - as agreed, please contribute with your own thoughts
and also indicate the next meet and venue..
> >
> > Regards,
> >  
> > Ravichandran J.V.
> > Read my blog: http://ravichandranjv.blogspot.com/ 
> >
> Hello All,
>
> I was present at the Noida chapter (re-initiative)of the ASCI meet.
> I had gone with zero expectations, and was wanting to absorb what all would
have to say, it turned out that we were small in number but had an active
discussion on the way to take forward the activities.
>
> <the-meet>
> We met at around 1930, had a little bit of introductions, had our beverages
served(thanks to TW), and then went on to play the compatibility game.
> It was fun knowing about each others understanding of a common concept and how
people relate to each other based on the understanding.
> Post the game, we had this discussion about how to take the Noida- chapter
forward, that was the best part of the meet, hearing out why people were there
for!
> The discussion lasted around an hour or so, it was ~2230, when we called it a
day!
> </the-meet>
>
> <about-me>
> I have been a silent/occasional  reader on the group for more than an year,
and had participated in talks initiated by Anurag and Vineet earlier and
benefited greatly from their initiatives! :-).
>
> I am more of an XP-ied agilist, given my domain of having fun while coding,and
therefore would want people who are early in their careers, come forward,share
and learn from each other.
> </about-me>
>
> <view>
> For this I had proposed the notion of running a project in an XP manner among
interested people on the group and learn from each others experience.
>
> Also, I would want more presence from development point of view from people
experienced on this group.
>
> I like the occasional NCR meet where proven practitioners from around the
world come to share their perspective.But what more I would want from the Noida
chapter is getting the developer community active together, where *local*
agilist share their skills with the locals!That's my definition for a community.
>
> For this,IMO the notion that was arrived at during this discussion was to have
committed individuals arrange for meets/BoF in their respective corporations or
even universities for that matter, under the ASCI banner, have hands on where
experienced locals share and build XP patterns.
>
> Contributions from corporates can and happen later on, but for that we would
need the critical mass, to continue with the spirit of learning/growing in-spite
of a funding.
> <view>
>
> In all I am happy I made it to the meet, it gives me a clear picture as to
where the geographically-closest-agile-chapter to me is headed.
>
> I would want/request you if you stay/commute near noida, please be part of the
meet, when it is planned, to build upon these initial ideas or possibly start
afresh!
>
> ~rohit.
>

Looking forward to be a part of this agilista gathering.

Cheers
Ravi

--- In agileindia@yahoogroups.com, "Ravichandran J.V." <jvravichandran@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi, To set the enthusiasm of learning best 'agile ' practices we are planning
to call upon practioners from organisations based out of Noida to have a small
meetup this Friday, 13th November, '09, to work together to create a Noida
chapter for initiating and hosting Agile seminars, conferences and trainings
that we have been having all over India. The objective is to create a focussed
group, who will take initiatives and work towards getting established Agile
practitioners from across the world and India, to keep Noida, too, in their
itinerary. The first such meeting is planned on this Friday, as mentioned above,
at 7:30 Pm, in Nirula's, Sector 16, Noida. The place has been selected for its
easy accessibility.  Do reply to this email if you are interested in being part
of such an initiative. Even if you are not based out of Noida, you will increase
the magnitude of this initiative by supporting it.
> All suggestions from all are most welcome.
> Regards,
>  
> Ravichandran J.V.
> Read my blog: http://ravichandranjv.blogspot.com/ 
>

--- In agileindia@yahoogroups.com, "Ravichandran J.V." <jvravichandran@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
> The meeting at Nirula's on Friday to discuss the way to go about establishing
Noida in the map of visiting Agile practitioners, started off with some cold &
hot drinks. Thanks to ThoughtWorks for sponsoring the drinks!
> Puneet Kataria from Thoughtworks, Bangalore, was on a business visit in Delhi
and had expressed his willingness to be part of the meeting. Puneet shared his
views on how ThoughtWorks could help in the cause.
> We had a surprise visitor by the name of Rohit from Dell Perot Systems, Noida.
Young and 2.5 years of experience, Rohit shared a lot of his views on what he
thought was the right way to go about with our goals. 
> Naveen Kumar from my company, JKTechnosoft, and Kumar Shailove from Adobe made
up for the rest of the participants.
> Vatsalya and Vineet were absent from the planned list of attendees.
> We ended the discussion with a game - The Compatibility Game, that was
thoroughly enjoyed by us all. We have decided to play this game for two more
weeks/meets before playing some other game.
> Rohit, Kumar, Puneet - as agreed, please contribute with your own thoughts and
also indicate the next meet and venue..
>
> Regards,
>  
> Ravichandran J.V.
> Read my blog: http://ravichandranjv.blogspot.com/ 
>
Hello All,

I was present at the Noida chapter (re-initiative)of the ASCI meet.
I had gone with zero expectations, and was wanting to absorb what all would have
to say, it turned out that we were small in number but had an active discussion
on the way to take forward the activities.

<the-meet>
We met at around 1930, had a little bit of introductions, had our beverages
served(thanks to TW), and then went on to play the compatibility game.
It was fun knowing about each others understanding of a common concept and how
people relate to each other based on the understanding.
Post the game, we had this discussion about how to take the Noida- chapter
forward, that was the best part of the meet, hearing out why people were there
for!
The discussion lasted around an hour or so, it was ~2230, when we called it a
day!
</the-meet>

<about-me>
I have been a silent/occasional  reader on the group for more than an year, and
had participated in talks initiated by Anurag and Vineet earlier and benefited
greatly from their initiatives! :-).

I am more of an XP-ied agilist, given my domain of having fun while coding,and
therefore would want people who are early in their careers, come forward,share
and learn from each other.
</about-me>

<view>
For this I had proposed the notion of running a project in an XP manner among
interested people on the group and learn from each others experience.

Also, I would want more presence from development point of view from people
experienced on this group.

I like the occasional NCR meet where proven practitioners from around the world
come to share their perspective.But what more I would want from the Noida
chapter is getting the developer community active together, where *local*
agilist share their skills with the locals!That's my definition for a community.

For this,IMO the notion that was arrived at during this discussion was to have
committed individuals arrange for meets/BoF in their respective corporations or
even universities for that matter, under the ASCI banner, have hands on where
experienced locals share and build XP patterns.

Contributions from corporates can and happen later on, but for that we would
need the critical mass, to continue with the spirit of learning/growing in-spite
of a funding.
<view>

In all I am happy I made it to the meet, it gives me a clear picture as to where
the geographically-closest-agile-chapter to me is headed.

I would want/request you if you stay/commute near noida, please be part of the
meet, when it is planned, to build upon these initial ideas or possibly start
afresh!

~rohit.

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