This month's meeting is tomorrow!
Experience Report on Agile QA -- Luis Zhinin

Luis will discuss his experience with Agile-QA within the IVR industry.  He has worked on several IVR projects which were mostly waterfall process oriented.  He will discuss the fun and challenges of going from  QA leading waterfall IVR projects to QA leading a (Comcast) Agile IVR project

For those interested in QA topics in an Agile environment, this is a great resource for comparison of various models and their effect on quality.

Meeting Date: Weds July 20th
Meeting Time: 5:30pm to 8:30pm - - Note the meeting time when we start mingling  - Since it is off the PA Turnpike at the Ft Washington Exit or the Virginia Drive Slip-Lane, these may be easy commute for many of our members to attend.

Meeting Place: DeVry University, Fort Washington campus, Room 105 in the main building. Go up the drive and through the main entrance (with flags). Signs will point the way!

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1140+Virginia+Drive,+Fort+Washington,+PA&hl=en&sll=40.040577,-75.199206&sspn=0.007705,0.013797&z=16

An RSVP at our website would be a big help!  http://www.agilephilly.com/events/experience-report-on-agile-qa

Tues, August 2nd meeting of Agile Philly is . . .

Not a joint meeting, but a co-located one. 

Which gives you the opportunity to experience and experiment in different areas.

The location is Temple University, and it is an agile experiment for the AgilePhilly User Group/

This is a pilot of sorts for setting up recurring, monthly, multi-group

events where several groups can meet up in the same building, mingle, and

then have separate talks in separate rooms.

Additionally, it is expected to simplify the task of organizing our user group(s),

and more importantly, it encourages mingling with other groups and cross-fertilization of ideas.

This month's Agile topic is Rolling out Agile to a Large Fortune 500 Corporation (Best Buy)

presented by Dan Koch

http://www.agilephilly.com/xn/detail/3783271:Event:13613    to RSVP

In the next room, Philly Alt Net will have Brian Flanagan talking about the

Knockout.js framework which provides and MVC model for client-side

javascript.  The knockout.js framework (http://knockoutjs.com/ ) is a new JavaScript

framework that allows you to create a richer web application using clean,

concise JavaScript and HTML 5

If you would rather go to this, then RSVP at

http://phillyaltnet-aug2011.eventbrite.com/

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RSVP TO BOTH ! 

Location:  Temple University Center City Campus

1515 Market St

Philadelphia, PA 19102

Map  http://bit.ly/nZCO7r  

Time:

5:30 - Greet and Eat and Mingle

6:30 - Knockout.js - Brian Flanagan

-or-

6:30  - Large Agile Rollout at Best Buy - Dan Koch

I am excited to announce availability of my book "Agile Release Planning" on
Amazon Kindle platform.

Check out, download yourself OR pass on the link to your friends, colleagues,
and everyone in your network!  Just visit Amazon.com and search for "Nimesh
Soni" or click here
http://amzn.com/B004TGTHNM

Don't have Kindle? no worries!. You can download Kindle for PC/Mac/Smart phone
and read the book on any of those devices.

Nimesh Soni
skype: nimesh0308 | twitter: @beyondCSM
"Agile Release Planning" Book: http://amzn.com/B004TGTHNM

P.S: This book will be available on Nook (Barns & Noble) and iBook (Apple/iPad)
format soon. Stay tuned..

"Release Planning is an essential part of many Scrum projects which means all longer term development activities especially on enterprise level. You won't be able to run a scaled, multi-team, long-term Scrum without any means of Release Planning based on team estimates."

as described by Andreas Schliep (CST,CSC) in Agile-Leaders group in discussing Scrum updates by Ken Schwaber

Release planning is essential, and you can get help on how to facilitate it from "Agile Release Planning" available at http://amzn.com/B004TGTHNM

Nimesh Soni 

skype: nimesh0308 | twitter: @beyondCSM

Author: "Agile Release Planning" Book: http://amzn.com/B004TGTHNM

• 6 people talk about what they're working on & excited about for 5-10 minutes each
• everyone breaks out into small groups based on what they're interested in talking about at more length
• everyone learns from each other & has a good�time

         - If you did not RSVP, do so -

- The most prestigous Agile Philly event of the year �

This Thursday Oct 20th, SCOTT AMBLER speaking at the Valley Forge Radisson

Scott Ambler is the keynote speaker to open this half day Agile Conference.  Scott is known as the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies and creator of the Agile Scaling Model (ASM). Scott is the (co-)author of 19 books, including Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer 3rd Edition, and The Enterprise Unified Process.

Not without a sense of humor, Scott also contributed to the Waterfall 2006 Conference webpages on Dinosaur Strategies and Glacial Methodologies

http://www.waterfall2006.com/ambler1.html and http://www.waterfall2006.com/ambler2.html

The Conference is totally Free, sponsored by IBM and Rational

Schedule:

    1:00-1:05pm welcome & intro

    1:05-2:20pm keynote by Scott Ambler & 15 min of questions

    2:20-2:50pm Team Concert Demo

    2:50-3:10pm break (20 min)

Breakout Sessions (two tracks, 30 minutes each, 4 sessions)

    3:10-3:40 Failing Fast + Experience Report

    3:40-4:00 break (20 min)

    4:00-4:30 Leading a Self-Organizing Team + Staying Disciplined--Iterations, Scope, Practices

    4:30 refreshments

    5pm+ networking

RSVP at  http://www.agilephilly.com/events/agility-scale-with-scott-ambler

my gut reaction to the past couple of months...

There seemed to be a flurry of multiple things to do each week, for many
weeks in one month.

is this my imagination, or was there a ton of scheduled events?

maybe too many choices meant that folks picked none?

also, much like a book/beer/wine club amongst friends... when it is
always the "4th Wednesday of the month" people can plan accordingly. If
it moves around and there are 2, 3, 4 events in a month, what is a
person to do?

Personally, i like the opportunities to learn from others in the group,
especially coding stuff.

jon

blog: http://technicaldebt.com
twitter: http://twitter.com/JonKernPA


D.Andr� Dhondt said the following on 10/26/11 8:24 PM:
>
> Recently our attendance has been dwindling; are you only interested in
> hearing from the rock star consultants / published agile authors? Or
> is there something else you're waiting for?
>
>
> In the past, we've had lots of voices chiming in regularly telling us
> what consultants might be available for an evening event because that
> consultant happened to be doing work for their company--but that
> hasn't been happening lately. So we've been inviting people we think
> have a compelling story or something interesting to say. Is that
> valuable to you?
>
> What could we do to better serve your needs? Fewer events? A coaches'
> corner for free advice? More advanced topics? Which ones?
>
>
>
>
> --
> D. Andr� Dhondt
> mobile: 215-805-0819 <tel:215-805-0819>
> skype: d.andre.dhondt
> twitter: adhondt http://dhondtsayitsagile.blogspot.com/
>
> Support low-cost conferences -- http://AgileTour.org/
> If you're in the area, join Agile Philly http://www.AgilePhilly.com
>
>

            . . . Agile Philly's Events in November are both RESCHEDULED . . .

We are going to RESCHEDULE Purpose, Passion, and P rofits

With Chellie Campbell, Author of "The Wealthy Spirit" and "Zero to Zillionaire"

She's been sick & her voice is still recovering.
Her angle on Connections are Collections, and money management actions for positive results, is enlightening.

http://www.chellie.com

We are going to RESCHEDULE  Michele and Jim McCarthy Session: A Golden Era of Technological Culture, so stay tuned.

Their core protocols for a shared vision was just presented at AgileBoston in September

http://www.mccarthyshow.com   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/TheCoreProtocols/

http://www.liveingreatness.com

       Vendor Events in November are:

Vendor Event = Free = Thursday morning Nov 17th Agile Caf� event at the Franklin Institue by Rally Software

9:00am-12pm, and with a panel of local Agile practitioners, it's focused on building and strengthening the Agile community

Register here http://forms.rallydev.com/forms/Q411-AgileCafe-Philly-Nov17

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Franklin Institute, 222 North 20th Street, directions are the website

It is in the 5th Floor Conference Room � just say you are there for the Agile Cafe event.

The best entrance is the main entrance off 20th Street.

Complimentary parking is available in the Franklin Institute parking garage at 21st Street between Winter and Race. 

From the parking garage, go up to the atrium and ask for the Agile Cafe event.

Vendor Event = $239 = 2 day Lean - Kanban Conference with Ken Pugh and Alan Shaloway

Speaking are Cory Foy ,  Mike Cox ,  Ken Pugh  and  Alan Shalloway on Dec 1st and 2^nd

Info http://www.netobjectives.com/free-seminar-schedule/lean-kanban-conference-2011-12-philadelphia

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Valley Forge Scanticon Hotel & Convention Center, 1210 First Avenue, Kin of Prussia

Michael Cox is local to Philadelphia and will be speaking to us in Jan or Feb.

As a member of AgilePhilly, use the discount code of `ap2011phicon' for the $239 rate.

            Old Business ( not really old, but a way to say thank you to our speaker last month )

Our speaker from Thursday Oct 20th ( Agility@Scale with Scott Ambler ) who has a Survey on Adoption of Agile Techniques in 2011.

You have a chance to win 3 books upon completion of the survey.

http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys