Agile Denver will meet near Downtown Denver on this coming Monday,
January 26th. Our guest speaker is Ronica Roth who will present "It
Takes a Village: Organizing to Fulfill the Product Owner Role"

The Agile product owner role has been defined as the "single wringable
neck" who ensures that software products and projects deliver value.
Many organizations struggle to fill this role that collaborates with
stakeholders to define value and manage a backlog, provides tactical
support to the delivery team, and directs the product and project vision
and roadmap.

For most organizations, the reality is that it takes a whole team of
people to fill this role. Ronica Roth begins with a quick overview of
the product owner responsibilities. She then presents patterns and
examples for organizing product and customer groups in product
companies, consulting shops, and internal IT departments. Soliciting
your ideas, Ronica leads a discussion of the successes and challenges of
those patterns and of your experiences with them.

Gain new ideas about how to organize your product and customer group to
support value delivery.

As always, our monthly meetings are free to attend and open to local
software professionals, students and faculty. Feel free to pass this
announcement along to your colleagues.


AGENDA

5:30 - 6:30 PM Pizza, networking and announcements
6:30 - 8:00 PM Ronica Roth Presentation


SPEAKER

Ronica Roth is an agile coach and consultant with Rally Software. Her
passion for close collaboration as a means to better software led her to
Agile practices. Her experience with excellence, leadership, and
discipline on Agile teams led her to want to share that experience. She
has guided many organizations-both large and small-through successful
adoption of agile principles and best practices. Before she was a
teacher, she was a doer, discovering, evolving, and managing software
requirements as a product owner. Ronica is a Certified Scrum Trainer.


SPONSORS

The January 2009 sponsor is Rally Software.

Rally Software (http://rallydev.com) helps organizations perfect the art
of software development through Agile and Lean practices. Agile
development practices are quickly becoming a mainstream approach to
software development because they shorten development cycles, minimize
risk and help better prioritize features and customer requests. In fact,
in a recent third-party study, Rally customer BMC Software was proven to
have development cycles that were nearly three times faster than the
industry average and one quarter the expected number of defects with
double the team size.


DIRECTIONS

The January meeting will be held in the Tivoli Student Union (TV)
building, in Room 320 Section A (Baerresen Ballroom).

The Tivoli is located on the Auraria Campus, within walking distance of
Downtown Denver via Larimer Street crossing Speer. You can reach the
campus from the I-25 south Colfax or Speer exits.

Please review or print out the parking map for reference:

http://www.ahec.edu/parking/ParkingMap2008.pdf

Parking on site costs around $5 for attendees of our event and there
should be parking available in the lots off of Auraria Parkway and Ninth
Street. Be sure to mention that you are attending an on campus event
otherwise they might assume you are there for a sports event.


A G I L E D E N V E R
www.agiledenver.org