A Panel of Experts at Agile Philly

On Thurs March 26

Topic              A Panel of Experts      Featuring
                                       Corey Haines
                                       Ken Pugh
                                       Mike Vizdos
                                       Jim York
                                       Brian Marick

For more info, go to http://www.AgilePhilly.com
 
Corey Haines
Corey Haines is an active member in the software craftsmanship movement, focusing his attention on post-apprenticeship activities. He currently specializes in Ruby, but will pair in just about any language you want.

Ken Pugh
Ken Pugh is a fellow consultant with Net Objectives. He consults, trains, mentors, and testifies on technology topics ranging from object-oriented design to agile software development. He has written several programming books, including the 2006 Jolt Award winner, Prefactoring, and has served clients from London to Sydney.

Mike Vizdos
Mike Vizdos of the Implementing Scrum cartoons has worked in all aspects of the system lifecycle. Michael speaks, draws and writes about various process IT-related topics and he is a Certified Scrum Trainer.

Jim York
Jim York specializes in Lean and Agile thinking while training executive, management, and delivery teams. With more than 20 years in IT, Jim blends his experience in Scrum, Agile Project Management, Lean Software Development, Extreme Programming, and traditional project management to deliver customized "just-in-time" training to teams. As a Certified Scrum Trainer and member of the Scrum Alliance, Jim actively contributes to the advancement of the Scrum methodology.

Brian Marick
Brian Marick is the author of The Craft of Software Testing, which promotes test design techniques, and how testers support the team, as well as unscripted exploratory manual testing. He was an author of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and was the second chair of the Agile Alliance board of directors.

Date / Time:
Thursday March 26, 2009
6:30 PM, start to gather.
7:00 PM, meeting.
8:30 PM, end, go to Shula's, a cash bar at the hotel

Logistics and Directions to the Conshohocken suburb of Philadelphia

Note that there will be no food or drink provided.  No RSVP needed.
There is a charge for parking of $3.00 per hour.
http://www.phillyemergingtech.com/directions.php

Philadelphia Marriott® West
111 Crawford Avenue
West Conshohocken, PA 19428
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=111+Crawford+Avenue,+West+Conshohocken,+PA+19428&sll=39.84993,-75.447922&sspn=0,359.945068&ie=UTF8&ll=40.069303,-75.308919&spn=0.007603,0.013733&z=16&iwloc=addr

From any direction, whether from the Schukyll I-76 or the Blue Rte I-476, you will be getting off onto Matson Ford Road.

Then Right at the light onto Rte 23 Front Street (It’s a big intersection.  The incline in front of you is the bridge, so you don’t want to go straight here.)

Next Left puts you onto Crawford Avenue.
Quick Left into the driveway of the hotel.  Parking garage is on the right.
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Southbound / Eastbound on the Schukyll I 76 = Exit 331 B Stay to the right and get off onto Matsonford Road
Northbound / Westbound on the Schukyll I 76 = Exit 332, get onto Matsonford Road
Blue Route I 476 Northbound = Exit 16A get onto Matsonford Road
Blue Route I 476 Southbound = Exit 16 Stay to the right and get off onto Matsonford Road
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The next meetings of Agile Philly are

* Tues May 5th 2009: Agile Philly, Requirement Composition Tables, (similar to Dependency Structure Matrix presentation at Philly JUG on April 29th 2008 http://phillyjug.jsync.com/meetings/mapping-the-architecture-of-applications-frameworks-and-databases-with-a-dependency-structure-matrix-dsm-by-neeraj-sangal ) This is a joint meeting with SPIN Software Process Improvement Network  (same location at Siemens where we heard Mary Poppendieck)

The meeting on May 5th will be a joint meeting with SPIN, the Software Process Improvement Network (Assoc for Software Quality), and will be at Siemens in Malvern (where we heard Mary Poppendieck last year).

 http://www.asqphilly.org/spin/SPIN.html
 
A paper by our speaker for May 5th, Yuri Chernak, was selected as the feature article for the March issue of SQE.  View Page 40 online at http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/sqe/bettersoftware_0309/ 

 
His article Aspect-oriented Requirements Engineering Explained: Building a Foundation for Structured Requirements by Yuri Chernak  - - -  Aspect-oriented requirements engineering (AORE) is a new methodology that can help us further improve the analysis, structure, and cost of development of software requirements. The second part of this two-part series focuses on the AORE specification techniques.

* Tues June 2nd 2009 Wade Lee  on  Selling Agile to a Customer (a repeat of his presentation of May 2008)