Next Monday, July 25th, Agile Denver together with sponsors Rally
Software Development and Digital Focus, will host special guest Tim
Lister, co-author with Tom DeMarco of Waltzing With Bears: Managing
Software Project Risk and Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Tim
has over 30 years of professional software development experience, and
is a Principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc., based in the New
York office.

Tim will be in Denver for the Agile 2005 Conference
(http://www.agile2005.org) where he is one of three conference Fellows
alongside Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham. Our thanks also extend to Tim
and the conference organizers for making this special opportunity
possible! The conference sold out this past week with over 600 attendees
signed up, so this is a unique opportunity especially if you may not
otherwise have a chance to attend this year's conference.

The Monday Evening Event at Agile 2005 is open to all conference
attendees and the general public. Tim's talk, "A Few More Things Nobody
Wants To Talk About", follows the AgileAlliance Meeting.

5:30 - 6:30 pm: AgileAlliance Meeting
6:30 - 7:30 pm: Tim Lister Presentation
7:30 - 9:00 pm: Band, Appetizers and Cocktails (*cash bar)

DIRECTIONS

The Monday Evening Event will be held at the conference location at the
Marriott Denver City Center, 1701 California Street. Additional
directions and details will be available at the Agile Denver website
link http://www.agiledenver.org/2005JulMeeting.php later this week.

SPONSORS

About Rally Software Development

Rally Software Development offers the only on-demand, software lifecycle
management solution that helps software organizations scale Agile
development practices across the enterprise and around the globe. The
company's customers include leading software vendors, Internet companies
and corporate development teams that are committed to improving their
responsiveness to fast-changing business realities. With Rally, larger
or distributed teams are able to define, develop and deliver high-value
software in rapid iterations. Rally's world-renown coaches and expert
partners complement its on-demand tooling with training, mentoring and
consulting services for creating the Agile organization. For more
information about Rally, visit the company's Web site at
http://www.rallydev.com.

About Digital Focus

Digital Focus provides business and IT consulting, custom business
solutions, and agile adoption services to give customers immediate
business value from their software development investments. Customers,
such as AOL, OnStar, Fannie Mae, McKesson and other Fortune 1000
companies, access Digital Focus' business consultants, technology
coaches, and software programmers to ensure their custom solutions are
deployed error-free, on-time and within budget. The Digital Focus team
is at the forefront of the shift in the software industry, deploying and
coaching agile software development methodologies. For more information
contact: http://www.digitalfocus.com