Hi all, Software Association of Oregon (SAO) and the Oregon Training Network recruited Jim Shore and me to provide two days of Introduction to Agile courses...
Hello everyone, I'm sending out this quick reminder that XPDX & APLN-PDX will meet again this Friday, June 20, at 1 pm at McMenamins on NE Broadway and 16th...
I'll be there with probably with a couple of others from work again. Thanks for initiating this Diana. Merlyn ... -- Merlyn Albery-Speyer tech blog:...
Hi all, We had a great turnout in both May and June, so we're going to continue the trend. Our next meeting of XPDX and APLN-PDX will once again fall on the...
Nat Pryce and Steve Freeman have posted chapter one of their book: http://www.mockobjects.com/labels/book.html I think there's some good material there for a...
It's an experience no one should miss. :-) http://www.archive.org/details/DearXPMovieAgile2008 A few months ago, I got an email from Kenji asking if I could...
Who's attending the Agile 2008 conference? Can we get together in Toronto? Diana ** Diana Larsen co-author: "Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great!" ...
Hello all, We've formed a third-Friday-of-the-month pattern, so XPDX and APLN-PDX folks will gather once again on Friday, April 15, at McMenamins on Broadway...
Thanks for the clarification, Ian. April/August...Starts with an "A", it's a month. Where's the confusion? LOL It's a slip betwixt brain and lip (or fingertip)...
It's not the same as being at the conference and seeing the live performance. Still, no true Agilist should miss this "Dear XP" sing- along. :-) Imagine 1300...
I can't believe we let the whole XPDX-Agile meeting slip away yesterday without publicly, _locally_ recognizing our latest Agile Alliance Gordon Pask award...
Hear, hear! Congratulations Arlo! I arrived to our XPDX-Agile meeting a half hour late, so thought (my mistake) that this announcement might have already been...
I offered to handle logistics and advertising for meetings this year if other people would take care of the speakers. Diana Larsen, Michael Ferrante, and...
Hi Arlo, Thanks for handling this. I have a standing social engagement on Thursday evenings, so I'd rather have XPDX some other evening, but I'm not sure if...
Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know about the new training courses that Diana Larsen and I are putting on at the end of October. There are two courses: -...
Sorry to bother you again--it turns out that the Agile University registration links are all broken. :-( To sign up for the courses, use the buttons on this...
FYI - The Portland Scrum Development group meets on the 3rd Thursday evenings. At Kells. I've copied Jimi Fosdick on this as he's coordinating that group, and...
... Calagator <http://calagator.org/> could be useful for picking dates that don't conflict with other tech meetings. Though, in Portland, that can be a tough...
I'm intending to post the dates on calagator when we choose them. My main constraint will be the nights free at Cube Space. They host a lot of user group...
PSD meetings are somewhat intermittent as we're just getting going. September happens to be the 3rd thursday but the only thing that's set is the thursday part...
I spoke with the nice folks at CubeSpace. I looked at meeting times for a few other user groups. I looked at calagator. There are a number of times during the...
Sounds great to me. As soon as you know for sure, I'll advertise on my site as well. (http://jamesshore.com/Calendar) Cheers, Jim ... -- James Shore -...
Folks, Calagator, a local open-sourced project to provide a calender aggregator for the tech community, is starting up again after the summer break. First, on...
I am looking forward to the lightning summaries round tonight. I have no idea what I'll learn, but I always learn something when I participate in one of these....