Upcoming Meetings
To Be Announced: March 24, 2008
Prior 2008 Meetings
Michael Spayd: What Your Manager Should Be Doing for Your Agile Team, January 28, 2008
Prior 2007 Meetings
Susan Elliott Sim: Spinning a Good Yarn, December 12, 2007
Mary Poppendieck: Leadership, November 13, 2007
Alan Shalloway: Business Case For Agility, October 16, 2007
Agile 2007 Reviewed: Panel Discussion, September 24, 2007
Ryan Martens and Jean Tabaka, June 25, 2007
Bob Cotton: Behavior Driven Development, April 30, 2007
Dean Leffingwell: Scaling Software Agility, March 26, 2007
Greg Pearman: Being Agile in a Non-Agile Space, February 26, 2007
Prior 2006 Meetings
John Farnbach: Dynamic Resource Management, October 23, 2006
Presentation on Dynamic Resource Management.
Jared Richardson: Agile Software Testing Strategies, September 25, 2006
Lee Devin: Preparation vs Planning, August 14, 2006
Alex Pukinskis: Agile Organizational Transitions, June 26, 2006
Panel Discussion: Distributed Agile Teams, May 22, 2006
Open Space: bivio Software, April 24, 2006
Open space meeting at bivio Software.
Alan Shalloway, March 27, 2006
Prior 2005 Meetings
Mike Cohn, October 24, 2005
Planning is important even for projects using agile processes such as Scrum or XP. Unfortunately, we've all seen so many worthless plans that we'd like to throw them away altogether. The good news is that it is possible to create a project plan that looks forward six to nine months that can be accurate and useful. In this class we will look at why traditional plans fail but why planning is still necessary even on agile projects. More...
Tim Lister, July 25, 2005
Tim Lister is 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 where he is one of three conference Fellows alongside Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham. More...
Ron Jeffries, June 27, 2005
Agile Denver welcomes Ron Jeffries, experienced XP author, trainer, coach, and practitioner. Ron is author of Extreme Programming Adventures in C#, the senior author of Extreme Programming Installed, and was the on-site XP coach for the original Extreme Programming project. More...
Paul Hamill, April 25, 2005
Paul Hamill, author of O'Reilly's Unit Test Frameworks, will present best practices and new information about a key Agile development practice, Test Driven Development (TDD), and the unit test frameworks and related tools that enable it. More...
Panel, March 28, 2005
Agile Project Management vs. Traditional Project Management ...which makes the most sense for your organization? Do you wonder how companies align themselves with one set of practices versus another? Agile Denver aims to help you navigate the waters of indecision by bringing together a panel of highly qualified individuals to share their experiences in a moderated panel discussion, with audience participation encouraged. More...
Esther Derby, January 24, 2005
Esther will examine Quality Interactions: Building Effective Working Relationships. More...
2004 Meetings
Ken Schwaber, October 11, 2004
Do you cringe at the thought of going to work? Do your customers doubt that systems projects will be successfully delivered, much less meet their Return on Investment expectations. Come hear about a very simple but very difficult way to address these problems, Agile processes. More...
Joshua Kerievsky, September 22, 2004
Joshua will be presenting topics covered in his new book Refactoring to Patterns. Refactoring to Patterns is the marriage of refactoring -- the process of improving the design of existing code -- with patterns, the classic solutions to recurring design problems. More...
Franz Garsombke, August 30, 2004
Sometimes, the easiest and most rewarding part of development is the actual coding. Managers and developers often dismiss the building, deploying, testing, and metrics gathering-aspects of the software lifecycle. Continuous integration (CI) is the concept of automating the build cycle so that code is built and tested many times during the day. More...
Jim Highsmith, July 26, 2004
Practitioners of agile software development methodologies, including XP, are often "anti" project management. However, the real issue is not project management or no project management, but the style of project management. More...
Working Meeting, June 28, 2004
XP Denver is holding a group working meeting to look into what the group has been doing and what we hope to accomplish in the future. This retrospective and planning meeting is open to all as we set our course for, not only potentially being the host city for XPAU 2005, but also for determining how members can maintain enthusiasm about meeting and sharing common goals. More...
Robert C. Martin, May 17, 2004
FitNesse is an open-source acceptance testing tool in the same way that JUnit is an open-source unit testing tool. Based on Ward Cunningham's FIT framework, FitNesse makes it easy for customers, business analysts, and testers to write and run acceptance tests, while also making it easy for programmers to bind those tests to the application. This talk will describe the practice of acceptance testing, and provide a demonstration of FitNesse. More...
Alistair Cockburn, April 12, 2004
A founder of the agile development movement in 2001, Dr. Cockburn is known for his foundational work in software development methodologies and project management. Of his books "Surviving OO Projects," "Writing Effective Use Cases," and "Agile Software Development," the latter two won the Jolt Productivity Awards in consecutive years. Much of his work is available online at http://Alistair.Cockburn.us. More...
Mike Clark, March 22, 2004
Test-driven development received a lot of attention in 2003, and the interest will grow in 2004. For good reason: everyone agrees testing is important, but now many programmers are claiming that by writing tests first, they see better designs emerge. These same programmers quickly point out that test-driven development makes them feel more productive and less stressed. It all sounds good, but how do you get started on a real project? More...
Jon Kern, February 23, 2004
You have probably heard or read of raging debates over Model Driven Architecture, UML’s immaturity, code generation controversy, and modeling is for wimps. Even such industry notables as Martin Fowler and Scott Ambler have negative opinions about the viability of MDA. We found an author of The Agile Manifesto, Jon Kern (friends with both Ambler and Fowler), who takes a somewhat contrarian view. Jon is a fanatic about ensuring software development efforts deliver business value. More...
Grady Booch, January 26, 2004
One of the original developers of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), Grady Booch is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture, modeling, and software engineering processes. A renowned visionary, he has devoted his life's work to improving the effectiveness of software developers worldwide. Grady served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation from 1980-2003, and continues to serve as principal architect and mentor of software development solutions within IBM Software Group. More...
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