|
*****************************************************************
NOTE: The next meeting
is going to be HUGE and is at MICROSOFT WALTHAM,
**not** a restaurant in Waltham. Get CLEAR directions
and sign up NOW for
the 11/25 Jeff Sutherland meeting, by
clicking this link.
***************************************************************** (Get
on the Agile Boston mailing list .....to stay notified
of Agile news and events in Massachusetts.)
APLN is the national user-group organization
dedicated to Agile training and Agile software development
methods. We meet for Agile training events,
one per month. We are dedicated to spreading Agile
methods
and thinking
through the software development community in Boston.
Click here to get
info & register
for the NEXT MEETING....
NEWS FLASH: Jeff
Sutherland, Scrum co-creator and pioneer, presents
at Agile Boston on
November 25!!
Sign up
here, limited seating available-- and sure to
fill.
The primary best practice
in Agile software development is Scrum—a
set of methods, roles and rules that can increase software
developer productivity by 10
times if you are willing to follow the simple rules.
We teach
and discuss Scrum and the art and science behind it.
We also cover Test Driven Development, XP and other
best-practices under the Agile umbrella.
Experienced Agile practitioners
from throughout Boston attend and present at
our meetings.
We have educational presentations, a focus on Scrum training,
and some informal networking time. We also have some
very
interesting
group-level exercises in which we develop expertise and
empirical
experience in Agile and Scrum.
The leader of the group
is Dan Mezick. You can learn more about Dan on this
web site. Dan is a Scrum Coach
who is an invited speaker to events like Agile2007
and Agile2008.
Anyone can attend a meeting
provided you are willing to participate in making the
meeting
a success.
We run
mock exercises at the group level that are a lot of
fun. Most of these revolve around Scrum tasks like planning,
estimating and running Sprints. If you are looking
for
a very fun way to learn to more and more about Agile
and Scrum, this is the place.
This web site contains
everything you need to learn more and attend a meeting.
Scrum and Agile are gaining
a tremendous amount of traction recently. A recent
search of DICE.COM indicated over 1000
jobs nationally with
the word ‘Scrum’ and over 3000
jobs with the word ‘Agile’.
Come to our events to learn how these methods are transforming
software development
worldwide.
Attending a meeting is simple:
send us an email indicating your planned attendance,
and show
up. We meet at Microsoft
office in Waltham MA. See you at the next meeting
!
Click here to
send an email question to Agile Boston - the APLN
Chapter in MA.
Looking for Boston area usergroups?
Click here to view a list of
local Boston-area groups.
|
| |
 |
|
| |
Loyola
Staffing specializes in providing highly
qualified IT temporary and permanent personnel
to business and industry in Massachusetts. |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
Serious about Scrum? You MUST PASS Scrum's
NOKIA TEST....
Any serious Scrum implementation must pass the NOKIA TEST before using advanced techniques such as Scrum-of-Scrums. Are you ready?
This test is the STARTING point for implementing
advanced Scrum techniques such as multiple teams
working from the same backlog.
According to the NOKIA TEST for Scrum, you are doing
Scrum, if:
- Iterations. You
must be doing iterative development cycle of
6 weeks or less.
- Testing.You must be testing
as you develop software, and preferably, writing
tests IN ADVANCE of development.
- Agile Specification via
User Stories. You'll
want to be using user stories for requirements,
keeping them small, independent, and testable.
- Product Owner. You
have one, preferably with a Release Plan,
and one that writes the User Stories.
- Product Backlog. You
have one, PRIORITIZED by business ROI. Ideally,
you an measure ROI based on real revenue, cost
per Story Point, or othr metrics.
- Estimates. You
have estimates, developed by the WHOLE TEAM,
ideally by using Planning Poker.
- Burndown Chart. You
have one! It is updated every day of a Sprint,
and you report Stories, not Tasks, since Tasks
are not a measure on "done-ness".
- Team Disruption. You have
only Scrum roles consisting of Product Owner,
Team and Scrum master, and
NO ONE is disturbing the Team as they work
on the current Sprint.
SUMMARY
Scrum is simple to describe and hard to follow.
It has the following structure:
- Three Roles. The three Scrum roles are Product Owner,
ScrumMaster, and Team. That's it!
- Three Ceremonies. You have three main meetings
in Scrum: the Sprint Planning meeting,
the Sprint Review, and the Daily Scrum
stand-up.
- Three Artifacts. You have three essential documents
in Scrum- The Product Backlog, the Sprint
backlog, and the Burndown Chart. Remember
that the main item is the User Story, estimated
in Story Points......
- Three Best Practices. Scrum as of 2008 now defines
THREE best practices: the use of User Stories,
the use of Planning Poker, and the use
of the Scrum board.
Learn more....
|
|
Agile
Boston