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239 (TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY
NINE) attending
on 11/25/2009 !!

See the EVENT
DETAILS here !!
Who
is Agile Boston organizer Dan Mezick ??
Why is does Dan's interview
from Agile2009 appear on InfoQ?
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MEETING,WEDNESDAY, 01/27/2010: ALAN ATLAS (of RALLY)
on "SOCIAL CONTRACTS:
THE NEGLECTED ROLE OF MIDDLE MANAGEMENT IN AGILE
TRANSFORMATION"

Presenter: ALAN ATLAS
Alan Atlas is a practicing,
full-time Agile Coach at RALLYSoftware. As such, his
job is very
hard: he faciliates REAL culture change inside organizations.
At Amazon he spearheaded the use of Scrum throughout
the company. While at Amazon, he and his team used Scrum
to deliver Amazon S3, the industry-award-winning web
service that provides unlimited Internet-connected storage,
in 2006. Alan is a CSM, a CST, a graduate of Brown University
(BA Psychology), UMASS (BS in EE), and Georgia Tech (MSEE).
Click here to get
full info & register for the NEXT MEETING....
Presentation: ALAN ATLAS of
[RALLY] on SOCIAL ONTRACTS: THE NEGLECTED ROLE OF MIDDLE
MANAGEMENT IN AGILE TRANSFORMATION
Successful agile adoption is in
fact cultural change. Culture includes written
and unwritten ground rules.
Social contracts are plain-English
working agreements by and between stakeholders
and participants in any agile adoption effort. A key
point of cultural leverage is the middle manager.
However,
these managers are often left out of training and
other transformation activities in favor of putting all
efforts
into the teams...... Learn
MORE.....
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COMMUNITY NOTES: Things to Ponder,
and Do
BART
Analysis of Your Team Organization: Boundary Authority
Role and Task.
Group
Relations: an Intro to GR work.
Scrum,
BART and Group Relations: a Primer
Community
Meritocracy: How to Organize
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full info & register for the NEXT MEETING....

We are Agile Boston. We
meet for Agile training events, one per month. We are
dedicated to spreading Agile methods and thinking through
the software development community in greater Boston.
We meet in Waltham MA on the 4th Wednesday, except for
August and
December....click here to
send us an email about absolutely anything on your mind
now.
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Welcome to the Agile Boston web
site !!
Our average meeting
has over 90 attending
!!
We have 239++ attending
GIVE THANKS FOR SCRUM on 11/25 !! We only charged
SEVEN BUCKS.
I think we probably charged too much !!
We have 138 attending
the November meeting !! (Jeff Sutherland)
We have 147 attending
the February meeting !! (Ken Schwaber)
We have 81 for the April meeting !!
(Ellen Gottesdiener)
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Ken Schwaber, at the February
09 meeting.
We are Agile Boston. 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.
We meet
Waltham MA on the 4th Wednesday, except for August and
December....
Click here to get
full info & register for the NEXT MEETING....
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,
Agile2008 and Agile2009. Learn more about Dan here
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.
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full info & register for the NEXT MEETING....
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area usergroups? Click here to view
a list of local Boston-area groups.
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