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Let's
be clear: Agile Boston's mission is to encourage & help
the Greater Boston Agile community to become the most
active, most
innovative & most
vibrant Agile learning community on the planet, by any
measure that can be named. Are you with us ? Good ! Attend
AGILE BOSTON OPEN SPACE 2010 on September 16 !!
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AGILE BOSTON OPEN SPACE
2010 !!
SAVE THE
DATE!! SEPTEMBER 16 2010
At the WESTIN HOTEL in Waltham MA

The largest Agile Open Space
event EVER HELD in Boston !!
Our Event Theme: "PEOPLE
& INTERACTIONS" Keynote with Jean Tabaka,
author of COLLABORATION EXPLAINED. Great sessions in
the morning and and a great Open Space in the afternoon,
includes lunch, and costs just $69 ($49 through August
06).Register
today.
Speakers include: Jean
Tabaka, Steven
"Doc" List, Johanna Rothman, Amr Elssamadisy,
Dan Mezick, Joe Krebs, Mike Cottmeyer, Dan LeFebvre...
and more! Register
Here.
Learn
More.....
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The PERSONAL
AGILITY WORKSHOP , an experiental 1-Day workshop
with Amr Elssamadisy and Ashley Johnson is COMING TO
BOSTON
on September 14 !!
And it's
just $99 bucks! How is this possible? Why
does Boston have the highest-quality, lowest-cost
events available
in the USA? Learn
more here.
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NEXT MEETING,WEDNESDAY, July
28 2010, 630PM to 830PM
LYSSA ADKINS on : "ESSENTIAL
DEPROGRAMMING FOR TRADITIONAL PROJECT MANAGERS"

Click here to get
full info & register for the NEXT MEETING....
Learn
MORE.....
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COMMUNITY NOTES- THINGS TO PONDER

Ask
Your Mother: The Unusual Role of Scrum Master. Posted
2010-06-26

Lack
of Team Authorization, Part 1: Good Scrum Gone Bad.
Posted 2010-06-29 =======================================
COACHING AGILE TEAMS
!!
The two-day
COACHING AGILE TEAMS class with Lyssa Adkins is coming
to Boston
July
28-29
!! Learn more..... 
The all-new
course COACHING
AGILE TEAMS is coming to Boston on July 28
and 29!! Taught by book author Lyssa Adkins. This
course is intended for practicing agile coaches who
are ready
to "up their game."
SEATING IS LIMITED and and
Agile Boston members get a 23% discount. This is
THE class
for anyone involved in Agile Coaching. Learn more .....
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NEW ENGLAND GIVECAMP !!
 GiveCamp is a volunteer effort to
bring IT systems and web sites to non-profit organizations
in the Boston area. The event takes place on June 12
and 13 in Cambridge! We are bringing Scrum to New England
GiveCamp. This is great way to get more Scrum experience,
spread Scrum, and do good, all at once. Interested? Learn
more...
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======================================= OVER 250 individuals attend
AGILE BOSTON OPEN SPACE 4/28/2010 !!
We had an amazing OPEN SPACE
event on April 28. Did
you miss this event on April 28 ?? Learn
more....
It was ONE GREAT
DAY with speakers including KEN SCHWABER in
the AM... then lunch and the OPEN SPACE event facilitated
by world-class facilitation authority Steven "Doc" List.

Participating speakers in the AM include
Michael de la Maza, KEN SCHWABER, Amr Elssamadisy, Steven "Doc"
List, and Dan Mezick.
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239 (TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY
NINE) attending
on 11/25/2009 !!

See the EVENT
DETAILS here !!
Wait......
Who
is Agile Boston organizer Dan Mezick ??
Why is does Dan's interview
from Agile2009 appear on
InfoQ? What's this about Dan
writing the Agile news, weekly, on InfoQ?
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COMMUNITY
NOTES: Things to Ponder, and Act upon....from Dan
Mezick...

Lack
of Team Authorization, Part 1: Good Scrum Gone Bad.
Posted 2010-06-29 
Ask
Your Mother: The Unusual Role of Scrum Master. Posted 2010-06-26

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
Canonical
Scrum: The simplest and
most significant form of Scrum. There is no standard
Scrum implementation !

Zombie
Teams: Teams have a 'body'...violating
this personal space of your team, without team consent,
is a very BAD idea!
This Zombie Teams post is linked to
from Jeff Sutherland's Scrum log. Learn
more...
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Click here to get
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 run AGILE
BOSTON OPEN SPACE on
04/28/2010 and get over 250++ individuals
attending !! We charge JUST $29-- and it includes
lunch !!
We have 239++ attending
GIVE THANKS FOR SCRUM on 11/25/2009 !!
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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Get
on the Agile Boston mailing list .....to
stay notified of Agile news and events in Massachusetts.)

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 adhere to Scrum values. 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.
Click here to get
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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