Near-Term Schedule of Meetings and Events & Key Dates

Here are some near-term dates and topics planned for the APLN CT Chapter.

All meetings are on the 1st Tuesday of the month and start at 6PM unless otherwise noted:

September 2 2008:

Part 1: Agile2008 Trip Report. HIghlights from the Annual Conference. A round-up of the most interesting sessions from the Toronto conference in August. At least 4 sessions are planned for summary presentation. We plan to pick those that represent the biggest trends in Agile and Scrum happening now.

Part 2: The Hidden Life of Groups. The session, as presented by Dan Mezick at Agile2008.

October 6 2008:

Planning and Estimating, Part 2: Continuing from User Stories and Story Points, we do the deep dive on how to buffer interations, how to manage and estimate velocity, and how to continuously monitor and adjust Release planning. The problem with large Story Point size.

November 03 2008

The Nokia Test: How To Do Scrum Right. If you pass the NOKIA TEST, you can take a stab at advanced uses of Scrum, such as multilple related projects, working 2 teams from the same backlog, etc. But here is a problem: only 7% of all Scrum implementations can pass this BASIC test. This session looks at how and why, demystifies the test, and discusses why so few can pass.

December 1 2008

From Beginner to Advanced: This meeting has something for everyone, from beginner to advanced.

Part 01: Traps for the Beginner: How to get a Scrum implementation done right the first time out. What to watch for, likely failure points, and how to estimate likely velocity.

Part 02: Advanced Techniques. How to run multiple teams working from the same backlog. How to run multiple teams working on related projects.

2009: Stay tuned !