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This month, Agile Denver invites you to participate in an interactive session that will help you transform your existing shop into an Agile Engine. In Part One of the session, participants will be given a problem, then brainstorm to identify five techniques for transforming their shop.  (Please come prepared with ideas!)  All the groups will join to compile their techniques, then vote on the top five. In Part Two, we will compare the techniques discovered in Part One to techniques that have…See More

Games are great training tools, and they’re not just for trainers. Come learn some great games and exercises that *you* can play with your team(s) and coworkers to help them learn Agile principles and practices and to promote a sense of Team.Rachel and Chris will come ready to teach several games. They’ll give a brief sense of the games’ lengths, audiences and goals, and then the group will rank the list of games on-the-spot based on attendees’ interests. They’ll then teach as many as we have…See More

Measure for Measure: Lean Principles for Effective Metrics and MotivationThis presentation explores the nature of motivation and the place of metrics and measurement in software development, and how lean software development principles and practices shed light on motivation and metrics and how they can be used to support deep organizational improvement. We will examine the nature of motivation in terms of the four intrinsic rewards that drive positive engagement, and also how certain approaches…See More

Our February meeting will kick off with a panel discussion from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM, followed by some announcements and the main presentation. Refreshments will be provided and there is no cost to attend, although we appreciate RSVPs to plan for refreshments.Presentation AbstractOverview of Selenium, what it does, what it doesn't doHow to get started with Selenium IDE, RC, and GridWhy I started Sauce Labs (Selenium as a Cloud Service)Selenium in 2010... Selenium 2Future trends: Adobe Flex,…See More

Richard Hensley: “The Leaning of Scrum - A McKesson ADM business development story”By now, many have heard about applying XP and Scrum in software development, right? But what have you heard specifically about lean principles and kanban concepts applied to software development? Are you interested in learning more about how others are applying these concepts in their software development processes? If so, please join us when Richard Hensley, from McKesson, as our featured guest shares his…See More