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Please join us for Joe Gee's presentation "Rejoining the Business: Aligning Rhythm, Direction, and Motivation". Many software shops are very separated from their businesses like a vendor from their client.  Rather than inviting an onsite customer to join the development team, Joe will discuss the forces on an agile team when they rejoin the business.  Bringing the development team more directly into the world of fiscal schedules, sales cycles, and management objectives can put more stress and…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

Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs and the Enterprise.Agenda6:00-7:00 networking, food, and open space discussion7:00 – 8:30 Dean Leffingwell presentationAbstractAgile development introduced the “user story” as the primary currency for expressing application requirements within the agile enterprise. The just-in-time application of the user story simplifies software development and helps eliminate the prior waterfall-like practices of overly burdensome…See More

On Monday, May 24th special guest speaker Jean Tabaka will present “Servant Leadership (A Leadership Paradigm for our Times)". Jean Tabaka is an Agile Fellow at Rally Software Development.In the April 5th 2009 New York Times “Sunday Business” section, an interview of CEO John Donahoe began with the question: “ What is the most important less you’ve learned about leadership.”His answer? “ You can’t change people. As a leader, there’s a real temptation to try to help people get to where you want…See More