Tomorrow is Agile San Diego's 8 year anniversary, and we have an action packed meeting lined up to celebrate.
To kick things off we'll be presenting the Agilist of the Year award, followed by a lightening talk by Llewellyn Falco about a curriculum he has been using to teaching kids programming using TDD. Our main speaker of the night is Bob Dobson, known to some of you as Scrum Pig. He's going to present a system called "Measured Team Accountability" that involves having team members rate each other anonymously at the end of each iteration. It promises to be something novel and interesting so hope you can make it. More details... Highly functional Teams have members with strong accountability to each other. In most business environments, particularly large, heavily regulated companies creating the conditions for accountabilities requires leaders to innovate. An excellent accountability system will have the Team members participate in developing the standards, minimize the opportunities for personalities to effect Team performance, and provide transparent results. By establishing a functional accountability system, Team members loyalty is focused on each other, resulting highly productive and occasionally enjoyable work. Bob Dobson is a software professional with over 25 years of development experience in Government, military and private sector companies in a variety of roles including lead developer, development manager, and director. Bob's experience helping people automate business processes ranges from one man water delivery companies to enterprise level applications for environments of up to 350,000 desktops. He is the leading "scrumvangelist" on the Hewlett-Packard Navy Marine Corps Intranet and a Certified Scrum Master. A Native San Diegan, Bob is a history aficionado, and is active his Church and supporting his 3 children in sports, AWANA and Scouting. This meeting will take place at The Linkery in North Park at 6:30PM. Please note the slightly later time since we are trying to accommodate folks dealing with traffic coming from Sorrento Valley. Here are directions: http://bit.ly/bpeDqn You can grab a beer at the Linkery bar at any time, and are welcome to join us for dinner after the meeting at 8. Please RSVP to [email protected] if you plan to attend. http://agilesandiego.org -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
