Thought the group might find this interesting. Somewhat redundat since there's obviously overlap between SeaPIG and djangoseattle, but what the heck, there's always the delete button.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeff Smith <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:20 AM Subject: [djangoseattle] Dec 7 SeaSPIN Mtg: Zero to Agile in 2.3 Months To: [email protected] *Seattle and Eastside Area Software Process Improvement Network *http://www.seaspin.org You can join SeaSpin at LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2201598 * December 7 Meeting Free and Open to the Software Engineering & IT Community * *Construx Software,* 10900 NE 8th St Suite 1350, Bellevue, WA Food & networking from 5:45 to 6:15 (pizza, salad, soda ) Announcements from 6:15 to 6:30 Presentation from 6:30 to 7:45 Q & A from 7:45 to 8:15 Doors close at 8:30 We start presentating earlier now to allow for questions within the 8:30pm meeting time. ------------------------------ *Zero to Agile in 2.3 Months* *Presented by William Rowden Agile Consultant - SolutionsIQ Co-founder / CTO - Gray Hill Solutions* In the last two years of Agile development coaching, William has taught the technical and engineering practices vital to Agile software development to a variety of clients: a social network service in Seattle, Washington; a large single source of OEM information in Chihuahua, Chihuahua (Mexico); a major Asian telecommunication equipment provider in Xi'an, Shaanxi and Shenzhen (China); and a large provider of fixed telephony in Seattle. In this experience report William will compare and contrast these actual enterprise Agile adoptions to each other and to his mental model of an ideal adoption.. *Bio:* William Rowden is a ScrumMaster, Agile coach, and trainer at SolutionsIQ, with expertise in enterprise Agile adoption. A skilled communicator and collaborator, he has worked with up to 100 managers, testers, and developers in transition at one time. In addition to teaching technical practices, William co- trains Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner courses. William also brings 7 years of experience to his executive coaching — as co-founder/CTO of an Agile software company, Gray Hill Solutions, he developed traffic.511.org, an Advance Traffic Management System, and a transit route analyzer. His love of languages enhances his development coaching — he can write in over 20 computer languages (most recently Perl, C# 3.5, and Java) and two natural languages (English and Spanish), and is currently studying Mandarin. *Check out our group on LinkedIn.<http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2201598> * ------------------------------ *On Parking:* Construx does not validate garage parking and parking on 108th or 110th is also problemmatic. It is possibleto park free in certain places along the street or at the nearby library ------------------------------ [image: construx building] *View map by* *MapQuest * <http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=US&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&addtohistory=&cat=&address=10900+NE+8th+Street&city=Bellevue&state=WA&zipcode=98004> *Going North on I-405 toward Bellevue...* 1. Take exit 13B for NE 8th Street 2. Take the NE 8th Street West ramp 3. Merge onto NE 8th Street 4. Turn right onto 110th Avenue. Construx is the building on the left, on the corner of 110th Avenue and NE 8th Street 5. Turn left into the parking lot immediately past the building *Going South on I-405 toward Bellevue...* 1. Take exit 13B for NE 8th Street 2. Take the NE 8th Street West ramp 3. Merge onto NE 8th Street 4. Turn right onto 110th Avenue. Construx is the building on the left, on the corner of 110th Avenue and NE 8th Street 5. Turn left into the parking lot immediately past the building ------------------------------ *You can join SeaSpin at LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2201598* SeaSpin is normally hosted by Construx Software and coordinated by Jeff Smith, Steven Smith, and Pamela Perrott. The officers are: - Chair: Jeff Smith, Northwest Cadence (contact<http://seaspin.org/forums/AddPost.aspx?ForumID=0&UserId=2127> ) - Program Chair: Steven M. Smith The SeaSpin charter can be found here<http://seaspin.org/files/folders/charter/entry28.aspx> . _______________________________________________ djangoseattle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webcollective.coop/listinfo.cgi/djangoseattle-webcollective.coop -- Some radio waves were modulated in the creation of this email.
