Upcoming Events
| User Experience
Group of Waterloo Region November 20, 2008I will be speaking about User Experience Practices an Agile Teams. The presentation will focus on using and adapting user experience practices for effective UX design within an agile iterative development model. |
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Waterloo Agile User Group November 18, 2008, 4:30 to 6:00 PMTogether with Communitech I have founded an agile user group. We will meet on the third Tuesday of each month in the Waterloo. We plan to rotate the location using the Accelerator Centre as our home base. Our first session will on agile adoption and adaption. We will have a panel of four local companies that have recently adopted or have adapted standard agile practices to meet their business context. The four panelists will be chosen to provide a cross-section of local agile companies. Each panelist will provide a short presentation of how they have adopted or adapted agile practices. Then we will have a facilitated panel discussion taking questions from attendees. So there should be some take-aways for anyone practicing or considering practice agile practices! |
Past Events
| Toronto QUEST
2008 September 26, 2008I spoke about Agile Testing and the Role of a Tester on an Agile Team. The emphasis in this presentation was on building teams of specialized generalists where testers need to be fully engaged team members infusing quality throughout the agile project life cycle. There is some good introductory information on agility and agile testing in the presentation. I also participated in a panel discussion on Quality Opportunities and Challenges with Agile with Lawrence Ludlow and Alistair McKinnell. |
| Agile
Product Design and Development Workshop September 10, 2008In this one-day hands-on workshop Jeff Patton and I provided practical insights and practices for delivering valuable products in a fast, agile environment. Attendees learnt how to combine the best of agile, user experience, and product design practices. They learned how to build story maps that clarify the product vision and help teams plan and deliver incremental releases that deliver value to both stakeholders and users. |
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Communitech Agile Series: Jeff Patton September 9, 2008 Embrace Uncertainty: Strategies for an on-time delivery in an uncertain world I organized this session with Communitech and other local industry partners. In this talk Jeff explored the common misconceptions about incremental and iterative development that lead Agile practitioners to focus more on building required scope on time and less on the value they're delivering. Modevation media captured a video of the event.. |
| Agile Coach Camp 2008 May 30th - June 1st, 2008 This was an Open Space conferences and the depth and breadth of the attendees was absolutely amazing. I convened a session on the intersection of Web 2.0 and Agility and you can read about it in my blog. |
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Communitech Agile Series: Mishkin Berteig May 21, 2008 Delivering Successful Agile Projects - a Team Approach Mishkin provided a great introduction to Agile development; particularly Scrum. He then went into some deeper issues when he tackled some of the "softer" side of software development - namely truthfulness. You can download his presentation. |
| Software Quality Assurance
Conference 2008 April 23, 2008 I presented on Agile Testing and the Role of a Tester on an Agile Team. You can download my presentation here. |
| Simple
Design and Testing Conference 2007 November 30 - December 2, 2007 This was the first Open Space conference that I had attended. I led a session on the role of testers on agile teams and you can read the results here. |
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Communitech Agile Series: Scott Ambler December 17, 2007 I had the pleasure of both organizing this session with Communitech and introducing Scott Ambler. Scott's presentation, Agile Software Development - The Full Story, was wonderful as he traced an irreverent path through his experiences with agile development. His message is all the more compelling given his involvement with RUP and more traditional development processes. Modevation media captured a video of the event. |
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Communitech Agile Series: Seminar for Technology Leaders November 8, 2007 I delivered a presentation on aligning business goals and operational excellence through agile practices. The presentation was targeted at CEOs, CTOs and other technology leaders in SMEs. The presentation focused on the bottom-line impact that agile practices, and frequent delivery of software in particular, can have. |
| The 7-Minute Soapbox
on User Experience Design June 14, 2007 I presented a lightning talk on the intersection of user experience design and agile software development. I attempted to burn through 55 slides in the allotted 7 minutes but didn't quite make it. You can see a video of the presentation. I do believe that the two communities have much to learn from each other and I provide some advice based on experience working with a UX designer on an agile team. For more on agile UX you may want to check out Jeff Patton. |