Agile Iowa http://agileiowa.org A user group in Des Moines for practitioners of Agile Software Development Fri, 11 May 2012 14:02:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 May Meeting: BE the Coach http://agileiowa.org/2012/05/may-meeting-be-the-coach/ http://agileiowa.org/2012/05/may-meeting-be-the-coach/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 14:02:07 +0000 bcarlso http://agileiowa.org/?p=62 Date/Time: Thursday, May 17th from 6:00-8:00 PM

Location: Okoboji Grill in Johnston (large meeting room)

Speaker: Jim Hood

Topic: BE The Coach

Are there moments on your team where you wish a super hero would swoop in and fix all the problems? Well its time for YOU to be the coach!

In this interactive session Jim Hood will share some ideas that you can immediately apply to your own team to become more-effective. Through creative use of a few simple techniques you can help lead your own team to more effective days at work. We’ll conclude the evening with a fishbowl discussing other techniques for teams.

Jim is a Technical Lead and and Agile Coach for Pillar Technology and has been writing software for fourteen years.

Please join us and plan to participate Thursday night!

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Location: Okoboji Grill in Johnston (large meeting room)

Speaker: You

Topic: Open Jam

For the April 19th meeting we will be collecting topics from attendees and discussing them in breakout sessions during the meeting. Bring your questions, from novice to advanced and get the answers you need.

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Location: Okoboji Grill in Johnston (large meeting room)

Speaker: Cora Pruitt

Topic: 10 Keys to Success in Scrum

Do you hear this throughout your organization?

“Best stuff we’ve seen in 20 years”
“Amazed our own IT staff delivered so much that really works and does what we need!”
“We finally have a process that works.”
“We are confident in the quality of the product; I know I won’t have to spend time supporting it like what I have done in the past.”
“We know with 100% certainty what the business wants now.”
“We have to leverage this process across the organization!”

What is it that makes scrum successful?  Why does it work for some teams and not others?  This session will focus on the keys to success and open discussions will be encouraged.

Cora is an Agile Coach and Trainer with Sogeti and serves as their Agile Lead for the Des Moines Unit. She has 8 years of training and IT experience, the last four years focused on Agile philosophies and practice, including the Scrum Framework, TDD/ATDD, and Kanban. Cora specializes in coaching teams through agile adoptions with additional mentoring to Product Owners and Scrum Masters.

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