[ajug-announce] Agile Anyone?

[Burr Sutter]

Hello Atlanta Java Users,

Our AJUG speaker for the month of January has "fallen through", literally
took an injury and can no longer walk!  He'll be fine but can't make it to
the big event. However, there is another event happening on Jan 15, Mike
Cohn will be speaking to the Agile Atlanta Users Group.  Mike is a great
speaker on the topic of Agile and if you are even remotely interested in
breaking out of traditional waterfall or traditional chaos methodologies
then you owe it yourself and your team to check this out.
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*Contact: Ian Culling <ian.culling at versionone.com>*
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*Mike Cohn, Jan 15th*: Succeeding With Agile: A Guide to Transitioning and
Improving
Date: January 15th, 6:45 PM
Location: Agile Atlanta Users Group meeting at ISS (6306 Barfield Rd NE,
Atlanta, Georgia 30328)

*Abstract:*

Transitioning to an agile development process is unlike most transitions an
organization may make. Many transitions begin when a strong, visionary
leader plants a stake in the ground and says, "Let's take our organization
there." Other transitions start with a lone team thinking, "Who cares what
management thinks, let's do this." The problem in transitioning to agile is
that neither of these approaches alone is likely to lead to the long-term
sustainable change required. Transitioning to agile is harder than many
other corporate transitions because the transition process must be congruent
with development process we are trying to adopt. We cannot, for example,
wish to adopt an agile process because we believe in the power of
self-organizing teams but then use a transition process that is not itself
self-organizing. Nor can we adopt agile because it acknowledges the inherent
uncertainty in precisely planning a project but then hope to precisely plan
the transition to agile. In this session we will look at eight patterns of
agile adoption and how to successfully transition to agile.

Mike is the author of 2 excellent agile development books *User Stories
Applied* & *Agile Estimating and Planning*.  He's in town conducting Scrum
and estimation & planning courses.
More info at Agile Atlanta yahoo group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/agile-atlanta/

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*Mary Poppendieck, Jan 30th: *Organizational Agility: What's not in the
book?
Date: Jan 30th, 7:30p
Location: CheckFree campus in Norcross

APLN Atlanta is hosting Mary Poppendieck on the CheckFree campus Wednesday
January 30th at 7:30.  The talk is open to the public and everyone is
encouraged to attend.  We are very fortunate to have Mary in town; she is a
regular speaker at software development conferences worldwide and routinely
draws large crowds for her talks.

*Abstract:*

Hmm, but alas, it doesn't quite feel agile. What now? In this session, we
will listen to Mary Poppendieck talk about what sort of things her
experience shows will help in this respect. Some examples of high
performance cultures and where organizational change in thinking really
occurred. What is involved in having such a change? What are those hidden
fundamental organizational process and cultural changes that make the most
positive impact?

The session is for all audiences, whatever your role in your software
organization.

The talk will be interactive, with plenty of time for Q&A

More info about Mary with links to details about Lean Development & other
talks at:
http://aplnatlanta.blogspot.com/2008/01/apln-atlanta-presentation-mary.html
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