New Meeting Schedule

The meeting last night with “Agile Bob” was excellent.  Bob expressed thanks to everyone for a pleasant and intellectually stimulating meeting.

New Schedule

We announced that the group meetings will now start following a regular schedule.

• Our meetings will be held on the third Thursday of every month, starting on February 18th.
• We will strive to have special guests twice a year, on two of our regular meeting days.
• We will have special meetings outside of this regular schedule, as interest and opportunity present.

Please note, I announced last night that we will meet on the third Tuesday.  I was incorrect.  We will be meeting on the third Thursday of every month. Sorry for the confusion!

Back Story

Since the beginning of PhxSUG, we have been having meetings on irregular days.  The main reason for doing so is to be flexible for special speakers.  We have been able to accommodate their schedule to allow them to speak, since they were in town anyway.  The Steering Team for the group had several months of on-and-off discussion about this “random” schedule.  Some preferred to have a regular meeting day every month.

We finally chose to follow the regular schedule.  While we may not have as many special speakers, we feel the regular schedule will make it easier for local people to attend.  Your calendars can be planned out with the third Thursday evening set aside for whatever PhxSUG is doing.  Building the local community is very important.  We believe a regular meeting day will help do that.

And, we’ll inspect and adapt.

We appreciate busy schedules.  Every evening is precious time that must be spent in a valuable way. We are thankful when you choose to spend it with our community, growing our knowledge of Scrum and Agile.  We commit to making sure the time you invest provides great value to you and your teams!