Thursday, April 15th – A Scrum Project Experience

(Finally!!!! – Sorry for the late post)

When: Thursday - April 15, 2010 (6:00pm – 8:00pm)

Where:
Infusionsoft (Google Map)
2065 W. Obispo Ave.
Gilbert, AZ 85233

Agenda:
6:00 – Registration (Infusionsoft providing Food and Drink)
6:20 – Announcements
6:30 – Begin “A Scrum Project Experience”
8:00 – Closing Remarks

PLEASE REGISTER - If you are already a member of the Phoenix Scrum User’s Group, you have already received an email about this event, just select the “Registration Link” in that email. If you’ve not received that email, please sign-up (on the right), and we’ll get it out to you!!

Topic: A Scrum Project Experience

The Scrum framework is fairly easy to understand.  In about five minutes (http://www.infoq.com/news/2006/11/scrum-in-five-minutes) you can get basic definition.  Application and experience is the real way to learn!  In this meeting we will, together, do a simple project using Scrum.  We will have a Goal, Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprints and Retrospectives.  We will make estimates and measure our Velocity. Depending on our progress, we may do as many as five Sprints!

You need not worry about programming, testing or other technical skills.  Just bring your enthusiasm of participation and learning. The project will be easy…or not.  ;^)

Experience is the best teacher.  Even long-time Scrum and Agile practitioners can learn from a compact experience followed by discussion of what we learned.  Please come and help create something wonderful!

Speaker Bio:  Alan Dayley

Alan has been doing embedded development for nearly 20 years, in projects ranging from built-in and production test to embedded application firmware and embedded product user interfaces.  His awareness of information flow between people drove him to rediscover Agile principles as a means of revealing enterprise impediments and creating high performance teams.  A Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Professional, Alan now works on integrating Agile further into the enterprise, coaching in Agile for an engineering department designing next generation SSDs and continuing a grass-roots Scrum introduction he started over two years ago.  Go to http://dayleyagile.com to contact him.