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April 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
April 24: WTIA 2008 Investment Forum
The annual Washington Technology Industry Association Investment Forum provides a unique vehicle for new, fast-growing, and promising technology companies in the Northwest to connect with key venture capitalists and technology buyers to provide an unparalleled exchange of business ideas, information and feedback.
April 17: Moving to Agile: An Executive Manager's Perspective
During this two-hour management briefing, Tom Haug, VP of Software Engineering for Electronic Evidence Discovery (EED), shared an executive management perspective on adopting Agile. Tom discussed how to overcome some of the unexpected challenges companies face when moving from a traditional development process to Agile. He was joined by Michael Tardiff, SolutionsIQ Agile Team Lead and Coach, and Paul Dupuy, SolutionsIQ Agile Generalist. Together they provided a coaches' perspective, sharing many of the specific techniques they have employed with EED to enhance the team's use of Scrum and XP practices, while improving the organization's velocity by assuming direct roles as ScrumMaster and development lead on the project.
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April 16-17: SolutionsIQ Experts at InnoTech Oregon
SolutionsIQ's Brent Barton (Chief Technology Officer) and Lance Young (VP of Agile Software Development) spoke at the fifth annual Innotech Oregon Conference and Expo. InnoTech is a comprehensive two-day technology and innovation conference and one-day exhibition that highlights Oregon's innovation and technology development opportunities, showcasing pioneering products and services and providing quality learning and networking to the region. Now in its fifth successful year, InnoTech offers a unique opportunity for business and technology leaders to be educated on current trends and to discover new, successful innovative practices. Presented by EasyStreet Online Services and SoftwareAssociation of Oregon.
April 14-16: Chicago Scrum Gathering
The Scrum Gathering is an opportunity for Scrum users of all experience levels to gather together to learn about and share experiences with Scrum. Topics for all levels of expertise are offered. The Gathering included Open Space sessions where you can discuss timely topics with experts and peers in a small group setting.
April 8: Driving Company Performance Workshop
This highly interactive workshop is a powerful combination of the winning product strategies described in Geoffrey Moore's "Crossing the Chasm" book series and the proven product management skills and tools designed to improve execution. Silicon Valley-based Chasm Institute joined forces with SolutionsIQ partner Pivotal Product Management in a workshop geared for experienced product line managers and product marketers who want to take their products and their own expertise to a new level.
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March 27: Managing Software Debt
The Product Backlog in Scrum is used to prioritize implementation of features into software based on value. A Product Owner is charged with managing the Product Backlog to direct software implementation for the greatest possible Return on Investment (ROI). Entirely feature-based Product Backlogs do not consider the decay of software over time, and the resulting software debt can sink a project or company. Chris Sterling highlighted ways Scrum Teams and Product Owners can work with stakeholders to manage software debt over the life cycle of the product.
Download Presentation: ManagingSoftwareDebt
March 18-19: Agile Open Northwest 2008
One hundred experienced, collaborative, committed Agile practitioners from the Northwest and beyond joined together to tackle issues around the theme of Agile development in the real world. Agile practitioners met in self-organizing groups where they shares their latest ideas, challenges, hopes, experiences, and experiments. An Open Space format helped foster collaboration and allowed the conference to take its direction from the participants themselves.
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March 6-7: SolutionsIQ Experts at SD West 2008
The SD West Expo is a language and platform neutral environment that brings together over 3,000 attendees and all the major players in the software development community. Here they convene to learn about the latest technologies and network with their peers. SD's extraordinary line-up of instructors includes over 100 world-renowned technology experts and industry gurus.
March 6: Domain Specific Testing Languages in Automated Testing Tools
Presenters: Mickey Phoenix and Rand Huso, Software Development Engineers
March 7: Agile Usability
Presenters: Mickey Phoenix, Software Development Engineer, and Jeff Lopez-Stuit, Business Analyst
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February 21: February Management Briefing
ARCHITECTING AN AGILE LEARNING ORGANIZATION:
Building Corporate Learning Functionality into Enterprise Architecture
The rapid evolution of knowledge management and collaboration platforms is challenging the need for "bolt-on," best-of-breed learning management systems (LMS). Now equipped with SCORM-compliant content management and delivery features, many “Enterprise 2.0” platforms offer built-in corporate learning features that enable agile organizations to better integrate the development, delivery and rollout of enterprise processes, content and training. During this two-hour management briefing, Stephen Krempl, entrepreneur and the former VP of Global Learning at Starbucks, discussed how leading edge companies are building corporate learning into their enterprise architecture strategy. He was joined by a representative from Starbucks who described the coffee retail giant's experience with Microsoft SharePoint as a corporate learning platform. At the conclusion, Chris Mayer, Knowledge Management and Collaboration Practice Director at SolutionsIQ, provided a brief demonstration and overview of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server equipped with the SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) and new training add-ons developed by SolutionsIQ for Microsoft.
Presenters: Stephen Krempl, Managing Partner,
TriZenter, LLC; Chris Mayer
Knowledge Management and Collaboration
Practice Director, SolutionsIQ, Inc.
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