To date, most organizations have been transitioning their development organizations to Agile methods. But it is even more important for the business and management side of the organization to be Agile. Lean-Agile is about Business iterations, not development cycles. Agile teams are only as Agile as the Business and Management. Business Agility requires principles and practices which continually discover, prioritize, and drive development teams in realizing business value faster with their software development investment.

The first day of the Seattle Lean-Agile Symposium will explore the key aspects for Business Agility. It will also explore management's role and responsibilities and how they participate in the Lean-Agile paradigm. In particular, how management interacts with empowered business and Agile development teams. Please follow this link for event details, including how to register: http://www.netobjectives.com/free-seminar-schedule/business-management-agility-mini-conference-sep-2009-bellevue.

The Seattle Lean-Agile Symposium is led by Net Objectives, a training and consulting company specializing in 2nd generation Agile and Lean software methods.  Space is limited, so please register early for this exciting free event.

Thanks,

Mike Shalloway

Net Objectives

Transitioning to Agile has forced many developers to work in ways significantly different from what they have been used to.  These differences are in both the way they manage their projects and in how they do analysis, design, code and testing.  The second day of the Seattle Lean-Agile Symposium is split into two parts.  The first deals with how to increase the efficiency of the team by improving communications and breaking down the work.  The second takes on the issues of Agile programming and design.  The day provides an essential overview of the skills developers will need to be effective in the new Agile world.

Please follow this link for event details, including how to register: http://www.netobjectives.com/free-seminar-schedule/team-technical-agility-mini-conference-sep-2009-bellevue.

The Seattle Lean-Agile Symposium is led by Net Objectives, a training and consulting company specializing in 2nd generation Agile and Lean software methods.  Space is limited, so please register early for this exciting free event.

Thanks,
Mike Shalloway

Net Objectives

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Just a reminder that the free seminar "Transition Testing: Cornerstone of Database Agility" will take place on Thursday, December 10, 2009 from 6:00-8:30 pm at Net Objectives' Main Offices in Bellevue.

This talk covers the basics of transition testing, a technique that stabilizes database development. With transition testing in place, data ceases to be an impediment which holds back development and becomes an asset, adding value to your organization and further informing design.

You can register or learn more about this exciting free seminar below, or by going to our website here:
Transition Testing: Cornerstone of Database Agility.  Food and drinks will be provided.

Thanks,

Mike Shalloway

Transition Testing: Cornerstone of Database Agility
Test-driven development is a powerful tool that helps us translate requirements into specifications and specifications into working code. Many organizations find that, notwithstanding the elimination of rework, there is a significant gain in velocity introduced by driving their development efforts to tests.

Today, most of the community regards test-driven development to be crucial to Agility and, as a result, many practices have formed around the discipline. However, there is an obstacle to that prevents many of these practices from really taking hold in the database world: data. Databases are living, breathing objects with long life spans and this changes the forces slightly.

This talk covers the basics of transition testing, a technique that stabilizes database development. With transition testing in place, data ceases to be an impediment which holds back development and becomes an asset, adding value to your organization and further informing design.

Biography of Presenter
Max Guernsey has been in the industry officially for 10-years. He is a second generation programmer; much of his software development experience was passed down to him from his father prior to entering the workforce. Max teaches our TDD Database Course and developed DataConstructor, a tool that enables incremental database development.

Please Register to Attend
If you haven't, although this seminar is free, please Register to Attend. Take the Register link on the Free Seminars page or click Register Now on the Transition Testing: Cornerstone of Database Agility Seminar page.

Date and Times:
Thursday, December 10, 2009
6:00-8:30pm

Agenda:
6:00-6:30pm...Networking and pizza
6:30-8:00pm...The topic: 'Transition Testing: Cornerstone of Database Agility'
8:00-8:30pm...Discussion of topic

Location:
Net Objectives Bellevue Offices
Belle-View Office Park
275 118th Avenue SE
Bellevue, WA 98005

Room/Location:
Suite 115

Special Instructions:
Enter the main double-doors of the building, off the parking lot. Take the hall to your right. Go to the door at the end of the hall. The training room is through the door, down the hall, last doorway on your left, opposite a small kitchen.

Directions/Maps

Class notes will not be handed out. Check back at the Free Seminars Notes page in the week of the seminar to get a copy of them on-line. If you have not already, we request that you register at the site in order to view the notes. The registration is free, and you will be able to access all our other protected content as well! If you are redirected to the Please Login or Register page, take the 'login' link if you have registered, or take the 'Register here free' link.

Mike Shalloway
Director of Marketing and Sales
Net Objectives
www.netobjectives.com
mike.shalloway@...
404.593.8375
888.LEAN.244 (888.532.6244)

Announcing Agile Open Northwest 2010! This Agile Open Space event will be held February 9th and 10th, 2010, in the Seattle Center Northwest Rooms. Please see http://www.agileopennorthwest.org for registration information and further details.

We invite you to our fourth annual Agile Open Northwest conference. Alternating each year between Portland and Seattle, AONW conferences bring together practicing members of the Northwest Agile communities to explore the latest developments in agile software development. We held our third annual event last year in Portland and enjoyed another great success. Registration is $125.00 for both days, including light breakfast and lunch. This low-cost regional conference is a great opportunity to connect with the local agile community, experts and novices alike.

Please join us this year as we host 125 experienced, collaborative, committed agile practitioners from the Northwest U.S. (and beyond) in tackling the issues around our recurring theme "Agile for Real." As in past years, attendance is limited to a predetermined number in order retain the many advantages a small conference has to offer.

Here is a comment from a previous attendee:

"These two-day Agile Open Northwest conferences are an extremely good value. ..[Y]ou learn directly from practitioners in the agile community what works and what doesn't. I attended the first two of these conferences, they were stunningly good... loads of practical, useful stuff and stimulating discussions." -- Ian Savage, PNSQC Program Chair

More information can be found at http://www.agileopennorthwest.org. We look forward to seeing you there.

Monica Yap

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In our still-on-the-bleeding-edge series of just-in-time events,
BeyondAgile presents:

   "It Takes a Village: Organizing to Fulfill the Product Owner Role"
   Thursday, 18 February 2010
   6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Read on for agenda and locations information, or visit our Google
Group
at †http://groups.google.com/group/beyondagile

- The Blurb
The Agile product owner role is famously defined as the "single
wringable neck" who ensures that software products and projects
deliver value. Many organizations struggle to fill this role, one that
collaborates with stakeholders to define value and manage a backlog,
provides tactical support to the delivery team, and directs the
product and project vision and roadmap. For most organizations, the
reality is that it takes a whole team of people to fill this role.

We're lucky to be able to kick off our 2010 event season with the
fantastic Ronica Roth, agie coach and consultant with Rally. Ronica
will begin with a quick overview of product owner responsibilities,
then describe patterns and examples for organizing product and
customer groups in product
companies, consulting shops, and internal IT departments. They'll be
two-way discussions of the successes and challenges of these patterns
and of your experiences with them.

Why should you come? Ronica's a great speaker, a fun person, and
before she was a teacher, she was a doer, discovering, evolving, and
managing software requirements as a product owner. She knows what
she's talking about.

- Event Agenda
o Welcome and Announcements (10 min.)
o "Organizing to Fulfill the Product Owner Role" presentation (60
min.)
o Questions and Answers (15 min.)
o Giveaway Drawing (whatever we can find lying around to give away) (5
min.)
o Meeting Retrospective (10 min.)
o Socializing and Breakout/Breakup/Beer

- Event Location
Yeah, we're still crazy after all last year, and so we're meeting at
*two* physical locations, connected through videolink:

Eastside (Redmond)
   SolutionsIQ
   First Floor Training Center
   10785 Willows Road NE, Suite 250
   Redmond WA

  Directions and picture of building at:
  http://www.solutionsiq.com/about-us/contact-us.php
  Look for the tent signs and the blue BeyondAgile logo

Westside (Seattle)
   Amdocs Digital Commerce Division (formerly QPass)
   2211 Elliott Ave Suite 400
   Seattle WA

Questions? Contact us at beyondag...@taoproductions.com, or visit our
Google Group, or contribute to the nascent Wiki at beyondagile.org. Or
(we're really letting a thousand flowers bloom here) you can RSVP/
discuss the event at the BeyondAgile Facebook site:

   http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=68941257907&ref=nf

- Opportunity knocks!
If you've attended our meetings and think the audio/video links need
improvement, or if you *can't * attend our meetings and wish there was
live/stored streaming of meetings...BeyondAgile needs you! Everything
we do happens because someone wants to make something better: we have
no staff, no budget, no fixed leadership or organization...only the
folks who want to help each month, and our faithful location sponsors
(Amdocs Seattle Division and SolutionsIQ). Some folks from Agile
Vancouver have some ideas about sharing their videoconferencing/
streaming/posting video experience, so maybe you can be the person to
help them help us and forge a cross-border alliance!

So: help make this a better group. Contact us using any of the means
you see in this announcement, or come to the meeting and see who you
can get to help you!

- What's BeyondAgile?
It's the combination and follow-on to a number of the agile-oriented
user and interest groups that have operated in the Puget Sound area.
We aim to:

        o Build a bigger agile community
        o Take advantage of overlaps between existing groups
        o Expand beyond meetings and provide a place to collaborate
        o Align software development and business
        o Explore cutting-edge ideas and techniques
        o Discover the most useful practices among all agile processes

Our speaker for tonight's (18 February 2010) BeyondAgile event, Ronica Roth, has
come down with laryngitis, and it doesn't look good for her recovery in time to
speak tonight.

So Larry and I, the hosts for tonight's event, reviewing what input and advice
we've received and consulting our crystal balls and guts, have decided to try to
rebook Ronica as soon as we can and CANCEL TONIGHT'S MEETING.

We hope you understand and support us in this call, and we're all looking
forward to our next event. Help us plan it and hold it: we need the energy and
help!

+ Michael and Larry

--- In apln-sea@yahoogroups.com, "monica_yap" <monica.yap2012@...> wrote:
>
> It's BeyondAgile: people making software that works!
>
> In our still-on-the-bleeding-edge series of just-in-time events,
> BeyondAgile presents:
>
>
>     "It Takes a Village: Organizing to Fulfill the Product Owner Role"
>     Thursday, 18 February 2010
>     6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
>
>
> Read on for agenda and locations information, or visit our Google
> Group
> at †http://groups.google.com/group/beyondagile
> <http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://groups.google.com/group/beyonda\
> gile&usg=AFQjCNGWzeb8oVrqS7z0U4_yw8jgz3tmYQ>
>
>
> - The Blurb
> The Agile product owner role is famously defined as the "single
> wringable neck" who ensures that software products and projects
> deliver value. Many organizations struggle to fill this role, one that
> collaborates with stakeholders to define value and manage a backlog,
> provides tactical support to the delivery team, and directs the
> product and project vision and roadmap. For most organizations, the
> reality is that it takes a whole team of people to fill this role.
>
>
> We're lucky to be able to kick off our 2010 event season with the
> fantastic Ronica Roth, agie coach and consultant with Rally. Ronica
> will begin with a quick overview of product owner responsibilities,
> then describe patterns and examples for organizing product and
> customer groups in product
> companies, consulting shops, and internal IT departments. They'll be
> two-way discussions of the successes and challenges of these patterns
> and of your experiences with them.
>
>
> Why should you come? Ronica's a great speaker, a fun person, and
> before she was a teacher, she was a doer, discovering, evolving, and
> managing software requirements as a product owner. She knows what
> she's talking about.
>
>
> - Event Agenda
> o Welcome and Announcements (10 min.)
> o "Organizing to Fulfill the Product Owner Role" presentation (60
> min.)
> o Questions and Answers (15 min.)
> o Giveaway Drawing (whatever we can find lying around to give away) (5
> min.)
> o Meeting Retrospective (10 min.)
> o Socializing and Breakout/Breakup/Beer
>
>
> - Event Location
> Yeah, we're still crazy after all last year, and so we're meeting at
> *two* physical locations, connected through videolink:
>
>
> Eastside (Redmond)
>     SolutionsIQ
>     First Floor Training Center
>     10785 Willows Road NE, Suite 250
>     Redmond WA
>
>
>    Directions and picture of building at:
>    http://www.solutionsiq.com/about-us/contact-us.php
> <http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.solutionsiq.com/about-us/co\
> ntact-us.php&usg=AFQjCNGBtdlOO-L3fh4qt1whsBZW2_U7nA>
>    Look for the tent signs and the blue BeyondAgile logo
>
>
> Westside (Seattle)
>     Amdocs Digital Commerce Division (formerly QPass)
>     2211 Elliott Ave Suite 400
>     Seattle WA
>
>
> Questions? Contact us at beyondag...
> <http://groups.google.com/groups/unlock?_done=/group/beyondagile/browse_\
> thread/thread/78047bf055ef8201&msg=602ff75d850db562>
> @taoproductions.com, or visit our
> Google Group, or contribute to the nascent Wiki at beyondagile.org. Or
> (we're really letting a thousand flowers bloom here) you can RSVP/
> discuss the event at the BeyondAgile Facebook site:
>
>
>     http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=68941257907&ref=nf
> <http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.facebook.com/home.php%23/ev\
> ent.php%3Feid%3D68941257907%26ref%3Dnf&usg=AFQjCNEx6WNgTPv7ruu9OmZdhtAGo\
> hCPnQ>
>
>
> - Opportunity knocks!
> If you've attended our meetings and think the audio/video links need
> improvement, or if you *can't * attend our meetings and wish there was
> live/stored streaming of meetings...BeyondAgile needs you! Everything
> we do happens because someone wants to make something better: we have
> no staff, no budget, no fixed leadership or organization...only the
> folks who want to help each month, and our faithful location sponsors
> (Amdocs Seattle Division and SolutionsIQ). Some folks from Agile
> Vancouver have some ideas about sharing their videoconferencing/
> streaming/posting video experience, so maybe you can be the person to
> help them help us and forge a cross-border alliance!
>
>
> So: help make this a better group. Contact us using any of the means
> you see in this announcement, or come to the meeting and see who you
> can get to help you!
>
>
> - What's BeyondAgile?
> It's the combination and follow-on to a number of the agile-oriented
> user and interest groups that have operated in the Puget Sound area.
> We aim to:
>
>
>          o Build a bigger agile community
>          o Take advantage of overlaps between existing groups
>          o Expand beyond meetings and provide a place to collaborate
>          o Align software development and business
>          o Explore cutting-edge ideas and techniques
>          o Discover the most useful practices among all agile processes
>
> - Where do BeyondAgile events happen?
> Our goal is to have many answers to this. As a result, we've worked to
> remove the impediment offered by bridges and commuting: we (try to)
> hold our events in both Eastside and Seattle locations, through the
> semi-magic of videocasting. That's (much) harder than it seems; we'd
> also still like to present events freed from the confines of time
> through streaming video. If you can make that happen, please, pease,
> please volunteer to help!
>

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