# Monday, 02 March 2009

It’s been about a year and a half since Wayne last joined us to teach more about developing with Scrum management. He’s continuing to refine the Agile processes his team is using and will share some of that experience with us.

WHAT: March PADNUG Meeting
WHEN: Tuesday 03/03/2009
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's
WHERE:

Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223

WHO:

Wayne Allen

TOPIC:

Agile Practices: Kanban
Wayne will be speaking at the Group about using the using agile techniques for software development with a particular focus on using the Kanban board.

He'll be covering different project management approaches to product line development that include:

  • Reduced meetings
  • Clear priorities
  • Minimal multitasking
  • No estimating

You can read more at these locations:
http://weblogs.asp.net/wallen/archive/2008/02/01/no-more-iterations.aspx
http://www.infoq.com/articles/hiranabe-lean-agile-kanban
http://www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Weblog/KanbaninAction.html

While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

Aivea Corporation - http://www.aivea.com/
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Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/
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O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/
SoftSource Consulting - http://www.sftsrc.com/
SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right
JetBrains - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Monday, 02 March 2009 10:16:25 (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [0]