Events

Local Events

History of Events

Listed are all of the recorded events for Agile Philly (We did start meeting sometime in 2005, but we haven't entered that history here)

• Refactoring Fest - June 27th Tuesday 2006, 6:30 PM onwards @ Devon Consulting
• Group Retrospective - July 11th Tuesday 2006, 6:30 PM onwards @ Fidelity National Information Services
• Refactoring Fest - August 1st Tuesday 2006, 6:30 PM onwards @ Devon Consulting
• Organizational Change - Bob Schatz - September 5th 2006 Tuesday 6:30 PM onwards @ Fidelity National Information Services
• Scaling Agile Projects - Sanjiv Augustine - October 3rd Tuesday 2006, 6:30 PM onwards @ Gestalt, King of Prussia
• Retrospectives - Stacia Broderick - Nov 7th Tuesday 2006 6:30 PM onwards @ Primavera Systems, Inc
• Distributed Agile - John Spens - Dec 5th Tuesday 2006 6:30 PM onwards @ Ternary Software
• Power and Politics in Organizations - Bob Schatz - Jan 2nd Tuesday 2007 6:30 PM onwards @ Siemens Medical Solutions
• Agile Planning 2.0: Beyond Storypoints - Brian Robertson - Feb 6th Tuesday 2007 6:30 PM onwards @ Marriott Courtyard, Wayne
• SourceEquity and Demo of AJAX-based Agile Management Tool - Brian O'Neill - March 6th 2007 Tuesday 6:30 PM onwards @ Siemens Medical Solutions
• Agile Project Management - Ibrahim Abdelshafi - April 3rd 2007 Tuesday 6:30 PM onwards @ Gestalt LLC
• Agile Transformations - James Schiel - May 1st 2007 Tuesday 6:30PM onwards @ Ternary
• Agile Project Management - Ibrahim Abdelshafi - June 5th 2007 Tuesday 6:30 PM onwards @ Gestalt LLC
• Summer Recess - no meeting in July 2007
• Comcast Agile Adoption - Comcast - August 7th 2007 Tuesday 6:30 PM onwards @ Comcast
• 6:30PM on Tuesday, September 4th 2007 ... Pair Programming including a "pair programming" demo. Location: Siemens Medical Solutions, 51 Valley Stream Parkway, Malvern, PA
• 6:30PM on Tuesday, October 16th 2007 ... My Greatest Misses by J.B. (Joe) Rainsberger. Location: Devon Consulting in Wayne.
• 6:00PM on Monday, November 5th 2007 ... Organizational Agility by Mary Poppendieck. Location: Siemens Medical Solutions, 51 Valley Stream Parkway, Malvern, PA in Auditorium A of the Corp III building. (Joint Meeting with SPIN)
• The Bowling Game with Ruby - David Bogus - Nov 28 6PM at The Wanamaker Building, 100 Penn Square (19102) 7th Floor, Room 7100
• Tues Dec 4th 2007 at Temple Univ, Ft Washington Test Driven Development demonstration
• Tues Jan. 8, 2008 at 6:30PM by Ravindar Gujral, certified Scrum Master at Siemens Medical, on Software Craftsmanship: Software Engineering vs. Software Craftsmanship. There will be discussion afterwards
• Mar 4, 2008: Beyond TDD - Behavior-driven development presented by Brian Donahue, Location at Devon Consulting in Wayne (next to Southeast Post Office) Directions to Devon Consulting
• Apr 15, 2008, 6:30PM: Kent McDonald (National speaker and Co-Author of the Declaration of Interdependence) on Helping Product Owners Define Value and Prioritize Requirements at Drexel Univ near Downtown Philly (close to AMTRAK)
• May 6, 2008: Wade Lee on Agile Contracts Directions to Wyeth Malvern (Joint Meeting with BDPA)
• June 3, 2008: ThoughtWorks on Mingle at Ternary Time: 6.30 PM
• July 8, 2008: Nationally known speaker "Uncle Bob" Robert Martin at Devon Consulting
  Topic: "Clean Code" - A discussion of the attributes of clean code, and the disciplines for creating it.
• Aug 5, 2008: Agile Maturity Model at RTTS downtown presented by Ravindar Gujral (Siemens) & Shaun Jayaraj (ThoughtWorks)
• MONDAY Sept 8: Mark Pushinsky (not Mike Vizkos, the brains behind the Implementing Scrum cartoons) Check them out at Implementing Scrum, the cartoon world of Scrum
  at the CHOP offices in the Wanamaker Blgd, downtown Philly
• Oct 7, 2008 Oct 2, 2008: CCAD – Our experience with Scrum details here
• Weds Nov 5, 2008: Jim York on Scrum speaking on LEAN software Development details here
• Thurs Nov 6, 2008: Scott Ambler at PhillyJUG — but Jon Kern had to step in at last second because Scott's flight was canceled
• Tues Dec 3 2008: What Agile has changed in me — at our host Liquid Hub Agile methods in procedural programming, open discussion of the take-aways from attending AgilePhilly, emphasizing experience stories from members on how Agile has changed their job, answering "since I started coming to Agile Philly Meetings, I have ....."
• Tues Jan 13th 2009: Being Agile by Jon Kern at Devon Consulting.
• Tues Feb 10rd 2009: RallyDev Topic: Collective Wisdom != Mediocrity and demo of their product at Ternary Software in Lionville
  
• Tues Mar 3rd 2009: David Bulkin Two Presentations: Features vs Benefits for Agile in Today's Uncertain Economic Times and Continuous Flow at Ternary Software in Lionville
  
• Thurs Mar 26rd 2009: A Panel that included Jim York, Mike Vizdos, Ken Pugh, Corey Haines, Brian Marick, and Mike Bria, site of Philly Emerging Tech in Conshohocken
• Tues May 5th 2009: Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering Explained by Yuri Chernak A joint meeting of AgilePhilly and SPIN
  Meeting Details
• Thurs June 4nd 2009: Selling Agile Contracts by Wade Lee in Hatboro. For Directions to G2 Interactive
  Zipped Presentation on Agile Contracts viewable in a browser
• Friday July 24th 7pm: Pub/Social Night: André returns from France with insight to share
• Friday July 31st 2009: '''Picnic at Jon Kern's place'''. Everyone is invited. Information not on the wiki as this is Jon's personal information. Please look at the user group announcement.
• more... (events that happened since we moved to the Ning platform)