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Agile Palooza Philadelphia at Crowne Plaza Valley Forge

June 10, 2011 from 8:30am to 4pm

AgilePalooza is a low cost, high energy, conference organized in two tracks. The Philadelphia area AgilePalooza will be held on June 10, 2011 starting at 8:30 AM. Lunch will be provided and this is a great opportunity to learn and network. Regular price is $89, Agile Philly Members get $40 off, by using discount code "AgilePhilly"(leave out the quotes). For more information, and to register, go to: …See More

Event posted by David Bulkin May 26, 2011

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Agile in Action Road Show of Agile Vendors at Dolce Valley Forge

May 19, 2010 from 8:30am to 1:30pm

If you're like many professional software development teams these days, increasing flexibility, reducing risk, boosting productivity and cutting development costs are key to your success.Now is a great time to look at how Agile software development techniques and the tools that support them can help you achieve these goals.We invite you to join leading Agile vendors Electric Cloud, Klocwork, Perforce Software, and VersionOne for a half-day seminar that brings the latest in Agile techniques,…See More

Event posted by David Bulkin May 11, 2010

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David Bulkin commented on John Voris's event 'Thurs Feb 18 Penn State Great Valley - "How Good is Good Enough" for software'

Does look like a great event, unfortunately I can't attend because of the early start.

Feb 18, 2010

Death by Team Room, or Teamroom-Acide

Agile teams are often co-located with all team members sitting in one physical room. The rooms are often spacious, with ample natural light, an effective layout, nearby private space, etc., and, as a result, productivity is high. But, there is an anti-pattern; productivity-robbing team rooms that please no one, except perhaps, for cost accountants.To find out more,…See More

Blog post by David Bulkin Nov 7, 2009

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David Bulkin replied to Ravindar Gujral's discussion 'Agile Tour- Presentations and Other goodies'

Ravi, Thanks to you and the others for organizing this great event, I had a lot of fun presenting. Hopefully we will have follow up events of this magnitude to help increase the penetration of agile in the Philadelphia area.

Oct 22, 2009

Chickens, Pigs, Piglets, and Chigs?

Although many don’t like it, all agilists are familiar with the chicken and pig joke that explains that pigs are committed to success, while chickens are at best involved. As we continue to move to larger scale enterprise agile, we can benefit from understanding varying levels of participation and commitment. As such, I use terms like piglets and chigs to describe patterns and anti-patterns of team participation.Piglets are part time participants that view their role as making a project…See More

A blog post by David Bulkin was featured Oct 7, 2009

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David Bulkin commented on David Bulkin's blog post 'The Almost Daily Sit-Downs'

John, I have been thinking about your post for almost a month now :) Even after posting this article, I committed the sin of attempting to solve problems during the standup, it is just human nature. As such, a team need to mature to the point that…

Oct 7, 2009

Chickens, Pigs, Piglets, and Chigs?

Although many don’t like it, all agilists are familiar with the chicken and pig joke that explains that pigs are committed to success, while chickens are at best involved. As we continue to move to larger scale enterprise agile, we can benefit from understanding varying levels of participation and commitment. As such, I use terms like piglets and chigs to describe patterns and anti-patterns of team participation.Piglets are part time participants that view their role as making a project…See More

Blog post by David Bulkin Oct 6, 2009

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John E. Mullaney commented on David Bulkin's blog post 'The Almost Daily Sit-Downs'

Its easy for a peer to say "Let's take it off line" when they aren't interested in more than a snippet of what their co-worker is reporting. But what about when its the Team Lead/Manager that starts to ramble. I've seen a…

Sep 9, 2009

D. André Dhondt commented on David Bulkin's blog post 'The Almost Daily Sit-Downs'

I love the terminology! I find that teams constantly regress to detailed discussions on their feet, and though we take turns suggesting we take it off-line, we're not always disciplined enough to say who will sit when.

Sep 8, 2009

The Almost Daily Sit-Downs

You can find literally hundreds of blog posts and articles on the Daily Standup, a.k.a. Daily Scrum. But there is little written about what often comes, or at least should come, after, the Daily Standup.What, you may ask, should come after the Daily Standup? Well, the Almost Daily Sit-Downs of course!To find out more about the Almost Daily Sit-Downs, check out my companies blog at...…See More

Blog post by David Bulkin Sep 8, 2009

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