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Nominations for Philly ETE's Project of the Year
Added by D. André Dhondt on February 8, 2012 at 5:40pm — No Comments
Agile Teams - Chili Cook Off Contest
It's winter here in PA and nothing goes better with lousy weather than a bowl of chili.
We have a very competitive group and we do not need much motivation to turn anything into a compitition.
One week prior to cooking day we gathered all the teams and unveiled the event and rules. The feedback from teams and tasters was that it was a rousing team building success..
One team took it as far as to execute a prototype and feedback session every morning to dial in…
Added by Robert Shaw on January 27, 2012 at 4:16pm — 1 Comment
Microsoft Code Camp in Philly is now a truly Agile Conference
The Microsoft Code Camp on Oct 15th will be having an Open Spaces Track. In my mind, that brings a lot of new people around to the idea of Open Spaces during conferences.
Open Spaces - Jess Chadwick - Room 105
An open discussion forum lasting the entire day. The format is deliberately fluid, with the general flow consisting of: participants shout out topics to discuss, vote on a topic, discuss it for 10 minutes (or more... or less), and then…
ContinueAdded by John Voris on August 30, 2011 at 11:19am — No Comments
Agile Coding - a truism about good coding
Naresh Jain, one of our original founders, has a great quote via a Corey Hains Code Retreat. It is a truism about agile coding:
"write thrice, erase twice, release once, work small."
Added by John Voris on March 7, 2011 at 12:16am — No Comments
Free talks by our previous speakers
Free Talks by Mary Poppendieck & Gojko Adzic among others
are listed in the lower right hand corner of http://skillsmatter.com/go/home
These were listed in the newsletter of Skills Matters. Times are London times.
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Near as I can tell, their podcasts of recent talks listed in their newsletter is not condensed well on any page of their site. These…
ContinueAdded by John Voris on January 21, 2011 at 12:16pm — No Comments
Building Trust
Building Trust as you work with a new team is crucial. To achieve a collaborative work environment, trust has to be built between all the involved parties be it team members or outside stakeholders. Trust helps teams function in a manner…
ContinueAdded by Ravindar Gujral on October 25, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments
Product Sashimi is delicious!
This workshop was all about learning how to "slice a product thinly" so that you can actually ship something of value quickly. We also spent a lot of time working on how to help turn a fuzzy customer product idea into something concrete that you can start to work on. I summarized it to my team like this: You customer comes in and they are… Continue
Added by Audrey R. Troutt on October 6, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments
Slides from the last meeting Sept 22nd
Slides from the last joint meeting with SPIN on Sept 22nd are at
http://spin.asqphilly.org/PastMeetings.html
Added by John Voris on October 1, 2010 at 7:11pm — No Comments
Code Kata August
Thank you to Andre, Bonnie, Adam, Aaron and Sebastian for coming out to Code Kata night at the Math Forum! This was an experimental kata night in that we were trying out architectural katas for the first time.
In the beginning we went through a summary of the basic elements of architecture: communication/distribution, presentation/interaction, state management, processing, resource management and tools. For this we followed the slides that Ted Neward provided especially for this…
ContinueAdded by Audrey R. Troutt on August 25, 2010 at 9:30am — 3 Comments
QA Team Member as an Equal
Added by Ravindar Gujral on August 24, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments
Local Motors- A story of integrated development
Added by Ravindar Gujral on August 18, 2010 at 9:50pm — No Comments
Follow-up from August's Roundtable
Added by Sebastian Hermida on August 17, 2010 at 9:00pm — 6 Comments
On Planning
Let me start this article with a story I heard listening to a presentation by Ricardo Semler: Gary Kasparov, the chess grandmaster, played a computer nicknamed “Deep Thought” sometime in the 1980’s and he won. Deep Thought could think many moves ahead,…
ContinueAdded by Ravindar Gujral on May 18, 2010 at 12:33pm — 2 Comments
Creating a drawing is a lesson in software creation...
I was beating myself up over this while driving to work recently and it dawned on me. How do I draw? My drawing… Continue
Added by John Ferguson on April 30, 2010 at 4:38pm — 1 Comment
Fan-out Release Planning
Added by D. André Dhondt on April 15, 2010 at 12:50pm — No Comments
How to meet other craftsmen
During my stay in Spain, I had to interview and evaluate the proposals of three local constructions shops to almost rebuild from scratch an old apartment there.
I observed a bunch of similarities with the craftsmanship movement of our software industry. This actually… Continue
Added by Sebastian Hermida on January 18, 2010 at 10:19pm — No Comments
Pair Exchange Program
I just finished the first ever pair programming exchange program!
It all started when I was at SDTConf back in October. I don't remember the exact conversation, but the question was generally if software development as a craft takes two programmers pairing together to pass on and practice the craft then how will it ever scale?
Someone jokingly suggested that…
ContinueAdded by Audrey R. Troutt on November 19, 2009 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments
On Teams- Forming, Changes and Stability: An Opinion piece.
Teams are a collection of individuals that come together as a cohesive unit to work on a shared common goal. The group understands that the shared goals and outcomes are achievable if everyone cooperates and works towards a solution as a team, much like being in a lifeboat together. When we are in that boat together we learn to deal with those who are different and to tolerate those we don't like.
This is a basic,… Continue
Added by Ravindar Gujral on November 8, 2009 at 12:36am — No Comments
Death by Team Room, or Teamroom-Acide
But, there is an anti-pattern; productivity-robbing team rooms that please no one,…
Added by David Bulkin on November 7, 2009 at 3:06pm — No Comments
My learnings at Code Retreat Philadelphia
Read all about it here
Cheers,
Sebastian
Added by Sebastian Hermida on November 2, 2009 at 10:45pm — No Comments
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