Agile Cincinnati

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Attend this technical webinar to learn how to streamline the transition to Agile development for your team. Damon Poole has worked with hundreds of companies to help them automate and optimize their software development processes – and can offer you excellent advice about choosing the right infrastructure to make your transition a success. Join Damon [...]

Let’s take a look at what we can expect on the engineering side of Agile. We will talk at a high level about TDD/BDD, continuous integration, just in time design, refactoring, test coverage, etc. The discussion will begin with what each practice is all about and then we will discuss all of our experiences with [...]

Come join your friends from Agile Cincinnati at Claddagh Irish Pub. We have a reservation for 6pm. Please try to RSVP in advance so we can have a count in advance

Let’s be honest here. Some traditional—that is, Waterfall—Project Managers (PMs) are not all that crazy about the new punks on the block—Agile Iteration Managers (IMs). Who are these IM freaks anyhow? Stickers, squeaky toys, Sharpies and index cards—do IMs provide any value? Or are they experts at snagging credit for the PM’s work?! IMs have their [...]

Agile Work Day We have all gone through the training and have heard all of the presentations around Agile, but what is it really like to work within an Agile environment?  We will talk about how the Team works once all the Planning is out of the way and the only thing left to do is [...]

Abstract So I got my wish.  I proposed doing the organization’s first agile project and management said yes.  Now what?  I read the books, attended webinars, but have never led an agile project.  The organization is very waterfall centric, documentation happy, and ingrained in their ways.  Did I really think this through? Please join me as [...]

Partner Technology has been retained on an exclusive basis to recruit for several Agile Project Managers. Agile Project Manager Job Description: Will lead software application development projects for this medium sized corporation founded and headquartered in Cincinnati. The application development team uses Agile/Scrum Methodology for their…[Read more]

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Position: Agile Software Developer Needed starting August Company: Corps of Enabled Veterans (Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business) Contact: Robert Urbanski (Program and Operations Officer) Term: Short-Term Contract (2 Months) – Strong Potential for Long-Term after 60 days Experience: 3-5 Years (or more) Web-Based Development using…[Read more]

We had another great meeting on July 8th. The weather was beautiful which made it even more exciting to see 20+ people at the meeting. Alec Finn from Centric Consulting presented on Agile Metrics. Alec is an agile veteran who has spent the last six years developing custom Agile practices for Fortune 500 organizations such [...]

On July 23rd our friends from PMI, Southwest Ohio Chapter are putting together an Agile Development Day . Here is some information about the event: Session Leaders Rob Keefer is Principal Consultant and Director of the Agile Development Center with Strategic Data Systems. He has been leading Agile development efforts since 2003, and has over 16…[Read more]

At this meeting we had the largest number of attendees so far. There were 28 people total. Here are some pictures from this event: We asked for a show of hands about the topics. Here are the numbers: Requirements – 3 Coaching – 6 Tools – 15 Agile portfolio management – 8 Distributed teams 13 Change management —- Agile contracting – 4 [...]

Come join us this month for an overview on Agile requirements gathering presented by Mpho Komanyane and Mark Wavle from Cardinal Solutions Group, followed by a group discussion on how to communicate and facilitate requirements gathering across all workstreams – BA, Development, QA etc. This will be a great event for cross functional teams. Please [...]

Presentation: Agile Metrics Everybody knows that Agile is collaborative. Cardboards, peer programing retrospectives are all part of open, engaging dialog. But what if your team is distributed? What if the client is in a different city, QA is in a different building and you have offshore developers in a different time zone? This is where metrics will [...]

The Ball Point Game : “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.” The very first sentence of the Agile Manifesto makes it clear that Agile is experiential in nature. You can’t really learn it without doing it. You’ve got to roll-up your sleeves and get dirty! In this [...]

Scrum and XP have found a strong following in the development community. But most non-development groups (such as Web Administrators, Production Support, Security, Testing, and Users/Stake Holders) inside the enterprise are far from agile, nor are they trying to move to be more agile. This session starts with a refresher on Scrum, and then uses [...]