Written by Arin Sime | Jul 1, 2011 | Agile, Events, User Group Reports
This past Tuesday at AgileCville we had a series of lightning talks on “Agile for Newbies.” The meeting went very well, and I’ll provide a brief recap of it here. Thanks go to RallySoftware, who sponsored the meeting this month and provided pizza,...
Written by Arin Sime | Jun 8, 2011 | Agile, User Group Reports
Have you ever faced prioritizing a long list of stories or requirements and thought, “This is going to take forever!” I have, and so I was thrilled to learn a technique at XP2011 that helps with this dilemma. I had a chance last week to apply “Silent...
Written by Arin Sime | Apr 20, 2011 | Agile, Events, User Group Reports
As mentioned in a previous post, we played a game last night at AgileCville’s meeting last night that was fun and definitely kept the conversation going. We had some very good discussions around a number of agile topics, and so that itself is the strongest...
Written by Arin Sime | Mar 16, 2011 | Agile, User Group Reports
Tonight at the AgileCville user group meeting, we discussed Scrum in Schools. This was a roundtable discussion of group members, and it was very interesting. Paul Erb kicked off the discussion for us. Paul is an Agile Cville regular, as well as the business manager...
Written by Arin Sime | Feb 22, 2011 | Agile, User Group Reports
About a month ago I was working with a team planning another iteration for the project, when we had an interesting discussion about how to manage our burndown. On all of our previous sprints, our burndowns were based on hours. That is, for each day of the sprint,...
