BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20081102T020000 RDATE:20081102T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081029T193330Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081120T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081120T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081029T193330Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081029T193330Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250456037 DESCRIPTION:Life Inside an Iteration\nDate: Thu\, Nov 20th\nTime: 6:00p m-9:00pm\nLocation: Governor Hotel 614 SW 11th Avenue Portland\, OR 972 05\nCost: $10 for members $30 for non members\nRegistration Deadline: 11/18/2008\nTopic: Life Inside an Iteration\n\nBuffet Dinner is include d\n\nAgile software development processes such as Extreme Programming (X P)\, Scrum\, and Lean Software Development have become mainstream in man y organizations\, but what is "\;Life Inside an Iteration"\; rea lly like? Find out as our panelists talk about what activities help let QA and Development work in sync\, what the hand offs are and how they ha ppen\, how they have managed the inevitable change within the iteration. Our panelists include developers\, testers\, customers and consultants to bring a broad perspective of best practices to these issues.\n\nPanel ists\nBrian Jamison\, Founder and CEO\, OpenSourcery\nBrian is a seasone d entrepreneur with many technology-related companies to his credit. He has worked with Linux\, open source\, and the Internet professionally si nce 1995. Brian serves as President for the Portland Open Source Softwar e Entrepreneurs (POSSE) and as advisor\, mentor\, or board member for nu merous startups. He actively promotes safe\, renewable biodiesel as a lo cally-produced fuel source.\n\nChris Jones\, Engineer\, Yesmail\nChris h as led the adoption of agile practices on several projects and teams ran ging from 'by the book' XP to a blend of XP and RUP. Chris is well verse d in adapting agile processes to a diverse set of development organizati ons. He is currently contributing to the google web toolkit.\n\nWayne Al len\, VP of Software Engineering\, Integrated Services\, Inc.\nWayne is the leading supplier of point of sales solutions for the Quick Lube and Car Wash industry. Wayne has a passion for the craft of software enginee ring that he has developed in his 20 years as a programmer\, consultant\ , manager\, executive and small business owner. This passion has led him to the new crop of "\;agile"\; software development processes s uch as XP and Scrum. Wayne is a regular speaker both nationally and inte rnationally on the topic of agile software development. You can read abo ut Wayne's thoughts on software development at blogs.consultantsguild.co m\n\nSumant Vashisth\, Senior QA Manager\, McAfee\, Inc.\nSumant had mor e than 10 years of experience in software development and testing having worked at IBM and Ford prior to joining McAfee. He has successfully dri ven testing on multiple product releases at McAfee\, including one of th e first large scale project at the company to adopt and follow the Agile software development process. The current agile development project for which he is managing the QA team\, requires integration and testing wit h multiple cross site engineering product development groups. Sumant als o developed the software and is co-author of the book "\;Software Fo r Emission Rate Modeling Of Accidental Toxic Releases"\;.\n\nTodd Wh itaker\nTodd has nearly 14 years experience working with teams and organ izations to develop software products ranging from web and enterprise ap plications to desktop software. He has held positions in Product and Pro gram Management with a number of software companies including Inspiratio n Software\, Serena Software\, Extensis\, Concentrex\, and Group 3 Consu ltants. Todd is an advocate for simple and excellent user experience\, h ighly collaborative and adaptive product development processes\, and Agi le methodologies. He is a graduate of Oregon Institute of Technology\, a nd holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management with an E lectronics Engineering emphasis.\n\nTags: tvg\n\nImported from: http://c alagator.org/events/1250456037 URL:https://db.sao.org/calendar2/event_description.htm?eventID=10/20/08b SUMMARY:SAO: Life Inside an Iteration LOCATION:Governor Hotel: 614 SW 11th Avenue\, Portland OR 97205 US SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR