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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">XPDX: Turning Bad Situations Around</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2010-01-20T18:30:00" datetime="2010-01-20T18:30:00">Wednesday, January 20, 2010 from 6:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2010-01-20T21:30:00" datetime="2010-01-20T21:30:00">9:30pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202390009'><span class='fn org p-name'>PSU Business Accelerator</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">2828 SW Corbett Ave</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97201</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=2828%20SW%20Corbett%20Ave,%20Portland%20OR%2097201%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>We'll have a discussion on one of the people issues associated with agile software development: how do you turn a bad situation around?</p> <p>Just as legacy code is a set of problems that take special techniques to overcome, legacy interpersonal interactions are too. I'm pretty sure that unit tests aren't the answer for most interpersonal problems, either. :)</p> <p>More seriously, it's pretty common to join a company or team with existing trust and communication (and yes, tech) issues. Come share ways of turning those into successes.</p> <p>Pizza and networking at 6:30pm, 7pm talk, beer afterwards.</p> <p>(Note: location is hard to get to via GPS or map service. Use directions <a href="http://www.bluetechllc.com/Contact">here</a> instead.)</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xpportland/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>