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You can finally play with Shiny Thing 2.0, show it off to your friends and teammates, all in a format that will encourage you to work in small, iterative slices.\n\nGrowing in popularity in recent years, hackathons provide a venue for folks to get together, explore new ideas and (hopefully!) build working software in the span of a couple of days. Come learn about their use in the corporate space and the public space at large, how to sponsor one, and how to make the event create lasting effects. We'll also explore the parallels between agile development and hackathons, and how each is good practice for the other. \n\nBen Houston is a pragmatic software engineer who is currently in love with mazes and geometry.\n\nThis event is free and is at Puppet Labs. 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Some were good ideas, while\nothers didn't work out as well; but we've managed to learn from these\nexperiences and grow as a team.\n\nSeveral members of the Renewable Funding team will reflect on a few of our\n\"noble experiments\"---such as our feature-branching release process and\n90-minute iterations---in a round-table discussion that will touch both the\nmerits and drawbacks of these approaches and demonstrate the collaborative\neffort we use to chart our course.\n","end_time":"2012-02-03T13:00:00-08:00","id":1250461900},{"venue_details":"","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2012-02-15T18:30:00-08:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2012-01-30T13:23:13-08:00","updated_at":"2012-01-30T13:23:13-08:00","title":"AgilePDX - Traversing the Canyon of Anarchy: From Agile Adoption to Agile Transformation","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":true,"created_at":"2010-12-16T12:31:10-08:00","updated_at":"2012-11-24T12:00:15-08:00","access_notes":"Front door, elevator and stairway may be locked. 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Have you generated excitement for these new ideas, seen them seem to take root and grow, only to find a year later that people have fallen back into their old ways of doing things?  Or, are they now cherry picking Agile practices, perhaps using Agile terms, but ignoring the Agile values?   If so, you are not alone.    In this talk, Tamara Sulaiman Runyon discusses some reasons why simple practice adoption is not enough;  and why transformation is so difficult to make stick in many organizations. Topics include: the nature of change and complex systems models - where do we fit?  The key role that vision and leadership play in instigating  and supporting transformation;  the potential iceberg of organizational culture as a change blocker,  as well as people aspects -  the levels of discomfort caused by any change; and measuring the growth of competence as Agile practices and Values are assimilated.  \n\nPresenter Bio:\n\nTamara Sulaiman Runyon has been assisting teams in transitioning to agile methods both as a hands-on ScrumMaster and as an Agile Coach and Scrum trainer since 2003.  Her passion lies in helping organizations plan and implement Agile transformations. In her role as Enterprise Agile Coach at Intel, she is deeply involved with leading and supporting Agile teams and practices throughout the organization. \n\nShe is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and Project Management Professional (PMP). Tamara is the co-originator of the AgileEVM materials and processes that integrate the traditional project management practice of Earned Value Management with the Scrum framework. As a thought leader she is currently serving on the Agile Alliance Board of Directors.   Tamara continues to publish articles on Agile-related topics in industry publications such as Agile Journal, Methods and Tools, InfoQ, Projects@Work and gantthead.com. She also shares her experiences, ideas and expertise as a presenter and speaker at conferences.\n\n\nThis event is free and is at Puppet Labs. 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Those of us who went will try to share the wealth with you.\n","end_time":"2012-03-02T13:00:00-08:00","id":1250462073},{"venue_details":"","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2012-03-08T16:00:00-08:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2012-02-29T12:05:00-08:00","updated_at":"2012-02-29T12:05:00-08:00","title":"AgilePDX – Product Planning Pub Discussion","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":false,"created_at":"2012-02-29T12:05:00-08:00","updated_at":"2012-02-29T12:05:00-08:00","access_notes":"","telephone":"","title":"Raccoon Lodge & Brew Pub","country":"US","locality":"Portland","region":"OR","address":"7424 Southwest Beaverton Hillsdale  Portland, OR 97225","url":"","closed":false,"description":"","latitude":"45.485627","longitude":"-122.753996","postal_code":"97225","street_address":"7424 Sw Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy","email":"","events_count":2,"id":202393202},"url":"","version":null,"venue_id":202393202,"description":"This will be the second meeting of the AgilePDX planning group. 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To get an interesting perspective on the topic, you might want to read \"Velocity is Killing Agility!\" a blog post by Jim Highsmith (http://jimhighsmith.com/2011/11/02/velocity-is-killing-agility/).\n\nIs he right or wrong?  Do agile teams need metrics at all?  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While Agile has emerged strongly, the project management role remains, and in many organizations, is metamorphosing along with Agile while in others remains much as it was 5 to 10 years ago.\n \nPredictive and adaptive approaches to getting work done do not always coexist happily.  How does an Agilist work well with a project manager who may constrained to function from a more traditional management perspective?  It can and does happen; there are models.\n\nCome this Friday to Ringler’s on Burnside and bring your stories, your problems, and your PM friends.  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If you attended the conference, please come and tell us what you saw and what we should know.\n\nLooking forward to seeing you all at Ringlers!\n","end_time":"2012-09-07T13:00:00-07:00","id":1250462825},{"venue_details":"Nike World Headquarters -\r\nNIKE Inc, 1 Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR\r\n\r\nNolan Ryan Building,\r\n2nd floor,  Air Bohemian conference room\r\n\r\nParking is available in the lot closest to the Nolan Ryan Building.\r\n\r\nEnter Campus via SW Jenkins Rd. or Jay St.","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2012-09-11T07:30:00-07:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2012-09-06T08:22:55-07:00","updated_at":"2012-09-07T08:16:19-07:00","title":"AgilePDX - Westside Meeting at Nike","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":false,"created_at":"2012-09-06T08:22:55-07:00","updated_at":"2012-09-06T08:25:38-07:00","access_notes":"","telephone":"","title":"Nike World Headquarters","country":"US","locality":"Beaverton","region":"OR","address":"1 Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR","url":"","closed":false,"description":"","latitude":"45.5070075","longitude":"-122.8254844","postal_code":null,"street_address":"1 Bowerman Dr","email":"","events_count":12,"id":202393465},"url":"","version":null,"venue_id":202393465,"description":"\"Real World Agile: Going All-in with Agile at Performance Health Technology\n \nSpeaker: Chad Casady\n \nAbstract: \nIn 2009, PH Tech went \"all-in\" and began the adoption of agile methodologies throughout the software development process. In this session, you'll take a multi-year journey with a growing small business and experience the transition from the blissful ignorance of cowboy-coding through the misery and despair of a sinking, dysfunctional organization, and on to the satisfaction and exhilaration that comes with a high-functioning agile team. This session describes both the pain and the fulfillment that comes with developing software in a small business, before, during, and after agile.\n \nBio: Chad Casady is the Director of Information Technology at Performance Health Technology, aka PH Tech. His responsibilities include all aspects of technological infrastructure and software development, including three technology departments; Information Systems, Business Intelligence, and Software Engineering. When he’s not talking about healthcare or technology, he’s expounding the life-giving qualities of bacon and BBQ. Buy him a beer and he’ll give you the recipe for the greatest chicken wing rub he’s ever stolen.","end_time":"2012-09-11T09:00:00-07:00","id":1250462824},{"venue_details":"","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2012-09-19T18:30:00-07:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2012-07-17T20:17:12-07:00","updated_at":"2012-09-17T20:40:05-07:00","title":"AgilePDX - Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":true,"created_at":"2010-12-16T12:31:10-08:00","updated_at":"2012-11-24T12:00:15-08:00","access_notes":"Front door, elevator and stairway may be locked. 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He has worked with a variety of platforms and technologies, consulting for non-profits, telecoms, financial services, and online retail companies. His focus is on helping organisations deliver valuable, high-quality software frequently and reliably through implementing effective engineering practices.\n\nDetails and Pizza:\n\nMany thanks to [New Relic](http://continuousdelivery.com) for covering the speaker costs!\n\nThis event is free and is at Puppet Labs. It begins at 6:30 pm with pizza, sponsored by PNSQC (Many thanks to both Puppet Labs and PNSQC for supporting agile in Portland).\n\nThe program starts at 7:00 pm.\n\nAfter the program you're invited to join us for a no-host gathering at a nearby brewpub for further discussion of launching Agile Projects.\n\nTalk description:\n\nBusinesses rely on getting valuable new software into the hands of users as fast as possible, while making sure that they keep their production environments stable. Continuous Delivery is a revolutionary and scalable approach to software delivery that enables any team, including teams within enterprise IT organizations, to achieve rapid, reliable releases through better collaboration between developers, testers, DBAs and operations, and automation of the build, deploy, test and release process.\n\nI’ll start by discussing the value of CD to the business, inspired by the lean startup movement. I’ll then present the principles and practices involved in continuous delivery, including value stream mapping, the deployment pipeline, acceptance test driven development, zero-downtime releases, and incremental development. 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The phone rings once or twice, then you'll be buzzed up.\r\nElevator access available. \r\nIndoor bike parking available upstairs.\r\nLocated on the Green and Yellow MAX lines.\r\nCar parking within a few blocks.","telephone":"(503) 517-6900","title":"Collective Agency","country":"US","locality":"Portland","region":"OR","address":"322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97209","url":"http://CollectiveAgency.co","closed":false,"description":"(Between Everett and Flanders)","latitude":"45.525626","longitude":"-122.676408","postal_code":"97209","street_address":"322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200","email":"Council@CollectiveAgency.co","events_count":126,"id":202392813},"url":"http://www.citconf.com/portland2012/","version":null,"venue_id":202392813,"description":"IMPORTANT: Space is limited to 150 participants, so please <a href=\"http://citconf.com/portland2012/register.php\">register to reserve a spot</a>. The event is free, but a donation is suggested.\n\nCITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, is a world-wide series of free Open Spaces events for developer-testers, tester-developers and anyone else with an interest in Continuous Integration and the type of Testing that goes along with it.\n\nCITCON provides a forum to connect with other people on topics you care about, to learn from their experience and share your own. Past topics include:\n\n* What is Continuous Integration?\n* What CI Tools can learn from the Rubber Chicken\n* What Is The One True Language For Writing Tests?\n* The Future of Build Languages\n* BDD is not TDD\n* How Far is End-to-End?\n* Fit for Fun and Profit\n* Overcoming Barriers to Adoption","end_time":"2012-09-22T19:00:00-07:00","id":1250462760},{"venue_details":"","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2012-10-05T12:00:00-07:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2012-10-01T19:35:54-07:00","updated_at":"2012-10-01T19:35:54-07:00","title":"AgilePDX Downtown Pub Lunch:  BA's on Agile Teams","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":true,"created_at":"2008-07-27T13:16:57-07:00","updated_at":"2011-03-06T00:21:51-08:00","access_notes":"","telephone":"(503) 225-0627","title":"McMenamins Ringlers Pub","country":"US","locality":"Portland","region":"Oregon","address":"1332 W Burnside St.","url":"http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=46","closed":false,"description":"Nestled underneath the floating-floored Crystal Ballroom & Lola's Room in downtown Portland, Ringlers Pub is housed in what was once an automotive service garage. 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A business analyst on an Agile Team?” you may say.  Yes, many companies explicitly call out this role on the Team to support the Product Owner or draw from a pool of BA’s to fulfill the Product Owner function.  The questions before us are many:\n\nIs this a good idea?\nWhat are the costs and benefits?\nWhen does it make sense?\nWhat about role boundaries?  Doesn’t this institute them?\nHow come the BA would be on the Team? (some actually report into a product management function along with the PO’s.)\nWhy doesn’t my Team do this?\nIsn’t this anti-Agile?\n\nWell you might ask.  Come down and ask it of a bunch of colleagues primed with questions and answers of their own.\n\nSame bat time; same bat place:  noon on Friday at Ringler’s (not Ringler’s Annex, keep heading east) on Burnside.  Good food.  Good beer.  Good, straight talk.","end_time":"2012-10-05T13:00:00-07:00","id":1250462914},{"venue_details":"Nolan Ryan Building,\r\n2nd floor,  Niobe conference room\r\n\r\nParking is available in the lot closest to the Nolan Ryan Building.\r\n\r\nEnter Campus via SW Jenkins Rd. or Jay St.","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2012-10-09T07:30:00-07:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2012-09-20T08:36:46-07:00","updated_at":"2012-10-01T11:45:38-07:00","title":"AgilePDX Westside (morning) - Dave Harrison -\"Real World Software Development\"","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":false,"created_at":"2012-09-06T08:22:55-07:00","updated_at":"2012-09-06T08:25:38-07:00","access_notes":"","telephone":"","title":"Nike World Headquarters","country":"US","locality":"Beaverton","region":"OR","address":"1 Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR","url":"","closed":false,"description":"","latitude":"45.5070075","longitude":"-122.8254844","postal_code":null,"street_address":"1 Bowerman Dr","email":"","events_count":12,"id":202393465},"url":"http://agilepdx.org","version":null,"venue_id":202393465,"description":"At Tech Ed 2012, the biggest change over the previous years had to do with ALM and agile development – it seemed like one out of every four classes dealt with Agile in one way or another. What is all the fuss about – and how can our team use the best tools to keep developers and BA’s humming and business owners happy? \n\nIn this talk Dave will explore his team's two-year long experience with Agile development at Columbia Sportswear Company, including experiences with TFS and other tools. \n\nAlong the way we’ll cover: \n\n• The Software Development Hierarchy of Needs (from a great post by Scott Hanselman) \n\n• Our experiences with MVC, TDD, and Azure \n\n• Why the Spanish Armada didn’t work and Apollo 13 did – the Cone of Death \n\n• The dirty little secret behind scrum – hint, it’s not a magic bullet \n\n• Jealousy as a proactive emotion \n\n• Save the poker for Vegas \n\n• Managing priorities across software development teams in one list\n\nSpeaker: Dave Harrison is the Development Manager and .Net Lead Developer at Columbia Sportswear. He has 7 years of Windows and Internet/Web applications development experience. 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","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2012-10-11T08:30:00-07:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2012-08-23T09:09:41-07:00","updated_at":"2012-10-03T07:55:22-07:00","title":"Agile Testing Open Northwest","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":996332921,"wifi":false,"created_at":"2008-03-31T03:39:17-07:00","updated_at":"2008-08-16T18:24:35-07:00","access_notes":null,"telephone":"(503) 464-8688","title":"World Trade Center","country":"US","locality":"Portland","region":"Oregon","address":"","url":"http://www.wtcpd.com","closed":false,"description":"","latitude":"45.5162","longitude":"-122.674973","postal_code":"97204","street_address":"121 SW Salmon","email":"","events_count":18,"id":202390078},"url":"http://www.techoregon.org/events/event_details.asp?id=251109","version":null,"venue_id":202390078,"description":"Sponsored by AgilePDX, Agile Open Northwest, TAO QA & Dev Forums, PNSQC: \n\n\"Agile Testing: How do WE Make it Work?\"\n \nAs our organizations move toward \"Agile” for developing software, we all face the challenge of understanding how to adapt our former roles and ways of working to new work roles and processes.\nHow do we ensure the continued value of testing?\n \nJoin us in Open Space to share your questions, challenges, strategies, success stories, and how you've overcome stumbling blocks.\n \nIn small groups, we’ll discuss topics such as:\n\n· How is Agile testing different from how we’ve always done it?\n· How do we know what to test?\n· How do we know what not to test?\n· On Agile teams, when does testing happen and whose job is it?\n· What is Exploratory Testing and why should we care?\n· How do regression tests work?\n· How does testing improve my design? Should it?\n· How do we ensure it is cost effective?\n· What do people mean when they say, \"no defects”?\n· Does Agile change how we test or does it just raise the existing issues?\n\nBring the topics you feel passion for and add them to the list!\n\nEach self-organizing discussion group will create a document or other record of their discussion, ideas, questions, and insights. We’ll share everyone’s experiences at the end of the day. \n\nWho should attend?\n\n· Testers facing an Agile adoption/People new to the testing role/Testers eager to jump in\n· Devs who want to get serious about defect-free code\n· CTOs and Managers of Test/Validation, Dev, Application Delivery\n· Academics preparing new software/IT professionals for the real world\n \n Cost to attend:  $75 per person (Register early. 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We are headquartered in Portland, OR.\r\n\r\nIf you'd like to use this location for an event please contact Jose at puppetlabs.com\r\n\r\nYou can also check http://www.meetup.com/puppet for information on other meetings.\r\n\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com\r\n* http://www.twitter.com/puppetlabs\r\n* http://www.meetup.com/puppet\r\n* http://github.com/puppetlabs\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com/googlegroups\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com/linkedin","latitude":"45.5261195","longitude":"-122.6793216","postal_code":"97209","street_address":"411 NW Park Ave., Suite 500","email":"","events_count":60,"id":202392291},"url":"http://agilepdx.org","version":null,"venue_id":202392291,"description":"Frank D’Andrea is an enthusiastic Agile evangelist, mentor, educator, and most recently, the Vice-President of Software Development at Tater Tot Designs. He has extensive experience in managing web and software development projects as well as mobile application and Content Management System development efforts. He is an experienced process improvement specialist with expertise in both Agile and Waterfall development environments.\n\nFrank has leadership experience in both Product and Project Management as well as hands-on experience as a Certified Scrum Professional. Frank has been involved in numerous extracurricular activities as well; such as a 10-year stint of teaching poetry, literature, creative writing, and composition classes at Portland Community College; representing Portland as a member of Portland’s National Poetry Slam team; publishing and performing with Haiku Inferno, and getting his J.D. from Willamette University College of Law.\n\n---\nHere's the abstract:\n\nAgile Still Sucks. \n\nBringing Agile into an organization is never a good idea. It is disruptive, complicated, and very expensive. It brings organizational dysfunction to the surface and shines a bright light on business practices that sabotage teams and fail to deliver value to clients. Further, unwitting teams may adopt a version of Agile that becomes dogmatic, inflexible, and interested in perpetuating the \"process” of Agile rather than being, well, agile. The only thing worse than bringing Agile in, is trying to get Agile right.\n\nThat said, everyone should be using Agile. This presentation will explore ways to bring Agile into an organization, how to choose the right \"flavor” of Agile, and what to do when it goes badly – because it will. This presentation will also examine how to expand the Agile conversation from within the software development team, outward to internal stakeholders, and eventually into client engagements.\n\nDetails and Pizza:\n\nThis event is free and is at Puppet Labs. It begins at 6:30 pm with pizza, sponsored by PNSQC (Many thanks to both Puppet Labs and PNSQC for supporting agile in Portland).\n\nThe program starts at 7:00 pm.\n\nAfter the program you're invited to join us for a no-host gathering at a nearby brewpub for further discussion of launching Agile Projects.","end_time":"2012-10-17T21:00:00-07:00","id":1250462703},{"venue_details":"","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2012-11-02T12:00:00-07:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2012-10-21T13:26:11-07:00","updated_at":"2012-10-21T13:26:11-07:00","title":"AgilePDX Downtown Pub Lunch:  QA's role on Agile Teams","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":true,"created_at":"2008-07-27T13:16:57-07:00","updated_at":"2011-03-06T00:21:51-08:00","access_notes":"","telephone":"(503) 225-0627","title":"McMenamins Ringlers Pub","country":"US","locality":"Portland","region":"Oregon","address":"1332 W Burnside St.","url":"http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=46","closed":false,"description":"Nestled underneath the floating-floored Crystal Ballroom & Lola's Room in downtown Portland, Ringlers Pub is housed in what was once an automotive service garage. How much more convivial it is now! Named for the Crystal's originator -- dance aficionado and entrepreneur Montrose Ringler -- Ringlers features a tall, wooden-beamed ceiling and massive, tiled bar. The crack of pool cues make a merry soundtrack in the cavernous interior. Before or after a concert upstairs, treat yourself to ales from the Crystal's brewery along with some hearty pub fare. 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PGE’s IT uses these to support six internal lines of business with their project and production support needs. PGE started the agile journey in 2009 in aid of a large scale multi-project initiative to roll-out network read meters for our customers. Over the subsequent three and half years, that experience was extended into where PGE’s IT delivery is today. Scaling to the enterprise required the synthesis of many different viewpoints, overcoming the deficiencies of agile training as applied in larger circumstances, and fabricating new processes and tools to enhance and manage the value of delivery. During this talk Mark will share highlights of what was valuable, what was a struggle, what he would do the same if starting over, and what he would do differently.\n \nBio:\nMark Menger is a passionate leader in the adoption of Scrum at Portland General Electric, believing strongly in the underpinning concepts of servant leadership and self-organization. He led four Scrum teams and the enterprise architecture function of PGE’s multi-million dollar Automated Metering Infrastructure initiative. As the supervisor of Application Delivery Services, he is currently scaling PGE’s adoption of Agile software delivery to 14 teams across six business client functions. This effort includes business client relationship development, and improvements in quality assurance and engineering practices. When he’s not rooting for the Timbers, the remainder of his attention is focused on Sailflow reports for the Columbia and Willamette rivers.","end_time":"2012-11-13T09:00:00-08:00","id":1250463013},{"venue_details":"","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2012-11-21T18:30:00-08:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2012-10-21T13:33:33-07:00","updated_at":"2012-11-21T14:08:38-08:00","title":"AgilePDX Downtown (evening) - Lean Coffee","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":true,"created_at":"2010-12-16T12:31:10-08:00","updated_at":"2012-11-24T12:00:15-08:00","access_notes":"Front door, elevator and stairway may be locked. 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Now, Seattle Lean Coffee happens every week, and is very popular.  \n\nLean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated.\n\n(http://leancoffee.org/)\n\nDetails and Pizza:\n\nThis event is free and is at Puppet Labs. 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What other things can be considered to be done \"outside\" the scrum team to facilitate a better backlog of stories that are ready for the team? Planning days take too long if the stories aren't ready for the team. It takes effort--how are teams ensuring that it gets done? Should we/ do we consider backlog grooming another of the critical 'scrum ceremonies'? \n \nEstimating the backlog:  How do teams estimate the backlog? Who does it? How do teams accommodate the business pressure to have information about sizing from which to make long term business plans (roadmap planning)?  Is estimation a key part of the grooming process?\n\nPO’s, BA’s, SM’s, and Team members, link hands and make the walk over to Ringlers on Burnside at noon this Friday.  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Everyone will reflect on how they developed their craft in 2012, then set aspirations for the coming year. Join us to develop an individualized plan for your professional development in 2013. ","end_time":"2012-12-11T09:00:00-08:00","id":1250463141},{"venue_details":"","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2012-12-19T18:30:00-08:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2012-10-21T13:17:41-07:00","updated_at":"2012-12-04T14:04:14-08:00","title":"AgilePDX Evening - This One Goes to 121","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":true,"created_at":"2012-11-23T19:34:34-08:00","updated_at":"2013-04-15T15:15:30-07:00","access_notes":"The door on 13th street should be unlocked during scheduled meetups. 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We are headquartered in Portland, OR.\r\n\r\nIf you'd like to use this location for an event please contact dawn at puppetlabs.com\r\n\r\nYou can also check http://www.meetup.com/puppet for information on other meetings.\r\n\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com\r\n* http://www.twitter.com/puppetlabs\r\n* http://www.meetup.com/puppet\r\n* http://github.com/puppetlabs\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com/googlegroups\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com/linkedin","latitude":"45.5298839","longitude":"-122.6843483","postal_code":"97209","street_address":"926 NW 13th Ave #210","email":"","events_count":19,"id":202393539},"url":"http://agilepdx.org","version":null,"venue_id":202393539,"description":"Arlo Belshee and James Shore present \"This One Goes to 121:\"\n\nWe will explore excellence. What it is, how one achieves it, and how one exceeds it. What determines the outer limits of your team s capability? How can you be continually more awesome? We've each got a decade of transitioning to (Jim), being on (Arlo), and building (both) awesome Agile teams. \n\nDetails and Pizza:\n\nThis event is free. It begins at 6:30 pm with pizza, sponsored by PNSQC (Many thanks to both Puppet Labs and PNSQC for supporting agile in Portland).\n\nThe program starts at 7:00 pm.\n\nAfter the program you're invited to join us for a no-host gathering at a nearby brewpub for further discussion of launching Agile Projects.","end_time":"2012-12-19T21:00:00-08:00","id":1250463008},{"venue_details":"You'll find us in the back room through the doors at the end of the bar.","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2013-01-04T12:00:00-08:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2012-12-27T10:44:03-08:00","updated_at":"2012-12-27T10:44:03-08:00","title":"AgilePDX Downtown Pub Lunch:  Building Trust with the Execs","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":true,"created_at":"2008-07-27T13:16:57-07:00","updated_at":"2011-03-06T00:21:51-08:00","access_notes":"","telephone":"(503) 225-0627","title":"McMenamins Ringlers Pub","country":"US","locality":"Portland","region":"Oregon","address":"1332 W Burnside St.","url":"http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=46","closed":false,"description":"Nestled underneath the floating-floored Crystal Ballroom & Lola's Room in downtown Portland, Ringlers Pub is housed in what was once an automotive service garage. 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This is likely to raise questions such as:\n•\tWhat is an immature Team?\n•\tWhat do we mean by “immaturity?”\n•\tHow do you help a Team move toward greater maturity?\n•\tWhen we say “executives” do we mean anyone beyond the first level of supervision?  Anyone in management?  Anyone outside the Team?\n•\tIs Team immaturity a valid excuse for missing commitments, and does the responsibility lie with the Team?\n\nAs well as:\n•\tJust how do you “build trust,” anyway?\n•\tIs building trust even possible if there is no trust to begin with?\n•\tHow much of my job is about trust building?\n\nCome stumble in after your holiday revels and have lunch and a beer with like-minded colleagues.  Someone please bring an “executive” along so we can hear their point of view, as well.   ","end_time":"2013-01-04T13:00:00-08:00","id":1250463280},{"venue_details":"Nolan Ryan Building,\r\n2nd floor,  Air Huarache conference room\r\n\r\nParking is available in the lot closest to the Nolan Ryan Building.\r\n\r\nEnter Campus via SW Jenkins Rd. or Jay St.","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2013-01-08T07:30:00-08:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2013-01-03T09:01:04-08:00","updated_at":"2013-01-03T09:01:04-08:00","title":"AgilePDX Westside (morning) - Carl Hoefer \"Agile at Nike\"","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":false,"created_at":"2012-09-06T08:22:55-07:00","updated_at":"2012-09-06T08:25:38-07:00","access_notes":"","telephone":"","title":"Nike World Headquarters","country":"US","locality":"Beaverton","region":"OR","address":"1 Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR","url":"","closed":false,"description":"","latitude":"45.5070075","longitude":"-122.8254844","postal_code":null,"street_address":"1 Bowerman Dr","email":"","events_count":12,"id":202393465},"url":"http://agilepdx.org","version":null,"venue_id":202393465,"description":"This month we will have an open discussion about Agile at Nike as well as across the \"Westside\" of Portland, and gather future topics for discussion and presentation during 2013.  We look forward to your feedback in helping shape the community for 2013.","end_time":"2013-01-08T09:00:00-08:00","id":1250463313},{"venue_details":"","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2013-01-16T18:30:00-08:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2013-01-09T13:55:07-08:00","updated_at":"2013-01-09T13:55:36-08:00","title":"AgilePDX Evening - Agile Fluency Tune-Up","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":true,"created_at":"2012-11-23T19:34:34-08:00","updated_at":"2013-04-15T15:15:30-07:00","access_notes":"The door on 13th street should be unlocked during scheduled meetups. If you have any issues or questions, contact Dawn Foster (dawn at puppetlabs.com) or Kara Sowles (kara at puppetlabs.com).","telephone":"","title":"Puppet Labs","country":"US","locality":"Portland","region":"OR","address":"926 NW 13th Ave # 210, Portland, OR","url":"http://www.puppetlabs.com","closed":false,"description":"# About access\r\n\r\nTo use this space contact events@puppetlabs.com\r\n\r\n# About Puppet\r\n\r\nPuppet is an open source data center automation and configuration management framework. Puppet provides system administrators with a simplified platform that allows for consistent, transparent, and flexible systems management. We are headquartered in Portland, OR.\r\n\r\nIf you'd like to use this location for an event please contact dawn at puppetlabs.com\r\n\r\nYou can also check http://www.meetup.com/puppet for information on other meetings.\r\n\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com\r\n* http://www.twitter.com/puppetlabs\r\n* http://www.meetup.com/puppet\r\n* http://github.com/puppetlabs\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com/googlegroups\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com/linkedin","latitude":"45.5298839","longitude":"-122.6843483","postal_code":"97209","street_address":"926 NW 13th Ave #210","email":"","events_count":19,"id":202393539},"url":"http://agilepdx.org","version":null,"venue_id":202393539,"description":"Agile Fluency Tune-Up\n\nIt's time for your annual tune-up! Do you want to get more mileage out of your Agile teams? Is one of your New Years' resolutions to figure out how to get the results Agile promises? If so, come to AgilePDX's annual tune-up session, hosted by James Shore and Diana Larsen. They'll walk you through four levels of Agile fluency and how to make the leap from one level to the next, then help you apply those ideas to your real-world situation. You'll go home with specific, actionable ideas you can use with your own teams.\n\n\nDetails and Pizza:\n\nThis event is free. It begins at 6:30 pm with pizza, sponsored by PNSQC (Many thanks to both Puppet Labs and PNSQC for supporting agile in Portland).\n\nThe program starts at 7:00 pm.\n\nAfter the program you're invited to join us for a no-host gathering at a nearby brewpub for further discussion.","end_time":"2013-01-16T21:00:00-08:00","id":1250463356},{"venue_details":null,"duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2013-01-23T18:30:00-08:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2013-01-23T15:51:35-08:00","updated_at":"2013-01-23T15:51:35-08:00","title":"What Happens When Execs Become Agile Champions","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":true,"created_at":"2012-11-23T19:34:34-08:00","updated_at":"2013-04-15T15:15:30-07:00","access_notes":"The door on 13th street should be unlocked during scheduled meetups. 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What's worked best for your team?  \n\nHas your team come to consider estimating \"waste?\"  How do you make that work in your environment?  What's your rationale and how does it test out in practice?\n\nCome share your techniques, tactics, strategies, and war stories with colleagues over lunch.  Same bat time, same bat station.  See you there.\n\nAnd, hey, we're about to bust our seams again.  If you ping jean@azuregate.net or the AgilePDX list that you're coming, it can help us help the restaurant to provide fast service and the best possible layout for the tables.  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Having clawed his way up from the ranks of programmer, Mark Lawler now sits on top of 40 agile teams at Cambia Health Solutions (formerly Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield).  Barreling his way through yet another enterprise agile transition the last couple of years, Lawler occasionally shouts out the world what he loves and hates about agile to any of us who are willing to listen.  Carrying around the title of Chief Technical Officer for one of the largest employers in the Portland metro area doesn’t slow him down one bit.  Come prepared to listen to an agile executive talk about why agile is the best way to drive an organization to thrive.\n\nAs Lawler says on his blog, “I love Agile; I also hate Agile.  I love how it can free teams to truly delight customers while delivering high quality products on time.  I hate how Agile zealots can use the Tower of Agile Babble to confuse the heck out of teams trying Agile on for size.  My goal is to help new teams actually embrace and become Agile without having to learn all of the pomp and circumstance in one big fat swallow.”\n\nMark Lawler is the VP and Chief Technology Officer of Cambia Health Solutions, responsible for transformative IT strategies, technologies and efforts for its portfolio companies.  With over 30 Agile teams the group delivers and supports solutions across the business spectrum, including award winning products that are sold and hosted in a SaaS model to other leading health insurance payers.  A Portland, Oregon based technology executive with over 20 years of experience of delivering software products, Mark believes strongly in the mantra of delivering high quality products on time while delighting customers.  \n\nYou can find Mark sharing his opinions on technology, software development and quality, as well as Agile methodologies as @mark_lawler on Twitter and through his blog at: http://markslawler.wordpress.com/\n\nAbout Cambia Health Solutions\nCambia Health Solutions is a nonprofit total health solutions company based in the Pacific Northwest/Intermountain region, serving consumers and communities for nearly 100 years. Cambia companies provide a wide range of products and services, including health care information technology and software development, retail health care, health insurance, life insurance, pharmacy benefit management, consumer engagement and wellness. ","end_time":"2013-02-20T20:30:00-08:00","id":1250463414},{"venue_details":"http://www.mcmenamins.com/257-ringlers-pub-home","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2013-03-01T12:00:00-08:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2013-02-19T14:42:57-08:00","updated_at":"2013-02-19T14:42:57-08:00","title":"AgilePDX Downtown Pub Lunch:  Cambia's Agile Transformation","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":true,"created_at":"2008-07-27T13:16:57-07:00","updated_at":"2011-03-06T00:21:51-08:00","access_notes":"","telephone":"(503) 225-0627","title":"McMenamins Ringlers Pub","country":"US","locality":"Portland","region":"Oregon","address":"1332 W Burnside St.","url":"http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=46","closed":false,"description":"Nestled underneath the floating-floored Crystal Ballroom & Lola's Room in downtown Portland, Ringlers Pub is housed in what was once an automotive service garage. How much more convivial it is now! Named for the Crystal's originator -- dance aficionado and entrepreneur Montrose Ringler -- Ringlers features a tall, wooden-beamed ceiling and massive, tiled bar. The crack of pool cues make a merry soundtrack in the cavernous interior. Before or after a concert upstairs, treat yourself to ales from the Crystal's brewery along with some hearty pub fare. Or check out one of Ringlers regular DJ'd events ... there's never a cover!","latitude":"45.522714","longitude":"-122.684797","postal_code":"97209","street_address":"1332 W Burnside St.","email":"","events_count":16,"id":202390475},"url":"http://www.agilepdx.org","version":null,"venue_id":202390475,"description":"Over the last decade, agile practices continued to gain a foothold in many companies.  Many of the practices were first tried on a smaller scale, and tailored to green-field projects.  But, as agile practices are adopted at multi-site, larger companies, with complex back office projects, they bring with them additional and unique challenges.  Take for example, Cambia Health Solutions, a not-for-profit, health Solutions Company.  Cambia has a relatively large IT group, which develops its own software solutions and integrates software from other vendors.  It has a distributed workforce that spans four states with many work-at-home employees. Cambia’s mainline business is regulated by various state entities and national agencies.  Many of Cambia’s projects are large, mandated compliance projects that have a fixed time box and a set scope. Missing either the deadline or scope could potentially mean losing a significant portion of its business or facing monetary penalties.  Can agile practices work and scale to solve business problems facing the company?  What if you also operate within an IT organization that is structured with functional silos?  And what if you have reluctant business partners who define software requirements and perform final verification of software solutions?  To tackle these challenges, Cambia organized an Enterprise Transition Community to lead the transition from a patchwork of agile practices to a large-scale agile implementation.  Find out how we carried out this transition, what we have learned along the way, and how that might help organizations of all sizes take on a similar challenge.\n\nAashish co-presented a related paper with other Cambia staff at last year's PNSQC.  You can find the paper here by searching on Aashish's name on the page:  http://www.pnsqc.org/past-conferences/2012-conference/paper-and-presentations/#papers\n\nAashish Vaidya is a Technology Manager leading Specialized Teams at Cambia Health Solutions. He is a founding member of Cambia’s Enterprise Transition Community, and other Best Practices Exchanges. He also serves as an internal coach on Agile and QA practices. Aashish has over 20+ years working in technology development and leadership positions for companies such as Compaq, Intel, and Kronos Incorporation. In 2012, Aashish was a Co-Author and presenter at PNSQC.  In 2011, Aashish was a panelist on Technology Association of Oregon’s panel discussion: QA’s Role in Agile. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering.","end_time":"2013-03-01T13:00:00-08:00","id":1250463677},{"venue_details":"Nolan Ryan Building\r\n2nd floor Air Bohemian Conference Room\r\n\r\nParking is available in the lot closest to the Nolan Ryan Building.\r\n\r\nEnter Campus via SW Jenkins Rd. or Jay St.","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2013-03-12T07:45:00-07:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2013-02-28T07:18:50-08:00","updated_at":"2013-03-07T20:28:16-08:00","title":"AgilePDX Westside (morning) - Agile Portfolio Management – From Vision to Backlog","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":false,"created_at":"2012-09-06T08:22:55-07:00","updated_at":"2012-09-06T08:25:38-07:00","access_notes":"","telephone":"","title":"Nike World Headquarters","country":"US","locality":"Beaverton","region":"OR","address":"1 Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR","url":"","closed":false,"description":"","latitude":"45.5070075","longitude":"-122.8254844","postal_code":null,"street_address":"1 Bowerman Dr","email":"","events_count":12,"id":202393465},"url":"http://agilepdx.org","version":null,"venue_id":202393465,"description":"Agile Portfolio Management – From Vision to Backlog\n\nThe enterprise is going to invest in a new product or service:  it’s on the strategic plan, senior management is energized and the funding has been promised…\n\nBut what happens next?   How do you get from vision to value?  How do you drill down from a high level mission statement or market opportunity to the right user stories and how do you manage resource allocation with competing projects?\n\nThe goal of this session is to explore this critical transition and it’s implication for portfolio management.\n\nWe are pleased to welcome three panelists to help us answer these questions.\n\nPanel Members:\n\nJamie Swails, Manager Network Data Operations, Portland General Electric\n\nPat Pesetti, Sr. Director Engineering, Tripwire\n\nAdam Light, Management Consultant, SoTech Advisors\n\n\nMeeting will start at 7:45 AM until 8:55\n\n------------------------------------------------------- \nTo join the online meeting (Now from mobile devices!) \n------------------------------------------------------- \n1. Go to https://nike.webex.com/nike/j.php?ED=226516297&UID=1600919732&RT=MiM0 \n2. Enter your name and email address. \n3. Enter the meeting password: (This meeting does not require a password.) \n4. Click \"Join Now\". \n\nTo view in other time zones or languages, please click the link: \nhttps://nike.webex.com/nike/j.php?ED=226516297&UID=1600919732&ORT=MiM0 \n\n------------------------------------------------------- \nTo join the teleconference only \n------------------------------------------------------- \nCall-in toll-free number: 1-877.874.1777  (US) \nCall-in number: 1-720.239.5053  (US) \nShow global numbers: https://www.tcconline.com/offSite/OffSiteController.jpf?cc=5035328650 \nConference Code: 503 532 8650 \n","end_time":"2013-03-12T08:55:00-07:00","id":1250463717},{"venue_details":"","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2013-03-20T18:30:00-07:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2013-02-26T17:32:19-08:00","updated_at":"2013-02-26T17:35:01-08:00","title":"Agile PDX presents Max Guernsey, \"Test-Driven Database Development\"","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":true,"created_at":"2012-11-23T19:34:34-08:00","updated_at":"2013-04-15T15:15:30-07:00","access_notes":"The door on 13th street should be unlocked during scheduled meetups. If you have any issues or questions, contact Dawn Foster (dawn at puppetlabs.com) or Kara Sowles (kara at puppetlabs.com).","telephone":"","title":"Puppet Labs","country":"US","locality":"Portland","region":"OR","address":"926 NW 13th Ave # 210, Portland, OR","url":"http://www.puppetlabs.com","closed":false,"description":"# About access\r\n\r\nTo use this space contact events@puppetlabs.com\r\n\r\n# About Puppet\r\n\r\nPuppet is an open source data center automation and configuration management framework. Puppet provides system administrators with a simplified platform that allows for consistent, transparent, and flexible systems management. We are headquartered in Portland, OR.\r\n\r\nIf you'd like to use this location for an event please contact dawn at puppetlabs.com\r\n\r\nYou can also check http://www.meetup.com/puppet for information on other meetings.\r\n\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com\r\n* http://www.twitter.com/puppetlabs\r\n* http://www.meetup.com/puppet\r\n* http://github.com/puppetlabs\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com/googlegroups\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com/linkedin","latitude":"45.5298839","longitude":"-122.6843483","postal_code":"97209","street_address":"926 NW 13th Ave #210","email":"","events_count":19,"id":202393539},"url":"http://agilepdx.org","version":null,"venue_id":202393539,"description":"As developers, we've created heuristics that help us build robust systems and employed test-driven development (TDD) to improve code design and counter instability. Yet object-oriented development principles and TDD have failed to gain traction in the database world. That’s because database development involves an additional driving force—the data. \n\nMax Guernsey shows how to treat databases as objects with classes of their own—rather than as containers of objects—and how to drive database designs from tests. He illustrates a way to give these database classes the ability to upgrade old data without introducing undue risk. Max also shares how to apply good object-oriented design principles to database classes and how to enforce semantic connections between databases and clients. Max demonstrates how it all works together, ensuring that your production databases work exactly the same as test databases, minimizing the risk of design changes, and enabling client applications to more easily keep up with database changes.\n\nCome for pizza & networking from 6:30pm. The program starts at 7:00 pm. \n\n__Speaker Bio__\nMax Guernsey is currently a Managing Member at Hexagon Software LLC. He has 15 years of experience as a professional software developer. For nearly half that time, he has been blogging, writing, and delivering lectures on the topic of agile and test-driven database development. For much of Max’s professional career, he has been a consultant, advising a variety of software companies in many different industries using multiple programming and database technologies. In most of these engagements, he spent months or even years helping teams implement cutting-edge techniques such as test-driven development, object-oriented design, acceptance-test-driven development, and agile planning.\n\nMax has always been a “hands-on” consultant, working with teams for long periods of time to help them build both software and skills. This series of diverse, yet deep, engagements helped him gain a unique understanding of the database-related testing and design problems that impede most agile teams. Since 2005, he has been thinking, writing, blogging, lecturing, and creating developer-facing software dedicated to resolving these issues.\n\nMax posts regularly on his Twitter account (@MaxGuernseyIII) and his blog (maxg3prog.blogspot.com).","end_time":"2013-03-20T20:15:00-07:00","id":1250463707},{"venue_details":"On Burnside under the Crystal Ballroom.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.mcmenamins.com/257-ringlers-pub-home\r\n","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2013-04-05T12:00:00-07:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2013-03-24T19:23:27-07:00","updated_at":"2013-03-24T19:26:12-07:00","title":"AgilePDX Downtown Pub Lunch:  Agile Lifecycle Management Tools","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":true,"created_at":"2008-07-27T13:16:57-07:00","updated_at":"2011-03-06T00:21:51-08:00","access_notes":"","telephone":"(503) 225-0627","title":"McMenamins Ringlers Pub","country":"US","locality":"Portland","region":"Oregon","address":"1332 W Burnside St.","url":"http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=46","closed":false,"description":"Nestled underneath the floating-floored Crystal Ballroom & Lola's Room in downtown Portland, Ringlers Pub is housed in what was once an automotive service garage. 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Do we need anything more than a good wall and a never ending supply of post it notes and pens?\n\nThis topics packed out our previous venue at Paddy's last year.  Come and bring your friends.  We have more space now, and even more beer and pub grub.\n\nSee you there!  Oh, and hey, if you're coming it helps if you ping me at jean@azuregate.net so I can warn the pub to bring on wait staff reinforcements if we're going to be a horde.  This gets you your food faster and adds minutes, if not years, to my lifespan.","end_time":"2013-04-05T13:00:00-07:00","id":1250463863},{"venue_details":"Nolan Ryan Building\r\n2nd floor Air Raid Conference Room\r\n\r\nParking is available in the lot closest to the Nolan Ryan Building.\r\n\r\nEnter Campus via SW Jenkins Rd. or Jay St.","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2013-04-09T07:45:00-07:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2013-04-05T06:11:30-07:00","updated_at":"2013-04-05T06:12:19-07:00","title":"AgilePDX Westside (morning) - Agile Portfolio Management – From from the Lean startup perspective","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":false,"created_at":"2012-09-06T08:22:55-07:00","updated_at":"2012-09-06T08:25:38-07:00","access_notes":"","telephone":"","title":"Nike World Headquarters","country":"US","locality":"Beaverton","region":"OR","address":"1 Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR","url":"","closed":false,"description":"","latitude":"45.5070075","longitude":"-122.8254844","postal_code":null,"street_address":"1 Bowerman Dr","email":"","events_count":12,"id":202393465},"url":"http://agilepdx.org","version":null,"venue_id":202393465,"description":"Agile Portfolio Management – From the Lean Startup Perspective\n\nWe will discuss, in an open forum, ways of identifying critical information such as product vision, possible risks, technology solutions, and key project metrics, in a way that utilizes the minimum amount of time in the predevelopment period of the project. \n\nA focus will be placed on practical group exercises and research techniques for gaining the critical information needed to start a project and build the initial backlog.","end_time":"2013-04-09T09:00:00-07:00","id":1250463968},{"venue_details":"","duplicate_of_id":null,"start_time":"2013-04-17T18:30:00-07:00","source_id":null,"created_at":"2013-04-02T10:54:15-07:00","updated_at":"2013-04-02T10:54:15-07:00","title":"Agile PDX Evening Nathaniel Cadwell - Coaching Creatives: New Ideas from Dead Artists","rrule":null,"venue":{"duplicate_of_id":null,"source_id":null,"wifi":true,"created_at":"2012-11-23T19:34:34-08:00","updated_at":"2013-04-15T15:15:30-07:00","access_notes":"The door on 13th street should be unlocked during scheduled meetups. 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We are headquartered in Portland, OR.\r\n\r\nIf you'd like to use this location for an event please contact dawn at puppetlabs.com\r\n\r\nYou can also check http://www.meetup.com/puppet for information on other meetings.\r\n\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com\r\n* http://www.twitter.com/puppetlabs\r\n* http://www.meetup.com/puppet\r\n* http://github.com/puppetlabs\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com/googlegroups\r\n* http://www.puppetlabs.com/linkedin","latitude":"45.5298839","longitude":"-122.6843483","postal_code":"97209","street_address":"926 NW 13th Ave #210","email":"","events_count":19,"id":202393539},"url":"http://agilepdx.org","version":null,"venue_id":202393539,"description":"What do a 17th century painter’s workshop, an international photographic cooperative, and an early 20th century design house have in common with a modern software development team? On the surface it may not seem like much, but bringing a group of makers together to work presents special challenges and opportunities, regardless of field.\n\nIn this session we’ll explore what worked, and didn’t, for several groups of historical makers. We’ll draw parallels with agile software development teams, and discuss coaching strategies around the examples provided.\n\nNathaniel Cadwell has over thirteen years of strategic consulting experience in software development, Agile enablement, and change management, helping organizations achieve dramatic improvement in the efficiency of their software delivery. In his current role, Nathaniel is an Agile Coach working closely with software development teams. He has presented, or co-presented, sessions on Agile coaching, Agile portfolio management, and facilitation skills at multiple venues in the United States and abroad.\n\nDetails and Pizza:\n\nThis event is free. It begins at 6:30 pm with pizza, sponsored by PNSQC (Many thanks to both Puppet Labs and PNSQC for supporting agile in Portland).\n\nThe program starts at 7:00 pm.\n\nAfter the program you're invited to join us for a no-host gathering at a nearby brewpub for further discussion.\n","end_time":"2013-04-17T20:15:00-07:00","id":1250463952},{"venue_details":"McMenamin's Ringler's is located on SW 13th and Burnside. 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As a team member or change agent, how can you best engage with key figures in the larger organization? \n\nAdam Light will lead a dialog that examines agile from the perspective of various roles outside the agile team including the CIO (or other IT leader), the leader of Product Management, and the leader of the PMO. Our discussion will consider each role in turn, discussing what people in that role see, hear, and think about, how best to engage the role, and what specific protocols can be effective in each case.  Read his related blog post at \nhttp://www.sotechadvisors.com/resources/chasing_the_constraint/\n\nAdam Light is Management Consultant and Principal at SoTech Advisors where he helps managers and teams apply lean and agile methods to unlock greater value from software development. 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During the session we will also discuss topics for the upcoming quarter and identify folks within the community that are willing to \"own\" the topics as part of the community.  All are welcome to attend and we look forward to the discussion.\n\nTeleconference information\n\nCall-in toll-free number: 1-877.874.1777  (US)\nCall-in number: 1-720.239.5053  (US)\nShow global numbers: https://www.tcconline.com/offSite/OffSiteController.jpf?cc=5035328650\nConference Code: 503 532 8650\n\nThis is your chance to influence upcoming topics and speaker selection. ","end_time":"2013-05-14T09:00:00-07:00","id":1250464191},{"venue_details":"Details and Pizza:\r\n\r\nThis event is free. 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Chet Amborn, Agile Coach,  has identified 5 key areas where Product Owners need help from their ScrumMaster in making decisions that will make or break a project. Too often, ScrumMasters overly focused on low level issues with the development/implementation team while the truly significant issues involving Product Owner decisions are ignored.\n\nTeleconference information:\nCall-in toll-free number: 1-877.874.1777  (US)\nCall-in number: 1-720.239.5053  (US)\nShow global numbers: https://www.tcconline.com/offSite/OffSiteController.jpf?cc=5035328650\nConference Code: 503 532 8650\n","end_time":"2013-06-11T09:00:00-07:00","id":1250464257},{"venue_details":"Details and Pizza:\r\n\r\nThis event is free. 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