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:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20140309T020000 RDATE:20140309T020000 RDATE:20150308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20141102T020000 RDATE:20141102T020000 RDATE:20151101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140724T174700Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140908T193000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140908T170000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140724T174700Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140823T221705Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250466699 DESCRIPTION:Working on a startup? Have an interesting business idea that' s going to disrupt the market? \;\n \;\nCome enjoy pizza and beer on us and pitch that idea to Portland Seed Fund\, a professionally mana ged early-venture fund with 46 seed and early stage investments. \;\n \;\nYou'll have two minutes to pitch PSF alumni\, fund managers and mentors\, with one tough question served up by a panel of Portland Seed Fund portfolio founders. There will also be time for you to learn more a bout becoming a Portland Seed Fund company from the alumni who've been t hrough it. \;\n \;\nSpace is limited and exclusive to those pitch ing\; pre-registration required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/portland-s eed-fund-pitch-for-a-beer-tickets-12401072943 \;\n \;\n \;\nWhe n: Monday September 8\, 2014 \;\n \;\nTime: 5:00pm-7:30pm \;\n& #13\;\nWhere: McMenamins Ringlers Pub (NOT Annex) \;\n \;\n1332 W Burnside St\, Portland\, OR 97209 \;\n \;\nQuestions? Please ema il us at: info@portlandseedfund.com \;\n \;\nLearn more about Por tland Seed Fund: http://www.portlandseedfund.com \;\n \;\nThis eve nt is a lot of fun\, don't miss it!\n\nTags: startup\, startups\, pitch\ , pitching\, networking\, portland\, oregon\, business\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250466699 URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/portland-seed-fund-pitch-for-a-beer-tick ets-12401072943 SUMMARY:Portland Seed Fund- Pitch for a Beer! LOCATION:McMennamins Ringler's: 1332 W. Burnside\, Portland OR 97202 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140811T034606Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141003T130000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141003T120000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140811T034606Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140811T034606Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250466808 DESCRIPTION:As if transitioning to Agile is not challenging enough in any company\, what does Agile look like ‘at scale’? For the North America n market\, ADP Dealer Services develops software &\; services across 100 sprint teams\, 4 major product groups\, and half a dozen sites acros s the US &\; India. We are now 2 years into our Agile transition. We’ll take a look at some of the practices &\; tools we utilize each day\, and some of the lessons we’ve learned along our journey. \;\n&# 13\;\nDavid Nash is Vice President of Product Management at ADP Dealer S ervices\, the leading provider to Automotive Retailers and OEMs\, global ly. Prior to ADP\, David spent 17 years at Intel in various Product Man agement\, Product Marketing\, Advanced Research\, and Venture Investing assignments. He is the President of the Product Development &\; Mana gement Association (PDMA) Oregon Chapter\, and is the co-founder of Prod uctCamp Portland. \;\n \;\nRSVP's appreciated but not required. For more info\, contact jean@azuregate.net or post your query to the Ag ilePDX mailing list.\n\nTags: agile\, agilepdx\n\nImported from: http:// calagator.org/events/1250466808 URL:http://www.agilepdx.org SUMMARY:Rescheduled: Agile PDX Dntn Pub Lunch: The Role of the PO When Doing Agile "at Scale" LOCATION:McMennamins Ringler's: 1332 W. Burnside\, Portland OR 97202 US SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141015T154254Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141107T130000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141107T120000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141015T154254Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141015T154254Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250467171 DESCRIPTION:We frequently encounter Agile teams struggling within larger organizations that are not Agile. The resistance to Agile frequently cen ters around predictability. Executives feel pressure to report to the Bo ard of Directors what software will be delivered in the coming year. Pro duct Owners are asked to work out long-term strategies and priorities. S ales is working with customers who want to know what features are coming and when. And Marketing departments are pulling together advertising ca mpaigns for the coming year. \;\n \;\nIn each of these cases\, th ere would be real and undeniable benefit in knowing what the future hold s...but we don't. Agile is very clear on this point--software developmen t is not predictable. And development teams are often hesitant to offer any form of prediction out of fear that the prediction will be taken as a "\;promise"\;. \;\n \;\nThis AgilePDX Pub discussion is an attempt to imagine what an Agile team would offer in the way of pred ictions if we did not have that fear\, if we were to give the best infor mation we can devise about the future of our projects (in an Agile fashi on). As a starting place\, it pulls together a lightweight process for e stimating size from the book "\;How to Measure Anything"\; by Do uglas W. Hubbard\, along with\, recent research into common human biases that impact our assessment of risks. \;\n \;\nMichael Kelly has been thinking about this a lot (see the thread he launched on the Agile PDX Yahoo Group in October)\, and he'll set context and get the discussi on going for you. \;\n \;\nMichael is a veteran of numerous softwa re development campaigns. He has built software for power companies and banks\, for the trucking industry and education\, for internet start-ups and established companies\, for his own companies and for others. Throu ghout\, he has worked hard to master the craft of writing software and d elve to the mysteries of Agile. Currently\, he is working with the excel lent folks at DAT Solutions\, leading a team developing the next generat ion of software for the trucking industry. \;\n \;\nAs usual\, loo k for us in the back of the pub. RSVP to jean@azuregate.net if you can. We nearly swamped the wait staff in October\, and we'd like to provide a little warning if that may happen again. However\, don't let lack of ability to RSVP keep you from showing up. \;\n \;\nBring your que stions\, your objections\, your burning issues around agility and predic tability. Bring your Product Owners and executive staff and THEIR burni ng issues. \;\n \;\nUsual pub grub. The beer never stops flowing. See you there!\n\nTags: agile\, agilepdx\n\nImported from: http://cala gator.org/events/1250467171 URL:http://www.agilepdx.org SUMMARY:Agile PDX Downtown Pub Lunch: Grappling with the Business's Need for Predictability LOCATION:McMennamins Ringler's: 1332 W. Burnside\, Portland OR 97202 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141024T214601Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141205T130000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141205T120000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141024T214601Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20141024T214601Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250467222 DESCRIPTION:As pitched in October\, we have Matt Mayer coming to talk to use in December. Remember\, anyone can pitch a talk to the group just b y showing up and tossing in your idea when we vote on upcoming topics at the end of the hour. \;\n \;\nAt Monsoon\, we’ve tried and tested Kanban—and we’ve learned a lot! Our microservices team is driven to do fast\, small changes to deliver bug fixes and features to production fa st. Interdependencies between services mean a single service going down causes customers and Monsoon to lose money. Using a physical Kanban bo ard meant the difference between guessing where bottlenecks were versus identifying the problem\, targeting it and applying multiple forces to e liminate it. It also makes large tickets stand out so they can be analy zed and sliced into smaller tickets for faster delivery. \;\n \;\ nMatthew Mayer has been programming professionally since 2006\, with an emphasis on performance and complex problem solving. He’s worked with a variety of technologies from ASP.NET web applications to .NET installed products to cloud services in Go\, quickly providing data for customers worldwide. He developed an increasing interest in integration tests an d tools for that end\, such as cucumber and Docker. He advocates for cl ose integration with QA counterparts so programmers can focus on deliver ing early and often\, lowering barriers to entry for new team members.&# 13\;\n \;\nRSVP's to the AgilePDX Yahoo list or to Jean@azuregate.net are much appreciated. We occassionally have very large turnouts\, and its great to be able to warn the wait staff. \;\n \;\nLook for us in the back. We start on time and end on time so you can get back to ma king the world safe for agilists everywhere. Yes\, the beer flows and s o does the pub grub. \;\n\n\nTags: agile\, agilepdx\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250467222 URL:http://www.agilepdx.org SUMMARY:AgilePDX Dntn Pub Lunch: Why the Board Matters in Kanban LOCATION:McMennamins Ringler's: 1332 W. Burnside\, Portland OR 97202 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150513T222817Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150605T130000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150605T120000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150513T222817Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150513T222817Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250468499 DESCRIPTION:What kinds of helpful roles can managers of all types play in relation to Agile teams? And\, do they play these roles\, or does some thing else happen? \;\n \;\nThis month\, the AgilePDX Downtown P ub Lunchers consider how different kinds of power operate within Agile\, what it can feel like for a manager to encounter an "\;empowered&qu ot\; Agile team\, and what reactions can come up. \;\n \;\nBring your war stories and questions on down to Ringlers where we will solve the Agile world's problems with regard to managers\, power\, and empower ed Agile teams over beer and pub grub from 12p to 1p. \;\n \;\nRSV P's to jean@azuregate.net are welcomed but not required. It's nice to k now who many tables to push together!\n\nTags: agile\, agilepdx\n\nImpor ted from: http://calagator.org/events/1250468499 URL:http://www.agilepdx.org SUMMARY:AgilePDX Dntn Pub Lunch: Role of Management in Agile LOCATION:McMennamins Ringler's: 1332 W. Burnside\, Portland OR 97202 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160104T161022Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160108T130000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160108T120000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160104T161022Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160104T161022Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250469567 DESCRIPTION:Now here's something we don't talk about often enough: prior itization skills. Yet\, our inability to prioritize--at every level of the organization--easily trips us up. The liquor of urgency inebriates us until everything looks equally important. And then\, we are paralyze d or dashing off in all directions at once and getting nothing done . . . \;\n \;\nFear not! Help is on the way. \;\n \;\nOn Januar y 8th Lorie Gordon will lead us in a discussion centered around the noti on of a prioritization score card\, a tool she regularly uses in her wor k. Bring your friends. Bring your Product Owner. Bring your prioritiz ation conundra\, and join your colleagues in a rousing discussion of the perils of prioritization. \;\n \;\nSame place. Same time. We'll be in the back. \;\n \;\nRSVP's not required but gratefully accep ted at jean@azuregate.net.\n\nTags: agile\, agilepdx\n\nImported from: h ttp://calagator.org/events/1250469567 URL:http://www.agilepdx.com SUMMARY:AgilePDX Downtown Pub Lunch: A Prioritization Score Card LOCATION:McMennamins Ringler's: 1332 W. Burnside\, Portland OR 97202 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR