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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">SAO: Life Inside an Iteration</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2008-11-20T18:00:00" datetime="2008-11-20T18:00:00">Thursday, November 20, 2008 from 6</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2008-11-20T21:00:00" datetime="2008-11-20T21:00:00">9pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202394635'><span class='fn org p-name'>Sentinel Hotel</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">614 Southwest 11th Avenue</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97205</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=614%20Southwest%2011th%20Avenue,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097205%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Life Inside an Iteration Date: Thu, Nov 20th Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm Location: Governor Hotel 614 SW 11th Avenue Portland, OR 97205 Cost: $10 for members $30 for non members Registration Deadline: 11/18/2008 Topic: Life Inside an Iteration</p> <p>Buffet Dinner is included</p> <p>Agile software development processes such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, and Lean Software Development have become mainstream in many organizations, but what is "Life Inside an Iteration" really 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 happen, 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.</p> <p>Panelists Brian Jamison, Founder and CEO, OpenSourcery Brian is a seasoned entrepreneur with many technology-related companies to his credit. He has worked with Linux, open source, and the Internet professionally since 1995. Brian serves as President for the Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs (POSSE) and as advisor, mentor, or board member for numerous startups. He actively promotes safe, renewable biodiesel as a locally-produced fuel source.</p> <p>Chris Jones, Engineer, Yesmail Chris has led the adoption of agile practices on several projects and teams ranging from 'by the book' XP to a blend of XP and RUP. Chris is well versed in adapting agile processes to a diverse set of development organizations. He is currently contributing to the google web toolkit.</p> <p>Wayne Allen, VP of Software Engineering, Integrated Services, Inc. Wayne 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 engineering 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 such as XP and Scrum. Wayne is a regular speaker both nationally and internationally on the topic of agile software development. You can read about Wayne's thoughts on software development at blogs.consultantsguild.com</p> <p>Sumant Vashisth, Senior QA Manager, McAfee, Inc. Sumant had more than 10 years of experience in software development and testing having worked at IBM and Ford prior to joining McAfee. He has successfully driven testing on multiple product releases at McAfee, including one of the 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 with multiple cross site engineering product development groups. Sumant also developed the software and is co-author of the book "Software For Emission Rate Modeling Of Accidental Toxic Releases".</p> <p>Todd Whitaker Todd has nearly 14 years experience working with teams and organizations to develop software products ranging from web and enterprise applications to desktop software. He has held positions in Product and Program Management with a number of software companies including Inspiration Software, Serena Software, Extensis, Concentrex, and Group 3 Consultants. Todd is an advocate for simple and excellent user experience, highly collaborative and adaptive product development processes, and Agile methodologies. He is a graduate of Oregon Institute of Technology, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management with an Electronics Engineering emphasis.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="https://db.sao.org/calendar2/event_description.htm?eventID=10/20/08b">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>