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:20090308T020000 RDATE:20090308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090613T000052Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090617T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090617T183000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090613T000052Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101010T002801Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250457311 DESCRIPTION:Brian Marick is in town to talk with us about the spirit of A gile: \;\n \;\nA problem with the word “Agile” is that everyone al ready thinks they understand it at a gut level. Worse\, everyone already thinks they’re agile in spirit. (After all\, the thesaurus tells us the alternative is to be clumsy\, stiff\, slow\, and dull.) So it’s too eas y for people to feel free to launch into “doing Agile” without ever havi ng a serious conversation about what that actually means. \;\n \;\ nThis problem is easily fixed. We’ll just stop talking about “Agile” and start speaking of “artisanal retro-futurism crossed with team-scale ana rcho-syndicalism.” There is\, I think\, no danger that anyone will refl exively say\, “Yes! That’s just what I’ve been wanting to do all along! ” \;\n \;\nThe new name does more than just encourage conversation . It encourages conversation about those very properties of Agile that h ave become obscure as Agile has been commoditized. In this session\, I’l l unpack the meanings of the new phrase and encourage you to rediscover what’s been lost. \;\n\n\nTags: agile\, guest speaker\, spirit\n\nImp orted from: http://calagator.org/events/1250457311 URL:http://www.xpdx.org/ SUMMARY:XPDX June: artisanal retro-futurism crossed with team-scale anarc ho-syndicalism LOCATION:Robert Half Technology\, 2nd Floor Conference Room: 222 SW Colum bia St\, Portland OR 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR