Export to

• Google Calendar
• iCalendar file
• hCalendar markup
  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Agile PDX Evening: Scaling Practice: Rebooting the Technical Culture</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2013-11-20T18:30:00" datetime="2013-11-20T18:30:00">Wednesday, November 20, 2013 from 6:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2013-11-20T20:15:00" datetime="2013-11-20T20:15:00">8:15pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202393539'><span class='fn org p-name'>Puppet</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">308 SW 2nd Ave Fifth Floor</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97204</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=308%20SW%202nd%20Ave%20Fifth%20Floor,%20Portland%20OR%2097204%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Instilling good habits isn't easy: Just ask anyone trying to give up a bad one. It's more challenging trying to change the habits of 100,000. Matt will discuss efforts at Intel to accelerate adoption of better technical capabilities, and the impediments faced by teams in adopting new skills under pressure.</p> <p>Bio:</p> <p>Matt Plavcan is a Technical Practices Coach with the Intel's Emergent Systems and Coaching team. He has worked at Intel for sixteen years, and has been writing code for three decades. His previous jobs include hardware validation for the Pentium 4 and Core microprocessors and teaching Intel architecture at the University of Illinois. Matt is the founder of the Code Dojo and Retreat program at Intel, which uses dedicated practice to hone professional programming skills.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.agilepdx.org">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>