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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">So, What’s the GROWS Method? A Videoconference Experience</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2016-10-19T19:30:00" datetime="2016-10-19T19:30:00">Wednesday, October 19, 2016 from 7:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2016-10-19T20:30:00" datetime="2016-10-19T20:30:00">8:30pm</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>To test our ability to bring in Agilists from around the world, this month AgilePDX is sponsoring a live videoconference with Agile Manifesto signer Andy Hunt, who will be talking with us about the GROWS method, which he developed with Jared Richardson.</p> <p>Everyone claims they are "agile"; but are you and your team actually effective?</p> <p>Learn the three important steps to creating a truly effective agile team: 1) Lower your risk on software implementation, scalability, usability and more using Tracer Bullet Development; 2) Make accurate decisions and corrections with rapid, real-time feedback using the Continuous Paradigm; and 3) Converge on success with quick, inexpensive GROWS Method Experiments. You and your teams won't need to guess; you'll know.</p> <p>Pizza and pop are sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Quality Conference.</p> <p>BIO</p> <p>Andy started in the do-it-yourself days of CP/M and the S100 bus, of Heathkits and Radio Electronics. Andy wrote his first real program, a combination text editor and database manager, for an Ohio Scientific Challenger 4P. It was a great era for tinkering. Andy started hacking in 6502 assembler, modifying operating systems, and wrote his first commercial program (a Manufacturing Resources Planning system) in 1981. He taught himself Unix and C, and began to design and architect larger, more connected systems.</p> <p>Andy joined up with Dave Thomas and they wrote the seminal software development book, The Pragmatic Programmer, followed a year later by the original Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide, which introduced the Western world to this new language from Japan. Together they founded The Pragmatic Programmers and are well known as founders of the agile movement and authors of the Agile Manifesto, as well as proponents of Ruby and more flexible programming paradigms. They founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing business in 2003, helping keep developers at the top of their game.</p> <p>Andy is a founder of the Pragmatic Programmers, founder of the Agile Alliance and one of the 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto, and author of nine books. He is an active musician and woodworker, and continues looking for new areas where he can stir things up.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.agilepdx.org">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>