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LONDON AGILE MONTH 01-09-08
Skills Matter is pleased to announce London Agile Month, a month full of courses, free In-the-Brain Sessions and conferences featuring agile expert Venkat Subramaniam, pragmatic programmer Andy Hunt, Agile & Scrum experts Craig Larman, Martine DeVos, Tamara Sulaiman and Roman Pichler, Frank Cohen on Automated Testing, Gojko Adzic on TDD and Eric Evans on Domain Driven Design!


What's on?

In The Brain of Alberto Brandolini, Agile Development with SOA, London, Sept 2nd

Agile methods are often told to be the best way to implement a SOA within an organization. Alberto Brandolini will explain why a pragmatic no-nonsense approach is often the way to get the best from what you have.


Course: Coding The Architecture Workshop (CODING-ARCHITECTURE-01-02) Sept 2nd

The course is an interactive introduction to software architecture and what it means to be a software architect. It's aimed at software developers who are looking towards their first software architect role, as well as architects that are new to the role. more


In The Brain of Simon Brown, on How much architecture is enough, London, Sept 3rd

Simon Brown will talk about Enterprise Architecture



Course: Rachel Davies' Agile QA (AGILE-QA-01-01) 04 Sept

The course will provide formal presentation with interactive exercises and facilitated discussion. more


Course: Venkat Subramaniam's Refactoring Whizz Class - Practices, Techniques and Pragmatics (IDEA-01-01) 04 Sept

Learn how to identify and refactor design smells. You will learn how to support Agile development and evolvement of design and code through high quality design. You will learn to recognise "signs of design smells" and ways to identify and measure design quality. more


In The Brain of Venkat Subramaniam, Caring About Code Quality, London, Sept 4th

Venkat will talk about the characteristics of quality code, about metrics to measure quality and about ways to identify and build quality.



Course: Rachel Davies' Scrum Primer Course (SCRUM-PRIMER-01-01) 08 Sept

In this Scrum Primer course, you will get an introduction to the ever so popular Scrum process and its underlying Agile principles. You will learn about about key Scrum practices and about the main Scrum roles and responsibilities that are part of the Scrum process. more



Course: Martine Devos' ScrumMaster Certification and Estimation Class (SCRUM-MD-01-02) 08 Sept

You will learn how to use Scrum to maximise value creation, improve customer and employee satisfaction as well as engineering practices and tools. Additionally, upon successful completion of the course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership..more


Course: Rachel Davies' Agile Retrospectives (AGILE-RETRO-01-01) 09 Sept

Learn about the foundations of retrospective facilitation with implementation tips and practical exercises so you can try out the techniques yourself. The workshop covers how to plan a retrospective, how to run a retrospective and how to integrate retrospectives into agile development lifecycles. more


In The Brain of Frank Cohen, Automated Testing Tools for Ajax, Web Services, SOA and Web Apps, London, Sept 9th

Learn how you can leverage open-source testing tools for functional testing, load and performance testing, and business service monitoring, with more flexibility than traditional solutions provide.


Course: Test Automation BootCamp (PUSH-TO-TEST-01-03) 10 Sept

Learn how to use powerful open source test automation tools to test for scalability, performance and reliability, including Selenium, PushToTest TestMaker and soapUI. You will learn about the User Goal Oriented Test (UGOT) methodology to deliver actionable knowledge. more


Course: Martine Devos' Scrum Product Owner Certification Class (PRODUCT-MD-01-02) 11 Sept

This two-day interactive Scrum Product Owner course equips you with all you need to know about being an effective Product Owner. At the end of the class, you will understand how you can leverage Scrum to optimise value creation and customer satisfaction. more


In The Brain of Martine Devos, Agile Estimation and Planning , London, 11 Sept

In this talk, Martine Devos will guide you through the best techniques and perception management for estimators and their customers. more


Course: Steve Freeman & Mike Hill's Example Driven Development and FIT Workshop (FIT-01-01) 15 Sept

Learn how to use examples to communicate business requirements between all the roles on the team, and keep development focussed. You will also learn how to write examples that are easy to read and easy to verify, so that they can be “baked” into the whole development cycle and prove that the customer’s requirements have been met. more


In The Brain of Steve Freeman, Example Driven Development, London, 15 Sept

Steve Freeman and Mike Hill will discuss Example Driven Development. more



In The Brain of Tamara Sulaiman, AgileEVM: Measuring cost efficiency across the product life cycle, London, 16 Sept

Tamara Sulaiman will talk about AgileEVM. AgileEVM is an adaptation of the traditional project management practice of measuring actual value of integrated cost...


Course: Roman Pichler's Scrum Product Owner Certification (PRODUCT-RP-01-02) 17 Sept

Learn the essentials of working as a Product Owner in this two-day class. Scrum is a simple but powerful agile management framework. Key to its success is the role of the Product Owner: The Product Owner steers and guides the Scrum project, bridges the gap between end customers, business and development/IT and is responsible for the return on investment (ROI). The Product Owner combines the traditional project manager and the product manager roles in one person. more


In The Brain of Gojko Adzic: Agile Acceptance Testing , London, 18 Sept

Gojko Adzic will talk about Agile Acceptance Testing



Course: Roman Pichler's Lean Software Development Workshop (LEAN-02-01) 19 Sept

This interactive 1-day workshop on Lean software development introduced Lean concepts you will need to know to improve your company beyond software development. more


Course: Martine Devos' ScrumMaster Certification and Estimation Class (SCRUM-MD-01-02) 22 Sept

Learn how to use Scrum to maximise value creation, improve customer and employee satisfaction as well as engineering practices and tools. Additionally, upon successful completion of the course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information is available. more


Course: Craig Larman's Scaling Lean & Agile Development for Large, Multisite and Offshore Projects (SCALE-LEAN-01-02) 29 Sept

Learn how to lead relatively large projects (e.g., 600 people on one project) and relatively large enterprise transformations (e.g., 50,000 people) to adopting Agile and Lean principles and scaling Scrum to this size. Throughout this course you will learn key concepts and practices that work for large-scale Scrum and Agile adoption. more


Agile Business Conference 2008, London, 23rd-24th Sept

The Agile Business Conference is Europe’s premier Agile conference and enters its 5th year with the year-on-year growth in Agile continuing space


In The Brain of Craig Larman, Modern Management and Large-Scale Development - The Last Great Bastions of Soviet-Style Planning, London, 23 Sept

we'll explore alternatives and adoption-stories in large-scale enterprise and product management based on lean thinking, agile principles, and Large-Scale Scrum


Course: Craig Larman's Certified ScrumMaster Class (SCRUM-CL-01-02) 22 Sept

Learn how to be a ScrumMaster and how to make a development team, a product group, or an organisation Agile. Throughout the course there will be a number of exercises, case studies and examples to bring home the realisation of how to be an effective ScrumMaster as opposed to a project manager. more


Course: Andy Hunt's Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Refactor your Wetware (PRAGMATIC-01-01) 29 Sept

Join Andy Hunt for a look at how the brain really works (hint: it=92s a dual processor, shared bus design) and how to use the best tool for the job by learning to think differently about thinking. more


In The Brain of Andy Hunt, on Pragmatic Agility, London, Sept 29th

You’ll see how to treat novices and experts—and everyone in between—to make them more effective and keep them on the top of their game


Course: Eric Evans Domain Driven Design Hands-On Immersion (DOMAIN-MODEL-01-04) 30 Sept

Learn to strike a healthy balance between digging into your subject matter and addressing technological issues, which, while unavoidable, cannot be allowed to dominate the development process for commercially viable systems. more


In The Brain of Eric Evans: Domain driven design, London, Oct 2nd

Eric Evans talks about domain driven design



AGILE & SCRUM PODCASTS
David Joyce:Kanban for Software Engineering and Kanban Open Space, Kanban for Software Engineerin
David Joyce : 25th Jun 2009
View Podcast: Kanban for Software Engineering and Kanban Open Space,
David Evans:Testable Software, Testable Software
David Evans : 23rd Jun 2009
View Podcast: Testable Software,
Julian  Everett:A Surfer's Guide to User Story Prioritisation, A Surfer's Guide to User Story
Julian Everett : 28th May 2009
View Podcast: A Surfer's Guide to User Story Prioritisation,
Gojko Adzic:Specification by example and Agile acceptance testing , Specification by example & Agi
Gojko Adzic : 11th May 2009
View Podcast: Specification by example and Agile acceptance testing ,
David Laribee:Towards a New Architect, Towards a New Architect
David Laribee : 11th May 2009
View Podcast: Towards a New Architect,
David Laribee:Defining and Improving Standard Teamwork, Defining and Improving Standar
David Laribee : 11th May 2009
View Podcast: Defining and Improving Standard Teamwork,
Paul Nasrat:Agile Pragmatic Systems Administration, Agile Pragmatic Systems Admini
Paul Nasrat : 23rd Apr 2009
View Podcast: Agile Pragmatic Systems Administration,
Ivan Sanchez:Coding Dojo, Coding Dojo
Ivan Sanchez : 22nd Apr 2009
View Podcast: Coding Dojo,
Rachel Davies:In The Brain of Rachel Davies:Agile Coaching Tips, Agile Coaching Tips
Rachel Davies : 20th Apr 2009
View Podcast: In The Brain of Rachel Davies:Agile Coaching Tips,
Jurgen Appelo:So Now You're an Agilist... What's Next?, So Now You're an Agilist
Jurgen Appelo : 9th Apr 2009
View Podcast: So Now You're an Agilist... What's Next?,
Neil Crosby:Front-End Automated Testing, Front-End Automated Testing
Neil Crosby : 7th Apr 2009
View Podcast: Front-End Automated Testing,
Mark Stringer:Techniques for dealing with difficult conversations and negotiations in software development, Convos in Software Dev
Mark Stringer : 26th Mar 2009
View Podcast: Techniques for dealing with difficult conversations and negotiations in software development,
Ivan Sanchez:Coding Dojo, Coding Dojo
Ivan Sanchez : 25th Mar 2009
View Podcast: Coding Dojo,
Martine Devos:In The Brain of Martine Devos, The Lean Kanban, The Lean Kanban
Martine Devos : 24th Mar 2009
View Podcast: In The Brain of Martine Devos, The Lean Kanban,
Steve Freeman:Turning on a sixpence - technical skills for Agile development : Introduction, Tech Skills for Agile Dev Intr
Steve Freeman : 11th Mar 2009
Podcast Coming Soon: Turning on a sixpence - technical skills for Agile development : Introduction,
OTHER AGILE & SCRUM EVENTS
Michael Vizdos  Scrum in the Real World,  Scrum in the Real World
FREE EVENT: In The Brain of Michael Vizdos
London, Wednesday, July 8th
Michael Vizdos:Michael Vizdos' Certified ScrumMaster,  ScrumMaster Certification w Michael Vizdos
2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Michael Vizdos
London, Thursday, July 9th
Allan Kelly:Craig Larman's Agile Project Management Workshop,  Craig Larman's Agile Project Management WS
2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Allan Kelly
London, Tuesday, July 28th
David Joyce Limited Wip Society: Kanban for Software Engineering,  Limited Wip Society: Kanban for Software Engineering
FREE EVENT: In The Brain of David Joyce
London, Thursday, July 30th
Martine Devos:Martine Devos' ScrumMaster Certification and Estimation Class,  ScrumMaster Certification w Martine DeVos
2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Martine Devos
London, Monday, August 3rd
Martine Devos:Martine Devos' Scrum Product Owner Certification Class,  Scrum Product Owner w Martine Devos
2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Martine Devos
London, Monday, August 17th
Martine Devos:Martine Devos' ScrumMaster Certification and Estimation Class,  ScrumMaster Certification w Martine DeVos
2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Martine Devos
Edinburgh , Thursday, August 20th
Martine Devos:Martine Devos' Certified ScrumMaster Class Plus,  Martine Devos' Certified ScrumMaster Class Plus
3 DAY COURSE. Featuring Martine Devos
London, Monday, August 24th
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