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.
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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.
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In The Brain of Simon Brown, on How much architecture is enough, London, Sept 3rd
Simon Brown will talk about Enterprise Architecture
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Rachel Davies' Agile QA (AGILE-QA-01-01) 04 Sept
The course will provide formal presentation with interactive exercises and facilitated discussion.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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..
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In The Brain of Steve Freeman, Example Driven Development, London, 15 Sept
Steve Freeman and Mike Hill will discuss Example Driven Development.
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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...
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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.
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In The Brain of Gojko Adzic: Agile Acceptance Testing , London, 18 Sept
Gojko Adzic will talk about Agile Acceptance Testing
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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In The Brain of Eric Evans: Domain driven design, London, Oct 2nd
Eric Evans talks about domain driven design
