Saturday, April 16, 2011

May Meeting Announcement: Missing Pieces: The Road from Agile Enthusiast to Agile Team Member

Missing Pieces: The Road from Agile Enthusiast to Agile Team Member
Agile mechanics can be installed in weeks or even days, but there is a depth to successful Agile teams that is difficult to capture.  In Missing Pieces, I discuss many of the subtle and overlooked traits, behaviors, and practices of Agile team members by describing high and low points in my Agile journey.  In returning to your budding Agile team you'll see new opportunity to leap beyond sufficient Agile to high performing Agile by recognizing moments for courage, moments for silence, moments for failure and more.

Ryan Cromwell is a Coder, Agile Coach and Microsoft ALM MVP. He has over 10 years of experience as a software engineer, including expertise in next generation interactive applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight. Ryan is committed to the continual improvement of development practices and techniques. His expertise and dedication has brought success to numerous projects, working with Marathon Oil Company, Speedway SuperAmerica LLC, FedEx-Kinkos, Lexis-Nexis, Reynolds & Reynolds, and more. Ryan is co-founder of the Cincy Clean Coders group and has led presentations on effective team development and various topics such as Agile, Scrum, WPF, WCF, Software Patterns, and Team Foundation Server. You can find Ryan at http://blog.cromwellhaus.com and on Twitter as @cromwellryan.

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