Agile Alliance Australia - Sydney Chapter

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• Edgy Agile, things that books rarely Mention

  Mon, 17 Sep 2012, 07:30 - 09:30 in Sydney, Australia

  Pretty much the opposite of Agile 101.A sharing session of more edgy and obscure Agile ideas and practices that you are actually using or you did use with your teams that may find useful.We will welcome everyone from 5:30 and kick off at 5:45.-First part to identify some practices and tricks we want to share.-Second part to work as small group on the idea through short iterations.-Third part on presenting to the crowd as lightning talks (5 minutes) + discussion

• Agile 101

  Tue, 14 Aug 2012, 07:45 - 10:00 in Sydney, Australia

  A year ago we held our first 'Agile 101', the plan was to hold it every few months but it never happened. So on it's first anniversary we are setting up a recurring meeting (3 a year) for those interested in an introduction to Agile. If we get enough people interested each time we plan on doing the session then we will set a location and a presenter.Note: This is in addition to the usually monthly meetup.Here is the original description of the session.AGILE 101

• Creating an Agile framework for Optus - Elbow scrapes and glorious wins

  Tue, 26 Jun 2012, 08:00 - 10:00 in Sydney, Australia

  For the past 8 months a small group of SMEs in Optus have been developing an Agile framework to work across our large organisation. This is the story of our journey from how we formed, creating the framework itself and now the direction we're taking to implement across the business. Willing to share the blood, tears, elbow scrapes and glorious wins with our fellow agile enthusiasts.

• Edgy Agile things that you may not have heard of

  Thu, 14 Jun 2012, 07:30 - 10:00 in Sydney, Australia

  Pretty much the opposite of Agile 101.A sharing session of more edgy and obscure Agile ideas and practices that you are actually using or you did use with your teams that may find useful.We will welcome everyone from 5:30 and kick off at 5:45.-First part to identify some practices and tricks we want to share.-Second part to work as small group on the idea through short iterations.-Third part on presenting to the crowd as lightning talks (5 minutes) + discussion

• User Story Secured and Evil Story Card

  Thu, 31 May 2012, 07:30 - 09:30 in Sydney, Australia

  Discussion taking Part of a Security Workshop.Inspecting How to introduce security awareness while writing efficient user stories by inspecting real case study and the top 10 security issues on Web Application.https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_ProjectHow to write Evil Story cards based on the same security issues from a hacker point of view and introduce them into a project or BAU work.

• Agile Tour Sydney - Review and Retrospective

  Wed, 23 May 2012, 08:00 - 11:00 in Sydney, Australia

  Agile Tour Sydney 2011 Review and Retrospective! Took place december, 9th Fri & 10th Sat at the University of Technology, SydneyAgile Tour Sydney was a 2 day non-profit conference run by practitioners for practitioners who are directly involved in Agile delivery and who are prepared to actively participate and share experiences. Thank you all for the wonderful Agile Tour Sydney 2011 edition. In order to move on to the 2012 edition, let's meet and review the previous event.

• Monthly Book Club Discussion

  Mon, 30 Apr 2012, 07:45 - 09:45 in Sydney, Australia

  We have been having this MeetUp for a while but haven't been listing it on the group page, but this year we want to be more open and let new people come along if they are interested.The basic idea is: each month the group picks a book to read, everyone goes off and reads it during the month and then we get together to discuss it, rinse and repeat. Normally each meetup last for about an hour.If you know a good Agile/Lean/Scrum/Kanban.

• Agile 101

  Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 08:00 - 10:00 in Sydney, Australia

  A year ago we held our first 'Agile 101', the plan was to hold it every few months but it never happened. So on it's first anniversary we are setting up a recurring meeting (3 a year) for those interested in an introduction to Agile. If we get enough people interested each time we plan on doing the session then we will set a location and a presenter.Note: This is in addition to the usually monthly meetup.Here is the original description of the session.AGILE 101

• Mini Meetup : Agile Is As Agile Does

  Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 07:45 - 09:45 in Sydney, Australia

  As an experiment we want to try some different formats for our meetings, one idea is to hold "mini" meetups where we limit the session to 30 mins. Here is our first one, it would finish at 6:30. (15 mins socialising then 20 min talk, 10 min questions)Note: we will still be holding our monthly longer meetups, this is in addition to that.Here is the topic for our first 'mini' meetup.

• Monthly Book Club Discussion

  Mon, 26 Mar 2012, 06:45 - 08:45 in Sydney, Australia

  We have been having this MeetUp for a while but haven't been listing it on the group page, but this year we want to be more open and let new people come along if they are interested.The basic idea is: each month the group picks a book to read, everyone goes off and reads it during the month and then we get together to discuss it, rinse and repeat. Normally each meetup last for about an hour.If you know a good Agile/Lean/Scrum/Kanban.

• Monthly Book Club Discussion

  Mon, 27 Feb 2012, 06:45 - 08:45 in Sydney, Australia

  We have been having this MeetUp for a while but haven't been listing it on the group page, but this year we want to be more open and let new people come along if they are interested.The basic idea is: each month the group picks a book to read, everyone goes off and reads it during the month and then we get together to discuss it, rinse and repeat. Normally each meetup last for about an hour.If you know a good Agile/Lean/Scrum/Kanban.

• Vodafone Case Study

  Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 07:00 - 09:00 in Sydney, Australia

  Agile and Native Handset Applications.More details to come, with confirmation of venue.

• Monthly Book Club Discussion

  Mon, 30 Jan 2012, 06:45 - 08:45 in Sydney, Australia

  We have been having this MeetUp for a while but haven't been listing it on the group page, but this year we want to be more open and let new people come along if they are interested.The basic idea is: each month the group picks a book to read, everyone goes off and reads it during the month and then we get together to discuss it, rinse and repeat. Normally each meetup last for about an hour.If you know a good Agile/Lean/Scrum/Kanban.

• Annual OpenSpace

  Thu, 15 Dec 2011, 07:00 - 09:00 in Sydney, Australia

  Following from the success of last years OpenSpace, lets do it again.More details to come, but save the date!

• Agile Tour Sydney (2 day event) - call for participation

  Thu, 27 Oct 2011, 07:00 - 09:00 in Sydney, Australia

  Are you ready to immerse yourself in the full depth of what our Agile community has to offer?Because You are the Sydney Agile community, join us on this meetup in order to evolve the sessions for Agile Tour Sydney. We need your input.We would discuss the content on a World Café format.The World Café is a flexible facilitated process that is aimed at creating collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge and discovering new opportunities for action.

• Case Study : News Limited - placemyad.com.au

  Mon, 17 Oct 2011, 07:00 - 09:00 in Sydney, Australia

  Case Study : News Limited - www.placemyad.com.auCome along and experience a great case study and learnings from long standing independent PM Andrew Walker.Andrew will be walking us through www.placemyad.com.au with a focus on the below bullet points. *Is this agile?  short notes *Governance - short notes/examples *Automated acceptance tests - look/see/chat *See the board, tools, how the team works *Requirements and documentation

• Project Management in the Age of Complexity - what every manager should know

  Wed, 27 Apr 2011, 08:00 - 10:00 in Sydney, Australia

  Note change of date. Also venue is the Atlassian Basement. 6pm drinks for a 6:30pm start.Do you often encounter surprises on your projects that seem to make sense later on? If so, you may have a project environment that is not just complicated but complex.It is clear that we live in an increasing complex and interconnected world in which millions of lines of code run our cars and social networking services support emergent political change in the middle-east.

• Continuous Integration Tips & Tricks

  Tue, 22 Mar 2011, 07:45 - 09:45 in Sydney, Australia

  Getting started with CI? What are your questions?Expert? How did you do it? Come and share!

• "Why Agile Works" with agile pioneer Joseph Pelrine

  Tue, 15 Mar 2011, 07:00 - 09:00 in Sydney, Australia

  Arrive at 5:30pm for a 6:00pm start.Why Agile WorksOn April 14, 2010, a small volcano erupted in Iceland, and before people could pronounce the name Eyjafjallajökull, all air traffic in Europe was paralysed.I call it the volcano principle. Time and again things happen that are beyond our control, but that affect us, things we need to react to. We do not know when it will happen, we do not know what will happen.

• Agile 101

  Tue, 8 Mar 2011, 07:00 - 09:00 in Sydney, Australia

  AGILE 101Come and join us for an informal introduction to agile project delivery.With a few slides, anecdotes and artefacts we'll cover:1. the agile manifesto, why it should be your primary reference2. good litmus tests to measure a project's agility3. ideas on what to bite off first, if you're in the driver's seat4. the importance of analysis and scope breakdown .. and whatever you'd like us to discuss (on this general topic area)

• GOOGLE : IS THIS AGILE

  Tue, 8 Feb 2011, 06:30 - 08:30 in Sydney, Australia

  Agile Sydney are proud to present our first event for 2011.We are pleased to kick off the year with an informal “pub” event based in the CBD.5:30M ARRIVAL -- 6:00PM STARTGOOGLE: IS THIS AGILE?Please come and join Google's Dhanji R. Prasanna while he compares his current project to several of the popular agile markers and asks "is this agile?".Here are some of his observations:- We don't use stories

• July AAA Sydney Meetup

  Tue, 20 Jul 2010, 08:30 - 10:30 in Sydney, Australia

  Mark your calendars! I'm very pleased to announce the Agile Alliance's July Meetup.This special CBD based meetup is thanks to the kind sponsorship of Rowan Bunning from Scrum WithStyle who has organised the venue and some light food and refreshments for us.We have two excellent speakers lined up presenting two quite different approaches to introducing agile into your organisation.Lorraine Pauls Longhurst, Agile Coach: Gradually Introducing Agile

• April Speaking Event

  Tue, 20 Apr 2010, 08:00 - 10:00 in Sydney, Australia

  Thanks to our friends at MLC for sponsoring the venue, we can now announce our second meetup.Draft agenda:1. Intro from MLC if they'd like2. Quick update on progress with the Agile Alliance3. Two to three short talks (beginner, extended)4. Wrap-up with some nibblies/drinks hopefullyOne of the talks will be on the benefits/barriers to adoption of agile.I'm posting up a bunch of ideas for you to vote on shortly.

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