Winnipeg Agile User Group

** LOCATION CHANGE**

Due to high attendance numbers, we are moving this event to 360 Portage Ave – Manitoba Hydro, meeting rooms 603 and 604.

5:30pm – Food and drinks

6:00pm – Feature presentation by Amir Barylko

In our first event, we described how the agile process works and we did an exercise to introduce agile methodologies working as a team. Now in our second meeting I will talk about planning. Our plan’s goal is to provide early and continuous delivery of valuable software to our customer. To do so, it is important to accept three principles:

1. It is impossible to gather all the requirements at the beginning of a project.
2. Whatever requirements you do gather are guaranteed to change.
3. There will always be more to do than time and money will allow.

You are probably thinking: “That’s easy to say, but how can I apply those rules in a fixed budget contract?” I’ll answer this and much more… Join me in this session to introduce agile planning, the tools and methodology and discuss how to implement it when the project “has to be done”.

7:00pm – Agile round table

Whenever possible, each event will include an agile round table. Bring your agile questions and as a group we’ll try to help you find answers. This discussion will help you with your current issues and will set the direction for future events.

7:30pm - Door Prizes are handed out! At each event will be giving out JetBrains software and other schwag. The event officially ends at 7:30, but we can move to other unofficial locations to continue the discussion.

This event is sponsored by PSCAD, Protegra, Online Business Systems, Typemock, Imaginet, Telerik, MavenThought, and JetBrains. See our sponsor page for more information

Amir Barylko started his career in 1994 working for IBM as a senior developer while he was finishing his Masters degree in computer science. Since then he worked as team leader and architect for the past 15 years. Having started with languages like C++ and Java he spent many years coding in C# and training other developers in topics such domain modeling, abstractions, patterns, automation, dependency injection, testing, etc. Being an incurable geek, always thirsty for knowledge, his passion for technology moved him towards Ruby on Rails a few years ago, becoming an advocate of RoR web development and recently giving his first RoR training. Amir is a rare combination of high technical skills, lots of experience in a wide range of platforms, exceptional presentation skills and great sense of humor. His presentations are always rich in content and fun to attend.