In This Issue

• Stand-up Meetings and Visual Aids
• VersionOne Winter 2007 Release Announced
• Introduction to Agile Project Leadership
• ScrumMaster/VersionOne Training in April

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Stand-up Meetings and Visual Aids

Andy Powell talks about the importance of visual aids in daily stand-up meetings.

"For a 15 minute meeting with three simple questions, I'm amazed at how complex stand-up meetings can be. A while back I made it my goal to understand more about them and I read everything I could find on the web... "

CLICK HERE to read the article
http://www.agilechronicles.com/blog/2007/01/standup_meeting.html

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VersionOne Winter 2007 Release Announced

VersionOne recently announced the latest release of V1: Agile Enterprise with new features enabling improved customization, integration, and simplified planning.

V1: Agile Enterprise now incorporates:

• Feature Planner: allows teams to rapidly plan a feature and its associated tasks and tests
• Windows Integrated Security: enables VersionOne users to be authenticated against existing Windows domain accounts
• Acceptance Test Framework: integrates external test suites via the V1: API
• Templates: automatically generate features and defects with associated defaults, tasks and tests
• Custom Fields: allows customers to define their own unique fields for capturing data

For more information, please view the release notes HERE
http://community.versionone.com/default.aspx

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Introduction to Agile Project Leadership

Mike Griffiths is a board member of the Agile Alliance and the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). This an excellent 2 part blog post on Agile leadership. It is detailed and full of great information - be sure to take a look.

To view the blog CLICK HERE
http://leadinganswers.typepad.com/leading_answers/2007/01/an_introduction.html

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Agile Processes, Are They Killing Our Children?

A funny post by Kevin Barnes on his Code Craft blog. Injecting humor is always welcome and the post is worth the read. Learn about coding in circles, how bad Agilists must be at making process diagrams, safety through icompetence and how the title actually means nothing to the post.

CLICK HERE to read the post
http://codecraft.info/index.php/archives/70/

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ScrumMaster & VersionOne Training by SPRiNT iT

VersionOne training partner, SPRiNT iT, will be holding a special bundled class on April 24-26th of this year in Atlanta, GA. This class will combine the 2-day ScumMaster certification course and the 1-day "Agile Life Cycle Management with VersionOne" training. Save approximately $250 by taking this combined course.

For more information on this training - CLICK HERE

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