In This Issue

• Guidewire produces an 'About our Agile' Video
  Watch the video here
• Michael Feathers and Steve Freeman on Design video
  View interview at InfoQ here
• The Tao of Scrum
  15 basic rules in "Tao-ist" like fashion by Michael Spayd here
• Scaling Agile - Two Upcoming Webinars
  See below or check out all available webinars here
• Upcoming Agile Events in Boston and Minneapolis
  Agile Boston Open Space: here | AgilePalooza Minneapolis: here

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Guidewire produces an "About our Agile" Video

Not totally sure if this was created for recruiting or internal use but this video is super high quality and well produced. It is also a look into the agile adoption of one particular organization. Worth watching - and passing along to management.

View the video here.
http://www.guidewire.com/about_guidewire/v/agile

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Michael Feathers interviews Steve Freeman on Design

Michael Feathers interviews Steve Freeman in an informal setting about current design techniques and the evolution of the software development community. They focus on the role of design in the community, how it has evolved, and where they think it needs to go.

View the interview here.
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/feathers-freeman-design

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The Tao of Scrum

Michael Spayd recently posted the "complete" Tao of Scrum post that includes the first two posts and the final third segment. There are 15 basic "rules" covering: The Underlying Tao (transparency), The Tao of People (product owner, scrummaster, team), The Tao of Events (release & sprint planning, daily standup, sprint review, retrospective), The Tao of Things (product & sprint backlog, product and sprint burndowns) and the Toa of Endings (definition of done).

Read the post here.
http://bit.ly/the-tao-of-scrum

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Scaling Agile - Two Upcoming Webinars

April 21st, 2010 - Enterprise Agile Adoption - Presented by Bryan Stallings of SolutionsIQ. Organizations often struggle to scale the value of Agile from early efforts by independent teams, to multi-team programs, and then beyond to the everyday strategies, values and culture of an organization. And they must execute broad technical, organizational, and process changes across the enterprise. But where do you start? Who do you involve? And how do you organize it all?

Register here.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/558045425

May 5th, 2010 - Scaling Agile - Organizational Transformation - Presented by Sanjiv Augustine and Roland Cuellar of LitheSpeed. In this webinar, we will discuss some of the crucial management steps in aligning the organization for agility based upon our decade of experience in helping firms adopt agile at scale.

Register here.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/521592232

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Upcoming Agile Events in Boston and Minneapolis

Agile Boston Open will be happening on April 27th in Waltham, MA. There will be speakers in the morning (Ken Schwaber, Dan Mezick, Amr Elssmadisy, Michael de la Maza) with open space in the afternoon. At only $29 you can't miss it if you are in the area. This event is almost sold out and so you have to act fast.

Learn more here.
http://www.newtechusa.com/agileboston/events/AgileBostonOpen2010.asp

AgilePalooza is coming to Minneapolis May 7th If you are in the twin cities area then you need to mark your calendars and come down to the Marriott City Center on May 7th. This is an all day agile conference featuring David Hussman, Jeff Patton, Michael Nygard, Chris Bartling and Steven Ropa among others. The underlying theme is "People and Products over Process and Dogma". Cost is $89 and includes lunch.

Learn more and register here.
http://www.AgilePalooza.com/minneapolis2010

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