Past Meetings

Nov 28th, 2006

Next meeting will be Nov 28th, with Esther Derby and Diana Larsen.

Esther and Diana will be discussing retrospectives with us, the topic of their recent book: Agile Retrospectives, Making Good Teams Great, by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen. See this page for more information about them. For more information on their book, see this Amazon page.

They are recognized experts on this subject and delightful to talk with.

Location: Bistro, Richmond Marriott West, 4240 Dominion Blvd, Glen Allen, VA 23060

Time: Tuesday, Nov 28th from 6-8 pm

Nov 1, 2006

Here is the deck that Alan and Kate used: http://apln-richmond.pbwiki.com/f/agile%20at%20key%20-%20Richmond%20APLN%20meeting.ppt

Alan Buffington & Kate Van Buren of Key Bank will be joining us on Nov 1.

Alan Buffington is Executive Vice President, Enterprise Systems Development at Key

Corp. Buffington’s past includes leading two software firms and two IT services firms,

Executive Vice President of two major banks and CIO of Fidelity Investments. He

claims to have made every possible mistake in building systems.

Kate Van Buren’s experience is grounded in data, business process and rules analysis,

and project management in both public and private sector technology organizations. Today

she is SVP and the Director of the Software Development Support Center at KeyBank. This

means she holds the coolest job at the bank, responsible for software craftsmanship

innovation in practices and methods.

TOPIC: The adoption of agile at Key Bank

WHEN: Wednesday, Nov 1, 2006 6:00 PM-8:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).

WHERE: Shula's 2 Restaurant, Sheraton Richmond West Hotel.

6624 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23230 tel 804.285.2000

Sept 13, 2006

Michael Euripides joined us from CC Pace. Topic was "Selling Agile into your organization." Well done.

August 2nd, 2006

We had a good meeting; a local panel of "experts" answered questions.

The Mike Cohn article mentioned in the meeting is Leadership.pdf.

June 5th, 2006

On June 5th, Mike Cohn presented on "An Introduction to User Stories for Software Requirements". Click on Mike Cohn Event on the Side Bar for further details and a copy of his slides (the file is good now).

We plan to have other guest speakers, both experts in Agile and key organizational executives working through agile adoption.