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Special Invitation
IBM cordially invites you to an exciting event on the topic of "Agility at Scale" in Minneapolis on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. The keynote speaker will be Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile/Lean for IBM Rational and well-known industry expert.
Please find more details in the linked PDF. Feel free to forward this invitation to others you know who may have interest.
Here is a brief description of the event:
Many organizations have adopted, and then tailored, a combination of Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) as they've adopted agile strategies. But organizations who have proven to be successful in adopting agile have found that this isn't enough - that they also needed to adopt strategies for all aspects of the delivery lifecycle from start to finish.
Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) is a hybrid agile process framework which addresses full agile delivery lifecycle in a governed and enterprise-aware manner. In addition to the leadership and requirements management strategies of Scrum, and the technical practices of XP, in this workshop you'll learn how to successfully initiate an agile project, mitigate risk early in the agile lifecycle, how to weave governance into the lifecycle, and the issues which agile teams face transitioning their solutions into production.
You will also learn how Rational's flagship solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM 2011) helps you address the pressing issues and risk inherent in any software development project, agile or otherwise.
Next Meeting
CoffeeScript, JavaScript - Take 2
This meeting of OTUG is combined with TEKSystems' Java User Group as we could not find a replacement speaker AND the topic and time of TEKSystems' group perfectly matched up with ours.
- Discussion Leader: Chris Bartling
- Date: January 17, 2012
- Meeting time: 5:30-6:30 Social Hour (drinks and appetizers), 6:30 PM Presentation
- Location: Poor Richard's Common House - 8301 Normandale Blvd, Bloomington MN (just south of 494 and Normandale/100)
Please RSVP to either Brian via email (president@otug.org) or to Alison Brom via email (abrom at teksystems dot com) or phone (952-866-4865) so that TEKSystems can plan for the right amount of folks.
Abstract
CoffeeScript is a programming language that transcompiles to JavaScript. The language adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability, as well as adding more sophisticated features like array comprehension and pattern matching. CoffeeScript compiles predictably to JavaScript and programs can be written with less code (typically 1/3 fewer lines) with no effect on runtime performance. Since March 16, 2011, CoffeeScript has been on GitHub's list of most-watched projects.
The language has a relatively large following in the Ruby community. CoffeeScript support is included in Ruby on Rails version 3.1. Additionally, Brendan Eich has referenced CoffeeScript as an influence on his thoughts about the future of JavaScript.
Bio
Chris Bartling is an independent consultant based in the Twin Cities with over 15 years of professional experience. His specialties include test-driven development, pragmatic software development skills and coaching and mentoring quality-focused software development behaviors.
About
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OTUG is an umbrella user group spanning languages, methods, tools, and technologies for the software development community in the Minneapolis - St. Paul area.
OTUG exists to foster an environment for professional discussion and education pertaining to software development ecosystems; i.e., software development organizations and the contexts in which they operate.
Meetings are generally held on the third Tuesday of each month and are a mix of general and special interest discussion, open space, fishbowl and panel sessions, with periodic presentations by featured speakers.
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