Toronto Agile Community Growing Agile locally

Both Agile and Enterprise 2.0 share a fundamental concept of emergence over
structure. The use of wikis, blogs, and group-messaging software is nothing new
to many forward thinking Agile Management advocates. In this presentation on
Enterprise 2.0 and Agile/XP, Robert Lavigne will further expand the mindsets and
toolsets available, while addressing some of the core cultural issues that have
halted expansion to the larger business community in the past.

A background presentation on Enterprise 2.0 is available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY4OmjJesYU&fmt=22

Playing the Quadrants of Effectiveness board game is a fun way to learn and practice The Eisenhower Method (used in time management and in Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People) to become more effective. So join us and experience how play equals work! Fun guaranteed!

Format and length: 90 mins game, tutorial

Intended audience and prerequisites:
Anybody who wants to learn about how to effectively deal with a lot of tasks: developers, project managers, coaches, testers, ...

Presenter: Gino Marckx

Date: February 16, 2010 - 7 to 9 PM

The first meeting of 2010 is planned for Tuesday, January 19th at 7 PM at Ryerson University, Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church St.

The meeting will feature several interesting topics:

* Virtualization Experience Report - Sergiu Ivasenco
* Design Driven Design - Jim Rootham

Also, two other discussion topics have been proposed:

* Deploying in an enterprise system that's not purely software development
* Should a Scrum Master be a developer on the Scrum team

For the December 2009 meeting Peter Yu and Syrous Delavari will be running the Bottleneck Game, a simulation of a small company which focuses on process improvement, the Theory of Constraints and Lean practices. Each of the elements of the Theory of Constraints and the 5 focusing steps for process improvement will be introduced and applied in the simulation. This is a fun way to experience the techniques behind the Theory of Constraints first hand. We're hoping with enough participants to be able to run two teams and compare the impacts of making different improvements.

The topic for the November meeting is Lightning Talks on things folks found
interesting from the Agile 2009 and Agile Tour Toronto conferences. The meeting
date is November 17th, 7:00 PM at our usual Ryerson location. More details are
available at www.xptoronto.com.

Lightning Talks are short presentations on specific topics followed by open
discussions. We try to keep each topic to about 20 minutes and cover about 5
topics per meeting. Commitment for speakers is minimal, slides are optional, the
idea is to just start talking about an idea and let the discussions evolve. I'm