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Book Review Recap: Driving Technical Change Ch. 1-3

We met to discuss the first three chapters of Driving Technical Change. Some common themes in our experiences emerged.
Not everyone who’d read the book was able to attend. So, if you’d like to share your take on the book or your experiences related to the subject of the book, please do so in the comments. [...]

Intro to Agile: September 29th in Research Park

Join us this Wednesday night at 6:30pm for AgileBCS’s first meeting this fall. Ed Grannan will present an Intro to Agile. This is a great meeting for new attendees and a great one for returning members. It will be followed up in future meetings with workshops on some of the practices Ed mentions.
Details:

Time: Wed., Sept. [...]

Book Review Lunch for 7 May

This Friday, May 7th is our scheduled book review session. The group will cover chapters five and six of Agile Testing. This weeks session will be at the Improving offices (map).
Don’t forget your “brown bag” lunch. There will be sodas and water available.

Agile PM: April 28th at Improving Offices

Join us on April 28th at 6:30pm for a pair of presentations on Agile project management. The first will be a presentation by Allen Hurst on Agile Adoption Strategies. Allen will walk us through some of the reasons Agile adoption fails and provide a few ways to know what practices you can—or more accurately should—adopt.
The [...]

Friday Lunch for April 23rd

AgileBCS will be having our Friday lunch meeting at Vietnamese Taste. This is a social lunch, so feel free to bring a friend. This is also a great time to come and get to know the group if you are new.
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Agile Games : April 1st on TAMU Campus

Want to learn agile principles and concepts in one of the quickest, most fun, and most effective ways possible? Come play games with us on Thursday April 1st at 6pm in HRBB (Bright Building) 113.
Don McGreal is bringing to College Station a variation on his best-of-conference Agile 2008 and 2009 presentation on learning agile through [...]

Meetings the Week of Feb 22

We have two get-togethers this week. First up, our monthly evening meeting is this Wednesday the 24th at 6:30pm. I will discuss using Streamlined Object Modeling patterns by walking through an example with the group. Come with some ideas for a relatively simple domain to model. I will be testing my memory of how to [...]

Jan 28th Lunch: Fuddruckers

Come and join us tomorrow at 11:30am for lunch and Agile/Lean discussion at Fuddruckers on Harvey Road. We plan to decide on our next lunch by the end of the meeting, so bring your lunch location ideas with you!
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Hope to see you there!

Dec 4th Lunch: Carino’s Italian

Time flies, and another lunch Friday is upon us. This week we’re going to try Carino’s at 620 Harvey Rd. There is a map on the Carino’s site.
Join us at 11:30am for a discussion of Agile, Lean, and other topics. Specific topics on the table:

What is the difference between Agile and Lean?
How many practices are [...]

Oct 23rd Lunch: On The Border

It’s that time once again. Get together with other software developers and discuss Agile and Lean software practices or just what’s going on this weekend.
This week we’re going to try a new location for us: On The Border. It’s on Texas near University next to the shopping center with Barnes & Noble and Best Buy. [...]

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