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		<title>Agile Leaders SIG &#8211; Performance Reviews</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walter.bodwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ June 1, 2012; 12:00 pm; ] Is it possible to conduct effective performance reviews in a culture of agility?
Much has been written by many forward-thinking individuals on the negative effects and systemic problems associated with traditional performance reviews, most notably W. Edwards Deming.  This discussion will outline some of the negative aspects of performance reviews and appraisals and will offer a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QA SIG &#8211; May 16 &#8211; Big Agile, meet Big Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 01:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walter.bodwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ May 16, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Date/Time: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Venue - Planview, 8300 North Mopac Expressway
Sometimes, we run into situations where the acceptance test effort for a user story significantly outweighs the development effort. This can happen quite often in projects where hardware and software are being developed in parallel. Hardware test matrices can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DevOps SIG &#8211; May 30 &#8211; &#8220;DevOps- What Is It, How Do You Organize For It, Is It Just A New Silo, Is It A Job Title?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.agileaustin.org/2012/05/devops-sig-may/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 20:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan.zentgraf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ May 30, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] "DevOps- What Is It, How Do You Organize For It, Is It Just A New Silo, Is It A Job Title?"  Or "Hand-wringing over what DevOps Is."  By its nature, DevOps disrupts traditional organizational structures and views.  As companies have success with it, they grapple with how to fit it into their structures.  This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UX SIG, May 15: Adopting UX in Agile &#8212; Dell’s evolution</title>
		<link>http://www.agileaustin.org/2012/05/ux-sig-may-15-adopting-ux-in-agile-dells-evolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agileaustin.org/2012/05/ux-sig-may-15-adopting-ux-in-agile-dells-evolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 02:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kerry.kimbrough</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dell teams are using agile techniques to build interactive systems that are big and complex. But it didn&#8217;t happen overnight. How did they get there? Sograth and Robbie tell the story. 
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
CA Technologies
5001 Plaza on the Lake
Austin, TX 78746
3rd Floor, Willie Nelson Conference Room
Need lunch? No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture SIG &#8211; May 29</title>
		<link>http://www.agileaustin.org/2012/05/architecture-sig-may-29/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agileaustin.org/2012/05/architecture-sig-may-29/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walter.bodwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ May 29, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Bring your architectural issue to SIG day
What are your current challenges with Architecture in an Agile environment? Is it technical? Is it process related?
Whatever your challenge is, please bring your story and share. We can discuss it as a group, and hopefully discover together something that is plaguing others in the group.
For more information and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop &#8211; May 24</title>
		<link>http://www.agileaustin.org/2012/04/workshop-may-24/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 01:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walter.bodwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ May 24, 2012; 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] In this workshop you will be playing a couple learning games with everyone participating. Our focus will be on the following learning objectives:


Cross Functional Self-organizing Teams
Pull, Flow and Batch Size
PDCA Cycle - Plan, Do, Check, Act
Based on time we may get a couple different games accomplished.

Location: TBD
 
Instructor: David Hawks

David Hawks is a software development optimizer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kanban SIG &#8211; May 8th Noon @ Planview!</title>
		<link>http://www.agileaustin.org/2012/04/kanban-sig-may-8th-noon-planview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 00:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay.paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ May 8, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Come join us for the May Kanban SIG!  
Sign up at EventBright! 
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3459093241
Our Google group is live.  If you would like to join please do so at the link below.
http://groups.google.com/group/agile-austin-kanban-sig
Please come to listen and participate with your stories of what worked and what didn't, so that we can all learn and build a backlog of ideas that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaders SIG &#8211; May 4 &#8211; Agile On Wire: A Balancing Act</title>
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		<comments>http://www.agileaustin.org/2012/04/may-4-agile-leaders-sig-topic-agile-on-wire-a-balancing-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>max.ekesi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ May 4, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Please RSVP:  http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3459668963
Speaker Bio: Yasser Farra is currently Director of Engineering at All Web Leads, where he leads a talented team of engineers responsible for building real-time systems that deliver high quality leads to top insurance producers. Yasser is a strong believer in collaborative, iterative development that delivers the highest customer value at the lowest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 8th Agile Austin Monthly Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.agileaustin.org/2012/04/may-agile-austin-monthly-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agileaustin.org/2012/04/may-agile-austin-monthly-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date: 5/8/2012
Time: 6:30pm &#8211; 9:00pm
Location: BancVue Offices, 4516 Seton Center Parkway Suite 300, Austin, TX 78759
Speaker: Rick Holmberg &#8211; VP Engineering, KM-Ware Solutions
Title: Distributed Agile: Avoiding the pitfalls
Signup ahead of time here
Description: We will talk about how a software development organization can be successful using the Agile Development model in a distributed, offshore resource environment. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Austin Agile 2012 Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.agileaustin.org/2012/04/keep-austin-agile-2012-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agileaustin.org/2012/04/keep-austin-agile-2012-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hawks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ November 16, 2012; 8:00 am to 7:00 pm. ] Save the date, November 16th, to join the Austin community at Keep Austin Agile 2012, Austin’s first annual Agile conference. The 2012 conference, ‘Enabling a Culture of Agility’, will provide opportunities for current Agile professionals, novices and beginners alike to go beyond practices by understanding the principles behind Agile.

This 1 day event will offer various [...]]]></description>
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