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Welcome to CAMUG
Mon, 10/01/2007 - 21:33 — Kris
The Calgary Agile Methods User Group (CAMUG) meets the first Tuesday of every month at the University of Calgary. CAMUG provides a focal point for the use of agile methods in software development organizations in Calgary. Our members include software developers, managers, business professionals, researchers, students, and people from all walks of life.
The group has a local focus and our meetings promote networking within Calgary's agile community. We encourage members to ask questions, to offer to speak, to propose alternative meeting styles, and to participate fully. Each meeting starts with a half-hour "meet and greet" session where members can socialize and have fun. This is followed by a one hour talk by a distinguished guest.
Our 2008/2009 Gold Sponsor is...
Brightspot! They are contributing a lot to make this season possible, and we owe them our thanks.
May CAMUG - Software Project Estimation
Tue, 04/21/2009 - 17:55 — Kris
Software Project Estimation
Quadrus Development Inc. will be presenting at CAMUG in May! Software estimation has been called a “black art”. Standard industry methods for estimating software projects are highly complex, geared toward very large waterfall projects and require a myriad of complex and non-intuitive inputs. Often Agile estimation approaches focus on stories or iterations, but fail in their attempt to accurately estimate an entire project.
Quadrus has developed an easily accessible and accurate estimation methodology and tool, built on cutting-edge mathematics and statistics. This presentation will introduce the next generation in software project estimation and demonstrate the Quadrus estimation toolset.
Gerard Meszaros - CAMUG April
Tue, 04/07/2009 - 00:01 — volunteers
April 14th 6:00pm
Our speaker will be reknown author and agile persona Gerard Meszaros, who has been working on a brand new book!
Meeting Location is ICT 102
Gerard Meszaros is the author of XUnit Test Patterns and general all-round testing guru. Gerard has recently keynoted StarWest, where he talked about the principles behind test-driven development (both unit and functional/story tests) and how the role of test groups needs to change as a result. He also regularly speaks about Agile Usability, and about Right-sizing User Stories using "Story-o Types".
Agile Data Warehousing: March 2009
Sat, 02/21/2009 - 16:43 — volunteers
Show Me the Money - Applying Agile Principles to Data Warehousing Development to add incremental Business Value
Data Warehousing projects generally lack the allure and wow factor that is present when demonstrating functionality in operational transaction processing systems. Learn real world techniques to see how to get around the so called "Show me the money" obstacle which has been largely overcome by taking raw Agile principles and tailoring them to the unique nature of Data Warehousing release cycles.
Our speakers will be Chris Sorensen, a Team Leader in Data Management at WestJet, and Mike Heinrich, Quality Assurance at WestJet.
Grigori Melnik - February CAMUG
Wed, 01/28/2009 - 06:33 — volunteersThis month we are proud to have Grigori Melnik from Microsoft speaking to us with his presentation "Agile from the Ivory Tower"
J.B. Rainsberger January CAMUG
Sun, 01/04/2009 - 22:34 — Kris
Author and Agile Guru J.B. Rainsberger is flying into Calgary for this month's talk! I hope that everyone can make it down to the University to show Joe a warm Calgary welcome. Feel free to invite friends and coworkers, no pre-registration required.
J.B. (Joe) Rainsberger is a developer and consultant who has been a leader in the Agile and JUnit communities since 2001. He is the founder of XP Day North America. His popular online tutorial JUnit: A Starter Guide is read by thousands of new JUnit users each month. J.B. is the author of JUnit Recipes : Practical Methods for Programmer Testing (2004), he has written articles for IBM DeveloperWorks, and regularly contributes to Agile and Unit Testing conferences worldwide.
CAMUG 2008 December Meeting
Fri, 11/28/2008 - 05:12 — volunteers Correction: The usual room was booked.
The meeting will be in ICT 516 (not ICT 121).
We are pleased to have Adam Alinauskas, Joel Briggs, Luu Duong and Mo Khan from eCompliance Management Solutions speaking to us this month with their presentation "Shortening the Feedback Loop - Our Sprint in a Nutshell"
November 2008 Meeting : Agile Methods and Digital Tables ( ICT 516 and ICT 524)
Wed, 10/29/2008 - 02:57 — volunteersCome and join us Tuesday, November 4th for a session on Agile Methods and Digital Tables.
CAMUG October 2008 Meeting
Tue, 09/30/2008 - 00:27 — volunteers
Welcome everyone to the 2nd session of the 2008/2009 season. Come and join us Tuesday, October 7th for a session on agile testing.
The session "Focus your testing using the Agile Testing Matrix" will be presented by Janet Gregory.
The agile testing matrix, first introduced by Brian Marick, provides a common vocabulary to agile teams for customers,testers and developers. It is a powerful tool which focuses on the purpose of different types of testing necessary for any agile project. There are tests that support the team and drive development, and tests which critique the product.
Janet will talk different roles on a team and how they can work together to get all your testing done.
September Meeting a Great Success!
Wed, 09/10/2008 - 21:41 — Kris
Our first meeting in our 7th season was a huge success! We had 82 people turn up and absolutely decimate our food supply, before settling down to listen to a fantastic and engaging talk by Jane Robarts of Thoughtworks. A number of CAMUGers remained after the talk to socialize and finally head to a nearby pub to relax and catch up after a fantastic summer break.
Some pictures follow...
