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Grigori Melnik - February CAMUG
Wed, 01/28/2009 - 06:33 — volunteers
02/12/2009 - 18:00
02/12/2009 - 19:30
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This month we are proud to have Grigori Melnik from Microsoft speaking to us with his presentation "Agile from the Ivory Tower"
Microsoft patterns & practices group has the reputation of being early adopters of agile methods at Microsoft. With his insight and enthusiasm, Grigori will give you a taste of his team's agile process, challenges they faced and present lessons learnt from several projects (both successful and not so successful). He'll discuss the topics of customer-connectedness, agile planning and estimation, team formation, dealing with distributed teams, software acceptance and others.
Dr. Grigori Melnik is a Senior Program Manager in the patterns & practices group at Microsoft, leading the Process & Engineering focus area. His fields of experience span from e-business engineering projects for large corporations and government agencies to applied research and teaching. His areas of expertise include agile methods, empirical software engineering, software testing, and software economics. Grigori is a regular contributor and speaker to software conferences around the world. He was the Program Co-Chair of the Agile 2008 conference. Grigori is a member of the IEEE Software Advisory board. Grigori is the founding moderator of CAMUG (2002-2007) and is happy to return to Calgary for this appearance. Contact him via www.gmelnik.com
Please note that this is not the usual date and time
Date: Thursday, Feburary 12th
Time: 6:00-6:30 Juice & Snacks, 6:30-7:30 Talk
Where: University of Calgary, ICT 121