Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Agile Programming

[David Kramer]

I was working with Nancy on her presentation last weekend, and we
finalized a title.  It's my fault for not getting it out there Monday.

The new and improved title is "Agile From The Engine Room: Making The
World Safe For Geeks".  She will focus on the similarities between open
source and Agile, and show what doing agile right looks like at the
developer level.

JABR, could you update the calendar?


On 03/08/2011 04:42 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> When: March 16, 2011 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
> Topic: Agile Programming
> Moderator: Nancy Van Schooenderwoert
> Location: MIT Building E51, Room 395
> 
> A talk about Agile programming methodologies
> 
> Nancy Van Schooenderwoert has extensive experience in large scale
> real-time systems for flight simulation and ship sonars where she held
> positions in electrical engineering, systems engineering, and software
> engineering, as well as test design. She brings this systems perspective
> to her current work in XP Coaching for real-time and embedded systems.
> Her experience includes software development for safety-critical
> applications such as factory machine control and medical devices. Having
> seen the problems fostered by a "Hero" approach to software development
> she became convinced that a team approach is the best way to build
> reliable systems efficiently.
> 
>     Her recent work involved leading a team to build embedded software
> for a scientific instrument. She used Extreme Programming (XP)
> successfully and is working on a paper to detail the software metrics
> that were collected over 3 years of this development effort. She is a
> Founder, Extreme Programmer & Coach at XP Embedded Co., based in
> Lexington, MA. She is interested in the issues of technical management,
> especially the dynamics of team empowerment. Other interests include
> recreational mathematics especially nonperiodic tilings, and  inventing
> games. She will soon be publishing a game based on penrose tilings. She
> holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Rochester
> Institute of Technology.
> 
> For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
> http://www.blu.org
> Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
> parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.
> 
> After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
> location at the Asgard Irish Pub & Restaurant, 350 Massachusetts Avenue
> This is the first time we've gone to the Asgard so we'd like some feedback.
> 
> 
> 
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