http://www.calgaryapln.org/?q=event/upcoming/feed Future Calgary APLN events en http://www.calgaryapln.org/?q=node/154 <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" class="event"> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Guest Speaker</div></td> <td> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>Hugo Corbucci</p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Date</div></td> <td><span class="field-items">Wednesday, February 8th, 2012</span></td> </tr> <? // IF_PAST_EVENT ?> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Time</div></td> <td><span class="field-items">12:00pm - 1:00pm</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Special Notes</div></td> <td> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>Registration opens at 11:30am, event runs from 12-1pm</p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Location</div></td> <td> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>5th Avenue Conference Room, Calgary<br /> 202, 420 - 2nd St. SW Calgary<br /> <a></p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> <? // IF_PAST_EVENT ?> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Description</div></td> <td> <div class="field-items"> <p>Software development projects are all about trade offs. One of the most common is between quality and cost. As all trade offs, the tendency of the answer varies as time goes. The start of a project usually allows for less quality to reduce the cost of evaluating the idea's potential resulting in a poor code base. However, having such code base has a big impact in the software's ability to evolve and be maintained. This is what is called Technical Debt.</p> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">About the Speaker</div></td> <td> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>Hugo Corbucci has a CS master degree in Agile Methods from the Univeristy of São Paulo (Brazil). He has been involved in the Brazilian Agile community since 2006 giving courses, presenting at conferences and organizing them. He founded his own consulting company (Agilbits) in Brazil in 2008 to provide high quality software development allied with agile consultancy having worked both with web as well as desktop solutions. Since the end of 2011, he is working at ThoughtWorks helping organizations be more successful through agile practices such as continuous delivery and experience design.</p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> <? // IF_PAST_EVENT ?> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Event sponsored by</div></td> <td> <div class="field-items"> <a href="http://www.thoughtworks.com/"><img src="http://www.calgaryapln.org/files/ThoughtWorks2010_To-Use.gif" alt="ThoughtWorks" /></a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <div class="signup_anonymous_login">Please <a href="/?q=user/login&amp;destination=event%2Fupcoming%2Ffeed">login</a> or <a href="/?q=user/register&amp;destination=event%2Fupcoming%2Ffeed">create a new account</a> to sign up for this event.</div><p><a href="http://www.calgaryapln.org/?q=node/154">read more</a></p> http://www.calgaryapln.org/?q=node/154#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:23:20 -0700 rachelk 154 at http://www.calgaryapln.org http://www.calgaryapln.org/?q=node/153 <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" class="event"> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Guest Speaker</div></td> <td> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>Steve Adolph</p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Date</div></td> <td><span class="field-items">Wednesday, March 28th, 2012</span></td> </tr> <? // IF_PAST_EVENT ?> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Time</div></td> <td><span class="field-items">12:00pm - 1:00pm</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Special Notes</div></td> <td> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>Registration opens at 11:30am, event runs from 12-1pm</p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Location</div></td> <td> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>Fifth Avenue Place (Conference Room)<br /> 202, 420 - 2nd St. SW Calgary<br /> <a href="http://www.calgaryapln.org/files/5th_Ave_Place_Conference_Room_14.pdf">Map to Fifth Avenue Place Conference Room</a></p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> <? // IF_PAST_EVENT ?> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Description</div></td> <td> <div class="field-items"> <p><strong>But I thought you were flying the plane!</strong></p> <p>During the mid 60s the frequent crashes of perfectly good working aircraft alarmed world airlines. What was missing from their pilot training programs? After extensive research, the airlines discovered nothing lacking in the pilot’s “stick and rudder” skills, rather these accidents where the result of the flight crew to work as a team. In response the airlines instituted the Crew Resource Management program teaching pilots, flight attendants, dispatchers how to work together as a team.</p> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">About the Speaker</div></td> <td> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>Steve is an Agile Coach and a preferred partner of Rally Software where he pursues his passion for helping organizations get the job done. Steve has been creating and managing software development projects long enough to remember Fortran and OS/MVT JCL. His professional career ranges over many exciting and critical projects including designing call processing software for digital telephone exchanges, design and development of leading edge network management systems, railway signaling, and telecom billing. He has diverse experience over many different job roles from developer to chief engineer, to CTO, across many different industries, from telecom, to graphic arts. With Rally Software Steve coaches large industrial enterprises through their agile transformation.</p> <p>Academically, Steve holds an MSc in Computing Science from BCʼs beautiful Simon Fraser University, and 20 years later got a crazy idea to pursue a doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineer at the University of British Columbia.</p> <p>Steve is active in the agile software development community and is the co founder of Agile Vancouver, has served as a stage producer and program chair for various agile conferences including last yearʼs Agile 2011. He has spoken at a variety of conferences and has authored numerous articles on the topic of<br /> software development.</p> <p>In his downtime, Steve enjoys the usual Canadian west coast lifestyle of skiing, cycling, kayaking, hiking, and cheering on the Canucks. He occasionally tries to practice karate and is passionate about aviation. There are rumors he also has a secret passion for opera.</p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> <? // IF_PAST_EVENT ?> <tr> <td class="label"><div class="field-label">Event sponsored by</div></td> <td> <div class="field-items"> <a href=""><img src="" alt="" /></a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <div class="signup_anonymous_login">Please <a href="/?q=user/login&amp;destination=event%2Fupcoming%2Ffeed">login</a> or <a href="/?q=user/register&amp;destination=event%2Fupcoming%2Ffeed">create a new account</a> to sign up for this event.</div><p><a href="http://www.calgaryapln.org/?q=node/153">read more</a></p> http://www.calgaryapln.org/?q=node/153#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:59:21 -0700 rachelk 153 at http://www.calgaryapln.org