Website Link: http://uphpu.org/meeting/2014/october-meeting/
For October's meeting our presenter will be the one, the only... me. :) I'll be giving a talk I gave at the Dutch PHP Conference in Amsterdam on "Agile for Developers", or the unofficial title of "How to make Agile not suck." :) Talk Description Almost everyone in our industry has heard of agile development, scrum, and likely to some degree. Most teams I know follow some sort of scrum-like process: two week sprints, story points, estimation, etc. However, it is very easy to go through the motions of scrum & agile without really improving the process, and that was the struggle our different different development teams faced at DDM. However, over the last two years across our different teams we’ve discovered very key elements of scrum that are rarely talked about that make the biggest difference. So in this talk we’ll assume you’ve heard of scrum, sprints, scrummasters, backlogs, and the general idea of scrum. In this talk, we’ll go through the key changes we made in our agile process across our different teams that really made the difference. We’ll show how we were able to change scrum from a set of meetings and to-do lists into an effective system that has double our teams’ output. Speaker Bio Justin Carmony has been programming professionally in PHP since 2005. He lives in Ogden, Utah where he currently is the Director of Development for Deseret Digital Media, a local media company that runs some of largest regional new websites in the country. In the past he has worked for CEVO, a video game company that runs hosted online tournaments for companies like Dell, nVidia, DirectTV, and others. He currently is the President of the Utah PHP Usergroup and helps the Utah Open Source Foundation. The After Party The After Party will be at the traditional location of Applebee's in Draper. We typically head over there at about 8:30-9:00, so watch Twitter and we'll announce when we're heading over. Meeting Venue: Needle The Meetings are still at Needle, their address is: Needle Inc. 14864 Pony Express Road Bluffdale, UT 84065 Look forward to seeing everyone on Thursday! Thanks, Justin Carmony _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
