Knoxville Agile

The Knoxville Agile Practitioner's Group meets to have some fun while sharing agile (and some not-so-agile) experiences, to network, and help others with issues related to agile software development methods. We talk about Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Lean Software Engineering, and other topics that are relevant to agile software development.

Whether you are a developer, manager, tester, writer, executive, or student, you will learn something about agile software development.

At our next meeting on July 17, EdFinancial will give a presentation on how they practice Test Driven Development (TDD). Whether you practice Test Driven Development or not, this will be a good presentation, and we will all learn something.

In addition to the refreshments provided by Staff IT, it looks like we are going to have some very, very good door prizes for this meeting as well.

6:45-7:00 Refreshments and Networking
7:00-8:30 Presentation and Q & A

The meeting will be held at Edfinancial Service's Training and Development Facility at 150 North Seven Oaks Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37922. This is right off of Kingston Pike in West Knoxville. The actual meeting room is about halfway between Kingston Pike and Bailey's.

On Thursday, June 5th, Jean Tabaka gave a talk entitled "Agile: What is it and Why Should I Care?". This was a great presentation. We have a video of the meeting, but Google Video isn't converting large videos correctly for some reason. We'll get it out here soon. If you don't know about Jean, she is a nationally known speaker, and has given keynotes and presentations at many large agile conferences. She is also the author of Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders, and is an agile coach and mentor for Rally Software Development.

Jean has also been instrumental in helping EdFinancial apply agile principles to their business. You can read more about Jean here.

It's very simple. Technically, there is no "membership". There are no dues, membership lists, or anything of that sort. (Simplicity and agility usually go hand in hand.) You can come to every meeting, or none at all. You can sign up for email notices on the Yahoo group if you would like. If you do, you will receive occasional email updates on meeting times and topics, and sometimes information about other local events. Or, if you don't want to join the Yahoo group, you can just show up to any meeting. We'll post info here on upcoming meetings as information becomes available.