James Shore

The local Portland Agile community gets together every third Friday to eat, drink, and make merry. Oh, and sometimes we talk about agile stuff, too. Come join us! I don't always attend, but I come to as many sessions as my schedule permits. You can find us at the Broadway McMenamins (on the corner of NE Broadway and 15th) on the third Friday of every month at 1:00pm.

I will part of a panel be at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) on October 15th. The subject of the panel is "Collaborative Quality: Does It Help?" (Um... yes?) It's a lunchtime panel, tentatively scheduled for 12:30pm. I'll post more information here when I see PNSQC's program notes.

Save the date: Diana Larsen and I will be presenting a public training course on Agile planning on October 27th and 28th in Portland, Oregon. Watch this space for information and signup details by the end of August... or email me to be added to the notification list.

Save the date: Diana Larsen and I will be presenting a public training course on Agile execution and delivery October 29th through the 31st in Portland, Oregon. This will be a cross-functional class: we'll have sessions for the whole team as well as specialty-specific sessions on subjects such as test-driven development, incremental requirements, and customer testing.

Watch this space for information and signup details by the end of August... or email me to be added to the notification list.

I'll be reprising my popular Agile 2008 tutorial, "Agile Planning in Action," at the "Much Ado About Agile" conference in Vancouver, BC. I'll post the specific date and more information once I see the conference program.

I'll be participating in the Software Association of Oregon's panel discussion, "Life Inside an Iteration," on November 20th. We'll be discussing the nuts and bolts of what it's like to participate in an Agile iteration from a variety of perspectives. I'll post more once I see the SAO's program notes.