Meetings

Cancelled - Speaker Unavailable: Learn about the Agile Movement

Piggy Yarroll

Tuesday October 24th, 2023
Zoom session will open at 6:45pm (US Central time - Chicago)
with the meeting starting at 7pm CT thru ending around 9pm CT
(with a short review of Group business before the speaker starts), and virtual Meeting After the Meeting (afterwards)

This meeting will be run virtually on-line using our UniForum Chicago Zoom account
meetup.com link to this same meeting

Abstract

Learn about the Agile Movement and why Piggy is such a huge fan. Learn how to design your own Agile process. What are the right tradeoffs between ceremony and effectiveness? We'll cover some of the individual practices such as the XP Planning Game, Code-to-the-test, and Pair Programming. We'll talk a little about the Grizzly Methodology, which scales Agile up to large teams.

Piggy Yarroll has been using Agile practices for several decades now and has led Agile teams at Motorola, the US Army Corps of Engineers, various small companies, Google, and now at Carnegie Mellon University.


This will be a virtual meeting on Zoom. The link to this Zoom meeting will be found in the associated Meetup.com announcement once you RSVP Yes under its Date/Time as its Location. See above under the meeting's title where it says the meetup.com link.

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Our live meetings had been held at the Bolingbrook Fountaindale Library but we have been holding our meetings virtually since the pandemic began since March 2020. However, there is now the possibility of holding live meetings going forward but will be decided as each meeting is defined.

Bio

Piggy is a charter member of UniForum Chicago and one of the first sysadmins of the Clout Project. He has been programming for 40 years.

After an 11 year stint at Google, he has moved to Carnegie Mellon University to be a Senior Research Programmer in the Auton Lab. The Auton Lab is an applied research lab focused on Machine Learning. La Monte has eclectic interests ranging from computers and electronics to abstract algebra, foreign languages, music, bushwalking, cheesemaking, and father of five :-).

Getting to the meeting

This October 2023 General meeting of UniForum Chicago (time as described with the meeting's title above) will NOT be at a physical location, but will be a virtual on-line meeting using a planned Zoom meeting for whom the Zoom URL for connecting to the meeting will be displayed in the Meetup.com announcement's Location to those that RSVP'd Yes in Meetup.com.


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