Meeting May 1st. "Hiring Developers: A Survivor's Guide."

Topic: "Hiring Developers: A Survivor's Guide."
Preview of a workshop that will be offered by James Smith and Bill Barnett  at QC Merge 


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Meeting April 3rd. -- Canceled

Sorry, No meeting this month after all.
We were going to have a "Open-Mic" Roundtable.

But I'm not feeling very Agile ever since I strained my back last weekend cleaning the garage.

Meeting March 6th - ClojureScript

Topic: Developing on the Bleeding Edge: A Story of Building Libraries for ClojureScript


Creighton Kirkendall has been working in Java technologies since 1997
and has been accused of being a perl hack on more than one occasion.
For a brief period of time he drifted to the dark side and played an
executive. He even managed to get an MBA to prove it. In the end, it
turned out that a techie nerd doesn't make a happy executive. For the
last four years Creighton has been consulting for SEI at his current
client Luxottica as an architect. When not at work Creighton spends
most of his free time coaching his two children in soccer and hacking
a bit of Clojure.


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Feb 7th Meeting Topic: Outcomes of Firm Fixed Contracts

At the meeting 7th February meeting, Mark Windholtz will present the possible outcomes when a software project is based on a Firm Fixed Contract.

A Firm Fixed contract sets the project scope, budget, and delivery date.   This seems like a good idea for the client of the project because it forces the software development team to make a commitment to delivering the project.   The reality is that projects based on the Firm Fixed contract, follow one of the paths that we will present in this talk.  

There are a predictable set of project outcomes.  Come to the meeting and see what can possibly happen.

January Meeting Location Moved

Today's meeting moved to the Gaslight  offices.
Please spread the word.

Map:  http://gaslightsoftware.com/contact.html

Meeting Jan 3rd. CodeMash Preview: "Beautiful Front End Code with Backbone.js and CoffeeScript"

Beautiful Front End Code with Backbone.js and CoffeeScript

This presentation will also be presented at CodeMash 2012

Abstract: It's time to write client side code we can love every bit as much as our server side code. After years of missteps and bad ideas, things are finally taking shape to let us do it. Coffeescript provides a beautiful syntax for writing javascript that causes the noise to fade away and our intent to shine through. Backbone.js gives us an elegant MVC framework that provides just enough structure and guides our client side code towards the kind of clean, reusable codebase we are used to from server side frameworks. Combining these with practices we know work such as Test Driven Development, there's no longer any excuse at all for ugly front end code. In this session I'll share my experience writing real applications this way and show how these excellent technologies fit together.

Presented By: Chris Nelson

About the Speaker: Chris Nelson is a software developer who hails from the fair city of Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been developing web applications for about 15 years and is passionate about finding better ways to do it. He's spoken at most of the major and ruby and java conferences and is an advocate for ways to develop software that actually work (sometimes referred to as Agile).

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Meeting Dec 6th, Two Great Organizations, One Great Event!

Register here:  Eventbrite announcement/registration link 

Come join the Agile Cincinnati and Agile Roundtable leadership for an evening of food, fun, and comradarie as we ring in the holiday season!

Food and drinks are not covered for this event, so each attendee is responsible for purchasing their own meals and beverages. 

Both groups will be meeting at  Buca di Beppo - Cincinnati - Rookwood Commons at 6:30pm on Tuesday Dec 6th.  There will be individual checks for all food and drink orders.

Register here:  Eventbrite announcement/registration link