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Agile Australia 2009 Conference
The Agile Australia 2009 conference is running in Sydney on 15 & 16 October. Over 25 sessions with local and international speakers.
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IASA to Announce New Board-Certified Architect Program at ITARC Architecture Conference in New York
International Association of Software Architects (IASA) will bring together thought leaders including Grady Booch, Eric Evans, and Bill Inmon at the IT Architecture Regional Conference (ITARC) in New York next week. The non-profit IASA is launching two new Certified IT Architect (CITA) programs at the conference, including CITA-Professional a board reviewed program.
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First-ever JRubyConf Announced
Today it was announced that, immediately after November's RubyConf in San Francisco, there will be the first-ever JRubyConf conference, held at the same location as RubyConf. InfoQ spoke with JRuby project co-lead Charles Nutter to learn more about this conference and what it means for the JRuby Community.
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Ruby DCamp is Challenging the Economy
The slowdown in our economy has not only effected jobs but also other things developers take for granted such as attending conferences. Conference organizers are trying to up come with creative ways to attract attendees. One such conference is Ruby DCamp being held September 18-19, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
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No Easy Road to Agile Cultural Change
A number of commentators have written about the challenges involved in migrating an organisation to an Agile culture. Ken Schwaber has estimated that 75% of Scrum implementations will fail to deliver the anticipated benefits. This article looks at some of the reasons why and what can be done to improve success rates.
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Software Craftsmanship North America
Software Craftsmanship North America is a one-day conference with the goal of introducing the Agile community to the Software Craftsmanship movement. Interestingly, SCNA will be at the same time as the Agile conference, in the same city, and have many speakers that will also be speaking at the Agile conference.
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Keynote: The Future of Java Innovation
In the opening keynote at SpringOne Europe 2009, Rod Johnson wondered if Java innovation is going to be stifled by latest Oracle acquisition and expressed his belief that Java will continue to evolve outside of Sun as it has done for the last few years. As proof he mentioned: Grails, Roo, a tool for improved developer productivity, a free STS, tc Server and dm Server.
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FutureRuby Conference Coming Up
After last year's success of the RubyFringe conference, organizers Unspace will hold the FutureRuby conference July 9-12 2009 - tickets are still available. We talked to Pete Forde of Unspace about what to expect from FutureRuby.
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Mike Cottmeyer's View Inside The Lean/Kanban Conference
The first organized conference focusing on Lean & Kanban was held in Miami during the first week of May. Mike Cottmeyer was present and used his popular blog 'Leading Agile' to provide a relatively comprehensive play-by-play look into what occurred there.
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Agile 2009 Program Announced
The Agile Alliance's Agile2009 conference program has been announced, again organized by theme, not job description. It will be held this year in Chicago from Aug. 24-28. New: Coaching, Manifesting Agility. Back again: Open Jam, Programming w. the Stars, Live Aid, Muzic Masti, AAFTT (Testing) Workshop. Immediately followed this year the PLoP conference, also in Chicago.
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MountainWest RubyConf 2009 Videos
MountainWest RubyConf took place from 13-14 March in Salt Lake City. All talks are available from Confreaks; we picked some interesting ones – Rails 3 and Merb, DSL design, usability on Rails, Vertebra – and give a coarse summary and some pointers into the talks.
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First Kanban Conference
First annual Lean Kanban Process and Practices will be held in Miami, Florida, May 6-8th and featuring keynotes from Dean Leffingwell, Alan Shalloway and David Anderson. The other speakers include most of the players in Kanban movement (Corey Ladas, Karl Scotland, Eric Landes et al.).
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Agile 2009 Conference: Call for Proposals
Building on the success of last year’s metaphor of festival with multiple stages, the Agile Alliance has gone with the same approach this year. The idea behind the stages is to make what has become a large conference a smaller place so that sessions with similar themes will end up on the same stage. As a result, attendees who're focused on a few themes will see the same people again and again.
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Inaugural MerbCamp Coming October 11-12, 2008
MerbCamp, the first official gathering of the Merb community, will take place October 11-12 on the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) campus.
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QCon San Francisco Nov 19-21 Full Schedule Posted
The timed schedule for the 3 day QCon San Francisco conference has been posted! QCon is InfoQ's enterprise software development conference featuring over 80 sessions and 70 speakers. QCon is a conference designed for team leads, architects and project management. Last year's QCon SF attracted almost 500 people.