Some pictures from the July SUGSA Event; a lesson in the benefits of limiting work-in-progress

Posted via email from sugsa’s posterous

Because 5 elected members ideally constitute a SUGSA Committee, the outgoing Committee deemed it unnecessary to hold a round of voting to determine the Committee for the new year. Consequently, it is with pleasure that I inform you that the 2011 SUGSA Committee comprises  Marius de Beer, Charl Dreyer, Kevin Fourie, Karen Greaves and Peter Hundermark.

One of the first tasks awaiting the new Committee will be to elect office bearers; once this has been done you will be notified by email.

On behalf of SUGSA, the outgoing Committee, and all SUGSA members, I would like to extend our best wishes to the 2011 SUGSA Committee for a successful year growing the awareness and practice of Scrum in South Africa.

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Event Update:

We mentioned that we may have a Kanban case-study, and yes, we can now confirm that we do! A 15 min case study on the effect of Kanban used for service support within a Development team…

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Please join us for another SUGSA Gauteng event planned for 13 August 2009 at Momentum. Loads of people have already registered!

Due to feedback from the past two events, the topic for this event is “Agile Engineering Practices”

The committee is trying its best to get a possible case study on the use of Kanban and Scrum together for the evening, and will keep you updated as these progresses.

Agenda:

Welcome
Agile Engineering Practices – Lionel Bisschoff
Kanban Case-Study
Open Discussion and sharing of agile war-stories
Agile Book Review
Agile Prize Give-Away
Close-out

When: 13 August 2009
Time: 18:00 for 18:30
Venue: Momentum Auditorium 1, Centurion (click for map)
Event registration:
http://www.scrum.org.za/resources/event-registration/event-registration-gauteng

As usual, proudly sponsored by Kaizania, finger-food and drinks will be served on arrival and after the event. There will be ample time and opportunity to meet up with old friends and make some new friends in the Agile community!

Forward this to your friends, colleagues and anyone else who you think might either benefit from Agile or have an Agile war story to share!

For any additional information, please feel free to contact Arrie van der Dussen on 083 700 2181 oragile@kaizania.co.za.

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Please join us for another SUGSA Gauteng event planned for 13 August 2009 at Momentum.

Due to feedback from the past two events, the topic for this event is “Agile Engineering Practices”

The committee is trying its best to get a possible case study on the use of Kanban and Scrum together for the evening, and will keep you updated as these progresses.

Agenda:

Welcome
Agile Engineering Practices – Lionel Bisschoff
Open Discussion and sharing of agile war-stories
Agile Book Review
Agile Prize Give-Away
Close-out

When: 13 August 2009
Time: 18:00 for 18:30
Venue: Momentum Auditorium 1, Centurion (click for map)
Event registration:
http://www.scrum.org.za/resources/event-registration/event-registration-gauteng

As usual, proudly sponsored by Kaizania, finger-food and drinks will be served on arrival and after the event. There will be ample time and opportunity to meet up with old friends and make some new friends in the Agile community!

Forward this to your friends, colleagues and anyone else who you think might either benefit from Agile or have an Agile war story to share!

For any additional information, please feel free to contact Arrie van der Dussen on 083 700 2181 or agile@kaizania.co.za.