We’re excited to tell you that the Scrum User Group of South Africa
(SUGSA) is planning the first ever South African Scrum Day, in Cape
Town on 01 September, 2009. Yes, the first of Spring!
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Greetings to all SUGSA visitors!
This is your official invitation to the next event to be held in Cape Town.
When: Wednesday 13 May, 2009 at 18h00 for 18h30
Where: Great Westerford, 240 Main Rd, Rondebosch (corner of Main and Dean). Click here for a map.
Click here to register for this event
Agile practice: Continuous Integration
Aside from the business challenges of the solution, the process of integrating the various bits and pieces of any reasonably-sized system can itself be time consuming, troublesome and difficult. To make matters worse, it is usually left towards the end of project, when pressure is often the greatest. This means the very integration process itself often introduces further bugs! Continuous Integration attempts to address these concerns.
At its core, Continuous Integration is the process of integrating the disparate components of a software system on a very frequent basis, often many times per day. However, in addition to addressing the actual challenges of integration, CI itself requires various tools and processes to be in place, and each of these is able to bring significant benefit to both the solution and the team. In this session, we will look more closely at the core concepts around both CI and the underpinning processes it relies upon. In order to demonstrate these concepts and keep it practical, we will make use of various well known tools and products.
About our Speaker: Hilton Giesenow
Hilton has been developing software professionally since 1997. Focused primarily on Microsoft tools and technologies, he lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa as a development manager and as a software architect and technical lead on enterprise projects. With experience ranging across a wide variety of platforms, client types and locations, Hilton is a Microsoft MVP, a regional lead for S.A. Developer.net, the national INETA representative, and a regular author and speaker at professional, community and academic events and conferences. His random ramblings can be found at http://hilton.giesenow.com/.
When: Wednesday 13 May, 2009 at 18h00 for 18h30
Where: Great Westerford, 240 Main Rd, Rondebosch (corner of Main and Dean). Click here for a map.
This event is kindly sponsored by Intec Billing which means that attendance, snacks and drinks are free!
Please don’t forget to register by clicking this link.
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Greetings to all SUGSA visitors!
This is the announcement and your official invitation to our first event in Cape Town for 2009, to be held in just two weeks’ time.
When: Tuesday 24 Feb, 2009 at 18h00 for 18h30
Where: MagmaTec House, Greenford Office Estate, Punters Way, Kenilworth, Cape Town. Go to http://www.magmatec.co.za/ for a map. Parking is available on-site.
We have an interesting programme lined up for our first event of 2009:
* Aimed at Scrum newbies, Carlo Kruger will give a brief overview of Agile principles and the Scrum framework. It should help you with some of the practical questions of what Scrum is and how to get it started in your organisation.
* Chris Tisdall will share some experiences of implementing Scrum at Allan Gray from his perspective as Product Owner.
The event is being kindly sponsored by MagmaTec, which means that attendance, snacks and drinks are free!
Space is limited, so please do confirm your attendance as soon as possible by clicking the following link: http://www.prohmote.com/892ab682. Just fill in your name and how many guests you will bring.
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Scrum Panel Discussion held at 24.com in Cape Town
I attended the second scrum user group meeting in Cape Town last night. A bit smaller than the launch, but still well attended. The format was a panel discussion with Peter from Scrumsense, Boris Gloger (in town for training) and Steve from MagmaTec.
Using a scrum task board for tracking the questions, it started with the usual question about what “It” is. (I have this urge to riff on the Matrix; “Unfortunately, no one can be told what scrum is, you have to see it for yourself”). Boris replied: “Scrum is Scrum”. Who knew germans could be so inscrutable?
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