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The Omaha Agile Development user group will focus on discussing Agile related topics and techniques. The group is being established as a response to our community’s interest in Agile adoption across multiple organizations. The main goal is to create a collaborative forum where members of our agile community can meet and discuss their experience, share ideas and techniques or learn more about incorporating or improving agile practices within their own organization.

Mission Statement
To create a collaborative community across the breadth of organizations and roles to share their experiences, discuss ideas, and techniques for improving agile practices.

User Group Formation

• We're looking for sponsors and hosts for future meetings
  
• Anyone interested in sharing an agile topic with the group
  
• Anyone interested in speaking at, sponsoring, or hosting future meetings, please contact a board member
  

Meeting Topic Interactive Story Brainstorming Demo Interactive Story Estimating Demo Interactive Planning Meeting Demo Interactive TDD Demo

Format 20 Minutes each Facilitator and audience volunteers as demo participants Activity overview Conduct activity Close with learning points and Q&A

Networking: 5:30 pm
Meeting : 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Host: OPPD
Directions Here

Traveling From Lincoln / West Omaha
1. I-80 E toward OMAHA.
2. Merge onto I-480 E via EXIT 452 toward Eppley Airfield/Downtown
3. Take the Harney Street exit.
4. Take a RIGHT onto Harney Street
5. Turn RIGHT onto 17TH ST
6. Building entrance will be to your LEFT.

Street parking should be plentiful and is free after 5:00 pm

Please enter on the west side of Energy Plaza. (17th street between Harney and Jackson streets).
You will be required to sign in if you did not preregister and will be issued a visitor’s badge. The elevators are located up the steps and to your left. Alternate access is available.

The meeting is located on the 9th floor.

Open Spaces Overview of Agile Values and Principles Agile Terms Roles and Responsibilities The Scrum Process

Break Out Sessions TDD & Continuous integration Identifying and Estimating User Stories Agile Roles and Responsibilities Agile Advanced Topics

Host: Union Pacific Railroad Co
1400 Douglas St, Omaha, NE 68179

Networking: 5:30 pm
Meeting : 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Directions Here

Parking:
You may park on the Street on the East, South side of the Building.
There is also street parking just south of the building all around the
library. The ParkOne? parking lot is accessible (but will charge), on the
west side of the building. There is additional flat lot parking between
12th and 11th on Davenport (if there is an event this evening, they will
also be charging).

Access to Building:
Please access the building from the South Entrance (Douglas Street).
Proceed to the 2nd floor, via the stairs or escalators. Check-in at the
guards desk. The User Group Meeting (and social time) will be held in
the Training Facility on the 2nd floor directly east of the Guards Desk
in Classroom E. If you need to leave the building for any reason and
want to return, please let a board member know so that they can meet you
at the guards desk.


Scaling Agile Software Development : Strategies for Applying Agile in Complex Situations
Scott Ambler
Practice Leader- Agile Development
IBM Rational


Thank You to Omaha Rational User Group for allowing us to partner with them for this presentation! A voice recording of Scott Ambler presentation can be found on their site.

Scott Ambler Presentation
Ambler Scaling Agile.pdf (1.33 Mb)

Presentation Summary:

"The majority of organizations have gotten their feet wet with Agile software development techniques and are now hoping to take it to the next stage. However, they’re discovering that the simple methodologies they initially adopted aren’t sophisticated enough to address the complex situations the find themselves in. This presentation describes strategies for taking an Agile approach to distributed development teams, for addressing regulatory compliance requirements, for large teams, and for leveraging legacy assets. Techniques from the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile Modeling (AM), and Agile Data methodologies that are required to scale Agile will be described in detail in this presentation. Once you go beyond the Agile rhetoric you will find that you can in fact scale it to meet the complexities of the real-world situations you find yourself in."


Omaha Agile User Group Meeting
Survey Results

Jean Tabaka
Lean Thinking & Quality Presentation (2.05 Mb)