Canceled - Learn about the Agile Movement with Piggy Yarroll

Learn about the Agile Movement and why Piggy is such a huge fan. Learn how to design your own Agile process. What are the right tradeoffs between ceremony and effectiveness? We'll cover some of the individual practices such as the XP Planning Game, Code-to-the-test, and Pair Programming. We'll talk a little about the Grizzly Methodology, which scales Agile up to large teams.

Piggy Yarroll has been using Agile practices for several decades now and has led Agile teams at Motorola, the US Army Corps of Engineers, various small companies, Google, and now at Carnegie Mellon University.

La Monte H. P. "Piggy" Yarroll Bio:
Piggy is a charter member of UniForum Chicago and one of the first sysadmins of the Clout Project. He has been programming for 40 years.

After an 11 year stint at Google, he has moved to Carnegie Mellon University to be a Senior Research Programmer in the Auton Lab. The Auton Lab is an applied research lab focused on Machine Learning.
La Monte has eclectic interests ranging from computers and electronics to abstract algebra, foreign languages, music, bushwalking, cheesemaking, and father of five :-).

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