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Scrum Club Event 6/24/09 in Los Angeles

Posted by Christophe on May 31, 2009

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Gorilla Nation is hosting another ScrumClub event on 6/24/09:

Scrum and User Experience Design: Bringing Great Design into the Agile Process

Event summary:

Scrum provides us with a great framework for building our Scrum team, implementing the core agile practices and getting the inspect and adapt process started. But Scrum doesn’t provide much for the specific disciplines like programming, testing and User Experience. That’s where our coaches Paul Hodgetts and Patrick Neeman come in.

Join us as we explore how User Experience Design integrates with the Scrum process. We’ll see first hand how each type of activity fits into the Scrum cycles, and how our User Experience researchers, designers and artists integrate into a Scrum team.

Get your ticket with a special discount for RunningAgile readers.

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Upcoming Scrum club LA event – Bootstrapping an Agile Team

Posted by Christophe on January 15, 2009

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This is an announcement that I will be hosting the next scrum club LA event at my company. A big thanks to my friends at rallydev who are making the event possible. No worry, this is not a timeshare scam turning into a sales pitch to get you buy rally.

When: Mon, Feb 9 – Mon, Feb 9 | 6:00:00 pm PST – 8:00:00 pm PST

Event title: Bootstrapping an Agile Team

Where: Gorilla Nation – Los Angeles

Event description:

Admission is FREE but you must RSVP since space is limited.

http://asc-gathering.eventbrite.com/

Please join LA Scrum Club and Rally Software for a special evening on Monday, February 9th with local Agile luminaries: Christophe Louvion, CTO of Gorilla Nation, Scott Downey, ScrumMaster at MySpace, and George Schlitz, Principal Coach at Big Visible Solutions.  Admission is free of charge and wine, beer and appetizers will be provided.

At this unique event, you will hear from Agile experts as they discuss the benefits of moving from a waterfall or plan-driven process to Agile. You will learn how the Agile process can help you achieve faster time to market, increased productivity and higher quality. With an Agile implementation, you can also experience more effective collaboration and better cultural alignment between your IT team, the business and its customers.

This event will focus on:

  • Starting an Agile software team
  • Measuring your progress and success
  • What makes some Agile teams more successful than others
  • The organizational barriers and opportunities to Agile adoption that you should know about
  • Cultivating our Agile community for knowledge sharing and interaction

Admission is FREE but you must RSVP since space is limited.

http://asc-gathering.eventbrite.com/

SPEAKERS

Christophe Louvion, CTO of Gorilla Nation in Los Angeles

Scott Downey, ScrumMaster and Technical Project Manager at Myspace.com in Beverly Hills

George Schlitz, Principal Coach at BigVisible Solutions in Irvine

Audience moderator: Tony Wong, President of Digital Onion Inc. in Marina Del Rey

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Update on Gorilla Nation

Posted by Christophe on March 26, 2008

My company Gorilla Nation, located in sunny Los Angeles, made it to the comscore top 25 in february 08.

We’re serving hundred of millions of page views, tens of billions of ad impressions a month and building something much bigger.

We are now looking for talented agilistas in

  • Development (PHP / python)
  • Quality
  • Configuration Management
  • ScrumMaster

Interested in knowing more? Contact me.

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Looking for talented engineers in Los Angeles

Posted by Christophe on February 18, 2008

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To the jungle out there,

Gorilla Nation is the world’s largest online ad sales rep firm. We exclusively represent over 500 leading web publishers and offer integrated media and promotional programs to Fortune 500 brand advertisers.

We are looking for talented engineers to join our fast growth savanna:

  • Sr Python engineers
  • Sr PHP engineers
  • Sr Ruby engineers
  • Sr QA automation engineers

If customer collaboration, job satisfaction, team work, automated build, continuous integration, automated testing, pair programming, 2 week iterations, retrospectives, continuous improvement are as important to you than it is to me, then we need to talk! Email me at chrislouvion@yahoo.com.

GN is headquartered in sunny Los Angeles. So when you’re not working, you can enjoy the beach, good surfing, the Hollywood crowd, and a lot lot more

surfing hollywood

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