Posted by Christophe on March 25, 2010
The company is already very agile. On to lean.
Oh, before I forgot: with the new game changing citygrid local ad platform, Citysearch is looking for a lot talent. I mean a lot. If you have experience in large scale search engine, ad engine, BI, mobile apps, data processing, APIs, ping me!
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Posted by Christophe on October 23, 2009
I’ll be a panelist at the next PDMA LA event.
What: “Transitioning to Agile Product Development – Lessons Learned”
Where: The Olympic Collection, 11301 W. Olympic Blvd. at Sawtelle Blvd. / West Los Angeles
When: Weds, Nov 11th, 6-9PM
Members $35 in advance / $45 day of event. Non-members $45 in advance / $55 day of event. Students $30 with ID
Learn about the benefit of agile product development as well as the pitfalls and best practices from agile experts and practitioners about transitioning to an agile product development environment.
Other panelists include:
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Posted by Christophe on September 13, 2009
Dr. Jeff Sutherland and Scott Downey (Agile Coach @ myspace) will be hosting a class at The Tower, Beverly Hills on Monday and Tuesday, September 20 and 21.
The Scrum Alliance will soon require a written exam before certification is awarded, so this may be your last opportunity before testing begins in the Fall.
If you are interested, please visit the registration page.
Also, check out DigitalLA.net and consider joining them on Monday night at Trader Vic’s for a panel discussion. Registration is required and available on the Digital LA site.
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Posted by Christophe on May 31, 2009
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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Posted by Christophe on February 10, 2009
Close to 100 people showed up to the scrum club event sponsored by rallydev tonight, including a bunch of CSTs/CSCs. Feed them, and they will come (thank you Amanda, Mine and Kris from rallydev for the fantastic organization).
The theme of the evening was “Boostrapping and agile team”.
George Schlitz, coach from BigVisible Solutions, talked about the need to put agile projects in the context of the organization – defining clear stakeholders roles, involvement and communication.
Scott Downey, coach at myspace, presented reasons for scrum implementations ot fail and provided the base for what he calls “the shock therapy” – the scrum coach sets the one by deciding on iteration length, usage of story points, meeting agendas etc… until the team earns the right to change these initial decisions.
I challenged everyone with the idea that initiating a transformation to agile without executive engagement, strong engineers and experienced agile coaches is very likely a waste of effort, i.e. not going to materially change the success of the business.
A video should show up sometime soon.
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Posted by Christophe on February 18, 2008
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:
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…
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