We will be holding the June Utah County .NET User Group on Wednesday, June 16 at 6:00 in the NuSkin NOC located at 350 E 1175 S Provo. This month we are happy to have Robert May speak to us about Scrum, Continuous Integration, and Continual Improvement. I have included his session abstract and bio below.

Scrum, Continuous Integration, and Continual Improvement

Are you using Scrum for your development process?  Okay, are you REALLY using Scrum? Many teams claim to be following Scrum, or some other Agile methodology, but aren’t really following the process.  This session will talk about what it takes to really do Scrum right. 

Some of the topics that we’ll cover include:

·         What’s part of Scrum and what is not.

·         Where does Scrum usually fail?

·         The roles of Scrum and who should fill them, really.

o   Should your boss REALLY be the product owner?

·         Where does Continuous Integration fit into Scrum?

o   What tools are available, especially those used with .NET-centric teams

o   Best Practices around CI deployments

·         TDD and Scrum.

·         Scrum in non-agile environments:  How to cope with Waterfall in Scrum

This will be a very open environment.  Questions and dialog will be welcome.

About Robert May

Having seen the difference that Agile makes in the lives of developers, Robert May is an enthusiastic supporter of Agile Methodologies.  He is currently a ScrumMaster and mentor for a sizable project helping schools and regularly evaluates Agile teams to determine how to make them better.  In addition to helping teams adopt Agile, Robert has over 15 years of development experience in many different technologies and languages ranging from the latest tools such as the .NET 4.0 Framework and Azure, to classical technologies like PERL and Linux.  During his career, Robert has worked on systems for telephony, healthcare, business systems, education, and government accounting systems.  The variety of his background gives him a reservoir of knowledge that he can use to help any team, both technically and when adopting Agile. Robert is based in Salt Lake City, Utah and works with Veracity Solutions (www.veracitysolutions.com).  He blogs at http://geekswithblogs.net/rakker/.