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Get Agile With Westboro Systems!
Your Agile Development Team In Ottawa
Agile development delivers business value sooner by focusing on the key qualities that lead to innovation, productivity, and quality. Every Agile team we work with is different. Your corporate culture, your skills base, your objectives, and even your products come down to one common element – people.
Westboro Systems Agile development, Ottawa combines Agile methodologies and proven experience in Agile training and Agile coaching to bring out the best in government adoption of Agile and enterprise Agile development clients.
If “the best”, for you, means effective communication, decreased attrition, increased productivity, and maximized return on investment, you’ve come to the right place – Westboro Systems is Ottawa’s choice for Agile solutions and project management.
Agile Software Development Training
We have a number of workshops to bring Agile skills to your teams, from introductory Agile training to advanced technical skills workshops. Using a hands-on approach these courses start with the motivations for Agile through to practical examples of using Agile in your teams.Agile Coaching
Coaching is an excellent complement to Agile Training. Working closely with your teams we ensure that you use the Agile practices effectively, avoiding the mistakes that teams new to Agile commonly make. We look at all aspects of delivering the system or product from strategy and business engagement to automated tools and build systems. We can start with kicking-off a new project or work with a project in progress.
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Agile Ottawa
January 2012 Agile Thursday Meetup – The Survival Guide For New Agile Coaches
Thursday, 19 January 2012, 4:13 pm
The next Agile Thursday meetup will be held on January 26, 2012 with “The Survival Guide for New Agile Coaches”. (Please note that this session applies to ScrumMasters as well, and in fact anyone. […]
Source: Agile Ottawa | daverooneycaSlides from January 2012 – Agile Goes Way Beyond Software
Wednesday, 11 January 2012, 1:58 pm
Thanks again to Dan Murphy for his presentation last night! Dan’s slides are now available for download (PDF 1.2 MB). See you all on January 26th for Agile Thursday… details to follow.
Source: Agile Ottawa | daverooneycaJanuary 2012 Meetup: Agile Goes Way Beyond Software
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 6:53 pm
** NOTE ** This is the rescheduled November 2011 event that had to be canceled last minute Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 Time: Networking 6:00-6:30PM , Meeting 6:30-8:00PM Location: The new Agile T. […]
Source: Agile Ottawa | Glenn WatersLightning Talks
Thursday, 8 December 2011, 10:08 pm
Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Time: Networking 6:00-6:30PM , Meeting 6:30-8:00PM Location: Momentous, 26 Auriga Drive, Ottawa, ON Canada K2E 8B7 RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Ottawa-Scrum-Users-Gr. […]
Source: Agile Ottawa | Glenn Waters
Practical Agility
Agile Transitions and Human Nature
Wednesday, 25 January 2012, 6:38 pm
Like many people, I've struggled with my weight since my late 20's. I'm currently in the process of losing weight yet again, and have passed the 20 lb. (approx. 10 kg) mark. This isn't the first t. […]
Source: Practical Agility | Dave RooneyRiding One Syllable to Success
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 3:53 pm
Flow. Play. Slow. Although I haven't read nearly as much as I would have liked, over the past decade I've spent a lot of time with my nose in a book learning whatever I could about the many facets. […]
Source: Practical Agility | Dave RooneyWhat I Do When Coaching
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 2:51 pm
In the past few months I've seen more and more articles, discussion group entries and blog posts that talk about Agile Coaches using words such as charlatans, snake oil salesmen and '#@$!!!#$%$#' (I'm. […]
Source: Practical Agility | Dave RooneyAgile is a Cop-Out?
Thursday, 13 October 2011, 4:00 pm
In a blog entry entitled "Agile Software Is A Cop-Out, Here’s What’s Next", Forrester's Mike Gualtieri makes some bold statements about what he sees as hype and a lack of empirical evidence of suc. […]
Source: Practical Agility | Dave Rooney
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Agile Tips & Techniques
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Retrospectives – Improving Your Process
Agile teams strive for continuous improvement. Just as Refactoring is used to improve the design of the code, Retrospectives are used to improve how the team works. Traditionally, retrospectives were held at the end of a project and were commonly known as post-mortems. Other than the connotation that the project is dead, holding a retrospective [...]
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Project Velocity
The use of the term "Velocity" is very deliberate in Agile. Velocity is defined as the rate of change of position over time along a straight line. It is a vector quantity, adding the dimension of direction to the scalar value of speed. This applies to a software project in the sense that you may [...]
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Managing Scope Creep
Many people have said that embracing change in Agile leads to scope creep and churning, and in the end nothing gets delivered. Consider this analogy: You're renovating a bathroom, and you planned to change the sink & vanity, reuse your existing tub & shower, and put ceramic tile on the floor. After replacing the sink [...]
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