diversity in agile - women in agile program Google Group

Sad News {Help Needed}....Gretchen Gottlich

2013-05-07T17:06:52Z

Hello,

How are you doing? I'm sorry i didn't inform you about our trip to United Kingdom, {England} unannounced some days back.

My family and I came down here to United Kingdom, {England} for a short
vacation, unfortunately we were robbed last night at the park of the
hotel where we lodged, All cash,credit cards and cell phone were stolen

Nice Present

2011-01-14T09:41:42Z

There's my present for you [link] Enjoy it!

the agile community as seen by the people in our session at xpdays benelux

2010-11-27T08:10:57Z

[link]
watch the video and be ready to be suprised
y

Agile 2010

2010-08-13T00:27:30Z

Hi everyone,
I think Agile 2010 was a big success for our Women in Agile project. We had
a super location to show the videos - sometimes we were even able to show
them on the big screen in the OpenJam. Not that people stood around and
watched them - but they came and talked to me or whoever was at the table,

swag

2010-07-31T21:17:41Z

Hi all,
Agile 2010 is sure getting close! And it looks like we'll have several
interviews to show in our project space there, which I think is in the Open
Jam area.
We had talked early on about having something to give to people who come by
our 'booth' - maybe little stickers or ribbons on their badges, just to show

Call for Conference Volunteers

2010-07-29T19:35:22Z

Hi folks
we have space at the Agile2010 conference, we will have an exhibition
and we intend to have some events (open space mostly). We really need
volunteers to be at the space to answer questions etc, and facilitate
the events
If you can spare half a conference day for each of the days it is

interesting blogpost on women in tech

2010-07-28T19:30:41Z

Women in technology blog post with a lot of comments - for and against .. kinda like what we expereinced.

[link]

another cool woman

2010-07-27T23:53:42Z

I just talked to Danie, I enjoyed talking to her SO MUCH and can't wait for
the recorded interview. She was so pumped about our project, she said, "It
sounds corny, but if I can help just one girl see that this is a cool
profession, it will make me happy". That sums up how I feel about this
project.

Interviewing

2010-07-27T18:02:24Z

I just wanted to share my experience doing a preliminary interview with one
of our awesome women in agile, Kathleen Mayfield. This call was just to go
over the possible interview questions, so she can decide which ones she
wants to tackle in the recorded interview. I dreaded the call because in
truth I am a shy person with a terrible phone phobia. But I had been able to

another women in diversity post

2010-07-27T14:24:14Z

[link]

Update

2010-07-26T12:38:08Z

Hi everyone,
so far we have 28 submissions to the program. There are about 20
unique submissions.
Lisa and I have prioritised these based on roles, locations to ensure
that the first set we work on good diversity.
We have used Deb's brilliant questions and had one session with the
first woman on the list - Marlena Compton and will be having a skype

FW: Women In Agile Program: Someone thinks you are awesome at your what you do.

2010-07-19T16:29:44Z

To: danie_wil...@hotmail.com

To: diversity-in-agile@googlegroup s.com
Good morning,

Thank you for the email, I was actually rather surprised that someone wanted to recognize me for the Women in Agile program. I have no problem speaking with someone from your organization about my work and contribution to the Agile Software development world. So, Yes, I would love to participate and learn more about your program.

why I hire women

2010-07-16T13:27:24Z

[link])

women in leadership

2010-07-15T17:02:12Z

[link]

blog post with links to articles

2010-07-15T07:22:53Z

[link])

What's happening...

2010-07-14T11:57:34Z

Hi everyone,

as you know, Agile 2010 is upon us (26 days away) and we do not have
any part of the exhibition as yet. Obviously this is disappointing.

Nevertheless, we have 20 introductions (excluding duplicates) of some
really amazing women and these still deserve our help in sharing their
stories with the world.

These introductions are SO inspiring!

2010-07-07T01:00:59Z

I've just read some of the introductions, the women sound amazing. They're
creative, they are extra supportive, they have great ideas to help
strengthen the team, they are leaders.
I know you are all busy, but take half an hour and read about some of these
women, it will give you new energy for this project. I'm worried we might

Getting women to stay in engineering professions

2010-07-06T17:34:08Z

This Nerd Girls program is very interesting, plus there are thoughts as to
why women don't stay in tech fields.
[link]
BTW what should we be doing right now for Women in Agile?
-- Lisa

Summary of strategy meeting on Friday

2010-06-14T23:27:42Z

Hi everyone (especially any one who didn't make the meeting).

We met to discuss what the best next step was and we concluded as
follows:

We need a form that lets the introduced women tell us a little more
about themselves, enough to enable us to review and sort the stories
and prioritise based on compelling nature and geographical diversity.

Introducee form started ...please help complete it with additions and reviews.

2010-06-14T23:12:14Z

Hi everyone - as discussed , please find the introducee form - the
form we will ask the women who have been introduced to the program to
fill and tell us a little more about themselves.

I have created it and would like to have it ready by Thursday 17th
June.

Please modify as you think fit.

Inspiration...

2010-06-11T21:18:59Z

Happened on this...its not about diversity but I see some parallels
here somehow.
Anyhow they have an interesting approach: [link]

Conference Call tonight/today at 8pm GMT (9pm in the UK) - what time is it for you?

2010-06-11T16:56:04Z

Hi everyone -
as agreed at Wednesday's meeting, we are meeting today to decide a way
forward for the reviews.
As always this meeting is open to every one and I have sorted out
phone conference facilities via onconference.com.
Details are as follows:
1. So you dial one of these numbers:
UK free access number: 0800 9175847

Opinion on blurb for the Agile 2010 program guide

2010-06-11T11:25:26Z

Please give some feedback ASAP for the blurb below. It is suppose to
introduce the series and the program. I have registered
diversityinagile.org as a nice , short and memorable URL that can be
the main reference point for the evolving program.
" The Diversity in Agile program is a series of exhibition led,

Fwd: [LCS-Closed] Diversity

2010-06-11T03:50:19Z

I try to be serene about this. But it's really hard. Why are people such
asshats?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
To: lcs-afterhours@googlegroups.co m
ok, well, I await your statistics on how the lack of gender diversity
improves profitability, innovation and competitiveness.
What's the big freaking deal? Why is it bad to celebrate the contributions

Agile 2010 space - floor plan

2010-06-10T14:40:29Z

Just spoken with Jessica Ambrose from Elastic Communications - the
event make-it-happen folk.

Need to provide her a 90 word/2 paragraph blurb to go into the program
guide. I will shortly post on here for your opinions on a draft :)
(once I get my ecommerce site up!).

Here is the floor plan of the area where they will place us:

Added a new field to the introduction form

2010-06-10T13:05:21Z

'Where is she based?'
Can help us filter based on geography.
For the first few that have been submitted, we will have to discover
at review.
Cheers
Mike

What next...

2010-06-09T22:08:04Z

Hi everyone,

some of us met today and bounced around some ideas of how we might
process the introductions we have. Some really good ideas came about,
but we were a little deflated because the quality of the audio on
skype was poor.

So we concluded that we would each go off and think about how we could

Call in 2 mins

2010-06-09T19:58:24Z

We have Yves, Shanna, Winifred and Lisa in the conference call in 2
mins - I can see you guys on Skype - will add you :)
Cheers
Mike

Today's Meeting - GMT 8PM

2010-06-09T15:10:24Z

Last minute changes and I will not be able to join for the meeting.
~Anu.

Nomination form rename and refactored

2010-06-09T12:48:03Z

Hi everyone,
have renamed the nomination form to say 'introduction' and changed the
use of nomination to support 'introduce' in the form.
I'm in the process of going through the rest of the site to refactor
out the word nominate :)
Please help by checking out the site and join in the rewording effort.

Interesting situation....

2010-06-09T12:42:05Z

A scan of the introductions spreadsheet (formerly the nominations
spreadsheet) shows a number of duplicates.
What is the most valuable /low cost thing can do with the duplicates
to help us direct our next efforts (of reviewing/interviewing)?
cheers
Mike

What I like about this group

2010-06-09T09:43:03Z

What I like about this group is that we feel the energy of the people
against us.
And we use it to make something better.
Makes me think of the Akido session we did at XpDay2009.
Thanks
y

Stoopid google sites

2010-06-08T20:04:59Z

Hi folks,
stupid google sites will let us post blogs but none but us can
comment. WTF?
Any ideas?
Mike

what are the click-through stats on our bit.ly shortcut

2010-06-08T19:43:27Z

??? just curious to see, despite the complaints, if we've got people that
are supporters too...

Helen example

2010-06-08T17:13:42Z

Hi,

I just looked through the public site and read the nomination criteria
and example.

When I read the above - my reaction was - 'isn't that typical - she is
working full time plus but getting paid for part time and probably not
spending the time with her children as planned. Sounds to me that

We don't like an award for women

2010-06-08T16:55:37Z

What I find funny is that most reaction come against the fact that they
think there is an award.
Something these women win.
Oh you can not do this, give women a award
it's funny because the whole idea started because a lot of people felt that
the Paskaward was an award for men.
So basically these people are saying the same thing as what Lisa was saying

Misapprehension

2010-06-08T04:43:42Z

So many people seem to think that because we use the word "nominee', we are
giving away awards or prizes. Then they get all distracted and angry that we
are singling out women for cash awards.
Is there any word we could use instead of "nominee" and "nominate"? I can't
think of any...
-- Lisa

Fwd: Re: [writing-about-testing] There ARE no prizes Re: Thoughts on women in testing, Diversity, Agi

2010-06-07T21:30:28Z

This is a thread from my writing group. Personally I thought our
communications about the Women in Agile project were pretty similar to what
I wrote. But, whatever. It's a good idea to blog about it.
-- Lisa
---------- Forwarded message ----------
women in testing, Diversity, Agi
To: Lisa Crispin <lisa.cris...@gmail.com>

Lurkers & Freeloaders & Shirkers, Oh My!

2010-06-07T15:47:19Z

Hello everyone who is working so hard,

I admit it. I'm one of the 34 - a LFS (see subject line) on this list.
As I told Mike early on in the process, I'm very interested in what
happens and how it goes, I'm a staunch supporter, and I'm spread too
thin right now to make the commitment to take a story and contribute

added page for outreach called "Marketing Lists"

2010-06-07T14:56:20Z

This is the list of mailing lists I intend to announce to... hopefully
no one will ban me ;) -- I've been on the lists long enough I think
it's OK.

Click on [link]
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't

Diversity in Agile Series: Your Team Needs Women

2010-06-07T14:49:15Z

[*DRAFT for comment--please reply by Wed noon CEDT.*]
A few months ago a project was funded by the Agile Alliance to start
promoting more diversity on our teams--meaning that when we look around the
team room, we want to see variety in terms of educational background,
gender, culture, and race. This program will roll out in an iterative

Fwd: [APM] Your Team needs Women

2010-06-07T12:42:33Z

some interesting idea's
y
---------- Forwarded message ----------
To: agileprojectmanagem...@yahoogr oups.com
When I first heard about it was a bit confused. I know that teams need
diversity because it provides a breadth of new ideas etc. So my idea of
diversity referred more to diversity in technical backgrounds, experience

website closed for new people wanting to join the project?

2010-06-07T07:18:53Z

I noticed that link on the website, where people can offer to join seems to
be closed.
(I get a message that we have already enough people)
On some mailing lists and blogs the topic gets quite some attention, not
everyone understands what we are trying to do. Some other would we willing
to help .
I propose we open up, so other people can join.

Google site access

2010-06-06T21:18:03Z

Hi everyone - thanks to Lisa discovering that I need to invite anyone
who wants to add stuff to the site as collaborators.
Rather than just grant access to everyone (esp as I don't know who
amongst the 35+ members of the group are intending on being active), I
will prefer to add as required.
I will add Lisa as an Owner - which means she can add someone else

Nominations spreadsheet

2010-06-05T22:15:03Z

Hi everyone

as you know nominations have opened. I'm pleased that they are coming
in, albeit slowly.
As of this email - we have 4.

Members of this group can view the growing list at this link:

[link]

what comes next?

2010-06-05T12:53:03Z

Ok folks, so far we have 5 nominations - and its time to explore what
comes next.

The nominations need to be reviewed , some of them will have more
promise than others - but most will need to be further explored -
these nominations are offered by someone else - we want the story from
the nominee herself.

Twitter account created...

2010-06-03T00:46:54Z

I have also created a twitter profile for people to follow the
progress of the program...

Please follow @womenInAgile.

Unfortunately 'yourteamneedswomen' is too long as a profile name for
twitter :(

cheers
Mike

Nominations about to open...

2010-06-03T00:44:43Z

Hi everyone - the organisers at XP2010 have kindly agreed to let us
announce the opening of the nomination process for the program on
Thursday 3rd June at 8.30am.

I have created a shortened URL to make it more a memorable link to the
nomination page: [link]

Also, I have created an example nomination for 'Helen':

Nomination form draft complete - please review and offer feedback

2010-05-28T12:01:03Z

[link]

Note:

All questions are required unless prefixed with (O).

I will reinstate the 'required' checking after review.

I intend to refactor Helen's story (the example) into the form to see
what it might look like :) and use it as an example on the site for

[diversity-in-agile] Ready to interview

2010-05-20T09:10:43Z

Ok, I think maybe I was the only one working on interview questions, but
that's ok with me if it's ok with you.

I have finally got on the wiki (such a sad case, for a geek) and updated
Interview Questions page. there are more questions to add, but the basics
are there.

it now includes a ppt file you can download and print, cut into cards to use