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[Brian Silberbauer]

Hi all

Thought you might be interested in this:

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Subject:	[Spin-capetown-announce] CT-SPIN Meeting #29: Agile Development
Date:	Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:22:56 +0200
From:	Jan Pool <jp...@pshymorphic.com>
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To:	spin-capeto...@lists.spin.org.za

Dear Software Professional,

Herewith an invitation to the 29th meeting of the CT-SPIN taking place
next week on Wednesday evening, 17 October 2007, at the Bandwidth Barn
in Cape Town.

Our topic for this month is Agile Development. Our speaker will present a

number of tips from "Practices of an Agile Developer". These tips should
prove valuable to a wide range of developers and software managers in
the industry.

Please find details about the meeting below and visit the CT-SPIN

website (http://www.spin.org.za) for updates.

MEETING:
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Date: Wednesday 17 October 2007

Time: 18:15 - 20:15
Venue: Bandwidth Barn, 125 Buitengracht Street, Cape Town

[ Map at http://www.bandwidthbarn.org/map.jpg
 ]


AGENDA:
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18:15 Welcoming and Introduction
   Jan Pool

18:20 Practices of an Agile Developer
   Jan Pool (NioCAD)

19:40 Closing and Thanks
   Jan Pool

19:45 Networking and Snacks


ABSTRACTS:
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Practices of an Agile Developer

Agile projects cannot be successful by applying a process alone, you
need a team of dedicated and professional developers as well. Venkat

Subramaniam and Andy Hunt (one of the original authors of the Pragmatic
Programmer) captured a number of personal habits, ideas and
approaches collected from successful agile software projects into an
informative and practical book called "Practices of an Agile Developer"

(http://www.pragprog.com/titles/pad/).

The 45 practices contained in the book will be presented. Each of the

practices is useful on their own, but applied together it has the
potential to make your life easier and your team happier and more
effective.

SPEAKER PROFILES:
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Jan Pool


Jan is the project manager for NioCAD, a research and development project
focusing on developing electronic design automation software for the
integrated circuit industry, at the University of Stellenbosch. He is

responsible for the day to day operations of the project and product
development. Jan previously worked as an engineering project manager at
Stone Three Signal Processing in Somerset West. There he was primarily

involved with the company's research and development projects in the
telecommunication and industrial segment. He enjoys working in small,
dynamic companies where one has the opportunity to get exposure to a wide

array of activities in development, management and business.

Jan has a masters degree in Electronic Engineering (M.Sc.Eng) degree from
the University of Stellenbosch. He did his thesis on robust speaker
recognition with the Digital Signal Processing group. His other interests

include people, signal processing, pattern recognition, artificial
intelligence, complex systems, robotics, photography and astronomy.

We look forward to seeing you there,

The CT-SPIN Committee.
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