Topic: Agile Requirements With Fit
Agile projects are all about communication and collaboration. What does that mean for requirements? There’s no up-front requirements phase… does that mean there’s no requirements document or tool? What about functional testing?
Join James Shore for an exploration of requirements on agile projects. James will share what he’s learned about agile requirements in eight years of working with agile team, then introduce Fit, the confusingly-named Framework for Integrated Test. Learn why Fit isn’t what everyone thinks it is, what it has to do with agile requirements, and how you can use Fit to improve communication on your project. This will be an interactive session, so bring your product owner hat and join in!
About the Speaker: James Shore is the project coordinator for Fit and maintainer of the Java and C# versions. He’s been leading agile teams in success and failure since 1999. He’s been struggling with the question of agile requirements and functional testing for nearly as long. In 2005, the Agile Alliance granted Jim one of the two inaugural Gordon Pask awards for contribution to agile practice. His new book, The Art of Agile Development, has recently been published by O’Reilly. Find his blog, essays on agile development, and more at http://jamesshore.com.
BONUS: We will be giving aware 1 free seat to Mike Cohn’s Agile Estimating and Planning course (Feb 28th)
Meeting Date and Agenda
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
6:00pm Food & Drink
6:30pm Some words of Thanks
6:45pm Topic: Agile Requirements with Fit
7:30-ish End of talk, general questions etc.
Location
Qpass Corporate Headquarters
2211 Elliott Avenue
Suite 400
Seattle, Washington 98121
Phone: +1.206.447.6000
Further inquiries can also be emailed to SeattleScrum at Gmail dot com. This announcement may also be found at Seattle Scrums home page: http://www.SeattleScrum.org
The very first Seattle Scrum meeting was held on Thursday evening, and it exceeded my expectations! Although there was only a small number of us, the talk by Damian was excellent … very thoughtful and engaging. I believe everyone walked away with ideas for new possibilities.
I’d like to thank Damian for his presentation and for taking the time to speak to the group!
In addition to the existing sponsors (Qpass and Danube Technologies),
I’m pleased to announce the Cobalt Group and Solutions IQ have agreed
to provide a second location at the Cobalt Groups’ headquarters.
Location:
Cobalt Group Headquarters:
2200 First Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134
(Updated: I’ve changed the date of the September meetup from the 27th September to 26th September)
Here is a proposed Seattle Scrum calendar for the remainder of 2007.
I’ve put this together following the a request from Troy Frever of the
Seattle XP users group that we coordinate events. I’ve also tried to
be mindful of public holidays such as Thanks Giving (22nd November)
and Christmas.
9 August: Qpass Headquarters
26 September: Cobalt Group Headquarters
26 October: Qpass Headquarters
29 November: Cobalt Group Headquarters
27 December: No meeting
Any feedback on these dates would be much appreciated.
