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“JRuby in 2010: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going”
Charles Oliver Nutter, Engineyard
March 23rd, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506

Topic TBA
Bob Walsh, 47 Hats
April 27th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506

PAST

2010

“Secure Bit: Hardware Buffer-overflow Prevention”
Dr. Richard Enbody, Michigan State University
February 23rd, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506

Version Control
Eric Sink
Tuesday, January 26 2010, at 18:00PM

2009

“Creative Process as Seen Through Creative Language”
Jon Wettersten, IDEO

“Software Craftsmanship: Raising the Bar of Professional Software Development”
Doug Bradbury, 8th Light

Summer Networking Session #3
HopCat

Summer Networking Session #2
Bar Divani

Summer Networking Session #1
The Green Well

“jQuery”
Karl Swedberg, Fusionary Media

“Software Disasters and Lessons Learned”
Jack Ganssle, The Ganssle Group

“What’s the right level of testing?” And “Pair Parody”
Tyler Jennings, Andy Maleh & Jake Scruggs, Obtivia

“UE and Agile: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together”
Lane Halley, Cooper

Extreme Interviewing: Finding the Right People for Your Agile Team
Tuesday, January 27 2009, at 18:00PM

2008

“The Fall and Rise of Dynamic Languages”
Rick DeNatale, Near Time, Inc.

“Ruby on Rails Testing”
Mike Swieton, Atomic Object

Group Therapy

Pulling Your Head Out of Your Budget – Mental Re-tooling for Agile Project Management
David Christiansen

“Agile Software Development and UI Design: a Match made in Heaven?”
Robert Biddle, Carleton University

“From Eclipse to Jazz”
Paul Vanderlei, IBM

2007

“Interaction-Testing: Beyond Classical Unit Testing”
Scott Miller, Atomic Object

October XPwm: Summer Conference Reprise
Atomic Object Developers

“When Will Microsoft Go Out of Business?”
Ken Schwaber, Advanced Development Methods, Inc

An Open Space Meeting – “Increasing Agility”
Facilitated by Dave Limbaugh

You’re Kidding. It Does WHAT in Production ! ? !
Elisabeth Hendrickson, Quality Tree Software

“Agile in Large, Inelastic Organizations”
John J. Cunningham, Band XI International

“Perils and Pitfalls of Agile Adoption”
Carl Erickson, Atomic Object

“Introduction to Scrum”
Doug Shimp, 3Back

“Agile Development in the US Army Research Arm”
Mark Salamango, US Army

2006

“Don’t Follow the Lemmings”
Chad Fowler

Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference 2006

Reprise of Agile 2006 International Conference

Lightning Talks: tips, techniques, tools, and more

“Presenter First: Organizing complex GUI applications for TDD”
Scott Miller, Atomic Object

“Making the Date” and Q&A
Ron Jeffries, 
Independent Consultant

“Agile Database Techniques: Data Doesn’t Have To Be A Four-Letter Word Anymore”
Scott Ambler

“Introduction to Agile + Story Driven Development”
Carl Erickson, Atomic Object

2005

“Magic Pixie Dust” + “Systir Test Framework”
Matt Heusser, Karlin Fox

“Preventing Crisis: Project Estimation and Tracking That Works”
Andy Lester

Reprise of the Agile 2005 Denver Conference
Carl Erickson and Panelists

“The Top Six Reasons Software Projects Fail and How to Avoid Them”
Rich Sheridan, Menlo Institute

“Analytical School of Testing” and “All-Pairs: a Closer Look”
Paul Jorgensen, Grand Valley State University

“Two Futures of Software Testing”
Michael Bolton, DevelopSense

“Agile Requirements Gathering”
Dave Limbaugh, Priority Health

“Agile Overview and Acceptance Testing with Fitnesse”
Robert Martin, Object Mentor

2004

“Unit Testing Legacy Code”
Kevin Bradtke and Tom Kubit, Gene Codes Forensics

“Crystal Clear – a human powered methodology for small teams” and “Testing web applications with Ruby-based tools”
Kevin Hykin, Burke Porter Machinery, &  Michael Swieton, Atomic Object

“Implications of Delivering Software Early and Often” and “Test Driven Development: Demonstration and Discussion”
Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson

“Better Living through Extreme Programming”
Carl Erickson, Atomic Object

“QA Tester Role” and “Unit Testing PHP”
Bo Roop, X-Rite (part 1) & Atomic Object Personnel (part 2)

“The Planning Game: Living by the Big Board”
Dave Limbaugh

“The Planning Game and Open Source Test Tools”
Carl Erickson, Atomic Object


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    Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy St, Grand Rapids, MI 49506

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