Agilopolis is an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers and practicioners focused on development of project managment methods and best practices, especially for innovative projects. The ultimate goal is to make knowledge available to everybody.

Agilopolis Community Day 9 - CANCELED

Breaking news:

Agilopolis Community Day#9 scheduled for 08.07.2010 from is CANCELED due to urgent & unplanned business trip of Tomasz. We are really sorry for confusion and short notice period! ACD with Tomasz will be rescheduled to September. We will inform You about details. ACD#10 plan & date is fixed.

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Agilopolis Community Day 8

Agilopolis Community is proud to invite you for a second lecture of a new series: “Agile – Theory vs Experience (ATE)”. It is planned as a series of short lectures or presentations of practitioner observations, experiences and best practices followed by fierce discussion. The goal is to go through all SCRUM components.

ACD7 that took place on Thursday 04.03.2010 brought over 40 people to NSN premises at Silver Forum, where the main speaker was Kristjan Deberni. Workshop shortly turned to be again area for discussion where Kristjan brought enourmous amount of practical knowledge.

Agilopolis Community Day 7 - meeting summary

Agilopolis Community Day is actually half-way through. Meeting that took place on Thursday 04.03.2010 brough over 40 people to NSN pemises at Silver Forum, where the main speaker was Kristjan Deberni.
ACD 8 planned as workshop shortly turned to be again area for discussion where Kristjan brought anourmous amount of practical knowledge. Below you will find few of his ideas:
1. Daily Stand-up meeting before breakfast - this helps to make it quick
2. Breakfast - this is time for talking. About anything. This decrease amount of chating afterwards. So it is worth to organise it

Understanding is key for agile

Understanding is key for agile

Agile Introduction

Agile Introduction

Proper Agile Introduction to the company - see how to do it

Agilopolis Community Day 7

Agilopolis Community is proud to invite you for the w Agilopolis Community Day 7, that will be held on 04.03, 18:00 in Wrocław
The details of location and exact schedule you will find in invitation that is availabel after registering through this website.

It is a first lecture of a new series: “Agile – Theory vs Experience (ATE)”. It is planned as a series of short lectures or presentations of practicioner observations, experiences and best practices followed by fierce discussion. The goal is to go through all SCRUM components.

Scrum Master - shall it be a team member

During Agilopolis Community Day 6 there has been interesting discussion about Scrum Master as team member. Both sides got good arguments behind.

For Scrum Master as team members there were following arguments: When team is small Scrum Master from outside is just another "overhead" for the team, role can't be rotated and not all team members can understand the responsibilty of Scrum Master,

Agilopolis Community Day 6

Agilopolis Community is proud to invite you for the w Agilopolis Community Day 6, that will be held on 19.01 in Wrocław. The details of location and exact schedule you will find in invitation that is availabel after registering through this website.

Meeting agenda:
Why scrum works while implemented properly? by Katarzyna Terlecka (NSN) & Marcin Galkowski

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Very Merry Xmas and a Happy, Healthy and Successful 2010

Peace, Frieden, Paz, Joy, Joyeux Noel, Shalom, God Ful,
Frohe Weihnachten, Buon Natale, Prettige Kerstdagen,
Prosit Neujahr, Meilleurs Voeux, Paix,... to all Agilopolis Members!

Agilopolis Team

Agilopolis Community Day 5 - Meeting Summary

Dear *,

Thanks for a great meeting and valuable discussion!
There was about 21 people present including 6 very happy employees of Volvo IT :).

We have started with round robin round where each of us had an great opportunity to introduce and say some words about himself. During the session we have noticed that we have community members that are coming not only from corporations, but also from mid- and small-businesses. We have had 2 girls among participants ;-)!

Agilopolis Community Day 5

Agilopolis Community is proud to invite you for the w Agilopolis Community Day 5, that will be held on 10.12 in Wrocław.
The details of location and exact schedule you will find in invitation that is availabel after registering through this website.

Meeting agenda:
Corporate Agile - on example of Scrum in Volvo IT by Tomasz Skawinski & Rafal Likitarczuk (Volvo)
Presentation will focus on Volvo IT adoption of SCRUM to corporate reality.
Constraints but also support coming from global organization will be
highlighted. Following content will be presented:

Agilopolis Community Day 4 - Meeting Summary

Meeting place: Research&Engineering Center, Wroclaw, Strzegomska 46A,
Date & Time: 18:00, 22.10.2009
Duration: 2,0 hours

Meeting Summary:
Marcin presented real examples and tinyPM at work. Moreover, there were some cooking secretes related to how it is developed and about its philosophy.
There was also very interesting discussion regarding 'agile in corporation'. Maybe a good topic for next meeting? (maybe Tomasz will volunteer :)?)
The meeting was closed with drawing of prizes provided by Marcin.

tinyPM:

Agilopolis Community Day 4

Agilopolis Community is proud to invite you for the w Agilopolis Community Day 4, that will be held on 22.10 in Wrocław
The details of location and exact schedule you will find in invitation that is availabel after registering through this website.

Meeting agenda:
Agile Tooling - tiny PM by Marcin Niebudek
tinyPM is a lightweight browser-based agile project management tool created
with usability in mind.

The session will be a live demo walking through the most important tinyPM 2.0
features and agile practices that are supported by the tool including:

Agilopolis Community Conference 2 Summary

Unfortunately, second Agilopolis Community Conference should be refered in a past tense now :(. But on the other hand, all great memories and lot of acquired knowledge will stay with us forever!

Conference was opened by Ewa Schumacher and introduction of moderator - Lukasz Jastrzebski (NSN).
Moderator introduced basic rules of Open Space Technology, which were pretty simple.


Main Goal: solve concrete problems, get some real conclusions

Agilopolis Community Conference #2

2009-09-23: Agilopolis Community Conference 2 is now only history - sad but unfortunately true. Summary of conference is available here.

Agilopolis Community Conference #2

Unfortunately. Roman Pilcher informed us that he cannot participate in our Conference. Despite of that, the team would like to invite you to second Agilopolis Community Conference #2, which will be held on 22 September 2009, in Wroclaw, Poland.

Agilopolis Community Day 3 - Meeting Summary

Meeting place: Silver Forum, Wroclaw, Strzegomska 2,
Date & Time: 18:00, 31.08.2009
Duration: 2,5 hours

Meeting summary:
Third Agilopolis Community Meeting is already only a memory. Very exciting, but unfortunately only a memory. Agilopolis team hopes that these minutes will give you at least small possibility to leave through it once more.

Word of the day: unassailable = niepodwazalny

According to schedule, there were three topics planned for ACD3:

  • Kanban vs Agile
  • Motivation
  • Testing in agile

Agilopolis Community Conference

Due to change/withdraw of Roman Pilcher - after finalization of organization with us - Agilopolis Community Conference (ACC) has changed its scope. All people how have bought tickets for the ACC will get their money back and as satisfaction will be given a free admission for Agilopolis Community Conference. Due to many requests from Agilopolis Members we proudly present the second Agilopolis Community Conference, which will be held on 22 September 2009, in Wroclaw, Poland.

Agilopolis Community Day 3

Agilopolis Community is proud to invite you for the w Agilopolis Community Day, that is planned on 31.08 in Wrocław
The details of location and exact schedule you will find in invitation that is availabel after registering through our website: http://agilopolis.pl/content/agilopolis-community-day-3

Presentation and agenda for the meeting
Kanban in IT - by Marcin Koltonowski. How and if the idea of Kanban can be used in Agile or IT.

Agilopolis Community Day

Agilopolis Community Conference Summary

Agilopolis Community Conference is coming back to Wroclaw...

Conference: 18.06.2008

This first semi-annual Wroclaw Agile Community Conference designed for team leads, team members and project management is back! There is no other event in the Poland with similar opportunities for learning, networking, and tracking innovation occurring in the Agile communities.

Picture gallery is available here.

Great Speech

I have stumbled upon a great speech by Steven Jobs at Stanford University.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA&feature=related

What is so fascinating is that Steven does not use any presentation techniques, it is his speech, content that keeps listener on the edge. Mix of personal experience, wisdom and good placed jokes.

Whenever you create presentation, please take a look at this speech for inspiration and guidelines.

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