The next Agile KC meeting will be Thursday January 27, 2011 at the
Pizza Shoppe at 6:30 PM. For directions and a map, please visit
www.agilekc.org

The meeting topic will be: Story Sizing, an honest conversation about
what works and more importantly what doesn’t.

Bob Hartman will lead the group in a discussion of sizing; considering
questions like:
- How does sizing stories work in the real world?
- Should we always size stories?
- What should we do when we find that our direction has shifted and
our sizes are off?
- How should we start sizing stories?
- What are some pitfalls to success when sizing?

This will be an informal presentation and your questions are needed to
make the evening relevant to you and your projects. If you have run
into some challenges in your work when it comes to sizing and
measuring velocity, this is a good session for you. If you want to get
better predictability from sprint to sprint, this is a good session
for you. Since sizing touches on a lot of different areas of agile
development, this is probably a good session for you. So grab some
coworkers and join us on the 27th.!

Bob Hartman (Agile Bob) is a Certified Scrum Trainer and Certified
Scrum Coach who founded Agile For All and the Agile Cooperative. He
has helped organizations including HP, Western Union, Pearson
Education, University of Iowa, Siemens Medical Diagnostics and
Standard & Poors implement or significantly improve their Agile and
Scrum use. After serving in every position in development from tester
to Vice President, he believes in a holistic approach to product
development where every team member is treated as a valuable person
not a resource. This is particularly important during estimation and
planning which is why this topic is so important.

Bob trains or coaches over 700 people per year and reaches several
hundred more through speaking engagements with user groups and
conferences. He hopes to leave each person with a passion to keep
improving their Agile/Scrum knowledge, experience and execution.