This is very cool, on March 14th the Edmonton Agile Methods User Group will be holding its first meeting.  The group is language agnostic so as long as you are interested in learning about Agile methods you are welcome to attend. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP on this thread to give the organizers a better idea of how many people will be attending.

Here are the details:

EAMUG FIrst Meeting!
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First off, I would like to thank Rod for obtaining a room for us to hold EAMUG's first meeting! I will do an introductory presentation about agile methods that will last about an hour and a half. I expect we'll probably have another half hour of discussion afterward. I will try to cover the following topics during the presentation:

• Why agile methods? Here I will talk briefly about the origins of  agile methods and the problems they are meant to resolve. 
• Scrum - I will outline the basic techniques of the Scrum project management methodology. 
• XP - I will outline the basic values and practices of XP. Many agile projects combine Scrum as a generic project management methodology with XP for the aspects of the project that are specific to software development. 
• Finally I will discuss some caveats - dangers and pitfalls faced by agile projects. Also I may bring up some of the impediments to adoption of agile practices and how those may be overcome.

LOCATION AND DATE:
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115 in IBM's Innovation Centre (10044 108 St. main floor) for Wednesday March 14 at 6PM onwards.  It holds maximum 54 people and comes with a projector to use.To get into the centre, just enter through the main doors of the building on 108 St. just behind the IBM sign (the building is actually  called 44 Capital Boulevard).  The centre is located behind the big glass doors. We will make sure the building and centre doors are open between 5:50 and 6:10.  If you arrive after 6:10 and the doors are locked, please ask the security desk if he can let you into the Innovation Centre to attend the EAMUG meeting in room 115.  I'll make sure the security desk has the heads up for you.