Theme: Agile Community Events

Dr. Dave (@DrCorneliusInfo) joins Vic (@AgileCoffee) for a beautiful morning on Huntington Beach discussing all manner of Agile community events: Agile Opens (and other open space uses), coaching retreats and camps, lean coffees, hackathons. Dave talks about the 5Saturdays model, and we tell how to find, get involved and host these activities.

This is one of my favorite episodes. In addition to the excellent scenery and the superb company, I very much enjoy talking about community events. Not only do I believe that community is important and fulfilling, but I have a penchant for organizing these activities.

For more information

Open Space:

History of Open Space

Harrison Owen's Guide to Open Space Technologies

Agile Opens:

Agile Open Southern California - Sept 10-11, 2015

Agile Open Northern California - Oct 9-10, 2015

Agile Open Northwest

Agile Coach Camps:

AgileCoachCamp.org

Agile Coach Camp US West 2015

Scrum Coaching Retreat Seattle 2015

LeanCoffee.org - includes listing of cities with lean coffees

5Saturdays.org - Dr.Dave's community learning initiative to bring Scrum and other skills into local high schools

ALICE - educational software that teaches computer programming in a 3D environment

Scrum Day San Diego and Scrum Day Orange County (Vic presented at both in each of their first years)

various others:

Play Camp (and Luke Hohmann's other ventures: Innovation Games and Conteneo)

Play4Agile

AgileGames (New England)

DevOps

AIN World Conference (Montréal, Sept 24-27, 2015 - organized by the AI Network)

Lego Serious Play (might have to search a bit to see if conferences are planned)

Finally, Vic ran a couple of Hackathons in the workplace...

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Coming up in episode 31 - I hold a lean coffee at a 5Saturdays event with a cast of new voices.

Further ahead in episode 32 - interviews from the 2nd annual Scrum Day San Diego.