On January 17th, I'll be giving a talk at Denver University on using Agile methodologies to manage GIS projects. Dr Joseph K. Berry asked me to talk as part of the Special Topics in GIS series of lectures. Although this is part of a course, the public is also welcome to attend. I will also be posting the slide deck.
The talk will focus on my team's implementation of Scrum on an enterprise GIS project. I'll cover the basics of Scrum, the benefits of agile management, as well as the available tools that help streamline the agile developer's life. I will also address the end-user benefits of using an agile process.
If you are in the Denver area and interested in attending, here's the course URL: http://www.innovativegis.com/basis/courses/GM_topics08
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