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Cincinnati Day of Agile and Cincy.Develop()

Bringing a first-class Agile and Developer conference back to the Ohio Tristate area, with access to the latest in agile education, processes, and methodoligies. The conference will feature talks on web, mobile, and cloud, given by industry leaders from all across the US.

Agile 2017

Agile 2017 and the Agile Alliance are dedicated to furthering Agile principles and providing a venue for people and ideas to flourish. This is where the Agile tribes meet!

Agile Camp Northwest

Agilists from across the Pacific Northwest will converge at the Nike World Headquarters for a career changing day.

Distributed agile teams: 8 hacks that make them work

Many organizations find themselves faced with the challenge of making distributed agile work. Mergers and market consolidation, geographic expansion, and offshoring have made multi-site development the norm rather than the exception. Companies with sites in competitive labor markets can find distributed team members as an alternative when they can’t recruit locally.

What is that agile certification really worth?

Any agile certification that doesn't require candidates to have some kind of hands-on, practical training or testing is detrimental, not just for the candidates, but for organizations that hire them and for the software development field in general, says Dave West, product owner at Scrum.org, which provides professional assessments, training in scrum and agile principles and certifications.

Everything You Need to Know About Scrum

Scrum is an overall approach to problem solving that avoids strict specifics versus a rigid, step-by-step set of instructions, according to Eric Naiburg, Vice President of Marketing at Scrum.org. Because teams, people, and projects change and evolve over time, “ having a single way to do something just doesn’t enable growth,” Naiburg says. Simply put: Scrum is the opposite of a to-do list—instead, it’s a way of approaching group projects with flexibility.