By Tony Collins
Anyone interested in agile techniques – users and suppliers, public and private sectors – is invited to share ideas at a London Tea Party on 22 September at the Cafe Zest, 2nd Floor of the House of Fraser on Victoria Street, from 4pm – 6pm.
It is arranged by Abby Peel who has recently joined Mark O’Neill in the Innovation and Delivery team within the Government Digital Service. Peel is Head of Community.
Peel says that “AgileTea” is an informal get-together for those who work with agile methods, are interested in it, or who know nothing about it but want to know more.
An example of agile in government is the Government e-petitions website which was launched recently to much public interest after being developed by the Innovation team in six weeks.
AgileTea will be the first of a regular series of informal, BarCamp style events that will bring together like-minded people to hear, contribute and engage in discussion of agile methods.
Each meeting will have guest speakers. Anyone can ask to give a short presentation of up to 10 minutes. At the first AgileTea speakers will be Richard Pawson from Naked Objects who’ll talk on “Experience of very large scale agile development at the Irish Department of Social Protection” and Mark Foden of Foden Grealy who’ll speak on “Where agile fits”.
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