Cape Town SPIN

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Why only apply agile principles and practices when developing software? Why not be agile in life and in business as well? We have heard from a number of startups that do apply agile concepts in business. One of these companies is FireID. Malan Joubert, co-founder and CTO, will speak about the ways in which they have been able to iterate rapidly in the business domain, decrease the cost of learning and provide an agile roadmap for business development.

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Snacks kindly sponsored by Factor10.

Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

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Hey, it's 2010 already and to ease everyone into the year, we will try something a little bit different this month. Aslam Khan will host an OpenSpaces workshop for about an hour and a half followed by snacks and networking. The snacks are kindly sponsored by Intec.

• OpenSpaces Workshop - Aslam Khan

Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

Gert-Jan van Rooyen will introduce us to the research activities of the MIH Electronic Media Lab at the University of Stellenbosch. Their research focuses on using next-generation technologies to influence how we interact with computers, each other and reality.

• New Media for Interactions - Gert-Jan van Rooyen

Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

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Cloud computing receives a lot of attention these days. With prominent players such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Sun providing platforms, it is technology to take note of. Brian Silberbauer will introduce us to the cloud and share his experience using this growing technology.

Please also note that the yearly steering committee election will be held beforehand.

• Getting Your Head Around the Cloud - Brian Silberbauer
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

Some people's code are easier to read and understand than other's. Style, structure, variable names, comments and many more factors contribute to the differences. Marius de Beer will introduce us to Clean Code and share practical guidelines to make your code more understandable and look great.

• Clean Code - The Software Professional's imperative - Marius de Beer
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Wednesday, 16 September, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

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Herman Lintvelt presents a fun, practical workshop about GUI design. As an added bonus his company, Polymorph systems has also decided to bring some wine along to help set a more creative atmosphere and complement the snacks from Intec

• "Art is about freedom, Design is about constraints" - Herman Lintvelt
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

Hendrik Schalekamp will share with us the challenges of developing embedded software for the Joule electrical vehicle. The Joule is the creation of the Cape Town based Optimal Energy.

• Challenges developing embedded software for the Joule - Hendrik Schalekamp
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

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Maarten Roode presents a fun, interactive workshop on problem solving. His colleagues at Intec asked him for a repeat and now he is so kind as to present it at SPIN.

Please note that this meeting date has been moved from the originally proposed date of 17 June, to the new date of 24 June. Apologies for the late notification!

• THINK-THUNK - Maarten Roode - presentation slides

Wednesday, 24 June, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn Training Room
Cape Town

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Agile remains a hot topic. This week we will hear about adoption of Scrum in making large, complex products at Intec, an internationally successful South African business. At last month's presentation, mention of executable, customer readable requirements drew quite some discussion. Aslam presents more about that topic and other related techniques.

• Lessons learned in an Enterprise Scrum roll-out - Karen Greaves
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• Agile Requirements: Beyond Stickmen, Bubbles and Sticky Notes - Aslam Khan
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

This week, two people with wide and in-depth experience in delivering software in the real world share their thoughts on making the process more effecient and faster using better process and new tools to support that process.

• Aligning software development tools with the iterative approach - Christian Oloff
• Agile in ACTION: Solving the slow delivery of software - Tania van Wyk de Vries

Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town