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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2enclosuresfull.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><title>Agile Israel News</title><link>http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/default.aspx</link><description /><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007 (Build: 20416.853)</generator><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AgileIsraelNews" type="application/rss+xml" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><item><title>August 2007 @ Agile Israel</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AgileIsraelNews/~3/ZxM9-fDGfbA/august-2007-agile-israel.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:54:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">23a435e0-515b-467d-ba86-b6d13375d82b:185</guid><dc:creator>RoyOsherove</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=185</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/commentapi.aspx?PostID=185</wfw:comment><comments>http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/archive/2007/08/05/august-2007-agile-israel.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;When? August 29, 2007, 18:00- 21:00&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://agileisrael.eventwax.com/august-2007--agile-israel/register"&gt;You must confirm your registration here.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;there is a &lt;b&gt;limited &lt;/b&gt;number of seats.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Where? Ohel Shem Ramat Gan, Eshkol Hapais (&lt;a href="http://www.ohel-shem.com/subjects/eshkol/main/" target="_blank"&gt;more info&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;What do we eat? Cookies and coffee.. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Map: &lt;a href="http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/WindowsLiveWriter/August2007AgileIsrael_C38E/image.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/WindowsLiveWriter/August2007AgileIsrael_C38E/image_thumb.png" style="border:0px none;" alt="image" border="0" height="173" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;another map:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/WindowsLiveWriter/August2007AgileIsrael_C38E/image_2.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/WindowsLiveWriter/August2007AgileIsrael_C38E/image_thumb_2.png" style="border:0px none;" alt="image" border="0" height="143" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="http://www.d.co.il/?city=%F8%EE%FA%20%E2%EF&amp;amp;custId=64211500&amp;amp;esi=5b91028acdbe64e85e81085829f762d6&amp;amp;headingCode=8190&amp;amp;houseNum=118&amp;amp;language=HEB&amp;amp;page=Business-Features-Map&amp;amp;previousPage=Business-Customer&amp;amp;sessionId=128801186311961&amp;amp;street=%F8%E5%F7%E7" target="_blank"&gt;another map here&lt;/a&gt;(yes, I like maps).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In this meeting we will have two talks:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;18:00 - 19:15 Introduction to Agile Methodologies and Concepts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.ISerializable.com" target="_blank"&gt;Roy Osherove&lt;/a&gt;, Agile Lead, Sela&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In this talk we&amp;#39;ll take a dive into what Agile Methodologies are and how they differ from &amp;quot;classic&amp;quot; development methodologies. We&amp;#39;ll understand why many projects fail and see how Agile tries to minimize risks by using various techniques. We&amp;#39;ll also compare two leading Agile Methodologies: eXtreme Programming and Scrum.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;19:30 - 20:45 Scrum Planning&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;by &lt;a href="http://agileisrael.org/blogs/danko" target="_blank"&gt;Danny Kovatch&lt;/a&gt; (Danko), Agile Coach, Sela&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In this talk we&amp;#39;ll dive deep into the heart of Scrum, and see how planning works during and before a Scrum iteration. We&amp;#39;ll also review planning poker, a simple and effective strategy for managing estimations, with participation from the crowd. Come prepared!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If you are planning to show up, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://agileisrael.eventwax.com/august-2007--agile-israel/register"&gt;You must confirm your registration here.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;there is a &lt;b&gt;limited &lt;/b&gt;number of seats.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://agileisrael.org/cs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=185" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/archive/tags/Meeting+Announcements/default.aspx">Meeting Announcements</category><feedburner:origLink>http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/archive/2007/08/05/august-2007-agile-israel.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>How to open a blog on AgileIsrael.Org</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AgileIsraelNews/~3/qmzzGYZ4WXg/how-to-open-a-blog-on-agileisrael-org.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:44:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">23a435e0-515b-467d-ba86-b6d13375d82b:58</guid><dc:creator>RoyOsherove</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss>http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=58</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/commentapi.aspx?PostID=58</wfw:comment><comments>http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/archive/2007/07/09/how-to-open-a-blog-on-agileisrael-org.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#39;d like to open a blog here, do the following:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Register as a new user on this site  &lt;li&gt;Send an email to &lt;a href="mailto:Roy@AgileIsrael.org"&gt;Roy@AgileIsrael.org&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; with  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Your new user name  &lt;li&gt;requested blog title and blog url (/blogs/blogurl)  &lt;li&gt;Mention if you&amp;#39;d like the blog in hebrew or not (we are still working out the kinks of right-to-left stuff, but it will work for both browsers well eventually!)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;img src="http://agileisrael.org/cs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=58" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://agileisrael.org/cs/blogs/news/archive/2007/07/09/how-to-open-a-blog-on-agileisrael-org.aspx</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>
