APLN Maryland Wiki
What is this wiki about? It's a site for the incipient Maryland Chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). The national APLN group is focused on making people great leaders by focusing on Value, Customers, Teams, Individuals, Context, and Uncertainty. The APLN Maryland Chapter is seeking individuals interested in sharing agile experiences, learning agile practices, and helping people become great project leaders.
News Flash!
The next APLN/GB SPiN Meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Timonium, MD. Megan Sumrell will present 'Agile Planning and Estimating'. Megan is a Director at Valtech with significant experience as an Agile Coach and QA. You'll want to bring your business partner to this meeting. For additional information, check out the NextMeeting page.
In April, we'll be back in Columbia. Hillel Glazer will present 'CMMI for Services'. Details to follow shortly.
Meetings
APLN-MD meets on the third Tuesday or Wednesday of each month unless special considerations dictate a change.
Because the Baltimore IT market covers such a wide area, APLN-MD meets in different locations, cycling from month to month. The hope is that these locations will be convenient enough that even people in Annapolis and Aberdeen, Gaithersburg and Frederick, and Havre de Grace and Belair will be able to attend at least half of the meetings. More centrally located people will find all of the meetings within reach.
Partnership with gbSPIN
In an effort to bring together the best ideas in software and project knowledge we are co-operating with the Greater Baltimore SPIN.
This "grand experiment" comes from the understanding that:
- Agile and CMMI share goals, albeit their means and maybe their motives are different.
- Neither Agile nor CMMI are right or wrong, there are only good and bad implementations of either.
- Bringing APLN and SPIN together can only be a good thing, if "produced" by the right people.
- Neither will go away any time soon, thus, helping each community understand the other is necessary and can't be avoided.
- It would be a service to both communities to have them understand each other and cooperate.
Communications
Mailing List
Please join our new mailing list to be sure you receive announcements and updates on meetings.
Email to the Chapter
Please send us a note at aplnmd@agilemaryland.org if you have something to tell us that doesn't belong on the list. This is also the address to use when you RSVP for a meeting.
DC APLN chapter
Our sister group in the DC area generally meets in Northern Virginia. For some of us in Maryland, that's a bit difficult to reach. I encourage you to check out what they're doing, though, and attend when you can.
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