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March Agile East Anglia Meeting Roaring Success

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Monday 26th March was the date for the fourth Agile East Anglia meeting. It followed two well attended pub meets and an over subscribed presentation on Agile User Stories from Rachel Davies. Once again the venue was the Assembly House in Norwich, where Allan Kelly presented his Dialogue Sheets to a full house. The meeting attracted a far more diverse crowd this time with more companies represented and a number of people coming from Ipswich, including Vaughan Clarke from Ifftner who wrote this review:

http://www.ifftner.com/news/article/61-Agile

Our next event is on Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and is on 7th June. Agile East Anglia will soon be changing both its regular venue and it’s name in order to appeal, not just to the local Agile community but to the wider software community within Norwich and the surrounding area.

Watch this space. There are exciting times ahead!

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  1. dmac2 April 2012 at 21:02

    Another excellent meeting and great to see a group of people from a broad range of local organisations. Well done for organising Paul and I'm looking forward to the next one in June.

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  2. Anonymous9 April 2012 at 09:27

    Paul thanks for a great session which was professional, friendly and insightful to a new twist on retrospectives. I will be looking forward to the next session on BDD,

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  3. Paul Grenyer10 April 2012 at 11:26

    Thanks! It's always good to get feedback and professional and friendly is exactly what we're aiming for. It's always good to know who is giving us the praise too! Care to share your name?

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