Announcing the Scandinavian Agile Conference

It's official! The first Agile Finland initiated full-day event is scheduled to take place on October 29, 2008. Mark your calendars - it's going to be a great experience!

Again, more information is available on the mailing list.

Agile Finland ry has been registered

Agile Finland ry (association) has been registered! This is a big change in terms of the community's ability of owning materials, acting as a legal entity, and therefore engaging in commercial contracts, for example to organize an event with the help of a professional event coordinator etc.

More information and instructions for joining the association can be found from the mailing list.

In particular, you might be interested in attending the first general meeting on June 16th. Again, more information is available on the mailing list behind the above link.

Agile Seminar in Helsinki on March, 4th

The next Agile Seminar will be organized on March 4th, 2008, in Helsinki! For more information, see the event description over here.

Tieturi organizes seminar on agile software development

There will be a seminar on Agile software development, taking place on the 17th of January, 2008, in Helsinki at the Royal at Crowne Plaza. The seminar is organised by Tieturi Oy, the leading provider of Project Management and ICT training in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

The seminar explores the following themes:

• Extreme programming practises and tools on different platforms
• Practical experiences and implementations of Scrum projects
• Test Driven Development: The method behind the acronyms
• Product management in an Agile environment

For more information, please visit tieturi.fi/ketteraohjelmistokehitys.

Agile Finland Seminar is right around the corner!

On October 14th, 2006, I sent an email to the AgileFinland Yahoo! group about the next Agile Seminar taking place only 9 days later. Guess what? Everything went well even with such a short notice so this time we decided to improve and give you an even shorter notice.

Ok. That's not the real reason. We were (I was) just not getting anywhere with the Fall seminar until three fine individuals stepped up to the plate and made it happen in a snap.

So the next Agile Finland Seminar is going to take place on October 3rd, only a week from now, and I most certainly am looking forward to a great seminar!

For more information about and instructions for registering to the seminar, visit events.agilefinland.com.

Lasse

Agile Finland members get a group discount from NFJS eXchange 2007

Joanna Go from Skills Matter just dropped me a mail about Agile Finland members getting a group discount from the upcoming NFJS eXchange 2007 conference. See the Yahoo! group for details.

Lasse

HACKED

That's it. We got hacked over the weekend. Someone had gotten hold of the hosting providers' customers' FTP passwords and wreaked havoc by replacing all HTML files with link spam.

It turns out that the backup system wasn't quite up to par either as the available backups were all contaminated so we basically lost some of the static content on this very web page.

The good news is that I'll take this as an opportunity to install a proper database-driven CMS to make it easier to update content on this site. Anyway, for now, don't expect to see any relevant content here -- I'll notify the Yahoo! mailing list when the new website is up and running.

Over and out.

Lasse