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Agile.NET Conference…

April 8, 2010

On April 30th, Improving Enterprises and Microsoft are hosting the Agile.NET conference at Microsoft’s Irving office. It’s a conference that will showcase agile principles and practices as well as tools in the .NET ecosystem. I’m excited to be doing a talk on git as it’s become a big point of evangelism for me personally but I’m also interested to hear some of the other tracks of great speakers.

Regardless of whether you’re new to agile concepts or already moving towards adoption, you will have an informative and good time. Space is limited so be sure to go sign up while there are still spaces available.

David O’Hara is a Principal with Improving Enterprises in Dallas, Texas.

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Improving Podcasts…

August 11, 2009

My first podcast (the fifth for the series) is up – we discussed technical presentations and had a great time doing so. I’m very fortunate to work with such great people and had a wonderful time. Thanks to Allen and Mike for moderating and putting the whole thing together.

Check it out at: Improving Podcasts

David O’Hara is a Principal with Improving Enterprises in Dallas, Texas.

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AgileDotNet Conference…

November 11, 2008

AgileDotNet Conference 2008
This Friday, Improving Enterprises and Microsoft are putting on a 1-day FREE (as in beer) conference to showcase agile methods in a .NET ecosystem. I will be giving my “Refactoring To Patterns” talk on the development track but there will also be two other tracks (Biz/PM related & Requirements/QA related) and number of knowledgeable speakers. I’m really looking forward to hanging out with folks and sharing ideas on how we can better promote and utilize the systems we work with to adopt agile practices and principles.

Regardless of whether you’re new to agile concepts or already moving towards adoption, you will have an informative and good time. If you’re interested, go sign up while there are still spaces available.

David O’Hara is a Principal with Improving Enterprises in Dallas, Texas.

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APLN Leadership Summit Dallas…

January 30, 2008

The Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) is having their leadership summit here in Dallas on February 21-22 and Improving Enterprises is lucky enough to be the title sponsor for it. As a result, I’m able to pass along a 10% discount if you register thru this link. It looks like it’s going to be a pretty intense event with some great speakers – you can get more information from their site.

David O’Hara is a Senior Consultant with Improving Enterprises in Dallas, Texas.

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Announcement: Silverlight DevCamp

October 13, 2007

Silverlight

I’ve (mostly) enjoyed the stuff that I’ve done in WPF but I haven’t had a chance to dig into Silverlight quite yet so I’m really excited that we’re hosting a FREE Silverlight DevCamp on November 10th. Given the recent announcements and the fact that it’s cross-browser and cross-platform, I really believe there are some things coming out of Redmond that show they’re listening. Now it’s up to us to figure out the best ways to use them. In case you’ve not heard about Silverlight, here’s the standard pitch:

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the web. It offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby and integrates with existing web applications. Even more, Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality and rich multimedia to all major browsers running on Mac OS, Windows and soon to be on Linux as well.

So join us for an all day event on Saturday, November 10th and get your learn on. We’ll have experienced developers to help answer any questions you might have and to show off a few of the cooler bits of the technology. We’re even going to build our own applications to compete for prizes. Bring your laptop, bring your ideas and let’s see what shakes out.

Details:
Event ID: 1032353469
November 10, 2007 from 8am to 8pm
Improving Enterprises
15950 Dallas Parkway
Suite 500
Dallas, TX 75248
Register on Microsoft World Wide Events

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