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May 2008 Meeting

Agile Development: Challenges in Transforming Technical Communications Departments

Mike Wethington is a Certified Scrum Practioner who runs the Agile Development and Technical Communications group at the The Content Wrangler Community. He is the manager of technical communications at Troux Technologies. Due to an interest expressed in Agile at previous DITA user group meetings, he has agreed to present an overview of Agile, give a SCRUM case study from Troux, discuss documentation and the vertical paradigm and offer some Agile keys to success.

Presenter

Mike Wethington, manager of technical communications at Troux Technologies.

Meeting Details

When

Wednesday May 21, 2007, 7:00 - 9:00 pm Central

Where

• Freescale Parmer facility (North Austin), C building (directions below)
• 7700 West Parmer Lane Austin TX 78729 (Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.)

Agenda

• 7:00-7:30 General announcements and networking
• 7:30-8:30 Agile Development: Challenges in Transforming Technical Communications Departments
• 8:30-9:00 Q&A

Directions

• Google Maps link to the Freescale campus: http://tinyurl.com/ymts97
• JPEG satellite photo of the campus: http://tinyurl.com/yeecnx

The photo has a marker showing the Building C entrance at the north side of the campus. If you turn off of Parmer at the main entrance, you'll need to skirt around the west side of the buildings to get to the C entrance. If you head east/northeast on Anderson Mill from Parmer, you'll find the "back entrance" that feeds directly to the Building C entrance.

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