David’s background in operations, agile production, and front-end development enables him to provide strong Scrum and Agile facilitation to a team.<\/p>\n
David’s career in digital products began while he was a production and product manager at the Financial Post and then at Canada NewsWire where his work focused on the publication of financial information products for the professional investor markets.<\/p>\n
More recently, he has focused on improving project results through the building of high-performance teams.<\/p>\n
Intro to Agile Practices<\/a> in the Agency track<\/a>.<\/p>\n The presentation intends to introduce participants to the Agile Manifesto<\/a> and then through a hands-on team-based exercise demonstrate show these principles in action.<\/p>\n I hope that participants will leave the session able to begin applying basic Agile methods to the development practices.<\/p>\n Since returning to Toronto in 2013 I’ve had first-hand experience working with agile producing large-scale projects. Its practices can help any project team produce better work and achieve more for their efforts.<\/p>\n Passing on Agile and Scrum concepts to other people seems the best way I can give back to the open-source community.<\/p>\n WordPress is a strong tool for the disintermediation of information.<\/p>\n That changes over time, but these days I rely on Clean Yeti Basic<\/a> as a starter theme. I’m a fan of Zurb Foundation<\/a> so this theme appeals to me.<\/p>\n Meeting new people and new ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David’s background in operations, agile production, and front-end development enables him to provide strong Scrum and Agile facilitation to a team. David’s career in digital products began while he was a production and product manager at the Financial Post and then at Canada NewsWire where his work focused on the publication of financial information products … Continue reading David Colburn<\/span> What do you want people to learn from your presentation?<\/h2>\n
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