Fall Public Training

Sept. 11, 2009 - Mayford Technologies will be offering sessions of Introduction to Agile Software Development and Agile Project Management this fall. The courses will be held at The Code Factory, 2nd Floor - 246 Queen Street, Ottawa, ON.

Agile Project Management - November 3-4 Ottawa, ON, Canada $1295 CDN (Register)

Introduction to Agile Software Development - October 22-23 Ottawa, ON, Canada $1295 CDN (Register)

Introduction to Agile Software Development - November 24-25 Ottawa, ON, Canada $1295 CDN (Register)

Agile Ottawa November Event - Agile Meetup at The Code Factory

November 20, 2008 - The Agile Ottawa Group will be meeting at The Code Factory on Monday, November 24th at 7:00 PM.

Agile Meetup 7-9PM, November 24, 2008
At the The Code Factory, 2nd Floor - 246 Queen Street, Ottawa, ON

Mayford Technologies is proud to be sponsoring this event, so there is no charge.

Agile Ottawa February Event - Scott Ambler of IBM with "Scaling Agile Development"

January 16, 2008 - The Agile Ottawa is pleased to host Scott Ambler of IBM presenting .

When: Wednesday, February 13th at 7:00 PM

Where: The "Theater" at BitHeads, 1309 Carling Ave. (Westgate Mall), at the entrance on the East side of the building

What: Scaling Agile Software Development

Abstract: The majority of organizations have gotten their feet wet with Agile software development techniques and are now hoping to take it to the next stage. However, they're discovering that the simple methodologies they initially adopted aren't sophisticated enough to address the complex situations the find themselves in. This presentation describes strategies for taking an Agile approach to distributed development teams, for addressing regulatory compliance requirements, for large teams, and for leveraging legacy assets. Techniques from the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile Modeling (AM), and Agile Data methodologies that are required to scale Agile will be described in detail in this presentation. Once you go beyond the Agile rhetoric you will find that you can in fact scale it to meet the complexities of the real-world situations you find yourself in.

Demand is expected to be high for this event, so please RSVP at    .

Agile Ottawa January Event - Kevin McGuire of IBM with "The Eclipse Milestone Process: The Inside Story"

January 2, 2008 - The Agile Ottawa group's first event of 2008 will be Kevin McGuire of IBM presenting "The Eclipse Milestone Process: The Inside Story".

When: Tuesday, January 15th at 7:00 PM

Where: The "Theater" at BitHeads, 1309 Carling Ave. (Westgate Mall), at the entrance on the East side of the building

What: The Eclipse Milestone Process: The Inside Story

Abstract: The Eclipse project has gained a reputation for consistent, on-time delivery of high quality software. An important ingredient of this success has been its milestone process. Get the inside scoop on how the milestone process came about, how it was refined, and the elements that make it work. Learn never before revealed secrets like why Everquest was influential. Hear the struggles the teams went through in initiating and refining the process. Determine whether you too can adopt such a strategy for your team or organization.

New article on the Mayford site
January 2, 2008 - Added "An Organizational Structure for Agile Projects", an Executive Report written by Dave Rooney for the Cutter Consortium, to the Articles page.

Agile Ottawa Special Event - Mike Milinkovich of the Eclipse Foundation

November 20, 2007 - The Agile Ottawa group is pleased to announce a special meeting featuring Mike Milinkovich, the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation.

When: Wednesday, December 5th at 7:00 PM

Where: The "Theater" at BitHeads, 1309 Carling Ave. (Westgate Mall), at the entrance on the East side of the building

What: "How Eclipse Does It"

Abstract: The Eclipse community has a truly enviable track record of shipping high-quality software releases on schedule. For the past five years, the Eclipse open source community has hit its release dates. And it does this in an environment that involves contributions from many different organizations from around the world. How does Eclipse do it?

If you or your organization deals with large-scale and/or distributed development and still want to be agile, this talk is for you! Please spread the word around to anyone you feel would be interested.

If you would like to attend, please RSVP at   .

The Project 911 Rescue Service!
March 12, 2007 - Added our new "Project Rescue!" service, providing help to teams facing issues or challenges in their current environment.

New on the Mayford web site
March 1, 2007 - Added "Investing in Agile: Aligning Agile Initiatives with Enterprise Goals", an article written for the Cutter Consortium's Cutter IT Journal, Feb. 2006 edition, to the Articles page.

Dave Rooney at XP Day 2006 Montréal

February 17, 2006 - Dave Rooney of Mayford Technologies will be attending XP Day 2006 Montréal on Sept. 23, 2006 as part of the experts panel.

For more information, go to the XP Day site.

New Training and Coaching Services

February 8, 2006 - Mayford Technologies Inc. announced today a new set of service and training offerings focusing on Enterprise Agility and Agile Software Development.

Dave Rooney, President and Principal Consultant of Mayford, detailed the new services:
"Agile Software Development has matured significantly, and its practices are being employed by a increasing number of development teams. What distinguishes our offerings is that we expand agility from individual teams to the whole enterprise, providing unprecedented visibiliy and accountability. We have developed training and coaching services for everyone from the Developers to the CxO level, moving agile practices outside of the IT organization for the first time."

For more information, visit our Services page.

Conference Announcement

January 27, 2006 - The Waterfall 2006 Conference was announced, to be held in Niagara Falls, NY on April 1, 2006.

Ottawa Agile/XP Meeting
January 24, 2006 - The Ottawa XP User Group, is hosting its first meeting of the new year on Tuesday, January 24, 2006.

Web Site Updates
January 9, 2006 - Our site has been updated somewhat, adding an Articles and Presentations page, and some minor format changes.

Mayford Presentation
June 2, 2005 - Dave Rooney presented Extreme Programming in the Wild at the DPI Professional Development Week. This presentation described the trials and tribulations of a team implementing XP on project at a Canadian Federal Government agency. The slides from the presentation are available on our Articles and Presentations page.

Ottawa Agile/XP and OJUG Presentation
April 28, 2005 - The Ottawa XP User Group, in conjunction with the Ottawa Java User Group, is pleased to be hosting Craig Larman.   Craig is the author of Applying UML and Patterns, now in it's 3rd edition, as well as Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide.

Mayford is Moving!
June 24, 2004 - Mayford Technologies is moving to a new location in Nepean, a suburb of Ottawa, ON. For our new contact information, go to our Contact page.

Mayford Presentation
May 28, 2004 - Dave Rooney presented Transitioning to Agile Software Development at the DPI Professional Development Week. The workshop highlighted the practices and motivations behind agile software development, and provided strategies for implementing agile development in the attendees' organizations.

Mayford Presentation
March 31, 2004 - Dave Rooney of Mayford Technologies was an invited panelist at the March 30th meeting of the Toronto Product Managers Association. The meeting's topic was Offshore Outsourcing, and its effect on software development.

Mayford Presentation
March 24, 2004 - Dave Rooney of Mayford Technologies was an invited panelist at the March 25th meeting of the Ottawa Software Executive Forum. The meeting's topic is "Extreme Programming and Agile Methods in the real-world".

New on our download page
Jan. 28, 2004 - Added the "Traversing Software´s Mile - XP Meets Corporate Reality" article to our downloads. This is an article written for the Cutter Consortium's Cutter IT Journal, Feb. 2003 edition. It was part of the XP and Culture Change series of articles.

New on the Mayford web site
Nov. 13, 2003 - Added a link to the Lean Programming web site on our Agile Development links page.

Mayford Presentation
Oct. 1, 2003 - Dave Rooney of Mayford Technologies spoke at the IBM Centers for Advanced Studies Conference in Toronto on Oct. 8, 2003. He was part of the panel in a workshop discussion of the effects on software methodologies of On-demand Computing.

XP Ottawa Test Driven Development Presentation
April 28, 2003 - The Ottawa XP User Group, in conjunction with the Ottawa Smalltalk User Group, hosted a Test Driven Development presentation by Dave Astels of Adaption Software. Dave is a co-author of The Practical Guide to Extreme Programming, and the author of the upcoming Test Driven Development: A Practical Guide.

Mayford Presentation
April 3, 2003 - Dave Rooney of Mayford Technologies, along with Nicole Martin of Public Works and Gonvernment Services Canada, presented to the "Quality in IT: From Theory to Reality" conference in Ottawa sponsored by Statistics Canada. Their presentation was entitled "Enabling Software Quality With Extreme Programming". The slides and accompanying paper are available on our download page.

Free Extreme Programming Overview presentation.
May 14, 2002 - As part of our Extreme Programming Consulting services, Mayford Technologies will come to your organization for a 2 hour presentation highlighting the benefits of using Extreme Programming.

For more information, go to XP Presentation.