Girl Geek Dinners Ottawa

Join us Tuesday, May 25 as our guest speaker Ellen Grove, an experienced Agile coach and software tester, discusses how to apply Agile principles and practices to all kinds of endeavours, from software development to social change.

Ellen will present OpenAgile, a non-software-focused approach to Agile work that emphasizes truthfulness, consultative decision-making and constant learning. OpenAgile enhances the ability of individuals, teams, and organizations to deliver value to their stakeholders by developing human capacity, improving processes, and, most importantly, encouraging rapid and deep learning.

Event Details

• When: Tuesday, May 25 at 6 p.m.
• Where: Johnny Farina – 216 Elgin Street, between Lisgar and Cooper

To join us, please register here.

Hey students!

Thanks again to generous sponsorship from Joe Thornley of Thornley Fallis, we can offer six student spots to this event. If you are a student wishing to attend, please leave a comment below indicating why or what you want to learn about Agile. The first six students to respond will receive complimentary registration and dinner (up to $25).

A little bit about Ellen

Ellen Grove helps teams make better software through coaching them to create the circumstances in which they can work most productively and effectively. Her Agile coaching practice is founded in over 10 years experience leading software testing, development and implementation teams in global enterprises, a passion for exploratory software testing and user-centered design, and a background in community organization.

She uses team-building and facilitation approaches to support the transition to collaborative Agile work practices at the team, managerial and corporate level, and has conquered the challenges of extending Scrum roll-outs to off-shore development partners and multi-site project teams.

Outside the office, Ellen applies her coaching talents and creativity to keeping her household menagerie of husband, children, dogs, cats, goats, snakes, spiders and birds happy and healthy. Ellen blogs at Mastering the Obvious.

So we’ve been trying to launch Girl Geek Dinner in Ottawa for a few months now (actually Mel Gallant and Veronica Giggey have been thinking about it even longer!) and it’s been decided it’s *officially* launching in September. If you haven’t heard, Girl Geek Dinners was started in London, England by Sarah Blow as an event for geeky girls everywhere to get together, mix and mingle, learn something new and eat some great food.

However, before we kick things off, we want your help–we want to make sure that Girl Geek Dinner Ottawa is a) well attended, b) adding value to your life and c) tons of fun! So we’re inviting all geeky girls in Ottawa to our pre-launch kick-off party on Monday, July 6. It’s free to attend, but we ask you to please register in advance so we can give the venue accurate numbers.

Come, meet and greet, have some food and drinks and most importantly tell us what YOU want to see at Girl Geek Dinners. We’d love your feedback on everything from venues, speakers, time, day of the week–just let us know whatever you want and we’ll do our best to accommodate and make it the best geeky girl event in Ottawa!

Hope to see you there! Remember, Monday, July 6, 7 p.m. at the Fox and the Feather pub on Elgin Street. Don’t forget to register!