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May 17 2012 – Agiletea Camp

May 012012

I am pleased to announce the next Agiletea Camp – Thursday 17 May from 4pm.

This month featuring 3 great sessions:

Mary McKenna ( @MMaryMcKenna ) is the Director of Learning Pool, the successful winner of last year’s No.10′s Innovation Launch Pad for entrepreneurs. She has perviously been a Director at Agility Consulting. Mary will talk briefly about how Learning Pool has created a viable business model around open source technology in a way that saves customers money, provides flexibility and encourages public sector customers to share and collaborate with each other.

Malcolm Lowe, deputy SRO for Agile , will introduce the new HM Government Agile community site, being launched at Agile Tea.

Paul Dolman-Darrall from Emergyn will be giving you his personal perspective of the story of one of the most Agile projects government has ever seen but never realised. Called ‘The four weeks that saved Ed Balls’ this is the 4 weeks following the nightmare that became true for Ed Balls who faced pressure both within the Common’s and front page news when ETS failed to deliver a £156m SATS scoring system.

Time and place

17th May – Just come along, there is no need to book
Cafe Zest, 4pm – 6pm at 2nd floor House of Fraser, 101 Victoria St London SW1E 6QX

Mar 152012

This month featuring:

Les Oliver from Connections Agile Services will be updating us on progress of the joint-approach to the Agile Transformation Programme to the Ordnance Survey organisation, the progress to date and the challenges encountered along the way.

Ebrahim Gora from the NAO will be telling us about 2 pieces of work currently underway on Agile. This work is to create an awareness of agile projects underway across government, assist in information exchange between these projects and identifying organisations with skills and experienced people who could possibly help with the cross-government piece and to help build a wider support and information sharing network.

Time and place

15th March – Just come along, there is no need to book
Cafe Zest, 4pm – 6pm at 2nd floor House of Fraser, 101 Victoria St London SW1E 6QX

Feb 162012

Come along to the 2nd TeaCloud Camp being held on the Thursday 16th Feb between 4 – 6pm.

To register your place at TeaCloud, please respond to Abby Peel by Feb 3rd.

This month:

Denise McDonagh will provide both an operational and a programme view of Cloud, from her position as Director of ICT for Home Office, and Deputy Programme Lead for the G-cloud for Government. She will update on the progress with new G-cloud framework and will offer her views on how Government is progressing with the challenge of the ‘Unacceptable’. Denise will also talk about using cloud services in government and getting to grips with the Government Application Store.

James Smith who works with Tonino Ciuffini, Head of Information Assets at Warwickshire County Council, a foundation partner on the government’s G-Cloud programme with talk about their recent project migrating the email service from on-premise to Google Apps public cloud solution providing insight into lessons learned and top tips.