[socal-piggies] Fwd: [xpsocal] Invitation to shopzilla's 1st agile cocktail - with special guest Ron Jeffries

[Grig Gheorghiu]

FYI...should be fun, wish I could go...

Grig

--- chrislouvion <chrislouvion at yahoo.com> wrote:

> To: xpsocal at yahoogroups.com
> From: "chrislouvion" <chrislouvion at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:10:19 -0000
> Subject: [xpsocal] Invitation to shopzilla's 1st agile cocktail -
> with special guest Ron Jeffries
> 
> 
> This is an invitation to Shopzilla <http://www.shopzilla.com/> 's
> first
> agile cocktail on April 5th, in Los Angeles, with special guest Ron
> Jeffries <http://www.xprogramming.com/> .
> 
> Why a cocktail?
> Why not? Do we really need special occasions to have fun?
> Here's the official story  -- the one I'll put on my expense report
> ;)
> 
> I started the first scrum pilot at Shopzilla over 18 months ago; we
> are
> now scrumming with over 100 people.
> In the quest to enterprise agility, we believe we still have a lot to
> learn, change, experiment, fail, change, play with, and change more.
> To that end, we are looking to meet and connect with software
> companies,
> technical leaders, software and QA engineers, product and business
> managers that have embraced scrum/XP as their software delivery
> cycle,
> here in sunny Los Angeles. We can exchange ideas, success and
> failure,
> practices etc.
> 
> So if you want to engage on a casual discussion on agile, please join
> us
> to our first agile cocktail.
> To make things even more interesting, Ron Jeffries will be our
> special
> guest.
> With a deep XP/scrum experience, a few books under his belt, frequent
> conference appearances and caustic sense of humor, you don't want to
> miss that!
> 
> If you're interested in coming, just send me an email (details
> below).
> 
> When:  April 5th, 5pm-7pm
> Where:  Shopzilla, 12200 W Olympic blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90064
> Contact:  christophe at shopzilla.com
> 
> Best,
> 
> Christophe Louvion
> Shopzilla.com
> Vice President Engineering/Process Innovation
> 
> About Shopzilla
> 
> With an index of over 30 million products from more than 75,000
> stores,
> gathered, organized and presented using all proprietary leading-edge
> technology, Shopzilla provides consumers the best way to find
> virtually
> anything for sale, anywhere, and at the best price. In addition to
> our
> flagship site (http://www.shopzilla.com), Shopzilla also powers
> shopping
> search for many of the Web's largest consumer sites including AOL,
> Lycos, Time Warner's RoadRunner, and many others.
> 
> At Shopzilla, our goal is to build the greatest shopping service ever
> conceived by mankind. To that end, we strive very hard to hire the
> smartest people. We're an environment where great ideas shape our
> vision and true passion drives us to the best solutions to the most
> challenging problems at the intersection of shopping and search.
> 
> Shopzilla offers great benefits including medical, dental and vision
> plans, life insurance, 401(k) plan, flexible spending account,
> generous
> vacation benefits -- and we even provide FREE catered lunch every
> single
> day!
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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