Friday, October 7, 2011

Scrum Master in the Metro DC area

Scrum Master
 A cleared program in Reston, VA has a requirement for an experienced, Certified Scrum Master to lead one or more Agile teams in developing new applications, maintaining and enhancing existing applications, and delivering infrastructure improvements for a Government customer, using the Scrum and/or Kanban methodologies. 

The Scrum Master will be responsible for ensuring team accountability, team results, team performance of Agile methodologies, establishment of appropriate sprint cycles, conduct of quality control gates and effective retrospectives, and team member ownership of impediments for removal or escalation.  The Scrum Master will be the primary contact for the Government for the product planning, product backlog management, release management, agile approach tuning, roadmap management, results reviews, metrics provision, review, and interpretation, and retrospective handling for the team(s). 
Candidate will be responsible for the overall execution of the releases, and participate directly in leading activities and monitoring progress using metrics with minimal supervision.
Basic Qualifications:
Current and active TS clearance with the ability to obtain SCI required.  Bachelors Degree and a minimum of  9 years experience (4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree) in a related IT position with experience throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).  Formal Scrum Master training and certification (certification through Government customer may be considered).  Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master using Agile Scrum methodologies.  Knowledge and understanding of Kanban processes.  Strong facilitation and leadership skills, including leading small teams and managing projects and /or activites through to completion.  Strong customer interface skills; ability to work directly with Government customer as well as with technical performers. 

Desired Qualifications:
Leadership experience (e.g, release manager, technical leadership, small projects).  Experience establishing new Scrum teams and facilitating orientation to Agile processes.  Hands-on experience in one or more technical areas relating to software development projects (systems engineering, software development using Java, Ruby on Rails, other web technologies, software testing, etc.) will be considered a plus. 

For consideration send resumes to jolucas@caci.com

Design Patterns: Template Method and Strategy 10-13 Presentation Columbia MD

Scott Stanchfield will be presenting at the next JUG meeting. Scott works at
APL and teaches Design Patterns at JHU.
He also hosts the http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=www.javadude.com&usg=AFQjCNGLrcMvPs0Gr9i4xFrMj0BZPdr9qg Web Site.

Applied Physics Lab Parsons Auditorium
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 20723-6099


Design Patterns: Template Method and Strategy

Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm (60-90 min talk)
Presenter: Scott Stanchfield
Let’s talk about Design Patterns!
Patterns are all about communicating your design intent in a concise
manner through a common vocabulary. Many of the common Design
Patterns are techniques you already know and use! By naming them you
can communicate your design structure in a few words rather than a
20-minute conversation. Template Method and Strategy are two very
useful patterns that work quite well together, allowing you to reuse
parts of an algorithm while changing other parts depending on your
application. I'll walk through some examples of how you can change the
behavior while walking a data structure, and how your design choices
can affect maintainability of the application.


As usual, Pangia Technologies, LLC a CACI Company will provide food and door
prize.


We look forward to seeing you there.



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