rob purdie
hello! i'm rob purdie. i live in brooklyn, work for IBM, organize the NYC scrum user group and my MBTI is INFJ just like gandhi and camus!

on the importance of done

Rob is ready to present
photo by ezragildesgame, august 2010

greetings from copenhagen! i've been here all week attending drupalcon, where ezra gildesgame and i got to present on what "done" means at the economist.

video from web content 2010

like i said in a previous post, back in june i was invited by michael silverman of duo consulting to present at web content 2010. duo has posted videos of all the presentations from the conference now - the video of mine is above :)

presenting at agile nyc next week

i'm on itunes!

i'm presenting at the june meeting of agile NYC next week - joe krebs interviewed me for the agile NYC podcast to promote the event :)

transforming the economist online using scrum

earlier this week i got to go to chicago for the first time (w00t!) to present at web content 2010. slides above and here. thanks to the good people at duo consulting for inviting me and to my backchannel tweeps for their support. also: shout-outs to @benbrown, @eaton, @halvorson, @karenmcgrane, @robert_rose and @spenceke. great to see you all :)

nyc scrum user group - may meeting

NYC Scrum User Group

the may meeting of the nyc scrum user group at the economist in midtown east is this thursday!

please join us for the third installment of the this is how we do it presentation series! this month, pat guariglia of vrsurgeon will present on how he has done scrum while working with a new york state government agency!

nyc scrum user group - march meeting

NYC Scrum User Group

the march meeting of the nyc scrum user group at the economist in midtown is next week!

please join us for the second installment of the this is how we do it presentation series! this month, stacia viscardi (formerly broderick) of agile evolution will present on how a number of organizations she's worked with in the past have done scrum. a bit of a compare and contrast, if you will :)

nyc scrum user group - february meeting

NYC Scrum User Group

the february meeting of the nyc scrum user group at the economist in midtown is next week!

inspired by the subtitle of henrik kniberg's excellent scrum and xp from the trenches ("how we do scrum") and way less so (but still a little bit) by montell jordan's 1995 billboard hot 100 hit "this is how we do it", i found a presenter for this month's meeting, for what i hope will become a presentation series — the this is how we do it presentation series!

video from drupalcamp stockholm

back in november i was invited by the very nice people at nodeone to present at drupalcamp stockholm, which was awesome. i'd never been to sweden before, frankie came with me, and the conference itself was on a boat.