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!

eduard and zuzi

Eduard and Zuzi
eduard and zuzi, two organizers of agile prague, gave a presentation on agile communication at the nyc scrum user group at large animal games last night. good people all around :)

next chapter

IBM - 590 Madison Ave
started working at IBM last week.

100 years, 427,000 people...and me - w00t!

hacks/hackers

P2PU logo

back in august, my good friend and colleague phillip smith of community bandwidth contacted me on behalf of the mozilla foundation asking if i'd participate in a course he was organizing in partnership with the hacks/hackers meetup group called "open journalism & the open web". he wanted me to give an online lecture on how journalists and developers (hacks and hackers) should work together to "take an idea from conception to launch". of course i said yes, and here's an audio recording of the talk. thanks, phillip and class!

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!

thank you, stacia viscardi!

Stacia Viscardi
i want to thank stacia viscardi of agileevolution for presenting at the march meeting of the nyc scrum user group last week! you were inspiring, stacia :)

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 :)