Jenn Sramek's blog

On Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending (as a sponsor and learner) the Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in San Francisco.

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The 3rd Annual CLASSY Awards is the largest philanthropic awards ceremony in the country, recognizing outstanding philanthropic achievements by charities and individuals nationwide.

From now until June 19, America can visit www.classyawards.org to nominate in the following categories:

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In my last post I wrote about the important step we took in forming our single, large team into small, focused project teams (called Pods), and how we did that. Once we got the important step of generating Focus out of the way with the Pods, the way was clear, even though we could hardly believe it, to start to apply the Agile/Scrum process.

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In my last post, I wrote a little of the history of the process at CivicActions and how we started to adopt the Agile/Scrum process. The first big step toward that was the formation of what we call Pods, or focused project teams.

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"A Quiet Revolution" is how I can best describe the process by which CivicActions has, over the last two years, adopted the Agile/Scrum process as our means of working with clients, internal teams and one another. And it continues as we learn more, add team members, work with new clients and shift into our own, more functional and agile organizational structure.

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Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our panel discussion at DrupalCon Chicago, and contributed to such a lively and educational session. For those who were there and wished to have access to our slides and notes, as well as for those who were interested but unable to attend, we have posted them below.

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It is more than a month later, and I am still getting value out of my experience at She's Geeky in San Francisco. One of the most powerful sessions I attended was one by Lura Dolas, an acting coach, who also specializes in developing women's public speaking and presentation skills.

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As support for our panel session at DrupalCon Chicago on the topic of Lessons Learned from Agile Applied, and for all those who were not able to attend DrupalCon this time around, we have compiled our list of the top 5 resources to support Agile/Scrum development.

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I am excited once again to support the She's Geeky Bay Area un-conference both through our sponsorship and attendance.  This year's Bay Area conference is happening January 28 - 30th, 2011 in downtown San Francisco.

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After I found the right building amidst the chaos of a Big Game at UC Berkeley, BADCamp was a lot of fun. I spent the day on Saturday and attended a session by Hally Turner at Digital Rhino for those looking to break into the space. She gave a lot of good tips on the qualities that seem to define success in this community and specifically for web development shops.

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