The Ottawa Scrum Users Group is running a “Release Grooming Meeting” on Jan 28 at 6:30pm. Location the QNX offices 175 Terence Mathews Crescent Ottawa.

The agenda: January's meeting will be a round-table discussion on the 'Release Grooming Meeting'.

The product backlog for this meeting will be: Topics which the group would like to see over the next year.
A discussion topic for the initial backlog is:

• Storypoints - tips/tricks, estimating, absolute vs relative, maximum size, etc
• Business value vs ROI
• The lifecycle of a story
• Release planning meeting
• Focus on a Scrum role - Business Owner, Scrum Master, etc
• Scrum artifacts and their usefulness
• Adopting/Advocating Scrum
• The role of QA
• how do you know when a story is done?
• working with debts (design, testing, bugs)
• bug tracking systems: are they really needed?
• when Scrum doesn't work so well (e.g. software maintenance)
• what makes the perfect Scrum team (size, member profiles, skill sets, attitude, etc.)

Please feel free to add any other topics leading up to the meeting (via the Meetup group)

During the final third of the night, we will be discussing the idea of running our user group like a Scrum project.
Pizza and refreshments will be served!

For a variety of interesting reasons Ottawa has two Agile user groups – the Scrum Users Group and Agile Ottawa. Both groups are open and happy to help members of any Agile tribe.