http://upcoming.yahoo.com/search/?search_placeid=Zsexh3ibAZz8h3e3Cw All events in The West End on Upcoming. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:43:13 -0700 Upcoming 60 en-us ]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1195479/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1195479/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1195479/#comments 51.523 -0.1337 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:43:13 -0700 2008-10-09T12:43:13-07:00 Chinwag Live: MoSo rising 2008-11-11T18:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/43074/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/43074/ The Slug & Lettuce (Downstairs) 80-82 Wardour St London London W1F 0TG United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/43074/
We will discuss the relative merits of their particular approaches in the context of the corporate games industry’s most recent successes to save a traditional business model by enforcing copyright law the hard way and potentially alienating future customers.

The event is free but places are limited. Please register here to reserve your place: http://www.own-it.org/events/

The panel is chaired by Becky Hogge, the Executive Director of Open Rights Group. Before joining the Open Rights Group in January 2007, Becky was the managing editor, and then the technology director and technology commissioning editor for http://www.openDemocracy.net. During her time there she established the China environment website http://www.chinadialogue.net, along with editor Isabel Hilton. As a writer and commentator, she covers the global politics of technology, open source, and intellectual property rights. She writes a weekly technology column for the New Statesman and has also written for The Guardian, Index on Censorship, Dazed & Confused and The Face.

Speakers include:
Vincent Scheurer, Lawyer, Sarassin LLP
Vincent Scheurer is the founder of Sarassin LLP, a legal and business affairs consultancy for companies in the video games industry.

Vincent graduated in law at Oxford University in 1993 and was called to the Bar in London in 1994. He started his career in interactive entertainment when he joined UK games publisher Europress as sole in-house counsel in 1997. Following the acquisition of Europress by Hasbro Interactive he joined UK law firm Osborne Clarke during 1999. There he helped develop Europe's pre-eminent interactive entertainment team, representing industry leaders from the publishing, development and licensing sectors. Vincent left Osborne Clarke to form Sarassin LLP in August 2004.

Vincent is also a contributor to the IGDA Contract Walk-Through, the editor of the TIGA model contract for developing PC, console and mobile games, and the author of the video games section of the Entertainment and Media Law Handbook, published by Law Society Publishing in 2007.http://www.sarassin.net/

Chris Deering
Chris has a background of 20 years in gaming including 10 years as founder and CEO of PlayStation-Europe, and 2 years as President of Sony Electronics Europe. He was COO of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment International from 1990-1995 and VP RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video from 1985-1990. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Chris also had various marketing management positions with Gillette and McKinsey&Co. He is now Chairman of Codemasters Group ( computer games), is on the boards of various high tech entertainment start-ups, and has been Chairman of the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival since 2006. Chris was awarded a Bafta in 2003 for service to the UK games industry.

Steven Goodwin
Steven Goodwin (London, England) has been in the game industry for nearly 15 years and involved in projects on both PC and console, writing the number 1 selling game, "Die Hard: Vendetta". He is also an Open Source evangelist, developer, columnist, and author of two books, including "The Game Developer's Open Source Handbook". He is currently the Head of Development with Alten8, a publisher and developer of over 50 games.

We encourage contributions by the audience and will address your concerns and questions during the debate.

Click here for directions to the venue:http://tinyurl.com/ywqg2y

This event is part of the London Games Fringe, a festival of alternative gaming events at the end of October 2008, organised by artists, academics, gamers, game developers, educators and creative professionals from a wide range of different media.
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1195430/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1195430/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1195430/#comments 51.5227 -0.1348 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:44:16 -0700 2008-10-09T09:44:16-07:00 Open Source for Games Developers - A Debate on New Business Models 2008-10-28T18:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/38831/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/38831/ Zero-One Peter Street Soho London W1F 0HS United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/38831/ The concepts of convergence are not new, but it’s rare that practitioners from film and games are able to meet up and swap notes. A diverse range of major players from these industries including Geomerics, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Natural Motion and Evolution Studios (MotorStorm), Double Negative (The Dark Knight, Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince) and Framestore (Casino Royale, Mission Impossible II) will be present to discuss the state of the art in rendering and realism, software, animation and lighting.
In a series of seminars and demos, we hope to look at how far their fields have merged, and whether this has lead to more standardisation, more collaboration, new hybrid practices and innovative working methods.
Skills Week is a week-long series of events designed to raise the skills of game developers and graduates, and will conclude on Friday the 31st with “The C Word”. The day will consist of discussion panels chaired by Pixel-Lab and FDMX, as well as taking questions from the floor. The day will also include a networking lunch.
As places are limited, we will be allocating them for a mix of games, film and TV professionals (including freelancers), so we ask that you email a few words about your current or recent work to events@bafta.org.uk. Please email that information to BAFTA by Thursday 16 October, specifying that you'd like a place for The C Word, and you will be notified by Friday October 17 if you have been allocated a place.

The C Word is part of Skills Week and the London Games Fringe, a festival of alternative gaming events at the end of October 2008, organised by artists, academics, gamers, game developers, educators and creative professionals from a wide range of different media: www.londongamesfringe.com & www.skillsweek.com
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1189987/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1189987/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1189987/#comments 51.5187 -0.1376 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:26:58 -0700 2008-10-08T12:26:58-07:00 The C Word 2008-10-31 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/63520/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/63520/ BAFTA 195 Piccadilly London London W1 United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/63520/
Businesses and organisations interested in learning about what SilverStripe can do are most welcome too, as Tim Copeland, one of SilverStripe founders will be there.

Given half of New Zealand seems to live in London, we hope to hear a bunch of familiar kiwi accents!

It's to be held at the Meza bar in Soho.
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1183727/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1183727/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1183727/#comments 51.5137 -0.134 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:35:22 -0700 2008-10-06T22:35:22-07:00 SilverStripe (open source web platform) Meet Up 2008-10-30T18:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/255753/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/255753/ Meza 100 Wardour Street, Soho, London W1F 0TN London London W1F 0TN United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/255753/
The Coding Dojo is a workshop where everyone joins in as part of the team. Participants will learn and discuss Agile Development by collaboratively building a game in Flash. A single project is displayed for the whole group to discuss, while students continuously pair up to work 15 minute shifts on the code.
This is a beginner level workshop, and while any Flash Actionscript 3.0 knowledge is welcome, students do not require it to attend. Come to the Coding Dojo and you're sure to pick up the basics.

This workshop costs £5, and places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets are available now from http://codingdojo.eventbrite.com

The Coding Dojo is part of Skillsweek (www.skillsweek.com). Skillsweek is part of the London Games Fringe, a festival of alternative gaming events at the end of October 2008, organised by artists, academics, gamers, game developers, educators and creative professionals from a wide range of different media: www.londongamesfringe.com
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181593/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181593/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181593/#comments 51.5231 -0.135 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:04:17 -0700 2008-10-06T13:04:17-07:00 Coding Dojo 2008-10-30 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ 01Zero-One Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street), Soho, W1F 0HS London London United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/
However, the creation and modding of pen and paper board games has been found to be a very effective focusing tool, forcing you to get right down to the rules and gameplay of a project.

Game design consultant James Wallis will lead you through this one day workshop, going from basic design principles all the way to a playable prototype in one day.

The Skills Week Game Design Workshop will take place on Thursday the 30th of October, at 01zero-one college in Soho.

This workshop costs £5, and places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets are available now from http://gamedesignworkshop.eventbrite.com

The Game Design Workshop is part of Skillsweek (www.skillsweek.com). Skillsweek is part of the London Games Fringe, a festival of alternative gaming events at the end of October 2008, organised by artists, academics, gamers, game developers, educators and creative professionals from a wide range of different media: www.londongamesfringe.com
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181584/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181584/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181584/#comments 51.5231 -0.135 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:02:14 -0700 2008-10-06T13:02:14-07:00 Game Design Workshop 2008-10-30 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ 01Zero-One Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street), Soho, W1F 0HS London London United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/
The content is applicable to a wide audience, ranging from school teachers and university lecturers to students and hobbyists who want to pick up basic game development skills, as well as study and pass them on to others.

The content is applicable to a wide audience, ranging from school teachers and university lecturers to students and hobbyists who want to pick up basic game development skills, as well as study and pass them on to others.

Participants will learn the skills needed to produce a complete level in one day, by each producing a small environment from scratch using the Unreal Editor. These skills will include level geometry, mesh decorations, texturing, lighting techniques, and using actors to manipulate game AI.

The days programme will alternate between short lectures demonstrating technique, and development time coupled with one-on-one tuition and discussion.

The Modding Workshop is part of Skillsweek (www.skillsweek.com). Skillsweek is part of the London Games Fringe, a festival of alternative gaming events at the end of October 2008, organised by artists, academics, gamers, game developers, educators and creative professionals from a wide range of different media: www.londongamesfringe.com
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181583/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181583/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1181583/#comments 51.5231 -0.135 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:00:09 -0700 2008-10-06T13:00:09-07:00 UNREAL Modding Workshop 2008-10-27 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ 01Zero-One Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street), Soho, W1F 0HS London London United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1174590/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1174590/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1174590/#comments 51.5248 -0.1305 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:49:31 -0700 2008-10-04T09:49:31-07:00 Kristin Hersh 2008-11-23T20:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/10998/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/10998/ The Borderline Orange Yard 16 Manette St, W1D 4JB London London United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/10998/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1159856/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1159856/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1159856/#comments 51.5225 -0.134 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:26:51 -0700 2008-09-30T21:26:51-07:00 Andy Yorke + Ruarri Joseph + Ed Laurie 2008-10-14T20:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/47932/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/47932/ Soho Revue Bar 11 Walkers Court, Brewers Street, Soho London London W1F 0ED United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/47932/ ]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1156177/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1156177/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1156177/#comments 51.5276 -0.1335 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:28:13 -0700 2008-09-30T08:28:13-07:00 Pubstandards XXXV 2008-10-16T18:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/23933/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/23933/ Bricklayers Arms, Fitzrovia 31 Gresse Street, Fitzrovia London London W1T 1QS United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/23933/
SONIC CATHEDRAL
@ THE SOCIAL
5 LITTLE PORTLAND STREET
LONDON
W1W 7JD

Tel: 020 7636 4992

Wednesday October 29
7pm-12midnight
£5 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/36245
£6 on the door

Nearest tube: Oxford Circus

http://www.soniccathedral.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/soniccathedral
http://www.thesocial.com
http://www.myspace.com/schoolofsevenbells
http://www.myspace.com/danielland
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1152732/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1152732/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1152732/#comments 51.5271 -0.1411 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:09:31 -0700 2008-09-29T22:09:31-07:00 SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS + DANIEL LAND & THE MODERN PAINTERS 2008-10-29T19:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/15882/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/15882/ The Social 5 Little Portland Street London London W1W United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/15882/
SONIC CATHEDRAL
@ THE SOCIAL
5 LITTLE PORTLAND STREET
LONDON
W1W 7JD

Tel: 020 7636 4992

Monday October 20
7pm-12midnight
£5 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/37018
£6 on the door

Nearest tube: Oxford Circus

http://www.soniccathedral.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/soniccathedral
http://www.thesocial.com
http://www.myspace.com/ourbrokengarden
http://www.myspace.com/peterbroderick
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1152642/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1152642/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1152642/#comments 51.5271 -0.1411 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:50:48 -0700 2008-09-29T21:50:48-07:00 Our Broken Garden + Peter Broderick 2008-10-20T19:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/15882/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/15882/ The Social 5 Little Portland Street London London W1W United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/15882/
SONIC CATHEDRAL
@ THE SOCIAL
5 LITTLE PORTLAND STREET
LONDON
W1W 7JD

Tel: 020 7636 4992

Sunday October 19
6pm-late
£5 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/37022
£6 on the door

Nearest tube: Oxford Circus

http://www.soniccathedral.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/soniccathedral
http://www.thesocial.com
http://www.myspace.com/filmschool
http://www.myspace.com/theleashores
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1152630/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1152630/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1152630/#comments 51.5271 -0.1411 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:47:54 -0700 2008-09-29T21:47:54-07:00 Film School + The Lea Shores 2008-10-19T19:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/15882/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/15882/ The Social 5 Little Portland Street London London W1W United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/15882/ ]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1134401/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1134401/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1134401/#comments 51.5128 -0.1297 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:50:27 -0700 2008-09-25T12:50:27-07:00 Open Source Show 'n' Tell 2008-10-21T15:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/156807/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/156807/ MLS Offices 130 Shaftesbury Avenue London London W1D 5EU United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/156807/ ]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1101316/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1101316/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1101316/#comments 51.5248 -0.1451 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:16:02 -0700 2008-09-15T12:16:02-07:00 Meet The Mighty Boosh - book signing 2008-12-15T13:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/12056/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/12056/ Borders Oxford Street London London United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/12056/ PIMIGI is playing at a special evening as part of the CAMEO SESSIONS @ SOHO REVUE BAR on November 4, 2008. There will be two floors of live acts and PIMIGI will be playing on the 2nd floor.
The whole evening will be a Hollywood theme evening: Red Carpet entrance, free champagne on entry between 7.30pm to 8pm etc..
1st floor guests are asked to be a bit Bling, flash etc, with the 2nd floor more chic, sophisticated, Cocktail feel.

PIMIGI on stage time will be sorted closer to the date but we are looking around 8.30pm no later than 9pm.
We are looking to end the Cameo Sessions at 10pm for everyone to join up downstairs for a BIG surprise.

Doors open to the public 7.30pm.
Door Charges and Guest List: £8 or £6 before 9pm on artist guest list.. please send full names for £6 list to us at least 24 hours in advance if you plan on being there.

It should be a great evening and Sam, the man behind the Soho Revue Bar will be celebrating his birthday so he has chosen his favorite bands and organizing a special night for all!

PIMIGI look forward to seeing you there!
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1096696/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1096696/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1096696/#comments 51.5225 -0.134 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:22:18 -0700 2008-09-13T14:22:18-07:00 PIMIGI @ SOHO REVUE BAR - 25m acoustic set on 2nd flr (Hollywood-Chic theme) 2008-11-04T20:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/47932/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/47932/ Soho Revue Bar 11 Walkers Court, Brewers Street, Soho London London W1F 0ED United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/47932/ In the digital world of diverse media, platforms, distribution and user behaviour, what does the future hold? Is destiny taking us down the path of convergence or fragmentation?

As 2008 bows out, leading digital practitioners and analysts gaze into their crystal balls and predict the future.

Join us on December 2nd for our lively end of year session as we don our five-years-into-the-future specs and foretell the world of 2013!

Will brands, publishers, marketers and platform providers be recognisable? How will they have changed? With ubiquitous web and mobile access, how will online and offline relate?

As we pit imagination against reason and trend analysis, will the views of our digital experts be planets apart? Take this chance to quiz the panel and share your thoughts on what comes next…

(arrive early for complimentary drinks and snacks!)

SPEAKERS:

Simon Collister - Head of Digital Culture and Emerging Media, Edelman PR / blog
Jonathan Mitchener - Futurologist & Principal Research Scientist, Devices, BT / blog
Andrew Orlowski - Editor-at-Large, The Register
Richard Titus - Head of User Experience, BBC Future Media and Technology
(final speaker to be announced shortly)

TICKETS:
Cost: £25+VAT (early bird - limited numbers available), £40+VAT thereafter

TIMINGS:
6.00pm doors open for drinks & networking. Discussion starts 6.30pm sharp. Debate ends 8.30pm.

BOOKINGS & MORE INFO:
http://www.chinwag.com/live/crystalballs-2008
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1077775/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1077775/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1077775/#comments 51.523 -0.1337 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:41:26 -0700 2008-09-05T20:41:26-07:00 Chinwag Live: Xmas Futures, Crystal Balls? 2008-12-02T20:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/43074/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/43074/ The Slug & Lettuce (Downstairs) 80-82 Wardour St London London W1F 0TG United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/43074/ The rise and rise of mobile social networking and services is upon us, but is ‘mobile access’ enough or do users seek more?

Are location-based services going to be key to its success, or is there more to the future of this most social of devices? How can brands engage in the mobile social space?

Spurred on by web leaders like Facebook and MySpace and with lower data charges spreading for mobile web access, mobile social usage has soared.

Will there be a battle for survival among the current myriad of mobile-only social networks and video / blogging platforms, or can they succeed with focus on novel functionality and user experience? Should online niche social networks also make the move to mobile? Where are the revenue streams and how effective can the ROI be?

Join us on 11th November to discuss the emerging trends around mobile social networks and media with our panel of industry experts...

SPEAKERS:

Justin Davies - Founder, BuddyPing
Alfie Dennen – Co-founder & CEO, Moblog
Jessica Sandin - Head of Mobile & Senior Consultant, ?What If! Digital
Chris Seth - MD Europe, Piczo
CHAIR: Bena Roberts - Mobile Media & Advertising Consultant, Founder & Editor, GoMo News
(Final speaker to be announced shortly)

Complimentary drinks and snacks will be served beforehand - arrive early!

TICKETS:
Cost: £25+VAT (early bird - limited numbers available), £40+VAT thereafter

TIMINGS:
6.00pm doors open for drinks & networking. Discussion starts 6.30pm sharp. Debate ends 8.30pm.

BOOKINGS & MORE INFO:
http://www.chinwag.com/live/mosorising
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1058352/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1058352/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1058352/#comments 51.523 -0.1337 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:09:44 -0700 2008-08-30T17:09:44-07:00 Chinwag Live: MoSo Rising 2008-11-11T18:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/43074/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/43074/ The Slug & Lettuce (Downstairs) 80-82 Wardour St London London W1F 0TG United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/43074/ ]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1047037/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1047037/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1047037/#comments 51.5086 -0.1442 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:55:59 -0700 2008-08-26T10:55:59-07:00 2008 Chris R. Tame Memorial Prize 2008-10-10 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/209385/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/209385/ Libertarian Alliance Suite 35, 2 Lansdowne Row, Mayfair London London W1J 6H United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/209385/ ]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1044814/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1044814/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1044814/#comments 51.5307 -0.1392 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:06:40 -0700 2008-08-25T16:06:40-07:00 London Perl Workshop 2008-11-29T09:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/54265/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/54265/ University of Westminster 115 New Cavendish Street London London W1W6UW United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/54265/ This course is aimed at developers and team leaders who are already familiar with Agile approaches. It deals with three important technical aspects of Agile software development.

Pair Programming. To many people, especially in senior management, pair
programming seems completely counter-intuitive. Surely, by getting two people to do the job of one person you're just halving your productivity? A substantial body of research shows quite the opposite - that pair programming doesn't reduce productivity, but maintains productivity whilst substantially reducing the number of serious defects that are later found in the code. This course covers the very good reasons for introducing pair programming and how to deal with some of the potential objections. It also deals with how to start pair programming - what are the do's and don'ts and provides course participants with some hands-on experience of programming with other people.
Test Driven Development. The practice of writing a failing automatic test for each piece of software functionality that is added to a system, together with a script that can run all of these tests has many beneficial effects on the process of software development. This course gives participants experience of writing tests and then coding against them using the well-known testing framework JUnit.

Re-factoring. As software development progresses on a project, code gets messy and changes in one place cause unexpected problems in others. Re-factoring accepts the reality that code gets messy over time and builds on the advantages of TDD (test-driven development) to allow principled clean up of code. Course participants will be given a chance to clean up the kind of horridly entangled bits of code they might experience and be shown the possible benefits of re-factoring for the ongoing support of the codebase.
Attending this course will allow you to: get hands-on experience of three
important technical aspects of Agile – Pair Programming, Test Driven Development and Refactoring.

Suitable for: Software developers and leaders of software development teams.

Working knowledge of the java programming language required.
Contact: Mark Stringer
Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk
Tel: 01273 726 030
Mobile: 07736 807 604
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945599/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945599/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945599/#comments 51.5231 -0.135 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:00:40 -0700 2008-07-30T12:00:40-07:00 Training Course - Technical Aspects of Agile 2009-06-29T10:00:00Z 2009-06-30T17:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ 01Zero-One Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street), Soho, W1F 0HS London London United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/
Agile principles are relatively straight-forward and easy to understand, but introducing any new methods into a complex work and business environment is always a difficult and delicate task. This second level course uses a combination of case studies and activities to give senior management, programme and project managers the skills that they need to introduce Agile into their own working environments.

Issues dealt with in this course include:
· Helping senior management understand Agile
· Showing the benefits of Agile to your customers
· Introducing Agile methods into to your development team
· Managing Iterative Development
· Understanding how Agile changes project risks
· Fitting Agile methods inside conventional project management methods such as
PRINCE2

Attending this course will allow you to: get the best out of Agile methods in your own working environment and convince those that you work with of the benefits of Agile.

Suitable for: senior managers, project and programme managers, client relationship
managers, business development and sales people.

Contact: Mark Stringer
Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk
Tel: 01273 726 030
Mobile: 07736 807 604
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945598/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945598/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945598/#comments 51.5231 -0.135 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:57:26 -0700 2008-07-30T11:57:26-07:00 Training - Agile for Programme and Project Managers 2009-06-23T10:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ 01Zero-One Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street), Soho, W1F 0HS London London United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/
Are you involved in the specification, purchase, project management or delivery of an IT or web-based project? If so, you need to know about Agile methods.

Agile methods, are a group of new techniques which make it easier to deliver IT and web-based projects in environments of uncertainty and constant change. Did you ever try to plan a project but things didn't go quite as you expected? Agile methods are designed to deal with that kind of experience. They emphasise the delivery of projects in short iterations: the end of each iteration, priorities can be re-ordered or new ones can be added making sure that you are always delivering to the client the things that they value most.

This introductory course will give you an immediate feel for the difference that working using Agile techniques can have for the IT projects that you work on.

Attending this course will allow you to:

* Provide the most value in the work that you do for you client.
* Plan your work in short iterations.
* Deal with new and unexpected information and changes as a project progresses.
* Improve your estimates of how long work will take.
* Deliver what you say you'll deliver, when you say you'll deliver it.

Suitable for people working as either a producer or project manger or software developer in any new media or software development environment. Also suitable for
people involved in the specification and procurement of software.

No programming skills required.

Contact: Mark Stringer
Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk
Tel: 01273 726 030
Mobile: 07736 807 604
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945596/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945596/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945596/#comments 51.5231 -0.135 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:52:37 -0700 2008-07-30T11:52:37-07:00 Training - Introduction to Agile Methods 2009-05-29T10:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ 01Zero-One Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street), Soho, W1F 0HS London London United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/
Agile principles are relatively straight-forward and easy to understand, but introducing any new methods into a complex work and business environment is always a difficult and delicate task. This second level course uses a combination of case studies and activities to give senior management, programme and project managers the skills that they need to introduce Agile into their own working environments.

Issues dealt with in this course include:
· Helping senior management understand Agile
· Showing the benefits of Agile to your customers
· Introducing Agile methods into to your development team
· Managing Iterative Development
· Understanding how Agile changes project risks
· Fitting Agile methods inside conventional project management methods such as
PRINCE2

Attending this course will allow you to: get the best out of Agile methods in your own working environment and convince those that you work with of the benefits of Agile.

Suitable for: senior managers, project and programme managers, client relationship
managers, business development and sales people.

Contact: Mark Stringer
Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk
Tel: 01273 726 030
Mobile: 07736 807 604
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945594/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945594/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945594/#comments 51.5231 -0.135 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:49:22 -0700 2008-07-30T11:49:22-07:00 Training - Agile for Programme and Project Managers 2009-03-03T10:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ 01Zero-One Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street), Soho, W1F 0HS London London United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ This course is aimed at developers and team leaders who are already familiar with Agile approaches. It deals with three important technical aspects of Agile software development.

Pair Programming. To many people, especially in senior management, pair
programming seems completely counter-intuitive. Surely, by getting two people to do the job of one person you're just halving your productivity? A substantial body of research shows quite the opposite - that pair programming doesn't reduce productivity, but maintains productivity whilst substantially reducing the number of serious defects that are later found in the code. This course covers the very good reasons for introducing pair programming and how to deal with some of the potential objections. It also deals with how to start pair programming - what are the do's and don'ts and provides course participants with some hands-on experience of programming with other people.


Test Driven Development. The practice of writing a failing automatic test for each piece of software functionality that is added to a system, together with a script that can run all of these tests has many beneficial effects on the process of software development. This course gives participants experience of writing tests and then coding against them using the well-known testing framework JUnit.

Re-factoring. As software development progresses on a project, code gets messy and changes in one place cause unexpected problems in others. Re-factoring accepts the reality that code gets messy over time and builds on the advantages of TDD (test-driven development) to allow principled clean up of code. Course participants will be given a chance to clean up the kind of horridly entangled bits of code they might experience and be shown the possible benefits of re-factoring for the ongoing support of the codebase.


Attending this course will allow you to: get hands-on experience of three important technical aspects of Agile – Pair Programming, Test Driven Development and Refactoring.

Suitable for: Software developers and leaders of software development teams.

Working knowledge of the java programming language required.
Contact: Mark Stringer
Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk
Tel: 01273 726 030
Mobile: 07736 807 604
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945589/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945589/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945589/#comments 51.5231 -0.135 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:45:03 -0700 2008-07-30T11:45:03-07:00 Training Course - Technical Aspects of Agile 2009-02-02T10:00:00Z 2009-02-03T17:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ 01Zero-One Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street), Soho, W1F 0HS London London United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/
Are you involved in the specification, purchase, project management or delivery of an IT or web-based project? If so, you need to know about Agile methods.

Agile methods, are a group of new techniques which make it easier to deliver IT and web-based projects in environments of uncertainty and constant change. Did you ever try to plan a project but things didn't go quite as you expected? Agile methods are designed to deal with that kind of experience. They emphasise the delivery of projects in short iterations: the end of each iteration, priorities can be re-ordered or new ones can be added making sure that you are always delivering to the client the things that they value most.

This introductory course will give you an immediate feel for the difference that working using Agile techniques can have for the IT projects that you work on.

Attending this course will allow you to:

* Provide the most value in the work that you do for you client.
* Plan your work in short iterations.
* Deal with new and unexpected information and changes as a project progresses.
* Improve your estimates of how long work will take.
* Deliver what you say you'll deliver, when you say you'll deliver it.

Suitable for people working as either a producer or project manger or software developer in any new media or software development environment. Also suitable for
people involved in the specification and procurement of software.

No programming skills required.

Contact: Mark Stringer
Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk
Tel: 01273 726 030
Mobile: 07736 807 604
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945586/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945586/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945586/#comments 51.5231 -0.135 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:37:45 -0700 2008-07-30T11:37:45-07:00 Training - Introduction to Agile Methods 2009-01-19T10:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ 01Zero-One Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street), Soho, W1F 0HS London London United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/
Agile principles are relatively straight-forward and easy to understand, but introducing any new methods into a complex work and business environment is always a difficult and delicate task. This second level course uses a combination of case studies and activities to give senior management, programme and project managers the skills that they need to introduce Agile into their own working environments.

Issues dealt with in this course include:
· Helping senior management understand Agile
· Showing the benefits of Agile to your customers
· Introducing Agile methods into to your development team
· Managing Iterative Development
· Understanding how Agile changes project risks
· Fitting Agile methods inside conventional project management methods such as
PRINCE2

Attending this course will allow you to: get the best out of Agile methods in your own working environment and convince those that you work with of the benefits of Agile.

Suitable for: senior managers, project and programme managers, client relationship
managers, business development and sales people.

Contact: Mark Stringer
Email: mark@agilelab.co.uk
Tel: 01273 726 030
Mobile: 07736 807 604
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945582/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945582/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/945582/#comments 51.5231 -0.135 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:26:36 -0700 2008-07-30T11:26:36-07:00 Training - Agile for Programme and Project Managers 2008-11-05T10:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ 01Zero-One Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street), Soho, W1F 0HS London London United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/14529/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/415000/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/415000/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/415000/#comments 51.5316 -0.1455 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:15:06 -0700 2008-01-24T15:15:06-07:00 Leadership Skills 2008-11-25T09:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/43104/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/43104/ Institute of Physics 76 Portland Place London London W1B 1NT United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/43104/
Guest DJ: Billy Reeves (Friends Of The Bride) - This is also our annual Belle & Sebastian special. We'll be playing every track from "Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant" over the course of the evening.

More info from www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/31177/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/31177/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/31177/#comments 51.5261 -0.1442 Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:01:09 -0700 2005-09-13T22:01:09-07:00 Belle & Sebastian special at How Does It Feel To Be Loved? in central London 2008-10-18T21:00:00Z http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/10487/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/10487/ The Phoenix 37 Cavendish Square London London United Kingdom http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/10487/