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I’m delivering a guest lecture on the 26-Nov-2009 in the University of Limerick. I’ll be talking about what its like to work in agile projects from the developer, tester and manager perspectives.

I’ll be using the slides from my talk in Enterprise Ireland earlier this week.

The lecture will be part of the 4th year “Multimedia Industry Perspectives” module. Most of the students are from the “Multimedia and Computer Games” course but there’s some from “Computer Science” and “Digital Media Design” as well.

It looks like there’s a fairly big room in the University of Limerick and they tell me visitors are welcome too. If you’d like to attend, the lecture starts at 10am in the Kemmy Business School, room KBG14.

On Monday 23rd November I’ll be speaking at a seminar on agile project management.

Lero (the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre) organised this free seminar and Enterprise Ireland are hosting it at their offices in Dublin, Ireland.

Dr. Kieran Conboy (NUI Galway) will be talking about the current state of knowledge regarding agile development. Dr. Xiaofeng Wang (University of Limerick) is going to examine a set of (mis)understandings of agile software development using real world examples and ideas from complexity study.

I’ll be talking about my experiences using agile techniques to manage a number of successful projects in both large and small companies. I’ll also discuss how agile techniques can help you manage non-software projects.

I understand there are a good number of people registered already. To register, contact Enterprise Ireland. Hope to see you there.

You can view the slides on slideshare.

Updated: fixed the Lero event link above and included a link to the slides.

coClarity has been selected for the iGAP programme.

The Internet Growth Acceleration Programme (iGAP) has been developed by Enterprise Ireland and the Internet Growth Alliance and is aimed exclusively at high potential internet companies. “Over 6 months, iGAP will equip managers within Irish internet business with the practical tools needed to formulate aggressive international growth plans and scale their businesses.”

The first two sessions will cover Strategy and Monetization models. We’ll keep you posted on any interesting nuggets we learn.

On Friday I got a call from Intertrade Ireland to tell us we won the Seedcorn award for “best venture stemming from a university spin-out or platform programme”. The €10k prize will significantly boost our marketing budget.

Seedcorn is a business plan competition for companies in the Republic and Northern Ireland.

Congratulations also to Ronan and Ian of Cauwill Technologies who won the Munster award. Best of luck in the final lads.