Gathering stats and herding cats

RailsBridge is an international non-profit organisation that provides free Ruby on Rails workshops for women and their friends. In July 2013, after a lot of emails and Skype calls, a handful of Cape Town developers got together and started running regular RailsBridge workshops, creating a fork of the open source documentation and materials.

This talk discusses our journey over the past year and some bits. It covers how we've used agile principles and our strong leaning toward continuous improvement. It'll also cover the techniques we've used for gathering feedback, the changes we've made based on the feedback, and how we're measuring our successes and failures. Improvements and Pull Requests always welcome.

You will get a sticker at the end of the talk.

http://www.meetup.com/Cape-Town-Scrum-User-Group-SUGSA/events/220204652/

Transcript

1. Gathering stats and herding cats Steve Barnett @maxbarners naga.co.za/sugsa
3. Getting more gooder
4. What we'll cover RailsBridge Gathering Stats Herding Cats
5. RailsBridge
6. Free Ruby on Rails workshops for women and their friends
7. RailsBridge: what happens? Friday: arrive, install Ruby, Rails, Git, Sublime Text, sign up for Heroku, food and drinks. Saturday: arrive, coffee and breakfast, go through course, lunch, continue course.
8. RailsBridge (RSA)
9. Why RailsBridge?
10. Agile principles
11. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
12. Working software is the primary measure of progress
13. Gathering Stats
14. Google Forms Survey
15. Retrospective
16. Pair Learning
17. Stickies
18. Nothing
19. Herding Cats
21. !
22. Teachers
23. Docs
24. Workshop
25. !
26. Docs !
27. Better docs! !
28. Workshop !
29. Pics, words !
30. Venue & admin ! Internet Coffee
31. Venue jiggling !
32. Breaks !
33. Lightning talks !
34. What now? !
35. RailsBridgeBridge !?
36. Join us! :) Next one: Feb 27th and 28th
37. What we covered RailsBridge Gathering Stats Herding Cats
38. Thank you Steve Barnett @maxbarners naga.co.za/sugsa