I have confirmed I will be attending and speaking that the Houston TechFest 2010 on October 9th, 2010. I will be presenting my Planning Poker session, recording interviews for User Group Radio and of course talking community any chance I get.
I am also working with Zain Naboulsi about organizing a Community Leadership Town Hall Meeting the night before the conference. This will be a dinner with an open space/fish bowl style discussion on creating, building, and sustaining community.
Looks like the Houston TechFest site hasn’t bee updated yet so here is the info on my session:
Estimate Your Requirements with Planning Poker
Planning Poker is a consensus-based estimation technique for estimating, mostly used to estimate effort or relative size of tasks in software development . It is a variation of the Wideband Delphi method. In this session you will learn not only what planning poker is but how to facilitate it with your team. Using Planning Poker to estimate task on your project is not only accurate its fun.