Date: 28 April 2010
Time: 18-00 – 19-00 (GMT +2)

Description: All management books say that if you need an extra time than you have to learn delegating your tasks. Is this always possible? How complicated is that? How to do this right? How to get the maximum revenue from delegation? We will answer those question within one hour webinar.

Goals:
* Learn about delegation in different situations
- manager-employee

- employee-employee
* Learn how to protect yourself from unexpected delegation

http://tim.com.ua/trainings/delegation-webinar/

Date: 14 апреля 2010 года
Time: 18-00 – 20-00 (GMT +2)

Description: If you only heard about Scrum and want to know more… Or if you have read a lot and don’t know where to start… or you’ve got a lot of questions. During two hours you will learn about basics of Scrum approach with lot of real life examples. Also you will get answers on frequently asked questions

Goals:
* Get familliar with Scrum methodology

* Learn how the good Scrm process can drive project to success

More details you may find on: http://tim.com.ua/trainings/introduce-into-scrum/

Date: 31 March 2010
Time: 18-00 – 19-00 (GMT +2)

Description: Does your customer come with the question “How much does it cost”? Or does she ask “When the project could be done”? How to get estimates and how to make the project plan? How could we estimate easy, fast and still efficient enough?
During the webinar we will talk about why do we need estimates and how do we use them during the project life cycle and especially agile project. We will talk about the difference in projects those starts and those are running already. And, of course, we will have time for questions from participants.

Goals:
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* Learn why and how do we estimate projects

* Learn how to estimate fast and efficient

* Learn how to track remaining work during the whole project cycle

You may register for this webinaron: http://tim.com.ua/trainings/estimation-webinar/

Date: 17 March 2010

Time: 18-00 – 19-00 (GMT +2)

Description: Everyone knows or at least have heard that trust is critical for the team success. Is this always true? How to distinguish professional trust from imagination? How to establish trust in the team? During an hour we will discuss those questions and real cases.

Goals:
* Learn how to develop trust in the team

* Learn how the trust helps a team to grow and develop

More details you may find on: http://tim.com.ua/trainings/trust-in-team-work/

The on-line conversation club will gather 4 practitioners with real experience in applying Scrum. We have collected questions and will discuss them on-line, so all attendees will hear advices and hints regarding interesting topics.

The conversation will take place on 3d March 2010. Time: 18:00-19:30.

More details you may find on: http://tim.com.ua/2010/01/gathering-questions/

We are glad to tell you about trainings which are conducted by Nikolay Alimenkov, Best Speaker of IT Jam 2009.

February 27th “Web testing with Selenium”.

Target audience: developers, testers, PMs &TLs.

Training goal: introduction to Selenium, practicing skills and knowledge of its implementation, as well as considering tools which exist in Selenium platform or can be integrated into it.

Price – 800 UAH.

You can find the detailed program and register for the training at this site: http://xpinjection.com/trainings/web-testing-with-selenium.

March 13th “QA in Agile”.

Target audience: developers, testers, PMs &TLs.

Training objectives:

· talk about problems of QA process in Agile projects;

· provide participants with several well-tried models of QA process design;

· describe methods and roles in the automation process;

· practice received knowledge in mini-groups.

Price – 800 UAH.

You can find the detailed program and register for the training at this site: http://xpinjection.com/trainings/web-testing-with-selenium.

March 20th, “Engineering practices in Agile”

Training objectives:

· talk about engineering practices in Agile;

· explain methods of their implementation on different stages of a project;

· try some of the practices.

Price – 800 UAH.

You can find the detailed program and register for the training at this site: http://xpinjection.com/trainings/agile-engineering-practices.

We would like to tell you about an initiative of Ciklum’s partner i-klass who launch new educational course for children called “ITdo”.

ITdo – is a fascinating study of the computer, Internet, and other IT possibilities for young people.

Classes will be conducted using an interesting and ivolving approach with different games and exercises. During the classes, little students will get useful knowledge and skills, which should help them in everyday life and carry them one step forward towards the future, making them young leaders among their contemporaries.

Another opportunity would be IT club for children, where participants will have a chance to visit different IT companies, watch movies on IT topics, and meet interesting and prominent people.

You can find more details about ITdo classes at http://itdo.com.ua.

We wish your children growth and development with the use of modern technologies!

We are inviting you to take part in IT Jam 2009! (http://it-jam.ciklum.net) which we organize on October 31!

This time our event will combine several attractive partsJ:

- mini bar camps;

- panel discussion;

- party.

Mini bar camps will mix presentations from various speakers.

Mini bar camps’ topics are: Agile, Mobile development, RIA, CMS and dynamic languages.

Everyone will be able to move around and listen to any speaker at any bar camp. The presentations lineup is placed at IT Jam site and is regularly updated. Check it!

There is also a great chance to become a speaker on any of these topics! We will be happy to help you with speech preparation, if needed, or will just include you in the line up - just write to ali@ciklum.netThis email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

For the Panel Discussion, we are inviting TOP people in IT industry, owners and directors of the biggest players in the market. They will be open to answer your questions, to share their views and opinions on the issues you arise.

If you have a question that you want to be asked during the panel discussion - please post it on the web-site or ask during the event!

Party, music and beer will accomplish this unique event!

Visit the web-site for updates, register to come or become a speaker! Join us - let’s meet and mix!

This year the idea of IT Jam is to emphasize the importance of increasing SW development expertise in Ukraine.

We invite all the parties, which share and support the same goal, to participate!

IT Jam 2009 will give the roof to various Ukrainian IT communities, which will be willing to unite on this day together at one place.

This will provide an excellent opportunity for IT specialists to attend expertise sharing sessions in several “specializations” such as: iPhone development, Drupal, Agile methodology, Project Management, etc.

During the Panel Discussion with top persons from the biggest Ukranian IT companies there will be a chance to ask various questions and find out about their vision of where Ukranian IT industry will be moving to, what the main challenges will be in the near future - both for the companies and employees.

Traditionally - the event will end with a celebration :).

Informal communication with colleagues, accompanies by live band playing, beer and snacks will ensure good spirit!

Don’t miss it!

Official cite of the event: http://it-jam.ciklum.net/

Ciklum and Coffee-n-Code are glad to invite you to the first Ruby and Rails Barcamp.

Ciklum continues to invest into the development of SWD expertise in Ukraine. This time we are sponsoring Ruby and Rails Barcamp, which will take place on September the 26th in Kiev at the address I. Mazepy Str, 34. Venue of the camp is offered by Ciklum’s partner i-Klass.

This event’s target audience is Ruby, Python, .NET, Java, C++ developers and everyone interested in gaining knowledge and experience sharing.

Ruby and Rails Barcamp program consists of 3 sections:
• Ruby for beginners (general overview, benchmarking, language advantages);
• Development tips for advanced participants (performance practices);
• ShowTime (projects presentation).

Event blog: http://rubylang.org.ua

Let us encourage you to join us and participate in the event!

As a Silver sponsor, Ciklum is proud to invite everyone to the first Eastern European Agile conference, Agileee, taking place on the 18-19th of September, 2009, in Kyiv at the President Hotel. Agileee is an initiative of the Agile Group Ukraine and so far is the largest Agile event in Eastern Europe!

“Agile is a proven methodology that increases development teams’ productivity. Today we can say this with a confidence - having seen the majority of Ciklum’s teams switched to using Agile methods”, says Marina Vyshegorodskikh, the HR Director at Ciklum.

Ciklum recognized the potential and saw great benefits in these methodologies right from the very beginning of the movement and was actually the first company that started supporting the Agile movement from its very seeds in Ukraine. In fact, as the oldest and most loyal supporter of the Agile movement in Ukraine, Ciklum is able to offer special ticket prices to its employees and partners.

“Today, we are proud to sponsor the first Agile event in Ukraine of such a grand international level. I think it is better to attend this conference and learn from the real professionals in the industry than take an academic Agile certification course that is worth a 1000 USD!” says Alexandra Lipes, Ciklum’s Head of Retention Department.

They key topic of the conference is “Making Distributed Agile Work”, however the sessions are not limited to this question. The participants are invited to learn more about Lean, Large Scale Agile, Agile Engineering Practices, Agile Testing, Experience Reports, etc. That is the conference will try to cover all aspects of Agile Software Development. Furthermore, the attendees will have a unique opportunity to attend numerous Master Classes from the leading Agile experts. For more information, see the detailed Agileee Conference Program (http://agileee.org/schedule/).

Don’t miss your chance to take part in such a first grand Agile event in Eastern Europe! Take your career to the next level!

28-29 of August Kiev Drupal Camp opened its doors for the Drupal “fans”.

HR Retention continues contributing into the development of expertise in hot technologies in Ukraine. This time we assisted in organization of Kiev Drupal Camp on the 28-29th of August.

About 200 developers from Ukraine, Russia, Moldova and Belarus, interested in Drupal, participated in the Camp. Ciklum was one of the main sponsors and organizers of the event.

DrupalCamp Kyiv 2009 — 2 Days of web-developers’ intense communication

Ciklum sponsors DrupalCamp Kyiv on August the 28—29th and opens doors to developers and web-studio representatives, who use Drupal in performing internet projects. 300 participants from Ukraine, Belorussia, Moldova, Kazakhstan and France have registered by now!

Bar camp format of the conference gives a free hand for anyone to suggest topics for a potential speech at the conference and receive feedbacks of other participants. You can take part in forming the conference program now at http://camp09.drupal.ua/ru/schedule/sessions/r and enjoy the event which will be of value for beginners, and professional developers as well as those who are looking for a proper system for their future projects.

The program will touch upon construction and support of web-sites, development and coding, design and usability. Issues of creating sites and internet-magazines with the help of Drupal and its opportunities compared to other CMS systems will be separately considered.

Participation is free. Please, register at http://camp09.drupal.ua.

Last Saturday, August the 8th, developers gathered for the first Coffee-n-Code meeting in Kiev.

We would like to announce new format of event, called Coffee’n’Code, that takes place in Kyiv already this Saturday, August, the 8th.

Last Friday, the 31st of August, we had a Cloud Computing Community presentation.