On December 14, 2011 from 3:30pm to 5:00pm the Moncton CyberSocial  is hosting a special mini-Workshop on  Agile Programming and SCRUM - at The Moncton Club 115 Queen Street
Presented by Sébastien Aubé of Cognitive X Systems


Outline of the Agile Programming presentation:

• What is Agile? / The Agile Manifesto
• Basic Concepts (Iterations, Teams, Co-Location, Working software)
• SCRUM in Agile
• What is SCRUM?
• Roles in SCRUM team
• Core Roles and Ancillary Roles
• SCRUM meetings
• Daily Scrum
• Sprint Planning Meeting
• Review and Retrospective
• Measuring progress
• Open discussion and questions as time permits.

Our Featured Guest Speaker for this month's Networking Event ~ 5:00pm to 7:30pm is Martin Montplaisir - Business Technology Manager - HealthConnect Inc


HealthConnect Inc., headquartered in Moncton, NB, is a provider of outsource services to the Pharmaceutical industry. First established in Toronto, ON, HealthConnect has been in operation for over 20 years and employs nearly 40 workers. The company is made up of four different divisions, which support their information and education services related to health and wellness:

· The Patient Care division consists of a Contact Centre and provides product information and support to consumers, patients and healthcare professionals.
· The Clinical Care division manages clinical trials and patient adherence programs to help patients use medications appropriately.
· The Brand Care division offers Strategic Consulting Services.
· The Pharmacy division provides mail order dispensing, prescription consulting and information support.

Continually evolving, HealthConnect prides itself on providing tailored services based on Client needs. Some of the more recent services HealthConnect has offered consist of Social Media and Facebook Monitoring.

About Martin Montplaisir ~ Business Technology Manager
Martin currently leads a 5 member team at HealthConnect including: Back end Developer, Web Developer, IT Network/Phone Specialist, Data Analyst, Programmer.
Assets to manage: Contact Center, Fulfillment house, On-line Pharmacy

Martin has been in the IT industry for over 20 years. He has worked for with many small organizations in the IT industry which have grown and sold to public traded companies. Some of these companies:

1: Whitehill Technologies sold to Skywire, Oracle, and Thomson Reuters
2: BelTek Sold to High Jump
3: Kleinmundo sold to Thomson Reuters

This has led him to travel to over 25 different countries working for fortune 500 organizations in the Legal, Distribution, and Manufacturing markets.

His passion is both business and technology and to how they relate to each other. He is currently getting his PMP certification through St. Mary’s University and has recently just come back from Peru doing the Inca trail and living in the Amazon forest for 2 weeks.