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An Agile Accounting Model: The Key to Enterprise Agile

Tagged is hosting a Meetup for the Bay Area Agile Leadership Network at our HQ on Tuesday, July 17, at 6:30 p.m. PT.

Pat Reed, Sr. Director of IT at Gap Inc. and Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley and Woodbury University, and Walt Wyckoff, Agile SCRUM Master and QA Consultant at Stanford University, will be giving a presentation on “An Agile Accounting Model: The key to Enterprise Agile”.

About the talk:

“Before Agile can scale as the primary mode of developing software, an Agile accounting standard needs to be developed to enable CFO’s to understand and leverage one of the most quantifiable and compelling benefits of Agile software development. In this hands-on tutorial, we will walkthrough and de-mystify the problem, map current accounting standards to an Agile project accounting model and walk through a practical and defensible solution that participants can customize and implement.”

About Pat:

For the past 7 years Pat Reed has worked as Sr. Director of IT at Gap Inc., leading IT Strategic Planning, Global PMO, Portfolio Management, Risk and Vendor Management and IT Finance at Gap. Throughout her career leading Business Technology Solutions, Pat has leveraged Lean Agile Project Management and Software Development principles and practices in the Mental Health, Criminal Justice, Criminal Intelligence, Entertainment & Retail Industries. She loves to share her knowledge of technology and has over 35 years of experience as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver, Woodbury University and UC Berkeley Extension. Pat also serves as the Director on the Agile Alliance Board where she is helping to develop an Agile Accounting Standard.

About Walt:

Walt Wyckoff has been an Agile Consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past eight years within the telcom, high technology and higher education sectors.  Walt’s current roles include SCRUM Master and QA Automation Lead at Stanford University; he also teaches Agile Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Over his thirty five year career, Walt has worked in software development in the entertainment, airline, search engine, financial services, forest products, payroll, manufacturing, online auction and government sectors.

Learn more about this Meetup here and watch the video of the finished presentation here.

 

in Announcements, Community

Preserving Internet Innovation

Today, Tagged stands alongside fellow Internet companies such as Reddit, Wikipedia, Twitter, Google and many more, to voice our opposition toward SOPA and PIPA. These two significant, wide-sweeping congressional bills seriously threaten the Internet as we use it today.

Please take a few moments to watch the video above and learn how these bills affect you and many of the Internet companies you love.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House (H.R.3261) and its Senate sister bill, (S.968) the Protect IP Act (PIPA), both threaten the freedom, innovation and self-expression that the Internet has enabled for all.

Tagged is committed to protecting the intellectual property rights of others, however we also deeply  value Internet innovation and the ability to freely share information on the Web. The Senate will vote in less than a week on PIPA, so it’s time to make your voice heard.

Visit Stop American Censorship for more information and learn about the many ways you can take action. If you live outside the U.S., you can contact the U.S. state department.

in Announcements, Open Source

Tagged on Github!

We’re excited to announce that Tagged is now on Github, the web-based distributed version control system.

You can follow some of the projects our engineers are contributing to such as a Node-Kafka, a node client for Kafka, LinkedIn’s disk based message queue, JHM, an Intelligent build system we’re developing here at Tagged and many more projects to come in the future. We’ll be writing about how we’re using open-source projects here on our blog.

We’re excited to work with and give back to the open-source community. Follow all the projects we’re contributing to here – https://github.com/tagged

in Announcements, Tech

Tagged on Tagged!

Welcome to the Tagged culture and engineering blog! Over the past seven years we’ve grown from a closed social network with less than a million users to a global social discovery site with over 100 million members making millions of connections every day and serving billions of page views each month.

While growing over 600% in the past 3 years, we’ve had to tackle many technical challenges like scalability, spam detection, user security and more while still keeping our unique laid-back, fun culture. We think some of these problems and our solutions are interesting enough to share with you and we hope you enjoy reading about them as much as we enjoy solving them.

Over time we plan to share posts on game mechanics, graph databases, growing our engineering team, QA testing methods, analytics and whatever we think might be fun to share.

We’d love to hear your thoughts and opinions on all things tech here and on Twitter. Stay tuned for interesting blog posts about the exciting projects Tagged is working on!