Game engine gems; v.2

Game engine gems; v.2.

Agile Alliance Media Contact: Catapult PR-IR Christie Denniston Office: 303-581-7760 ext. 13 Cell: 303-827-5164 cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.comAbout National Stock Number (NSN)PORTLAND, Ore., June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Agile Alliance, (www.agilealliance.org) a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the advancement of Agile software development principles and practices, has designated a "Park Bench" within the Open Jam area at the Agile2011 Conference where authors of the Agile Manifesto will be available to share ideas, answer questions, learn and develop new ideas with attendees of the conference. In addition, participants can interact with the authors, ask questions and hear commentary on the state of Agile during the "Big Park Bench" reunion event scheduled for the conference's opening night, Mon., Aug. 8 from 5:30 - 7 p.m. MTN.A National Stock Number (NSN), as it is known in the US, or a NATO Stock Number, is a 13-digit numeric code identifying all the “standardized material items of supply” as they have been recognized by all NATO countries including the U.S. Department of Defense. An item having an NSN is said to be “stock-listed,” which expedites the purchase process.The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of Agile software development, as outlined in the (http://www.agilemanifesto.org/). With nearly 6,000 members located around the globe, the Agile Alliance is driven by the principles of Agile methodologies and the value delivered to developers, organizations and end users. The Agile Alliance organizes the annual Agile Conference, the industry's leading event that attracts practitioners, academia, business and vendor-partner community members from around the globe. The Agile 2011 Conference (http://agile2011.agilealliance.org/) is scheduled for August 8-12 in Salt Lake City. For more information about the organization, visit (http://www.agilealliance.org/).Ed. by Eric Lengyel.Agile2011 is scheduled for Aug. 8 - 12 in Salt Lake City (http://agile2011.agilealliance.org/), and conference organizers have received commitments from nearly all of the 17 visionaries who crafted the enduring principles that have changed the way software is developed and delivered today.On Feb. 11-13, 2001, at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, 17 representatives from Extreme Programming, Scrum, DSDM, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal, Feature-Driven Development, Pragmatic Programming and others interested in an alternative to documentation driven, heavyweight software development processes convened. Naming itself "The Agile Alliance," this group of independent thinkers developed and agreed on the values and principles that make up the Agile Software Development Manifesto, or what is commonly referred to as The Agile Manifesto (for the complete history as told by Jim Highsmith, please visit: (http://www.agilemanifesto.org/history.html).

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