That is good????   Looks like my idea of hell :)  

Dude, this is great..what place is this, I wanna join.

The fact that they even talk about standards is a GOOD thing.  The fact that they talk about layers is a GOOD THING.

I'm impressed.  Communication and standards are lacking these days in IT.  Having everyone on page is  VERY GOOD SIGN that this place cares about coding right...or at least they seem to.

I hope you are right ...

What I would suspect from a calendar like that is that the standards and architecture is so rigid and fixed that it can be drawn down not only into documentation, but also into training sessions/courses ... it doesn't strike me as very Agile ...

... but perhaps this is a very large and well established project and these things have had time to settle, or perhaps the calendar is misleading and these are more like informal chats and pair programming than training ...