Agile 2008 Guide - Friday Morning
Agile 2008 is the premier conference of the Agile world. There are going to be almost 2000 participants and about 400 different sessions to attend. It means plenty of interesting conversations and a lot of activities to choose from. However, it also means that you have to make a choice between many different options. During the main part of the conference you have to choose between 40 to 50 different sessions.
Here is the first part of the guide to the conference program. This part covers Thursday August 7, 16:00 - 17:00 time slot. In the table below you can find links to the full description, author bio and the answer to the all important question "Why would you want to go there?" All the sessions with white background take 90 minutes, all the sessions with the light blue or light green background take less, than 90 minutes.
If you feel that some summaries are inaccurate, please, comment - I will correct the mistakes.
You can find more information about the conference at http://AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com/Agile2008
| Topic | Speakers | Why you would want to go there |
| Agility and SOA - Experiences with System Landscapes under Maintenance | Unfortunately the session author does not allow any use of his proposal and I cannot write even that small review without his permission for which I don’t have time. Sorry about that. | |
| Do the Right Things: Adapting Requirements Practices for Agile Projects | Come to this talk if you are the one caring about the requirements in your organization. You will hear about whole spectrum of solutions as well of both Agile requirements advantages and pitfalls. | |
| A chance to discuss what interests you most. | ||
| Collaboration Explained--Tools for Facilitating Real Agile Teams | Come to this tutorial if you are an Agile coach, a team leader or an active team member. You will learn very specific tools for ensuring a continued and growing collaborative Agile team. | |
| Test Driven Development for Data Management projects using FIT4Data | Come to this demo if you are sold on TDD, don’t use it for database development yet, but would like to. | |
| Come to this clinic if you are an NUnit user already. Presenter will share tips from his practice. | ||
| Come to this clinic if you are a developer working on Agile team and willing to start with acceptance testing. | ||
| Live aid: participate in a real agile project at the conference | Come there if you want to feel the real agile team working. Note that you might participate fully or drop for 10 minutes if you have a free time slot. | |
| Come to this experience report if you are about to start (or already started) a maintenance project on a decade old, heavily distributed large project. | ||
| A panel-like wrap-up session. Come here if you’ve been to several legacy related sessions and enjoyed them. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you are using FIT, but despite all the intentions, customers don’t find them understandable enough. | ||
| Come to this demo if you are an Agile coach or if you are a team member looking for arguments to adopt or reject the pair programming adoption. You will see a simulation of many typical personalities and situations. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you invested a lot in RUP or UP and now they say you should drop it in favor of Scrum. Some advices on merging the processes will be proposed. | ||
| Starting a Kanban System for Software Engineering with Value Stream Maps and Theory of Constraints | Come to this tutorial if you’ve heard something about lean software development and/or kanban system and you are thinking about trying it on your next project. A quick-start guide will be presented. | |
| Separation of concerns: How to decrease coupling and to raise cohesion | Come to this talk if you are an architect or software engineer interested in managing dependencies between classes or software components. | |
| Come to this workshop if you are estimating stories for your product owners, but always have problems estimating the large ones. A method for quantifying the relative complexities by using “tests” as the unit of estimation will be presented. | ||
| Come to this workshop if you are tired of misperceptions and misconceptions of Agile and want to do something about it. | ||
| Come to this workshop if you speak French and understand the description. | ||
| Come to this experience report if you are a facilitator or Scrum Master who leads plenty of iteration retrospectives and would like to see how people retrospect bigger amounts of time. | ||
| Experience report on that even a successful and wide Agile adoption (in BBC) can still be in fear of a single wrong senior manager appointment. Something many practitioners from the enterprise might like to understand. | ||
| An experience report on a particular company successfully applying Agile (Landmark Graphics). | ||
| Come to this talk if you work in a project or program management office in your organization and are wonder how your role will change in the Agile world, | ||
| Integrating Scrum with the Process Framework at Yahoo! Europe | Come to this experience report if you are working for a large enterprise that considers a switch to the Agile methods. | |
| The Tail and the Dog: Aligning Governance with Agile Project Management | A talk devoted to describing a particular political problem with adopting Agile in a large organization. | |
| Punctuated Continuity: Using Ritual and Ceremony to Avoid Process Fatigue | Come to this workshop if you are a coach or Scrum Master caring about the process not becoming too routine boring and.. ignored. Teaser: haikus will be used. | |
| Talk that allows for insight into the industry where people do make a release every single week and depend much on the customer satisfaction. Plenty of insider videos are promised. | ||
| Extreme Interviewing: Finding the Right People for Your Agile Team | Come to this talk if you are responsible for hiring new people for the Agile team(s). | |
| Come to this panel if you are not exactly happy with the level of product innovation in your company and are intrigued by the idea that customers and users could take part in designing the product they would actually love. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if your team is quite good at working iteration by iteration, but the whole product focus is often blurry and it is difficult to say what you are heading at 3-5 iterations from the current moment. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you are involved in spreading the Agile practices and/or building and developing new teams. | ||
| Come to this workshop if you love PMBOK so much that are ready to devote your time to making sure Agile principles can be the PMBOK principles as well. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you are involved in starting new projects. Presenter will share his checklist and concrete procedure for starting a new project. | ||
| A talk of the large organization that manage to shrink its release cycle from a year to 4-5 months for the similarly sized projects. Presenter is a leader of this organization. | ||
| Meshing Gears: Real-world examples of how design and development integrate -- and fail to | Come to this talk if too often your teams fail to integrate the user or even UI/UX designer into designing a product and you would like to understand the reasons. A media-rich session with a number of illustrative real world photos. | |
| The reporting mini-session (?) of a graphical content contributed/drawn by the conference attendees. See session description for the samples. | ||
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