Agile 2008 Guide - Thursday Early Morning

Topic

Speakers

Why you would want to go there

My First, Shortest, and, Most Recent Agile Testing Frameworks

Ward Cunningham

Come to this talk by the father of the FIT framework if you are into testing and are interested in watching where the testing frameworks development is heading to.

Future Directions for Agile

David Anderson

Come to this talk if you are well familiar with Agile, know something about Lean and are interested in watching for the coming trends.

New arrows for the Agile quiver: Now that the team's head is in the game, how do you get their heart in?

Jim McCarthy

Come to this talk by the father of old Visual C++ if you are experiencing strange dysfunctions in your team such as: talking much and doing little, not learning from own mistakes again and again, etc.

Open jam: Create your own session at the conference

A chance to discuss what interests you most.

Using Agile engineering tools and practices to achieve Organizational Change

Christian Gruber

Come to this talk if your grass-root teams would like to apply Agile methods, but fail to get enough management support.

Text-based Acceptance Testing using TextTest

Geoff Bache
Emily Bache

Come to this demo if you like old good testing by just comparing the log files between the program execution rounds and you are not happy that the standard Agile testing practices deviate much from it.

Coding Contest

Christoph Steindl
Christian Federspiel

Come to this developer contest if you are a developer wishing to have some coding fun while experiementing with the new or competitive approaches.

TDD Clinic: .Net and C#

David Starr 

Come to this clinic if you are a developer who knows something about unit testing and would like to leard more about test-driven development in C#.

Automated Testing Clinic: Testing with a Purpose

Kay Johansen
Christian Hargraves

Come to this clinic if you know what test-driven development is about, but often you find yourself buried with the large amount of poorly understandable tests.

Continuous Integration Clinic

Maciej Zawadzki 

Come to this clinic if you are a spftware developer or build manager everything you’ve heard about the continuous integration is just the name of the practice.

Don't give up on mocking!

Szczepan Faber

Come to this demo if you are a Java developer, who applies TDD daily, but you are not happy with how you are able to mock objects.

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.

Agile Architecture IS Possible – You First Have to Believe!

Mark Isham

Yet another experience report about saving a large waterfall project by switching to Scrum.

Technical Debt - How not to ignore it

Henrik Kniberg

Come to this talk if from time to time you find your team(s) buried with the technical debt and you can’t seem to get out of it.

Backing the Truth into a Corner

Keith Braithwaite

Unfortunately I failed to understand what this workshop is exactly about. Something related to understanding why the executable requirements work.

Using TDD with Concurrent Applications

Brett Schuchert
David Nunn

Come to this workshop if you are a Java developer who knows how to apply TDD in general, but finds it difficult to test the concurrent code.

Paving the way for Agile Testing

Eric Jimmink 

Come to this talk if you find it easy to test all the code in the first iteration, but find it difficult to maintain the testing rate, when the amount of code grows up.

Agile Teams Require Agile QA: How we made it work

Kealy Opelt
Tracy Beeson

Come to this experience report if you find it difficult to integrate QA into your Agile team life.

Game Design Workshop

Hubert Smits 

Come to this workshop if you are a coach who frequently wants to frame the exercises into a game. You will learn how to create them.

Meta-Agile: Using Agile Methods to Deliver Agile Training

Mishkin Berteig

Come to this session if you are a trainer or a teacher (not necessarily teaching Agile methods). You will learn how to apply the Agile methods in training from the person who applies them himself.

KFC Development - Finger Lickin' Good

Karl Scotland
Aaron Sanders

Come to this workshop if you’ve heard a little about Lean and are willing to explore it more. You will hear about the Yahoo! expeience.

Operating on the Creative Edge: Applying Improvisation Techniques in Agile

Jim York
Tobias Mayer

Come to this workshop if you are a coach who want to learn more about how to help the teams learn how to be creative and and improvise for the better.

Beginner's Mind--The Zen of Agile

David Hussman
Jean Tabaka

Come to this workshop if your teams frequently lean into overplanning, overthingking and over engineering.

That's Not Agile! Removing Religion From Software Development

Doug Bradbury 

Come to this workshop if you are tired with people around insisting on Agile dogmas. You’ll have a chance to find out what it means [for you, first of all] whether the practice is “Agile” or not.

Vision Pluridisciplinaire: Générer une charte de projet en un jour, en enfermant des gens de point de vue divers dans une salle

Alain Désilets

Come to this tutorial if you speak French and understand the description.

Creating Cultures Where Agile Emerges

Pollyanna Pixton

Come to this tutorial if you plan to frequently work with different teams as a coach.

Refactoring of Cultural Smells

Orit Hazzan
Yael Dubinsky

Come to this tutorial if you work in a multicultural environment and things don’t go as smoothly as you’d like them to go.

Mr Agile Goes To Washington: The Impact of Politics on Agile Projects

Angela Martin
Rachel Davies

Come to this workshop if you happen to find winds of politics preventing good ideas from flourishing in your organization. You will take part in developing and sharing practices that will help to  handle the political situations that face agile projects today

User Story Mapping: making sense out of your user story backlog

Jeff Patton 

Come to this tutorial if you sit on the customer side of the project, work with user stories, but often find the vision blurred ad becoming difficult to communicate as new and stories are added.

Get Your Agile Project Started on the Right Foot: Requirements and Architectural Envisioning

Scott Ambler

Come to this talk if you want to hear about the non-mainstream Agile methods, You will hear about the Agile model driven development.

User Stories and Use Cases? Sure, it even makes sense

Jamie Allsop

Come to this talk if your organization was used to use cases and is not sure how they can be used together with the user stories.

How to support a collaborative atmosphere in distributed projects?

Lars Arne Skår
Jan-Erik Sandberg

Come to this workshop if you are having issues with the level of collaboration with your distributed projects and would like to collectively figure out what could be done about the difficulties.

Appraisals and Compensation: The Elephant in the Room

Mary Poppendieck 

Come to this talk if you feel like bonuses don’t work in your organization as well as they are supposed to. Or if you’ve never been to Mary’s talks earlier.

The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility

Michele Sliger
Stacia Broderick

Come to this tutorial if you come from project management and not sure what you are going to do in the world of Agile.

What Makes Pairing Work?

George Dinwiddie 

Come to this workshop if you’d like to promote pair programming in your team, but adoption doesn’t happen easily.

The Secrets of High-Performance Agile Implementations

Gil Broza

Come to this tutorial if you are an organizational leader or manager starting the Agile adoption.

Sketchboards and Prototypes: Agile methods for better and faster UX solutions

Dan Harrelson
Leah Buley

Come to this tutorial if you come from UI or UE and have troubles with iterating your designs as quickly as developers are able to complete their iterations.

Building Process-Enabled Content Applications Using an Agile Development Platform

Andreas Dangl

Come to this vendor demo if you believe in tools being able to solve most of the problems and are looking for a web 2.0 design tool.

Advancing Agile Application Delivery with Automation

Mike Jones

Yet another vendor talk with yet another Agile platform and custom methodology.

Scrum - Not Just For Developers Anymore

Melissa Meeker

Come to this vendor talk to hear how Scrum was adopted starting from the marketing department.

Using Microsoft’s TFS and Net Objectives’ Lean-Agile Process Template to Drive Agile Projects From Business Value

Alan Shalloway

Come to this vendor talk if your company is working with Microsoft tools and you are considering to hire a consultant to help you become Agile while staying within the Visual Studio Team System.

Exactly Where Did I Put that Business Value? It was Here a Minute Ago…

Matthew Van Vleet

It is stated to be a vendor talk, but from the description it looks like the talk is more about how you could figure out which requirements implementation would bring most value.