Agile 2008 Guide - Thursday Morning

Topic

Speakers

Why you would want to go there

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

From High-performing to Hyper-performing Agile teams

Facilitator: Gabrielle Benefield
Panel: Jeff Sutherland, Rob Mee, Jason Titus

Come to this panel if you are looking for examples of very successful Scrum implementations in the large companies. Panelists include a Yahoo! deirector and a co-author of Scrum.

Measuring Agile in the Enterprise: 5 Success Factors for Large-Scale Agile Adoption

Michael Mah

Yet another report about a successful distributed Scrum implementation. This one is claimed to be measured particularly well.

Good Virus / Bad Virus: How Organization Culture Impacts Agile Adoptions (and Vice Versa)

Michael Spayd

Come to this talk if you want to understand whether Agile fits your organization well.

Open jam: create your own session at the conference

A chance to discuss what interests you most.

JTestMe - improving test feedback and reducing build times with dynamically defined optimised smoke tests

Joshua Graham

Come to this demo if you are a Java developer looking for ways to decrease the amount of tests run on the check-ins.

Evolution of the Tools and Practices to Achieve Organizational Change

Fabrizio Cannizzo
Paul Moser

Come to this experience report if you a Java developer who works in a distributed team and is not happy with the current tools.

Adopting agile testing practices when legacy tools and practices rule !

Xavier Warzee 

Come to this talk if you are sold on Agile and would like to promote it from the grass root level even if the organization doesn’t want the change.

Domain Specific Testing Languages

Michael Phoenix
Rand Huso

Come to this tutorial if you are a developer or tester, don’t know much about domain specific languages and would like your users to participate in the test creation.

A Hundred Days of Continuous Integration

Ade Miller

Come to this experience report if you are looking for ways to convince your distributed team give continuous integration a try.

Team pace - Keeping build times down

Graham Brooks

Sheraton Hall C

Effective and pragmatic Test Driven Development

Andrew Rendell

Sheraton Hall C

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.

TDD Principles for Database Development

Dennis Lloyds Jr
Sebastian Meine

Come to this talk if you apply TDD for code, but don’t yet apply it for databases. You will learn a number of techniques.

Robust Performance of Complex Systems

Michael Nygard
Mary Poppendieck

Come to this workshop if you want to share and build upon your experience in creating the robust complex systems.

Why So Little Questioning? Skeptical Humanist Seeks Same for Discrete Afternoon Encounters

Michael Bolton 

Come to this session of another type if you feel like analyzing the conference itself and observing where the trends are heading (e.g. whether tools or people are emphasized). Note, that some preparation is expected.

A better culture change approach for busy practitioners

Mike Russell
Amy Levine

Come to this tutorial if you feel like your organizational change approaches lack consistency and you would like to improve them. A particular framework will be presented.

Agile Planning in Action

James Shore 

Come to this tutorial if you know what agile planning is about, but don’t practice it much yet. You will go through a simulation of building a real product.

Guerilla Agile: Stop Playing Schedule Games

Johanna Rothman

Come to this talk if you feel like you management is playing too much with the arbitrary schedules and you would like to know how to change that.

Oles 8 steps for Agile Mentors

Ole Jepsen

Come to this tutorial if you are an Agile coach or planning to become a coach and would like to learn the best tricks for traditional-to-Agile transitions. Ole will share his method.

The Road from Project Manager to Agile Coach

Lyssa Adkins

Come to this workshop if you are or were a project manager going to become an Agile coach. Together with a group and the presenter you will collectively identify and possibly learn how change yourself into a coach.

Agile and the Enterprise

Daniel Craig

Vendor talk of Command Information. Yet another consultants.

Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise with Lean Software Development

Alan Shalloway

Vendor talk of Net Objectives. They specialize on Lean Software Development and merging it with Agile.

DSDM Atern: An introduction to Europes leading Agile Framework for Agile Programmes and Projects

Barry Fazackerley

Vendor tutorial on DSDM method. Performed by the DSDM Consortium person.

Case Study – Benchmarking Agile Productivity

Zach Nies

Come to this vendor talk if you believe that tools can help you measure your Agile teams productivity. The study is likely to be biased towards Rally.

Source Code Analysis in an Agile World

Gywn Fisher

Vendor talk on source code analysis. Performed by a Klocwork person.