Agile 2008 Guide - Thursday Afternoon

Topic

Speakers

Why you would want to go there

"We suck less!" Isn't mediocrity great?

David Douglas
Robin Dymond

Come to this talk if you enjoy discussing the philosophical matters such as reasons for adopting just a bit of Agile in many companies.

The Economics of Agile: The competitive advantage of developing commercial software with Agile methods

Sue McKinney
Ted Rivera

Come to this talk if despite the fact that you came to the conference on Agile you are still not sure that it is good foe the commercial software development.

Agile and Beyond - The power of aspirational teams!

Tim Mackinnon 

Unfortunately I failed to understand the intended audience of this talk. Looks like yet another motivational talk touching several particular collaboration related practices.

What Haven't You Noticed Lately: Achieving awareness in a complex world

Mark Federman

Come to this talk if you constantly feel like you are missing something important on your day job.

Open jam: create your own session at the conference

A chance to discuss what interests you most.

JDemo - lightweight exploratory developer testing

Ilja Preuß

Come to this talk if you are Java developer who practices TDD already, but feel that setting up the application for exploratory testing takes too long time of yours.

FitNesse Demo

Naresh Jain

Come to this tutorial if you are going to use FitNesse soon or if you started using FitNess and it doesn’t work well for you.

TDD Clinic: C and Legacy Code

Bas Vodde
Michael Feathers

Come to this clinic if you like the ideas of test driven development, want to apply it for your C projects, butn’t quite see how to do it well.

Automated Testing Clinic: FitNesse.NET

Mike Stockdale 

Come to this clinic if you are an experienced C# developer who wants to get acquinted with the acceptance testing on .NET.

Advanced TDD Randori and Fishbowl

Dave Nicolette
Ryan Hoegg

Come to this workshop if you can code in Java, know what TDD is and have plenty of questions about how TDD could be applied for complex areas.

Continuous Integration Clinic

Owen Rogers 

Come to this clinic if you are one of the people responsible for builds on your team and who is not satisfied with publishing just passed/failed status. You will learn how to make much more information very well visible.

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.

Refactoring for Testable C++

Keith Ray
Alex Aizikivski

Come to this tutorial if you are a developer who happens to work with a plenty of non-testable and hardly refactorable legacy C++ code.

Patterns Poster Children

Brian Foote 

Come to this tutorial if you are a developer, you like the idea of design patters, but find it not easy to apply them, because your particular situation is often not exactly like what the pattern was invented for.

What Is Your Unit Testing Philosophy?

Alistair McKinnell
Jason Cheong-Kee-You

Come to this tutorial if your team is applying unit tests, but it always happens to be difficult to understand the other guy’s tests.

Use-Case Recording: Testing a rich client UI by recording in a domain-specific language

Geoff Bache 

Come to this talk if you are applying automated testing, but you are testing GUI manually, because automated GUI-tests happen to be non-maintainable. This talk is more about ideas, but real example will also be demonstrated.

Maintain High Quality Web Applications with a Green Web Acceptance Build that Runs Under 10 minutes

Philippe Hanrigou

Come to this talk if you are developing Web 2.0 tests, perform a lot of manual testing and despite the big number of testing, the tests are too brittle and unreliable.

Cross Cultural Casino

Sarah Edrie
Susan Borges

A workshop on a multicultural collaboration, includes a game. Unfortunately description is quite brief.

Artful Making for Agile Teams

Lee Devin
Stacia Broderick

Come to this workshop if you are leading or coaching an Agile team and would like to know how to help people realize the creativeness in them.

Mature Agile with a twist of CMMI

Carsten Jakobsen
Kent Aaron Johnson

Come to this experience report if you are tempted to merge Agile with CMMI. You’ll see how people managed to do it and liked the results.

Agile development in a medical device company

Riaan Rottier
Victor Rodrigues

Come to this experience report if you are thinking about developing for the medical industry. People will show how they successfully use Scrum while following the industrial standards.

Swarming - The Birds and the Bees and Agile

Tom Perry
Dhaval Panchal

Come to this talk if you are a coach and would like to improve your understanding of the team dynamics basis.

How much compromise is too much – when is Agile no longer agile?

Bob Screptock
Julie Brooks

Come to this workshop if in your organization the “real world” tries to twist Agile much and you are not sure if it can still be called agile with all the adaptation performed.

Contractualisation des projets Agiles

Greg Hutchings 

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

Creating Agile Streams for business and technical value

David Spann
Zachary Hunter

Come to this experience report if you are in the product owner-like role and stakeholders constantly try shaking your priorities. An approach of splitting a single backlog will be presented.

Taking an Enterprise Agile

Roger Valade 

A typical experience report on successful Agile adoption. Includes using agile for legacy ERP system maintenance.

An Ericsson example of enterprise class Agility

Jasper Goos
Alfo Melisse

Come to this experience report if you winder how really big companies adopt Agile and what they find problematic.

Agile Supports Improved Culture and Quality for Healthwise

Ken Long
David Starr

Experience report on implementing Scrum in healthcare so well that the company became recognized by the Wall Street Journal.

Executing Agile in a Structured Organization: Government

Janette Scott, Robyn Johnson,
and Michael McCullough

Come to this experience report if you are funded by government and would like to consider adopting Agile.

From Denial to Acceptance: The 5 Stages of Grieving in a 6 Month Conversion from Waterfall to Agile to Save a Dying Project

Mary Beth Snapp
Diane Dagefoerde

Experience report on yet another successful waterfall-to-Agile transformation.

Building Self-Organization Skills through the Touchstones Discussion Project

Pam Rostal 

Come to this workshop if you are a coach or an organization leader who wants to learn yet another way of helping the team to become self-organizing.

From Concept to Product Backlog - What Happens Before Iteration 0?

Gerard Meszaros
Janice Aston

Come to this tutorial if you are on the customer side of the project and are often confused with the Agile team’s desire to expect plenty of well-thought stories when you want to work more on figuring out which product you actually need.

The Customer Role in Agile Projects

Mike Stout
Lisa Shoop

Come to this workshop if you are going to be the first time Agile customer and want to understand what is expected from you.

The Aikido of Agile Project Metrics

Alan Goerner 

Come to this tutorial if you want to measure your team development effort, but cannot make metrics work because of political or technical issues.

Distributed Agile Game

Desi McAdam

Come to this workshop if you are going to start or already started the distributed Agile development and would like to *feel* what it is really like, what problems there are and how to overcome them. This session is supposed to be a large scale simulation with a lot of fun.

Managing Database Development on Distributed Teams

Pramod Sadalage

Come to this demo if you work on the distributed Agile team, manage to work feature by feature, but find it challenging to put the database design under the collective ownership.

When Whole-Team Attacks: How can we ensure true whole-teams survive and thrive?

Angela Martin
Robert Biddle

Come to this talk if you find it challenging to move from a group of individuals to a true team acting as a whole.

The social nature of agile teams

Elizabeth Whitworth 

A “researchy” experience report that dives into personal feelings of those on the Agile projects.

Bootstrapping Scrum and XP under crisis - a story from the trenches

Henrik Kniberg
Reza Farhang

An experience report on saving a death march project by the author of Scrum and XP from the trenches.

Seeking To Perceive More Than To Be Perceived

Emmanuel Gaillot
Bernard Notarianni

Come to this tutorial if you a coach or facilitator who wants to improve his skills of resolving conflicts coming from pushing the own opinions.

Agile Leadership: What Is It and How Do You Do It?

Pollyanna Pixton
Johanna Rothman

Come to this tutorial if you are going to become an Agile team leader or if you are an official leader already and find it challenging to lead in the agile environment.

The User Feedback Two-Step

Hugh Beyer 

Come to this tutorial if your team finds it challenging to unite the highy dynamic iterative development with the amount of user experience design UX specialists want. You will learn a particular technique called User Feedback Two-Step.

Agile Tools For Agile Teams

Ian Culling

Vendor talk presenting a Version One tool basing on a real life story.

Agilizing Product Management

Rich Mironov

Vendor talk that looks like not a vendor talk, but rather a short motivational talk for product managers soon to start on the Agile team.