Agile 2008 Guide - Thursday Evening
July 31, 2008 by Artem Marchenko
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 orange background take 180 minutes (and therefore continue from the previous time slot), 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 |
| 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. | ||
| Come to this clinic if you are an experienced C# developer who wants to get acquinted with the acceptance testing on .NET. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| A very special session, where you can present a micro talk or ask for a micro talk. See the session description for the details. | ||
| A chance to discuss what interests you most. | ||
| Come to this workshop if you are a software engineer and you are looking for the fasrer build/test tools. A number of options will be presented. | ||
| Come to this demo if you are a developer who utilizes TDD and especially FitNesse, but doesn’t apply TDD for the database development. A DbFit tool will be presented. | ||
| 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 workshop if you like TDD, but lack arguments for persuading the other team members. | ||
| Technical lessons learned turning the agile dials to eleven! | Come to this experience report if you want to see what happens over the course of several years with a company exploring the Agile practices much. | |
| Automated Functional Testing on the TransCanada Alberta Gas Accounting Program of Projects | An experience report focusing on FIT-based testing on the enterprise level project. | |
| Come to this experience report if your system includes many components that have to be tested manually. You will see how the manual test management could be improved with the Scrum-like methods. | ||
| Come to this talk if your team members find estimating and calculating velocity too boring and taking a lot of time. Or just if you wonder how work could look like if you had a release every couple of days. | ||
| A workshop from the fun department. Come if you want to have fun. You will learn how to write haiku and of course will dive into what haiku writing can teach to. | ||
| Come to this panel if you wonder how comes most successful open source teams use little to no Agile. | ||
| La technique d'interview des "Neuf Cases" pour mieux comprendre votre client | Come to this tutorial if you speak French and understand the description. | |
| A typical panel on the enterprise adoption with a particularly impressive set of experts from Google, Yahoo, etc. | ||
| Come to this talk if you are an organization leader or an Agile coach who wants to have a deeper understanding of why exactly Agile adoption fails or succeeds. | ||
| Come to this workshop if you work on the team where it is not clear who is *actually* driving the project. You will collectively explore the patterns, problems and solutions. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if often you find it difficult to exchange ideas with the stakeholders, colleague or whoever else, because it is just difficult to create a really shared understanding. Session is supposed to be especially useful for those new to Agile. Warning: this review is written by one of the copresenters and might be biased. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you are in position to sponsor the organizational change and are interested in supporting the entrepreneurship culture among your teams. | ||
| Come to this workshop if you are the one helping to gather requirements from the users and you find it difficult to explore the user’s mind. A particular technique for exploring the “user wish” before writing any user stories will be introduced. Mind maps are just a technical element of the technique. | ||
| Colossal, Scattered, and Chaotic (Planning with a Large Distributed Team) | Come to this experience report if you have to plan iterations and releases for a huge team distributed on several continents and even more cities. Especially if you are a product owner of such a team. | |
| An experience report on a successful Agile development in the offshore environment. | ||
| An experience report on a successful Scrum adoption in the distributed environment. | ||
| What Are They Doing? What A CIO Wants To Know From An Agile Development Team | Come to this talk if you work in an IT department of the enterprise and have issues understanding the reasons behind the CIO requests. | |
| Come to this workshop if you are an Agile coach or a leader who has some really tough challenges with facilitating your team. A Force Field Analysis technique will be introduced as a tool for helping the teams drive toward a challenge facing strategy. | ||
| A vendor talk on.. why product design matters and without a sales pitch. I guess it is labeled as vendor talk, only because they got a right to speak due to the conference sponsorship. | ||
| Better, stronger, faster continuous integration – Jump-starting the agile heartbeat | Come to this vendor talk if you are thinking about building a continuous integration system on top of the Electric Cloud solutions. | |
| Come to this vendor talk if you are thinking about hiring a consulting company that specializes on Agile/XP. | ||
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About the Author: As the Editor-in-Chief for AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com, Artem is charged with overseeing the direction for content, advertising, and the overall management of the site. Nowadays in his day life, Artem is a product manager in a global telecommunication company where he leads the development of a product developed in extremely distributed environment. Artem has been applying Agile and researching Agile since 2005. Contact Artem
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