Agile 2008 Guide - Tuesday Afternoon
June 23, 2008 by Artem
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.
This part of the guide covers Tuesday August 5, 14:00 - 15:30 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 occupy the next time slot to be covered later), all the sessions with the light blue 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 tutorial if you want to learn how to use agile methods and still be able to plan months ahead.
Come to this tutorial if Agile adoption goes (or went) OK in your SW department, you feel that larger changes are needed in the whole organization and want to have some guidance.
Come to this talk if you you are involved in guiding the agile adoption(s), especially if you are an Agile coach. You will learn “terrific transition tips” based on practice.
Open jam
A chance to discuss what interests you most.
Come to this talk if you feel like listening to the reasons for the ugly architecture to exist despite all the books, Agile methods and design patterns.
Maven and Continuum - building an ecosystem for Agile builds and testing
Come to this tutorial if you are interested in getting or improving the build and continuous integration system for your Java projects. You will be able to follow the tutorial on your own laptop if you wish.
Come to this tutorial if you are using Selenium and want to master it better.
Come to this tutorial if you want to see how test-driven-development works for XP gurus. They will develop a small program in front of you.
Come to this tutorial if you want to feel the benefits and drawbacks of a good quality code on a real example.
Come to this tutorial if you would like to learn how to test drive C++.
Live aid: articipate 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.
Stories, Sketches, and Lists: Developers and Interaction Designers Interacting Through Artefacts
Judith Brown, Gitte Lindgaard, Robert Biddle
Research paper.
Utilizing Digital Tabletops in Collocated Agile Planning Meetings
Xin Wang, Yaser Ghanam, Frank Maurer
Research paper.
Agile Methods and User-Centered Design: How These Two Methodologies Are Being Successfully Integrated In Industry
David Fox, Frank Maurer, Jonathan Silito
Research paper.
Come to this talk if you wonder what your automated build should really be for.
Software is a Princess, Another Mattress Won't Help - Why Small Things Matter in Agile
Come to this talk if you wonder why your Agile process adopted by the book doesn’t work as advertised.
The Agile Playground - Learning Games for the Agile Practitioner
Come to this workshop if you are a coach who wants to learn how to efficiently convey concepts and principles of Agile with the help of games.
Come to this tutorial if you have to play a Product Owner role and would like to understand better how from a fluid business case to come up with a Product Backlog and continue to the first release.
Come to this workshop if you feel like exploring the future. You will work on figuring out what open source methods might contribute to agile thinking.
Come to this tutorial if you are an Agile coach or a Scrum Master and want to let your teams self-organize, but they just don’t become self-organizing on their own.
The Pomodoro Technique: can you focus - really focus - for 25 minutes?
Come to this tutorial if are into improving your team daily practices in the innovative ways.
Come to this workshop if you want.. to know about yourself. Some kind of self-analysis session.
Come to this workshop if you speak French and understand the description.
Come to this workshop if you are practicing TDD (or BDD) already and want to improve.
Come to this tutorial if you are interested in how to apply exploratory testing effectively even in the presence of a large automated test suite.
Exposing the "devils" within - Agile taboos and other hurdles in a large organization
Come to this workshop if in your large organization transition Agile suffers from the superficial approach and Agile principles are mostly ignored.
Come to this tutorial if you would like to improve your conversation skills. You will learn how to apply story telling in your projects.
Come to this talk if you wonder what the Japanese Agile community is like.
An HR Perspective on Agile Careers in Corporations - Survey Results, Analysis and Forecast
Come to this talk if you care about your Agile team careers and would like to know what kind of career ladder is possible in the Agile world.
"Un-assessments" using Agile Evaluation Framework - actions by the teams, for the teams
Come to this experience report if you gather metrics, but they don’t really work for you.
Come to this talk if you are a product manager new to the Agile world and especially if you follow the Pragmatic Marketing framework.
Hiring For An Agile Team: Detecting Candidates Who Will Fit With the Team
Come to this tutorial if you are the one who hires new members for your team. You will learn how hire people who fit to your team way of working.
Come to this tutorial if you are running retrospectives and want to improve them.
Business Value: Discovering what it is and what to do about it
Come to this workshop if you are on the business side of the project and want to make sure the investments produce what is actually needed.
Come to this experience report if you want to see how organization could make fixed price, fixed scope and fixed schedule contracts be compatible with Agile development.
Come to this tutorial if you are struggling with starting the product, release or iteration. You will learn how to conduct the kick-off workshops so that they produced just enough requirements.
Come to this tutorial if you want to learn how to avoid a lot of oversights in the product design with the help of efficient low cost tool – paper prototyping.
Secrets of a Sticky Note Ninja : Rapid Ideation and Problem-Solving with Post-It Notes
Come to this workshop if you are a facilitator willing to improve the way of conveying information with the help of the cheapest visual tools.
Come to this talk if your distributed Agile teams don’t work as well as you’d like them to work. You will learn a success proven model for effective distributed Agile development.
Come to this workshop if you would like to collectively find out what could make your distributed teams better or if you would like to see whether the Nominal Group Technique is indeed better, than the traditional brainstorming.
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