Agile 2008 Guide - Tuesday Evening
June 27, 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.
This part of the guide covers Tuesday August 5, 1600 - 17:30 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 continue from the previous slot), 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. | ||
| 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 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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 tutorial if you are running retrospectives and want to improve them. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Come to this talk if your organization is tempted to see agile as just a repackaging of old practices. You will learn how to see and to show the synergy of many subtle differences in Agile practices. | ||
| Come to this talk if your organization is big enough to make feature teams possible, but you don’t like the idea of component teams either. Bas has plenty of experience from huge organizations and will show you the third way. | ||
| Open jam | A chance to discuss what interests you most. | |
| Come to this small workshop if you feel like the nowadays “scaling” hype is suspicious and would like to compare your point of view to the others’. | ||
| Come to this talk if you are a tester willing to understand how to work effectively in the Agile team. | ||
| Come to this talk if you need to test your web applications for performance and not sure which tools are good for you. | ||
| Come to this talk if you want to measure your code effectively. | ||
| 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.
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| Handling Uncertainty in Agile Requirement Prioritization and Scheduling Using Statistical Simulation | Kevin Logue, Kevin McDaid | Wentworth |
| A Preliminary Roadmap for Research on Agile Software Development | Torgeir Dingsøyr, Tore Dybå, Pekka Abrahamsson | Wentworth |
| Panel: Issues and opportunities in research on agile methods | Frank Maurer, Robert Biddle, Torgeir Dingsøyr, Tore Dybå, Pekka Abrahamsson, Yael Dubinsky. Moderator: Philippe Kruchten | Wentworth |
| Come to this experience report if you are interested in integrating the work of many teams into frequent high quality releases. | ||
| Come to this talk if you want to implement agile method for Software as a Service. You will hear the Yahoo! experience. | ||
| Good Used Cars, Cheap Health Insurance, and Successful Consulting Engagements | Come to this talk if you engaged in the software consulting business either as a client or as a contractor. You will learn some theories behind the reasons of typical situations. | |
| Come to this workshop if you are involved into the business side of the organization. You will learn a toolbox for Agile contract design and will have a chance to discuss the experience of the other participants. | ||
| When Working Software Is Not Enough: A Story of Project Failure | Come to this talk if you are leading the company who works with the clients used to the fixed scope/price contracts. You will see how without a special care client may misunderstand pretty much everything in the approach even formally following it. | |
| Come to this talk if you want to know what is that difficult in being the agile coach. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you are involved into building an effective team as a coach, manager or a team member. You will learn both concepts and techniques. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you are on the customer side of a project (e.g. Product Owner) and struggle with identifying the real priorities and needs. | ||
| Come to this talk by the Scrum co-author if you are involved into contracting and want see how how Agile can help earning radically more money both for you and your partners be it clients or contractors. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you need to create patterns for whatever purpose, and would like to do it better. | ||
| How Did We Adapt Agile Processes to Our Distributed Development? | Come to this experience report if you are going to apply Agile to distributed development. You will see what works and what doesn’t for the report authors. | |
| Come to this experience report if you are going to apply Agile to outsourcing and would like to learn from successful companies. | ||
| Come to this experience report if you would like to learn from huge internet company experience. | ||
| Come to this talk if you like learning from lectures. You’ll get a lecture about globally distributed team challenges. | ||
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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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Multistage Continuous Integration session - Damon Poole
June 27, 2008 by Sinjin (not verified), 3 years 47 weeks ago
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I thought the third real-world session Damon Poole, CTO from AccuRev, is conducting at Agile 2008 looked particularly interesting. You can find the details here:
http://damonpoole.blogspot.com/2008/05/agile-2008-conference.html
Thank you for the list.
Sinjin
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