Agile 2008 Guide - Tuesday Evening

Topic

Speakers

Why you would want to go there

Agile Estimating and Planning

Mike Cohn

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

Christian Gruber

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.

TDD Clinic: Ron & Chet

Chet Hendrickson
Ron Jeffries

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.

Clean Code Clinic: Ugly Tic Tac Toe

Patrick Wilson-Welsh 

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

Don McGreal
Michael McCullough

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.

Beer Miles! The Product Owner Simulation

Robin Dymond
David Douglas

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.

Open Source Meets Agile - What can each teach the other?

Mary Poppendieck
Christian Reis

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.

Coaching self-organizing teams

Joseph Pelrine
Steve Freeman

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.

Agile ?! ça ne marchera jamais chez nous !

François Bachmann

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

Avatars of TDD: First Tests

Bill Wake
Naresh Jain

Come to this workshop if you are practicing TDD (or BDD) already and want to improve.

ET by Example: An exploratory testing experience

Erik Petersen 

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

Jan-Erik Sandberg
Lars Arne Skår

Come to this workshop if in your large organization transition Agile suffers from the superficial approach and Agile principles are mostly ignored.

Storytelling Skills for Agile Teams

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Rachel Davies

Come to this tutorial if you would like to improve your conversation skills. You will learn how to apply story telling in your projects.

Diana and Esther’s Excellent Retrospective Adventures

Diana Larsen
Esther Derby

Come to this tutorial if you are running retrospectives and want to improve them.

Requirements-Driven Workshops for Large Agile Projects: Essentials for Product, Release and Iteration Planning

Ellen Gottesdiener

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.

Agile and Paper Prototyping

Todd Zaki Warfel

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.

Agile by any other name does NOT smell as sweet!

Jennitta Andrea

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.

Trouble with component teams and an alternative

Bas Vodde

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.

Scale Back: Small is Beautiful

Tobias Mayer

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’.

Agile is Groovy, Testing is Square

James Lyndsay

Come to this talk if you are a tester willing to understand how to work effectively in the Agile team.

Open source performance testing tools for the web

Paul King
Dalton Cranston

Come to this talk if you need to test your web applications for performance and not sure which tools are good for you.

Code Metrics & Analysis for Agile Projects

Neal Ford
Ram Singaram

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.

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

Fast & Predictable - So many Scrum Teams, So Little Time: Enterprise Release Management in an Agile World

Amy Farrow
Steve Greene

Come to this experience report if you are interested in integrating the work of many teams into frequent high quality releases.

Agile Deployment: Lean Configuration Management and Deployment Strategies for the Agile SaaS Enterprise

Robert Benefield 

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

Michael Nygard

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.

Agile Contracting

Rachel Weston
Chris Spagnuolo

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

Mitch Lacey 

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.

XP: My Greatest Misses 2000-2008

J. B. Rainsberger

Come to this talk if you want to know what is that difficult in being the agile coach.

Building High-Performance Agile Teams

Paul Hodgetts

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.

Business Value - Soup to Nuts

Andy Pols
Chris Matts

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.

Money for Nothing and Your Change for Free: Agile Contracts

Jeff Sutherland 

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.

Postcard Patterns: An Agile Pattern Creation Process

Ian Swinson
Jason Winters

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?

Cynick Young
Hiroki Terashima

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.

Distributed Agile Outsourcing: Growing a Practice Together

Michael Vax
Stephen Michaud

Come to this experience report if you are going to apply Agile to outsourcing and would like to learn from successful companies.

Yahoo! Distributed Agile: Notes from the World Over

Brian Drummond
JF Unson

Come to this experience report if you would like to learn from huge internet company experience.

Working With Global and Distributed Agile Teams

Ken Pugh 

Come to this talk if you like learning from lectures. You’ll get a lecture about globally distributed team challenges.