Agile 2008 Guide - Wednesday Afternoon
July 11, 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 Wednesday August 6, 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), 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 talk if you are one of the people responsible for or helping the Agile adoption in the team or organization. | ||
| Don't Sell Buzzwords to Business Leaders, Learn How to Describe and Demonstrate Real Value | Come to this talk if you have problems explaining the official leaders why this or that change needs to be made. | |
| Come to this talk if you are a coach who cares to think about the nature of coaching. You will get a chance to learn a collection of coaching ideas and practices. | ||
| A chance to discuss what interests you most. | ||
| Evolution of the Tools and Practices of a Large Distributed Agile Team | Come to this experience report if you are looking for an integrated Java-oriented toolbox for your distributed team. | |
| Drifting Toward Invisibility: the transition to the electronic task board | Come to this experience report if you are challenged to move from physical to electronic tools. You’ll see what to beware. | |
| Come to this experience report if you intend to use Microsoft SharePoint or if you hate to use SharePoint. You will learn what to beware and how to leave it. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you are well familiar with the test-driven development and are considering ways for taking it from unit level to acceptance level. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you know what refactoring is and would like to learn the deeper refactoring strategies from the expert. | ||
| Come to this clinic if you don’t know much about test-driven development (at least in C++) and would like to learn how to do it in C++. | ||
| Come to this clinic if you don’t have much practice with refactoring and would like to learn it. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you are coding on a daily basis and don’t feel like Agile methods empower you enough for keeping you architecture neat. | ||
| 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. | |
| Agile Automated Testing Strategies: Flipping the Testing Pyramid Right-Side-Up | Come to this tutorial if you know something about Agile testing and would like to understand the “big picture” about it. | |
| Come to this workshop if you feel like you need to improve your improvisation skills. You will practice a theatre without preparation. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you are an Agile team member looking for what is needed in order to become a senior team member. | ||
| Learning Collaboration and the Planning via the Process Game | Come to this tutorial if you are a coach looking for exercises for teaching the importance of planning and collaboration. You will see how the Rummy game could be used for it. | |
| Come to this workshop (though description looks more like of a tutorial) if you are a coach or mentor looking for exercises to be used, when teaching Scrum. | ||
| Come to this workshop if you are a coach looking for a game to teach the importance and meaning of DONE. | ||
| Come to this demo if you’ve heard about Lean, but didn’t have a lot of practice with “pulling” the requirements. You will experience the pull method live. | ||
| Come to this workshop if you are a human resource person or line manager and would like to understand what effect Agile methods have on the labor turnover. | ||
| The Doctor is "In" - Using the Office Hours Concept to Make Limited Resources Most Effective | Come to this experience report if you are a manager or coach who is concerned about sharing a valuable specialist between many Agile teams. | |
| Agile infrastructure and operations: how infra-gile are you? | Come to this experience report if you wonder how to build the infrastructure and frameworks while staying Agile. | |
| Come to this talk if you find it problematic to convince the business side to adopt the Agile-compatible practices. | ||
| Come to this talk if you are involved in preparing the upfront estimations for the Agile project and you are not completely happy with your current estimations practices. | ||
| Come to this talk if you would like to hear about the statistics around the Agile adoption: how wide it really is, what is usually effective, etc. | ||
| La technique d'interview des "Neuf Cases" pour mieux comprendre votre client | Come to this tutorial if you speak French and understand the description. | |
| Becoming a fearless leader of change (to agile or any new idea) in your organization | Come to this tutorial if you are one of those who are struggling with introducing change in the organization(s). | |
| Dead Sheepdog: Ethical Dilemmas and Agile Software Development | Come to this talk if during your office hours you often feel the ethical problems. | |
| Successful Agile Transitions: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Discover What Works | Come to this workshop if you are a coach or manager who wants to transition to Agile without a lot of trouble. | |
| Come to this tutorial if you are a Product Owner who has problems with measuring or presenting the value being built by the Scrum team. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you are not sure how you should prioritize the requests in your Scrum Product Backlog. | ||
| Managing the Middle: Product Owners and the Politics of Backlog Management | Come to this workshop if you are a Product Owner who has to manage expectations of many different stakeholders and/or customers. | |
| Come to this talk if you intend to apply Agile methods in a globally distributed team. You will hear the lessons learned from 3 years of such a journey. | ||
| Come to this workshop if Agile works well for you and you feel like sharing your experience with the community. | ||
| Quite a typical experience report about reimplementing a failed project with the Scrum implementation. | ||
| Agile Project Leadership - my top 10 value driven principles | Come to this experience report if you a leading a team (or teams) in an Agile-skeptic environment. | |
| Cowboys and Indians: Impacts of Cultural Diversity on Agile Teams | Janice Aston | Come to this experience report if you are working in a multicultural environment. |
| Come to this talk if you have problems tracking (or presenting) the progress of the projects being developed by Agile teams. | ||
| Come to this talk if you are leading or plan to lead a team of volunteers (such as an open source project team?). | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you are a UI designer who struggles to integrate user centered design approaches with the Agile methods. | ||
| Come to this experience report if you wonder how to make the Agile project deliver good user experience design. | ||
| Get in There, Mess Up & Find Shortcuts: A User Experience Journey | An experience report on using the contextual enquiry method for delivering a good user experience. | |
| A typical experience report on using personas. | ||
| Assembling a Real-Time Collaborative Development Platform in the Cloud | Vendor demo about a tool that I failed to understand from the description and failed to locate on the vendor site. Come here if you feel the need to show respect to the conference sponsors. | |
| Peer into the Crystal Ball: The Future of Agile Development in Visual Studio | Come to this vendor talk if your development is based on the Microsoft tools. You’ll see how the upcoming version of Visual Studio supports Agile. | |
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Some pitfalls become dogmatic patterns
July 12, 2008 by Daniel Pietraru (not verified), 18 weeks 5 days ago
Comment id: 1656
While agile was still in its infancy I was a very enthusiastic supporter. My experiences with XP years ago were all a success because we were ...well... agile. We were able to look at the book (a thin one) and pick what made sense in that particular scenario. Lately I see the late comers rushing into the Agile way of working. What happens is an explosion of books, and contradictory advice and also a mutation of Agile methods at the touch of old ways of doing things in the Enterprise. This got me frustrated to the point where I had to make fun of it: The Agile 800 Pounds Gorilla.
I would like to go to this conference and take the pulse of the movement first hand but time is scarce. Are the presentations gonna be released to the public after the conference?
Cheers,
Daniel
Indeed i happens. Just as
July 12, 2008 by Artem, 18 weeks 5 days ago
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