Agile 2008 Guide - Wednesday Evening
July 14, 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 Wednesday August 6, 16:00 - 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 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 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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). | |
| 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 workshop if Agile works well for you and you feel like sharing your experience with the community. | ||
| 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 talk if you like theorizing on the deep reasons of things going well and wrong in software development. | ||
| Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises | Come to this tutorial if you want to apply Agile methods in the large enterprise. | |
| Come to this talk if you come from the traditional project management and want to find out what leadership methods could and could not work in the Agile world. | ||
| A chance to discuss what interests you most. | ||
| It’s Our Schedule, Let’s Manage It! (Backlogs & Burndowns as tools for Agile Project Planning) | Come to this tutorial if you are caring about the project schedule or its part. Burndowns and backlogs will be explained. | |
| Come to this demo if you’ve heard about BDD, but didn’t try it for real on the full cycle from customer request to acceptance. | ||
| Exploratory Test Driven Development: Red,Yellow, Green, Refactor | Come to this demo if you apply TDD on the daily basis and care about exploring where the TDD trend is moving to. | |
| 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 are involved in teaching the software development, especially in the academic environment. | ||
| Come to this workshop if you are struggling without a good Agile-compatible manager or if you are a coach helping such managers to grow. | ||
| Come to this workshop if you are a Product Owner that finds it difficult to balance his time between the low level involvement and long term and fuzzy future issues. | ||
| Enterprise Agile Consortium - Company to Company Mentorship for Agile Adoption | Come to this talk if you are not happy with the default Agile advices for the large enterprises. You will hear what enterprises were finding actually useful or useless. | |
| Come to this talk if you worry about the health of the relationships between your Agile team members. | ||
| Come to this experience report if you are a manager who want to be able to rapidly raise the team velocity when sudden needs comes. | ||
| Calling All Agile Skeptics, The Curious, and Die-Hard non-Agile | Come to this workshop if you aren’t sure you want to adopt this Agile thing. Or if you are a coach willing to learn from how Damon facilitates the discussion. | |
| Come to this workshop if you speak French and understand the description. | ||
| How to Get Started with Enterprise Agile Adoption: An Emergent Organizational Change Approach | Come to this talk if you are going to help change your enterprise to Agile and already know something about it. Michael will add his thoughts and will tell about a single case in which he was involved personally. | |
| Prioritizing and Sequencing Features: several techniques including “Minimal Marketable Features” | Come to this tutorial if you struggle to prioritize requests in your large backlogs. Several methods will be introduced. | |
| Come to this demo if you are a manager who would like to understand what the test-driven development is about or if you are a coach who has to explain it to non-technical managers often. You’ll see how TDD can be introduced with the help of Excel familiar to almost every manager out there. | ||
| Come to this tutorial to learn from XP gurus how to do the release planning well. | ||
| Fully Distributed Scrum: The Secret Sauce for Hyperproductive Outsourced Development Teams | Jeff Sutherland | Come to this experience report to see how the Scrum co-author manages to maintain hyperproductivity in the distributed and even outsourced teams. |
| Experience report focused on the Five Dysfunctions of a Team model. | ||
| Experience report on growing a self-managing team in a command and control culture. | ||
| This talk is more of a large experience report on improving the estimation practices. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you are a coach or a leader looking for a base mental model for growing the collaborative and creative teams. | ||
| Come to this tutorial if you need to resolve conflicts or facilitate conflict resolution often, You will learn how to apply the evaporating cloud method. | ||
| Come to this experience report to see how it can indeed possible to deliver major functionality (with the initially vague requirements) in a very short time frame. | ||
| Come to this experience report if your Scrum team fails to nail the good usability. | ||
| Come to this experience report if under the contemporary business pressure your teams always have time only for “good enough” mediocre software. | ||
| Come to this vendor talk if you are thinking about using the Berteig Consulting services. | ||
| Come to this vendor talk if you are thinking about using the Intelliware services. | ||
| Come to this vendor talk if you are thinking about using the Thoughtworks(?) services. It is not clear from the description which vendor is going to advertise itself, but the presenter is from Thoughtworks. | ||
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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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