Track: Agile Ways
The Agile Ways track will give you 12 hardcore seminars over two days with world renowned experts guiding you through a wide range of agile aspects in development projects. We also LEANed a bit over to hear from the mother of all AGILE and if that's not enough there are 25 more seminaries in the conference tagged with Agile.
Hear the discussions. Get your gray matter going. There are no rights or wrongs to learning, take every chance to interact with the speakers and share your experience...
Thursday
Making the Sausage
Building a Behavior Driven Design Framework for Clojure.
This will continue the development of their creation from Wednesday evening's BoF at Øredev.
It's an extraordinary opportunity to see these amazing programmers in action.
Stuart Halloway
Stuart Dabbs Halloway is a co-founder of Relevance, Inc. Stuart is the author of Programming Clojure, Component Development for the Java Platform and Rails for Java Developers. Stuart regularly speaks at industry events including the No Fluff, Just Stuff Java Symposiums, the Pragmatic Studio, RubyConf, and RailsConf.
Neal Ford
Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, magazine articles, presentations, and author and/or editor of 6 books spanning a variety of technologies, including the most recent The Productive Programmer. He focuses on designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications.
Tyler Jennings
Tyler Jennings is a Software Developer at Obtiva, a Chicago-based Agile software development company. Tyler is involved in the Craftsmanship, Agile, Ruby, JRuby and Java communities and has presented at many conference and user group meetings across the United States. Recent interests include functional & multi-paradigm languages, genetic algorithms and machine vision
Dan North
Dan has been writing software for over 15 years, and is a principal consultant with technology consultancy ThoughtWorks. He spends his time helping teams become more effective at delivering software, and presents at conferences such as JAOO, Agile and OOPSLA on topics ranging from learning theory to behaviour-driven development. He has published articles in the Java Developers' Journal and Better Software, and for CIO newsletters and the DSDM consortium.
Checklists vs. experiments - agile attitude for the battle hardened PM
Trying to use scrum but you just seem to get or even see the benefits?
Despite all practical advice and value based guidance for using agile practices - we struggle. Even with a fair understanding of the mechanics and values, getting the pieces in place and working is elusive. I found that there are some basic shifts in attitude and habits that help:
Why is trust essential? Why is timeboxing and incremental work so hard? Lets find out!
Marcus Widerberg
After switching between working as developer, architect, project manager and coach - Marcus can't decide. Working in different industries and organizational contexts has made him ever more curious about the fabric of collaboration, which is what he focuses on lately.
The Business Value of Agile Practices
Being Agile is not the goal. Building better software that meets and exceeds the true needs of it's users is. Your needs and environment are different from others which means that the Agile practices that will give you the most bang for your buck are also different.
Learn what Agile practices have what business values and how best to use this information in your context.
Amr Elssamadisy
Amr Elssamdisy, a partner at Gemba Systems is a software development practitioner who helps his clients build better software that is more valuable to their organizations. Amr and his colleagues at Gemba Systems help both small and large development teams learn new technologies, adopt and adapt appropriate Agile development practices, and focus their efforts to maximize the value they bring to their organizations. Amr is also the author of Agile Adoption Patterns.
Agile Adoption past the Team – An Experience Report
This talk explores a 3 month coaching engagement where the customer needed to coordinate requirements and design across five highly dependent development teams. Mike will show how the teams went from zero to hyper-productivity in a matter of sprints by implementing solid engineering practices and deploying a Product Owner team to coordinate deliverables across the entire product delivery organization.
Mike Cottmeyer
Agile Project Coach, Process Methodologist, PMP Certified Project Manager, Certified ScrumMaster
Co-developed an industry first Agile Project Leadership qualification in partnership with the DSDM consortium (UK) and GoAgile (Denmark). Certified at APL foundation, practitioner, and examiner.Founder of APLN Atlanta, member of the Agile Alliance, member of PMI, member of PMI Atlanta, and a member of the PMI-ISSIG. Honorary member of the DSDM Consortium.
Scrow: Natural Convergence of Scrum, Lean and Kanban
XP created the agile catwalk 10 years ago. In the last years, Scrum has taken over the spot in the limelight and now Lean and Kanban are gaining mind share. We have trends. Some of them are short-lived fads, some become mainstream. 10 years ago, teams implemented revolutionary changes with XP. Today, teams are dropping Scrum to go Kanban. We see good ideas in all of these methods and are adopting them with an evolutionary approach. This session presents ”Scrow”, a mashup of those very idea
Lasse Koskela
Lasse is a coach, trainer, consultant and programmer, spending his days helping clients create successful software products and improve their performance through the application of agile methods and a culture of continuous learning. He believes that the most effective method of coaching software professionals is by working with software. One of the pioneers of the Finnish agile community and author of "Test Driven", Lasse speaks frequently at international conferences.
Neal Ford
Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, magazine articles, presentations, and author and/or editor of 6 books spanning a variety of technologies, including the most recent The Productive Programmer. He focuses on designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications.
