Introduction to Agile

Peopleware

Customer Community

Developer Community

Advanced Sessions

Master Classes & Break-out Sessions

11:00am

Introduction to Agile: The Software Development Paradox
Clarke Ching

Understanding the Organisational Context of Agility
Michael Feathers

Product Owner Guide Experiences:

• My Year of Living Dangerously Sarah Winsor

• Greater Successes by Using Agile Techniques Closer to the Light Bulb Moment Peter Wisniewski & Alan Armitage

• The Interaction of UCD & Agile: Experience in a Digital Media Environment Stephanie Chamberlain & Helen Sharp

Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
Nick Ashley

Building a Ubiquitous Language Using Naked Objects
Dan Haywood

Coding Dojo
Karl Scotland & Johanna Hunt

12:30pm

Lunch - sponsored by

01:30pm

Planning With User Stories
Rachel Davies & Angela Martin

The Social Nature of Agile Teams
Elizabeth Whitworth

The Product Owner Clinic
Roman Pichler

Synaesthesia: Listening To The Tests
Steve Freeman

Measuring The Effect of TDD Again, But “Something Useful” This Time
Keith Braithwaite

Master Class: User Story Mapping: Getting the Big Picture.
Jeff Patton

Exceptional Ideas: How To Get Your Message Through
Lasse Koskela

Testing Your Tests: Making Sure Your Safe
Tuomas Karkkainen & Markus Hjort

03:00pm

Coffee Break

03:30pm

Agile Adoption Experiences:

• Integrating Agile With The Process Framework at Yahoo! Karl Scotland

• Scaling Up - pushing Scrum out of its comfort zone Richard Lyon

• Offshore, FP & Still Agile: (How) Does That Work? Marco Jansen

Mr Agile Goes To Washington: The Impact of Politics on Agile Projects
Angela Martin, Rachel Davies, Mike Feathers, James Davison, Sallyann Freudenberg & Stuart Blair

Choosing the Content of Sprint & Product Owner Backlogs
Tom Tourwe & Olivier Biot

Technical Experiences:

• What’s in the toolbox of a successful software craftsman? Fabrizio Cannizzo, Gabriela Marcionetti, Nathan Fisher & Paul Moser

• Fighting the Monster-Agile Development on top of a Legacy Database Gojko Adzic & Damjan Vujnovic

• Large Build Teams: Help or Hinrance? Julian Simpson

The Yellow Brick Road
Portia Tung & Duncan Pierce

Master Class continued

Agile Investment in Software: Who Cares How You Build It?
Chris Matts

05:00pm

Social Events - sponsored by

08:30am

Registration

09:00am

Welcome

09:30am

Keynote: Yvonne Rogers “Cheek-to-Cheek: why Co-Located Collaboration Persists”

10:30am

Coffee Break

Introduction to Agile

Peopleware

Customer Community

Developer Community

Advanced Sessions

Master Classes & Break-out Sessions

11:00am

Introduction to Lean: Value Stream Mapping
Liz Sedley

Programmers maybe from Mars, Customers maybe from Venus, but Why does everyone think that Project Managers are from Uranus?
Clarke Ching

A Technical Story
Alex Vandenberg

Tools, Frameworks & Libraries: The Devil’s Work or Manna From Heaven?
Mike Hill & Giovanni Asproni

Why Agile Projects Fail
Joseph Pelrine & Jiri Lundak

Writing on the Walls
Emmanuel Gaillot

In the Non-Functional Design Space No-one Can Hear You Scream
Sallyann Freudenberg

12:30pm

Lunch - sponsored by

01:30pm

TDD & Mock Objects with JMock2
Nat Pryce, Romilly Cocking, Steve Freeman

But that’s Crazy! Cognitive Bias in Decision-making
Duncan Pierce & Rachel Davies

Working With Customers towards Shared Understanding
Andy Pols & Mike Hill

Reading Code without Psychic Powers
Lasse Koskela & Markus Hjort

Business is having to change faster to respond to its customers - how can the Agile community help?
David Stoughton

Master Class. Test Driven Development: The C++ Variations
Michael Feathers

03:00pm

Coffee Break

03:30pm

TDD & Mock Objects with JMock2
Nat Pryce, Romilly Cocking, Steve Freeman

People vs Process: Cultural Patterns of Software Organisations
Marc Evers & Willem van den Ende

Acceptance Tester Experiences:

• Fiat Lux: Testing With The Light On Joan McGalliard, George Joseph & Pushpa Sebastian

• The Secret Backlog – Behind Every Bug-Report is a User Story Antony Marcano

• Specification by (executable) Example: Prosperity of the FITtest Immo Huneke & Robert Brown

Reading Code without Psychic Powers
Lasse Koskela & Markus Hjort

Have You Compromised Your Agility?
Simon Baker & Gus Power

Master class continued

Have We Lost Our Mojo?
Steve Freeman

05:00pm

Social Events - sponsored by