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...
Wednesday
Scrum - why is it so hard to implement
This session we will take a look at why Scrum is so hard to implement. Failure modes for Scrum Master, Team, Product Owner and Management will be discussed. There will also be discussions about failure modes in sprintplanning, daily Scrum, and sprintreview. Finally we will take a look at how to approach failure modes.
Jens Östergaard
Jens Østergaard is an Agile Development consultant who helps organizations understand the fundamentals of Scrum. Having more than 20 years of experience as developer, dba, team manager, project manager and ScrumMaster, primarily in financial organizations, he has worked with all aspects of software development. Jens has managed several Scrum projects, and became a fully qualified CSM Trainer, in Copenhagen, 2004. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Systems Analysis at Linköping University.
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.
Our Obsession with Efficiency
So here's the thing, I don't believe in efficiency. It's our obsession with efficiency that has got us into the current technology mess, and which has led almost directly to heavy waterfall processes. Efficiency is how you let the big vendors sell their bloated technologies to the poor CIOs.
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.
Project Planning in an Agile World: Do the Old Rules Make Sense?
Owing to the realities of risk, uncertainty, constant change and complexity, traditional approaches to project planning are often neither doable or desirable. Agile and iterative software development techniques are, in effect, plan-as-you-go techniques that offer advantages over traditional techniques that focus on planning with as much detail as possible. This presentation examines the planning advantages of Scrum, RUP, time-boxing, and rapid prototyping.
J. Davidson Frame
J. Davidson Frame, PhD, PMP is Academic Dean at the University of Management and Technology, Arlington, Va. Prior to joining UMT in 1998, he served 19 years on the faculty of the George Washington University, Washington, DC, where he was Chairman of the Department of Management Science and established GWU's project management program. David has authored 30 academic articles and 10 books. He was on the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute for 11 years, and is a PMI Fellow.
The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining and Designing New Products
The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation.
Eric Ries
Eric Ries became a Venture Advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, after co-founding and serving as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups including pbWiki, Bunchball, FooMojo, Causes and KaChing.
Balancing Anarchy and Cooperation with Scrum in the Large
If everybody on a 100-person project should talk to everybody else, we'd have to work overtime just to cover the meetings. Of course, this is before we start making any progress. Less meetings mean more progress.
At the same time, everybody works towards the same goal. If we don't talk to each other, we will run in separate directions.
In this talk, I will use my experience as architect for 1/4 of a large project to address the balance between coordination and progress.
Johannes Brodwall
Johannes Brodwall works on projects as coach, software architect and developer. He's been practicing and teaching agile software development with a particular focus on extreme programming for ten years, and has been organizing the agile user group Oslo XP meetup for around five years. He's a well known speaker in Oslo on agile software development and test-driven development.
