This event has ended. View the official site or create your own event → Check it out

This event has ended. Create your own

Agile2013

YUP

View analytic

3:00pm

First Timer Orientation Open Jam - Jack Daniels

8:00am

First Timer Orientation Open Jam - Jack Daniels

8:30am

Open Jam Huddle Open Jam - Jack Daniels

9:00am

Coding for America: How Agile and Lean are disrupting government -- and why they need to. (Abhi Nemani) Delta B, C, DLIMITED

10:45am

History & Overview of Agile Development (Ahmed Sidky) Delta BLIMITED Harnessing the Creativity of Your Technical Team. (Cindy Gallop, Corey Innis) Canal EFILLING What is Devops? (John Willis) Governors CLIMITED Scaling the ScrumMaster (Evan Wiley, Keith Nottonson) Bayou CFULL Transforming a Public Sector Company - From Stone Age to Agile (Ardita Karaj, Jason Little) Bayou DLIMITED Creating and Sustaining High-Performance Teams through Team Cultural Understanding (Peter Saddington) Canal BFULL Real Options with Trust (Olaf Lewitz, Steve Holyer) Bayou ALIMITED The Agile Mindset - what's next? (Linda Rising) Delta DLIMITED Rapid Product Design In The Wild (Michele Ide-Smith) Canal ALIMITED Estimating Business Value (Chris Sims) Governors AFULL Think Outside the Timebox - Transitioning from Timeboxes to Continuous Product Delivery (Steve Stolt, Steven Younge) Canal C/DLIMITED User Story Mapping in Practice (Steve Rogalsky) Bayou BFULL After Twelve Years of Agile-Testing: How Did We Get Here and What Do We Know? (Matthew Heusser) Governors DLIMITED Customer Who?? (Maria Matarelli, Daniel Sack) Governors ELIMITED Net Promoter System for Agile Companies (Bernd Schiffer) Bayou ELIMITED

1:00pm

First Timer Orientation Open Jam - Jack Daniels

2:00pm

Agile Planning & Project Management (Mike Cohn) Delta BLIMITED My Agile Suitcase - Travel light with Pecha Kucha of experienced Agilists (Martin Heider) Bayou ALIMITED Mob Programming - A Whole Team Approach (Woody Zuill) Canal ALIMITED Understanding Leadership in Self-Organizing Teams (Don Gray) Bayou BFULL Self-Service Build and Deployment at Netflix (Gareth Bowles) Delta DLIMITED Why We Need Architects (and Architecture) on Large Scale Agile Projects (Rebecca Wirfs-Brock) Governors CLIMITED Lean Product Ownership for Fat Organizations (Joanna Snead) Canal EFULL Adapting Agile Methodology to Overcome Social Differences in Project Members (Hitoshi Ozawa, Lan ZHANG) Governors ELIMITED Conflict Facilitation as a Leadership Skill: A Systems Approach for Leaders & Coaches (Michael Spayd, Lyssa Adkins) Governors AFULL Leadership behaviours to encourage or damage a learning community. (Chris Matts, Liz Keogh) Bayou DFILLING Moving Your Organization into the Fast Lane - Delighting Your Customers (Michael Vincent) Bayou ELIMITED Complex Projects aren't plannable but controllable (Jutta Eckstein) Canal C/DLIMITED Integration testing in Enterprises using TaaS - via Case Study (Anand Bagmar) Canal BLIMITED Designing Empathy--Learning to Walk in Your Customer's Shoes (Jean Tabaka, Robyn Mourning) Bayou CFILLING

3:45pm

Agile Feedback & Communication (Bill Wake) Delta BLIMITED Discover What Motivates You / Your Team (Andrew Fuqua) Bayou DFULL Physical Environments to Support Agile Teams – Harnessing the Power of Place (Cindy Coleman, Jorgen Hesselberg) Governors ELIMITED As distributed as it gets: 10 Agile best practices from open source (Mik Kersten) Governors CLIMITED DevOps isn't Enough for Your Dysfunctional Organization (Mandi Walls) Bayou ELIMITED Empirical Leadership: Proven Alternatives to Agile for Executives (Christopher Avery) Delta DLIMITED Beyond Requirements Dictator: How Agile Helped A Business Analyst Discover Her Real Value (Diane Zajac-Woodie) Canal BFILLING The Agile Cognitive Bias: How our internal models affect the problems and solutions we see (Manoj Vadakkan, Bob Payne) Bayou BLIMITED The Power of Intuition in the Age of Uncertainty (Jim Elvidge) Canal ALIMITED The Storytelling Battle : To Lead A Change , Create Its Story (Oana Juncu) Bayou AFILLING Enterprise Product Owner's Challenge: Managing Networks of Backlogs (Alan Goerner) Governors DFILLING PMPs vs Agile Project Managers: Clash of the Titans (Juan Banda ) Canal EFULL Testautomation Coderetreat (Markus Gärtner) Governors ALIMITED Sketch You Can! Demystifying a Powerful Collaboration Technique (Jeremy Kriegel) Bayou CFULL Co-Creation - Working with customers to create valuable products (Raj Mudhar) Canal C/DLIMITED

7:00pm

Ice Breaker Delta A

8:30am

Open Jam Huddle Open Jam - Jack Daniels

9:00am

Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams: Agility, Distribution and Trust (Siva Dorairaj) Presidential BoardroomFILLING Agile Teams & Collaboration: What's New About Agile? (Johanna Rothman) Delta BLIMITED Awesome Retrospectives (and other important meetings) with Remote Attendees (Peter Green) Governors CFILLING Complement discussions and clarify everything with sketches (Sophie Freiermuth) Governors ALIMITED Counteracting The Systemic Oppression of Traditional Development Thinking (Damon Poole) Bayou ELIMITED Using NVC for Managing Conflict on Your Agile Team (Pat Arcady) Governors ELIMITED Code Literacy for Non-Programmers (Jonathan Berger) Canal BLIMITED Architecture and collaboration: Cornerstones of Continuous Delivery (Tom Sulston, Rachel Laycock) Canal EFILLING Big Visible Testing (Claire Moss) Canal ALIMITED Play the Customer Development Game: A lean approach to business model discovery (Adrian Howard) Bayou AFILLING Agile Metrics, Velocity is NOT the goal (Michael Norton) Governors DFULL Strategies for Agile Portfolio Management (Kenny Rubin) Canal C/DFULL Leveling Up (Ron Jeffries, Chet Hendrickson) Delta DLIMITED Beyond Stories, an Intro to ATDD, BDD & HDD (David Bulkin) Bayou BFULL The experience canvas: how to use a core tool from the experience driven playbook (Justin Koke, Eewei Chen) Bayou CLIMITED Got Value? Making Continual Product Decisions with a Practical, Sustainable Value Model (Ellen Gottesdiener) Bayou DFILLING

9:45am

Proposing Regulatory-Driven Automated Test Suites (Patrick Morrison, Laurie Williams, Casper Holmgreen and Aaron Massey) Presidential BoardroomLIMITED

10:45am

Assessing an Organization's Capability to Effectively Implement Its Selected Agile Method(s): An Objectives, Principles, Strategies Approach (Shvetha Soundararajan, Osman Balci, James Arthur) Presidential BoardroomLIMITED Agile Requirements & Product Management (Jeff Patton) Delta BLIMITED Coaching For Win-Win Outcomes with Win-Win Conversations (Declan Whelan, Ola Ellnestam) Canal AFILLING Producing Product Developers (david hussman) Delta DLIMITED Changing Cultural DNA with Spiral Dynamics to become thoroughly Agile (Dajo Breddels) Bayou DLIMITED Cultural transformation of a large organization - experiences from Ericsson (Hendrik Esser) Governors CLIMITED Simple sketches for diagramming your software architecture (Simon Brown) Canal ELIMITED Using Pair Programming for Coaching & Mentoring (Angela Harms, Jason Felice) Bayou BLIMITED So You Want to Do a Startup! (Abby Fichtner) Bayou ELIMITED Agile at scale at Spotify (Joakim Sundén, Anders Ivarsson) Canal C/DFILLING Lightning Talks - Process at Scale Governors ELIMITED Black Swan Farming using Cost of Delay: Discover, nurture and speed up delivery of value (Joshua Arnold, Ozlem Yuce) Canal BLIMITED Failing Well (Jabe Bloom) Governors DLIMITED Play the getKanban Board Game with the Inventor (Russell Healy) Bayou AFULL Visual Management: Beyond Burndown to Portfolio and Enterprise Walls (Bob Payne, Cameron Wolff, George Dinwiddie) Governors AFILLING

11:30am

Agile Testing: A Systematic Mapping Across Three Conferences (Theodore D. Hellmann, Apoorve Chokshi, Zahra Shakeri, Sydney Pratte, and Frank Maurer) Presidential BoardroomFULL

2:00pm

Ten Lessons Learned from Integrating Interaction Design and Agile Development (Tiago Silva Da Silva, Milene Silveira, and Frank Maurer) Presidential BoardroomLIMITED Agile Leadership & Roles (James Newkirk) Delta BLIMITED Active Listening for Agile Coaches (Chris Sims) Bayou CFULL Lightning Talks - People Canal C/DLIMITED The Seven Pillars Of Collaboration - Why agile teams need HISTORY in order to collaborate (Geoff Watts) Bayou BFILLING Continuous Architecture & Emergence Design (Scott Ambler) Governors CFILLING Leading Agile Engineering: Helping Your Team Improve Its Ability to Ship Software (Arlo Belshee, James Shore) Governors DLIMITED Agile In The Real World: Gone Mainstream, Creating Bigger Waves, Making Course Corrections (Tom Grant) Canal ALIMITED Be Agile. Scale Up. Stay Lean. (Dean Leffingwell) Delta DLIMITED Need 4 Speed: Leverage new metrics to boost your velocity without compromising on quality (Raziel Tabib) Canal BFULL Lean Leadership - How to change as a manager from expert to coach (Ed Kraay) Bayou DFULL Hacking Agile with Users - The User Driven Development process (Alline Watkins) Bayou ALIMITED Discovery Curves: The Organization's Ability To Learn And Deliver (Cesar Idrovo Carrillo) Bayou ELIMITED Agile + Branding, Sitting in a Tree (Paul Hart) Canal ELIMITED Super duper fast domain modelling. (Chris Matts, Jeffrey Davidson) Governors ALIMITED

2:45pm

Analyzing Effectiveness Of Workshops For Learning Agile Development. (Shota Suzuki and Hironori Washizaki) Presidential BoardroomLIMITED

3:45pm

System Dynamics Modeling Of Agile Continuous Delivery Process (Olumide Akerele) Presidential BoardroomLIMITED Agile Quality & Risk Management (Elisabeth Hendrickson) Delta BLIMITED Agile Leader Storyline (Scott Dunn) Bayou AFILLING What do you value in your team? (Mark Kilby) Bayou DLIMITED devops all-star ask me anything fireside chat (Andrew Clay Shafer) Governors ELIMITED Agile By Numbers: KPI-Optimized Software Transformation for the Enterprise (Elena Yatzeck) Governors ALIMITED Continuous delivery? Easy! Just change everything. (Well, maybe it isn’t that easy) (Steve Stolt, Steve Neely) Canal BFULL Board Level Agile, A CEO’s Perspective - Using Agile with my Executive Leadership Team (Simon Galbraith) Bayou BFULL A new era at IBM. Lean UX leading the way (Ariadna Font) Governors DLIMITED From Concept to Product Backlog (Gerard Meszaros) Governors CLIMITED Making Scrum Stick in Regulated Industries (Laszlo Szalvay, Pat Reed) Bayou CLIMITED Pull vs Push: Keys to Agile Program Management Office Success (Bruce Winegarden) Bayou ELIMITED The Agile Dashboard (Fadi Stephan) Canal EFULL The Agile Mindset - Your Questions, Comments, Thoughts? (Linda Rising) Delta DLIMITED Radically Open Software Testing (Chris McMahon) Canal ALIMITED Rapid User Research - how to gather user insights to build the right product (Aviva Rosenstein, Gabrielle Benefield) Canal C/DLIMITED

4:30pm

Scrum Code Camps (Lene Pries-Heje, Jan Pries-Heje and Bente Dalgaard) Presidential BoardroomLIMITED

5:30pm

Industry Analyst Panel Discussion Delta DLIMITED

7:30pm

Coding Dojo Open Jam - Jack Daniels

8:30am

Open Jam Huddle Open Jam - Jack Daniels

9:00am

How simple maths and BELIEF can help you coach people and teams to change (Geoff Watts) Governors ELIMITED What's In Your Playbook? Strategies To Win The 'Iteration Game' (Jay Packlick, Ty Crockett) Governors ALIMITED When NOT to Have All the Answers: Stop Giving Advice and Start Asking Questions (Judith Mills, Christopher Avery) Delta BLIMITED Remote Pair Programming - bringing XP to global developement (Johannes Brodwall) Canal ELIMITED Learning to See – The Practical Application of Lean in DevOps (Robert Benefield) Governors CLIMITED Agile & Waterfall: living together in perfect harmony! (Erick Bergmann, Andy Hamilton) Bayou EFULL Circles and Links as Effective Structures for Scaling (Daniel LeFebvre) Bayou BLIMITED Refactoring as a Lifeline: Lessons Learned from Refactoring (Amr Noaman) Bayou DLIMITED The 7 Essentials of Leading an Agile Transformation (Brian Lawrence) Canal C/DFILLING Being Agile with Processes, Methods, Checkpoints and Governance Procedures (Ian Spence) Bayou CFULL The Agile Planning Mindset: estimating and forecasting a release with a real backlog (Peter Green) Bayou AFULL The Missing P: PRODUCT (Linda Merrick) Canal BFILLING Research Lightning Talks Presidential Boardroom Agile + Lean = Speed, Customer Value, and Disruptive Innovation (Steve Bell) Delta DLIMITED The Lion, the Mouse and the thorn of Usability Testing (Matthew Hodgson, Mia Horrigan) Canal ALIMITED Just the Facts - Overcoming Biases With Data (Brandon Carlson) Governors DLIMITED

10:45am

Hiring (or Growing) the Right Agile Coach (Lyssa Adkins) Governors CFILLING Communication Katas: Deliberate Practice for Shared Understanding (Andrew Annett, Susan Johnston) Bayou CFULL Continual Backlog Refinement, Get Stories to Ready (David Bulkin, Kevin Fisher) Bayou BFULL Let's Code: Test-Driven JavaScript with James Shore (James Shore) Bayou ALIMITED Capacity Planning on the Fly!! (Maulan Byron) Canal BLIMITED You're Not Failing Fast Enough: best practices for an Agile build system (Sarah Goff-Dupont) Canal C/DLIMITED Experimenting in the Enterprise (David Bland, Brian Bozzuto) Governors DLIMITED How Writers Can Thrive in Agile (Gavin Austin) Canal ALIMITED A Journey into Leadership: Empower Your Team (Tricia Broderick) Bayou EFILLING Temenos—the Healing Container (Olaf Lewitz, Michael Sahota) Bayou DLIMITED The Art of Being Wrong (Laurent Bossavit) Governors ELIMITED Transparent Decisions: Managing the Project Portfolio (Johanna Rothman) Delta BLIMITED Agile Contracting: A Systems Thinking Perspective (Simon Bennett) Delta DLIMITED Agile Quality Assurance: The Long Ugly Tale of How We Got Better (Tommy Norman, Fahed Sider) Canal EFULL Impact Mapping: helping you understand what makes the world spin (Inger Dickson, Jeffrey Davidson) Governors ALIMITED

2:00pm

The Curious, Present and Empathetic Agile Leader (Gil Broza) Bayou AFULL Tools from Psychology for coaches, trainers and team members (Bruno Sbille) Governors EFILLING Adding Customer Insights into your Agile Process (Jennifer Fraser, Ayesha Khan) Canal ELIMITED Lightning Talks - Technology Canal ALIMITED Dev to Ops and Ops to Dev--How DevOps changes everything (Karthik Gaekwad) Bayou ELIMITED Agile in the Federal Space: The Power of Iterative & Collaborative Work (Omar Silver) Canal BLIMITED Enterprise Agility - A Practical De-Mystification (Jean Tabaka, Hendrik Esser) Delta DLIMITED Organizational Learning with Open Space (Daniel Mezick, Mark Katz) Bayou DLIMITED Questions not Stories: Experiment to improve business value (Adrian Howard) Governors ALIMITED Ways to keep learning from experience, despite project pressures (Prabhakar Karve) Governors CLIMITED Better Metrics for your Team (Nayan Hajratwala) Bayou BFULL Agile Quality Scenarios: How to Be Nimble and Precise (Joseph Yoder, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock) Delta BLIMITED The Ideation Framework: Develop and Validate New Ideas Before Coding (Eli Bozeman, Josh Wexler) Bayou CFILLING The Flow of the Agile Business Analyst (Steve Adolph, Shane Hastie) Canal C/DLIMITED Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Real World Stories of Force Ranking Stuff (Todd Olson) Governors DLIMITED

3:45pm

Forty Years of Trying To Play Well With Others (Tim Lister) Delta B, C, DLIMITED

5:30pm

Agile Alliance Members Meeting Delta D

6:30pm

Sponsor Reception Delta A

8:30am

Open Jam Huddle Open Jam - Jack Daniels

9:00am

Fifty Shades of Behavior Driven Development (Richard Yu) Governors ELIMITED devops - what's missing? what's next? (Andrew Clay Shafer) Governors CLIMITED Balls for Africa - The Lean Startup in an African not-for-profit social enterprise (Paul Ellarby) Canal BLIMITED Building a Powerful Agile Learning Experience (Don McGreal) Bayou EFILLING Driving Through Complexity to Organizational Learning (Walt Wyckoff, Pat Reed) Bayou BFILLING Lessons from space shuttle disasters for avoiding IT project disasters (John Helm) Governors DLIMITED Generating Product Purpose with the Business Model Canvas (Jorgen Hesselberg) Governors ALIMITED Using Agile to Transform Federal IT Capabilities One Agency at a Time (Carol Macha) Canal C/DLIMITED Doing Agile Programming Better (James Newkirk) Delta DLIMITED A Hands-On Introduction to Exploratory Testing (Matthew Heusser, Claire Moss) Bayou ALIMITED Technical Debt Meets Agile (Israel Gat) Delta BLIMITED Creating mobile strategies based on empathy (David Peter Simon) Bayou DLIMITED Mo' Solutions, Mo' Problems (Tami Evnin) Canal ELIMITED Evolving Agile Contracts Through Validated Learning (Steve Holyer, Nancy Van Schooenderwoert) Canal ALIMITED MCA: A simple Technique for Prioritizing the Product Backlog (Geri Winters) Bayou CFILLING

10:45am

Agile ALM – A horror/feel good/fantasy story (Dave West) Governors CLIMITED LEGO TDD and Refactoring (Bryan Beecham) Bayou DFULL Enabling a DevOps culture through building an in-house PaaS offering. (Brandon Burton) Canal C/DLIMITED Scaling with Feature vs. Component Teams (Kenny Rubin) Bayou EFILLING The Pain and the Joy ...what happened when we committed to Agile (Sarah Lumbard) Canal BLIMITED How We Successfully Adapted Agile for a Research-Heavy Engineering Software Team (Alfred Lorber, Kyran Mish) Canal ELIMITED Developing Effective Training Using Agile Values (Marian Willeke) Bayou BLIMITED The Art of Agile Practice (Thomas Perry) Bayou ALIMITED De-Mystifying Kanban: Understanding Its Many Faces (Alan Shalloway) Delta BLIMITED Reality check for agile program managers (Susan Fojtasek, Brian Adkins) Governors ELIMITED Coaching: Simple Patterns That Avoid Common Pitfalls for Scrum Teams (Jeff Sutherland) Delta DLIMITED 7 Deadly Sins of Agile Software Test Automation (Craig Smith) Canal AFILLING SPEED Design Studio (Jabe Bloom) Governors ALIMITED Agile Culture: Tools to Delight Our Customers (Pollyanna Pixton) Bayou CLIMITED Flexible Contracts (Gabrielle Benefield, Ryan Shriver) Governors DLIMITED

2:00pm

Being Followed: How Individuals Help Teams Become (Michael Hill) Canal C/DLIMITED Supporting Analysts: A Real-World Tale of Transforming a Business Analyst Skeptic (Leslie Morse) Governors ELIMITED The Power of Focus (Jukka Lindström) Governors ALIMITED ABUSER STORIES: Thinking Like the Bad Guy to Reduce Security Vulnerabilities (Judy Neher) Bayou ALIMITED Cleaner Development Using a Branch-per-Issue Workflow (Sarah Goff-Dupont) Bayou ELIMITED The Latest in Mocks for [Legacy Embedded] C (James Grenning) Canal BLIMITED Gaining Support for a Sustainable Agile Transformation (Dennis Stevens, Mike Cottmeyer) Governors CLIMITED Seven Deadly Sins of Agile Measurement (Larry Maccherone) Bayou CFULL You think you know your user? Think again! (Ariadna Font) Bayou DLIMITED Lean Experiments - Delighting Customers in One Month (Alline Watkins) Canal ELIMITED Agile Education (John Miller) Canal ALIMITED Growing Experts with the Dreyfus Model (Liz Keogh) Governors DLIMITED Agile Testing - What Isn't Working for You? (Janet Gregory) Delta DLIMITED Strength in scenarios: Getting meaningful user feedback on designs (Renee Pinter, Thomas Piggott) Bayou BLIMITED Story Maps, Slices, Customer Journeys and Other Product Design Tools (david hussman) Delta BLIMITED

3:45pm

Agile Negotiation: The Agilist’s Guide to Persuasion and Influence (Adam Weisbart, Emily Epstein) Bayou AFULL Are Questions the Answer? (David Bernstein) Bayou CLIMITED Metrics That Matter (Erik Weber) Canal EFULL Practical Refactoring (Llewellyn Falco, Woody Zuill) Bayou ELIMITED Developing Operability (Richard Crowley) Canal ALIMITED Effecting a DevOps Transformation in the Enterprise at Salesforce.com (Dave Mangot, Karthik Rajan) Governors ELIMITED Mass Conversion: transitioning to agile 10,000 people at a time (Arlo Belshee) Delta DLIMITED Playing with Process - Airplane Game Simulation (Dean Stevens, Rick Austin) Delta BLIMITED Driving Quality Improvement and Reducing Technical Debt with the Definition of Done (Noopur Davis) Canal BFILLING Lean Change: Enabling Agile Transformation through Lean Startup, Kanban, and Kotter (Alexis Hui) Governors DLIMITED Learn different leadership styles with Star Wars Coaches (Bruno Sbille) Bayou DLIMITED The Language of Change (Esther Derby) Governors CLIMITED Invisible Impediments to Learning: Why Bad Things Happen to Good Agilists (Amr Elssamadisy, Steve Peha) Governors ALIMITED The Cynefin Lego Game: Recognizing the Complexity Domain of your Problem (Dave Sharrock, Brad Swanson) Bayou BLIMITED Products, Not Projects: Using Product Roadmaps to Deliver Value (Ellen Gottesdiener) Canal C/DFILLING

7:00pm

Conference Party Wildhorse Saloon

9:00am

5 Agile Leadership Ideas You Can’t Afford To Miss? (Pollyanna Pixton) Canal A Behavior-Driven Development: Embrace Uncertainty (Liz Keogh) Canal C/D Business Structures, Rewards, and Why Your Company is not Successfully Adopting Agile (Geri Winters) Governor's E Agile Negotiation: The Agilist’s Guide to Persuasion and Influence (Adam Weisbart, Emily Epstein) Delta B Better Metrics for your Team (Nayan Hajratwala) Bayou C Conflict Facilitation as a Leadership Skill: A Systems Approach for Leaders & Coaches (Michael Spayd, Lyssa Adkins) Delta D DRIVE Workshop: Using Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose to transform your organization (Erik Weber) Governors A How to Measure Value (Gabrielle Benefield, Ryan Shriver) Bayou B Inspire Management (Bernd Schiffer) Bayou E Sketch You Can! Demystifying a Powerful Collaboration Technique (Jeremy Kriegel) Bayou D Technical Debt for the Non-Technical (Maria Matarelli, Collin Fagan) Canal E The most valuable practice your team is avoiding. (Tim Ottinger) Canal B Tips and Techniques for Better Thinking (Linda Rising) Governors D User Story Mapping in Practice (Steve Rogalsky) Bayou A Hacking User Experience (Austin Govella) Governors C

10:45am

Why Everyone Needs DevOps Now: A Fourteen Year Study Of High Performing IT Organizations (Gene Kim) Delta B, C, DLIMITED