A local interest group in agile software development methods

much ado about agile

November 15th & 16th 2006

Detailed Agenda

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  Wednesday November 15th Thursday November 16th

8:30

Coffee and muffins Coffee and muffins

9:00

Keynote: Why Agile?

Mary Poppendieck

Keynote: The Power of Retrospectives

Linda Rising

9:30

10:00

10:30

Coffee Break Coffee Break

11:00

Track 1 People Trump Process

Beyond Agility: Organizational Patterns of Successful Software Teams

Neil Harrison

Track 2 Tools and Techniques

Functional Acceptance Testing: The Essentials

Jennitta Andrea

Tales from the Western Front Part 2

David Kauffman (Kodak), Steve Adolph (WSA Consulting), Wesley Coelho (Elastic Path)
(Adolph/Coelho)

Agility in the Database

Scott Ambler

11:30

12:00

12:30

Lunch Lunch

13:00

13:30

Agile Project Management

Geoff Hewson

Tutorial Part 1: Software Development in the FDA-Regulated World: Why Test Only When We're "Done"?

Ron Moriscato and Brian Shoemaker

Expanding Agile Beyond Software

Preston Smith

Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing using Agile Methodologies

Steve Bond and Jas Madhur

14:00

14:30

From Project Manager to Scrum Master

Michael Vax

Evolving Agile: Time to Address the Uncomfortable Issues We'd Prefer to Avoid

Scott Ambler

Agile Business Analysis: Does BA really stand for Band-Aid?

Bobby Norton

15:00

15:30

Coffee Break Coffee Break

16:00

Tales from the Western Front Session 1

Carl Schmidt (Riptown Media), Corey Reid (Riptown Media), Heather Regehr (Custom House)

Tutorial Part 2: Agile Practices in Regulated, Safety-critical Environments

Ron Moriscato and Brian Shoemaker

Panel: The Agile Questions

Panel Moderator: S. Adolph

Panelists: Rising, Smith, Hewson, Ambler, Andrea, Kruchten...

16:30

17:00

17:30

Meet and Greet

 

18:00

18:30

Birds of Feather: Eclipse Process Framework and OpenUP

Scott Ambler, Steve Adolph

Speed Geek: Tools

Owen Rogers

19:00

19:30

20:00

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