Skills Matter is pleased to support the first ever Agile Africa Conference 2012 taking place in Johannesburg South Africa from 11-12 May 2012!
Various local and national Pioneers in the Agile, Lean and Kanban fields will provide a platform where ScrumMasters, Product Owners, Agile Project Managers, Team Leads, Testers, Managers, Designers and Developers can learn new techniques to deal with real world problems. Some international speakers are also signed up to add some perspective to the mix of messages.
The Conference Theme
'Agile has never been this wild'! The conference is jam packed with specialized talks from well known speakers in the fields of Agile, XP, Lean and Kanban including Mary & Tom Poppendieck, Jurgen Appelo, Martin Fowler, Rolf Russel, Jamie Tischartand many more. They share their knowledge in an Agile charged atmosphere.
Topics are grouped under "Agile & people" as well as "Agile & Technology", to please a wider audience with more variety. While some talks require participation, others are in the main venue.
The conference is over two days, and is structured as follows: Mornings and evenings all delegates gather in the auditorium for a key note from one of the speakers. Between these times, delegates can choose any one of at least three talks hosted on three different stages.
The Conference target audience is anyone from any of 'Shu', 'Ha' or 'Ri' levels; meaning everyone, no matter your skill level, is welcome!
Programme
Topics covered during the conference include:
- Continuous Improvement
- Affinity Estimation Techniques
- Estimation and Planning
- The Surprising Science behind Agile Leadership
- Performance Testing for Agile Teams
- Transitioning Test Teams to Agile
- Software Design in the 21st Century
- Continuous Delivery
- Adding value by marrying XP & Scrum
- The Agile Lego Game
- Making Geographically distributed teams work
- Creativity and Motivation
- Being a Change Agent
- Pomodoro Technique
- Experiential Learning
- Agile Testing
- Scrum and Kanban - like Chocolate and Peanut Butter
- Product Vision
- Lean and Startup practices and principles to create the ultimate value creation machine
- Kanban
- Fear and it's effect on Creativity
Keep updated with the programme and find out about new speakers and topics
here.
MasterClass Week
MasterClasses are specialized training courses, between one and three days in length, offered by the speakers of the conference. Classes available include:
- Management 3.0 by Jurgen Appelo
- Leader's Workshop by Mary & Tom Poppendieck
- Nick Oostvogels - Hands On Continuous Improvement
- Jonathan Rasmusson: The Agile Samurai Bootcamp
- The Pomodoro Technique by Staffan Noteberg
Some classes earns you up to 21 PMI PDU's. The MasterClasses are offered just prior to- (8-10 May 2012) and just after the conference (14-16 May 2012), and has an additional cost attached to it. Full details of MasterClasses and booking details can be found
here.
Registration and Early Bird Discount!
Registration is open! There is a discounted Super Early Bird rate available for the first 70 tickets sold. Details of pricing is as follows:
- First 70 tickets are sold at a Super Early Bird rate of ZAR 1550
- After the first 70 tickets are sold, the Early Bird rate of ZAR 1999 applies
- Tickets purchased after 15th April are sold at a rate of ZAR 2500
Skills Matter Community Discount - 20% Off All Tickets!
Skills Matter is pleased to offer its community a 20% discount off the price of conference tickets! To book your ticket with the discount please enter promocode SKILLSM when registering.
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