Agile, Lean & Kanban eXchange 2010

The Agile, Lean & Kanban eXchange 2010 is an annual conference for and by the Agile community, from developers to testers, from Agile leaders to Architects, anyone interested in agile methods for better collaboration, teamwork and better software. Last year, the Agile, Lean & Kanban eXchange attracted more than 125 participants from around the world. This time around, the conference is taking place over 2 days and features both talks as well as open space sessions and discussion!

The themes for this year's Agile, Lean & Kanban eXchange are:

• Collaboration and Teamwork
• Agile Requirements, Analysis and Validation
• Leadership, Value & Visibility
• Code Craftmanship
• Quality & Delivery

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Who will be there?

Thursday 2nd December 2010
Agile Requirements & Validation    COMING SOON ....       10:00-10:45     BEYOND DELIVERY: DELIGHT. Marc B. McNeill: Using agile principles IT organisations can be more responsive to their business needs, focussing upon delivering working software at quickly as possible. This presentation will introduce how applying Agile Experience Design throughout the product development lifecycle ensures that we rapidly deliver a superior product - targeted at the right customers and with a compelling customer experience. more...     11:00-11:45    AGILE BA WITH FEATURE INJECTION Antony Marcano & Andy Palmer: Business Analysts sometimes wonder where they fit in a cross-functional agile team. How do you get from a vague and amorphous business problem to a collection of user stories that the team can incrementally implement? more...     12:00-12:45    EXPERIENCE TALK Benjamin Mitchell: Benjamin will give an experience talk - more information soon! (Karl Scotland could not make it as he is snowed in) more...        COMING SOON ....       13:45-17:45    OPEN SPACE UNCONFERENCE SESSIONS Rachel Davies: Open Space Unconference Sessions led by Rachel Davies. There is no pre-set agenda for the Open Space part of the conference, attendees go through a facilitated process to create the agenda live at the event. We encourage those with applied knowledge to prepare sessions so they can share some of what they know. Those new to Agile as well as more experienced practitioners can pose questions about what they want to learn about. more...	SCRAMBLE: Collaboration & Teamwork    COMING SOON ....       10:00-10:45    AGILE METHODS TO BECOME COMPETENT PART I David Laribee: This workshop is for developers beginning with agile methods or coaches and consultants looking for new ways to introduce agility to their customers. We'll break up into teams of 5-6 people and play a modified version of "The XP Game." I'll share coaching tactics and practice tips between short game iterations. We'll end with a Q&A and guided group discussion. more...	Leadership, Value & Visibility    COMING SOON ....       10:00-10:45    WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE AN AGILE COMPANY Allan Kelly: Everyone wants to be Agile, or so it seems. But what does that mean? What does the Agile company do that others don't? There is more to being an Agile company than doing Scrum. In this talk Allan Kelly will consider what it means to be Agile and what you need to do to be an Agile company, rather than a company which just follows an Agile method. In doing so he will discuss customers, project design, strategy and portfolio management and how these need to work together to achieve Agility. more...     11:00-11:45    SUCCESSFUL AGILE TEAMS Jan Machacek: Jan's "successful agile teams" talk looks at the team dynamics in agile, applied particularly to projects that involve creating software. You will learn about the stages of team formation and the impact on the team's velocity and the quality of the code the team produces in each stage. Jan's talk will explore what happens when the team members work well together as well as what happens when they don't and--most importantly--how you can keep improving the collaboration between your team members as well as their skills. Ultimately, Jan's talk will show you how to go about getting some work out of teamwork and give you the guide to "herding cats". more...     12:00-12:45    ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE IN LEAN ENTERPRI Erik Doernenburg: In this session Erik introduces the concept of evolutionary architecture and then discusses questions such as: How can an architecture strategy be executed in a lean context? What about conformance? And: where do the architects sit in a lean enterprise? more...
Friday 3rd December 2010
SCRAMBLE: Collaboration & Teamwork    COMING SOON ....       09:30-10:15    LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE WITH RETROSPECT Rachel Davies & Liz Sedley: Lean and Kanban makes problems that impede an organisation visible. To improve, we need to do more that see a problem, we need to reflect about root causes and consider what's really slowing us down and what we can do to avoid this happening. Lean has the concept of "Kaizen" building a continuous improvement culture. So how do we implement that? Many teams using Kanban hold Retrospectives. This is an interactive session about how can we make retrospectives effective. more...     10:30-11:15    LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE PART II Rachel Davies & Liz Sedley: Lean and Kanban makes problems that impede an organisation visible. To improve, we need to do more that see a problem, we need to reflect about root causes and consider what's really slowing us down and what we can do to avoid this happening. Lean has the concept of "Kaizen" building a continuous improvement culture. So how do we implement that? Many teams using Kanban hold Retrospectives. This is an interactive session about how can we make retrospectives effective. more...     11.30 - 12.15    MAKING 'MANAGEMENT' WORK WITH AGILE Patrick Kua: Agile methods often talk about self-empowered, self-starting teams controlling their own environment. This often implies a contradiction in responsibility and authority for the typical manager role. During this talk, we'll look at some of the implications of agile methods and what impact it has on the typical manager role within an organisation. We'll also explore why management is still needed and what it looks like in an agile environment. more...	GROUND FL: Delivery, Development & Quality    COMING SOON ....       09:30-10:15    CUCUMBER FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH Aslak Hellesøy: In only 2 years, Cucumber has grown to become one of the world's most popular open source tools for BDD, and executable documentation. It has over 300.000 downloads and contributions from over 250 people around the world. What is it that makes this tool so popular? Could you benefit from it in your project? Aslak Hellesøy, the creator of Cucumber will give you a gentle introduction to Cucumber and answer any questions you might have about the tool and its usage. IT even has a WIP feature! more...     10:30-11:15    THE EVOLUTION OF AGILE AT MAN - A TALE O Nik Patel & Tom Roden: Comparison of 2 projects both adopting Agile practices using SCRUM. Nik was involved with the introduction of Scrum to Man 5 years ago and will walk through the journey the company has gone through in that time, with reference to his specific project team. Tom was brought into Man to help introduce agile testing practices to a programme of work involving several scrum teams, some blood, some sweat and some tears... more...     11:30-12:15    4 YEARS OF LIVING CONTINUOUS DELIVERY Dave Clack & Martin Thompson: Martin Thompson and Dave Clack, CTO and Head of Technology Delivery at LMAX, will discuss their approach to continuous delivery and their experiences of delivering a complex high performance system. The talk covers using many of the techniques described in Dave Farley's recent book on this topic ("Continuous Delivery" published by Addison Wesley). Dave Farley is Head of Software Development at LMAX. They will provide an overview of the process and describe some of the tools and techniques that they have developed to help their team achieve frequent, reliable, regular releases into a complex distributed production environment. more...	TETRIS: Code Craftmanship    COMING SOON ....       09:30-10:15    JON JAGGER'S CYBER DOJO PART I Jon Jagger: A CyberDojo is a great practice environment for learning about coding, test driven development, team dynamics, and collaboration. In a CyberDojo: the players work in small groups each group works at a single computer each group writes their code and their test-code totally inside a web browser each group submits their code and test-code to the CyberDojo server as often as they wish the CyberDojo server saves the submission, runs the tests, and returns the test-outcome to the browser The aim of a CyberDojo is to collaborate collectively towards working solutions on all laptops. more...     10:30-11:15    JON JAGGER'S CYBER DOJO PART II Jon Jagger: A CyberDojo is a great practice environment for learning about coding, test driven development, team dynamics, and collaboration. In a CyberDojo: the players work in small groups each group works at a single computer each group writes their code and their test-code totally inside a web browser each group submits their code and test-code to the CyberDojo server as often as they wish the CyberDojo server saves the submission, runs the tests, and returns the test-outcome to the browser The aim of a CyberDojo is to collaborate collectively towards working solutions on all laptops. more...     11:30-12:15    SOFTWARE QUALITY – YOU KNOW IT WHEN YOU Erik Doernenburg: Software quality has an obvious external aspect, the software should be of value to its users, but there is also a more elusive internal aspect to quality, to do with the clarity of the design, the ease with which we as technologists can understand, extend, and maintain the software. But how can we see quality? This session explains how visualisation concepts can be applied at the right level to present meaningful information about quality. more...

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