Agile, Lean & Kanban eXchange 2010
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4 Years of living Continuous Delivery - TDD of a business plan
Dave Clack
Dave is Head of Technology Delivery at LMAX: transforming retail trading with the world's first multi-asset, retail MTF. Dave's background is consulting, focused on technology governance, project and service delivery. He is passionate about building
Martin Thompson
Martin is a Java Champion with over 2 decades of experience building complex and high-performance computing systems.
Learning from Experience with Retrospectives - Part I
Liz Sedley
Liz has almost 20 years’ experience of writing and delivering software. She has been championing agile principles since she first discovered them in 2003. Together with Rachel Davies she wrote ‘Agile Coaching’, which was the first book about how to
Rachel Davies
Rachel Davies is author of the first “Agile Coaching” book and an invited speaker to software conferences worldwide. Rachel started out working as a software developer and became fascinated with debugging software organizations.
Her mission is to create workplaces where developers enjoy delivering valuable software. She's been working in the field of Agile software development since 2000 and pioneered techniques that are now used by teams all around the globe. Rachel currently works at Unruly, the leading global platform for social video marketing and is the organiser of Extreme Programmers London meetup.
Open Space Unconference Sessions
Rachel Davies
Rachel Davies is author of the first “Agile Coaching” book and an invited speaker to software conferences worldwide. Rachel started out working as a software developer and became fascinated with debugging software organizations.
Her mission is to create workplaces where developers enjoy delivering valuable software. She's been working in the field of Agile software development since 2000 and pioneered techniques that are now used by teams all around the globe. Rachel currently works at Unruly, the leading global platform for social video marketing and is the organiser of Extreme Programmers London meetup.
Learning from Experience Part II
Liz Sedley
Liz has almost 20 years’ experience of writing and delivering software. She has been championing agile principles since she first discovered them in 2003. Together with Rachel Davies she wrote ‘Agile Coaching’, which was the first book about how to
Rachel Davies
Rachel Davies is author of the first “Agile Coaching” book and an invited speaker to software conferences worldwide. Rachel started out working as a software developer and became fascinated with debugging software organizations.
Her mission is to create workplaces where developers enjoy delivering valuable software. She's been working in the field of Agile software development since 2000 and pioneered techniques that are now used by teams all around the globe. Rachel currently works at Unruly, the leading global platform for social video marketing and is the organiser of Extreme Programmers London meetup.
Software quality – you know it when you see it
Erik Doernenburg
Erik Dörnenburg is a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks. An expert in in J2EE, .NET and other environments, Erik is continually exploring enterprise software patterns and is a strong advocate of agile development and Open Source technology
Enterprise architecture in a lean enterprise
Erik Doernenburg
Erik Dörnenburg is a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks. An expert in in J2EE, .NET and other environments, Erik is continually exploring enterprise software patterns and is a strong advocate of agile development and Open Source technology
Cucumber from the horse's mouth
Aslak Hellesøy
Aslak Hellesøy is the creator of Cucumber and co-founder of Cucumber Limited. He is a co-author of The Cucumber Book and an early adopter of XP and BDD.
Aslak works as a programmer, software architect, business owner and trainer in a variety of industries, including finance, telecom and retail.
Jon Jagger's Cyber Dojo Part I
Jon Jagger
Jon Jagger is a well-known software coach-consultant-mentor-trainer-programmer specializing in agile software development (people and process), test driven development, deliberate practice, design, analysis, OO, UML, curly bracket languages (C#, C, C
Jon Jagger's Cyber Dojo Part II
Jon Jagger
Jon Jagger is a well-known software coach-consultant-mentor-trainer-programmer specializing in agile software development (people and process), test driven development, deliberate practice, design, analysis, OO, UML, curly bracket languages (C#, C, C
Objective Agility: What does it take to be an Agile company
Allan Kelly
Allan Kelly helps companies large and small enhance their agility and boost their digital offering. Clients include: Virgin Atlantic, Qualcomm, The Bank of England, Reed Elsevier and many more small innovative companies you've never heard of. He invented Value Poker, Time-Value Profiles and Retrospective Dialogue Sheets. He is the author of "Dear Customer, the truth about IT" and books including "Project Myopia", "Continuous Digital", "Xanpan" and "Business Patterns for Software Developers". His blog is at https://www.allankellyassociates.co.uk/blog/
Making 'Management' work with Agile
Patrick Kua
Patrick works as an agile practitioner, coach and technical leader for ThoughtWorks UK. His interests focus on blending excellence in technical and team aspects, drawing upon agile practices to help align business and IT capabilities. He is particula
Using Agile Methods to Become Competent - Part I
David Laribee
David Laribee has trucked in software for over 15 years. He favors collaboration, design thinking, simple, domain-driven design paired with low ceremony process, tools and platforms.
Successful agile teams
Jan Machacek
Jan Machacek is a passionate technologist with hands-on experience of the practical aspects of software delivery (architecture, quality, CI, CD), the project management approaches (applying the principles of agile project management), and mentoring and motivating engineering & business teams.
Agile Business Analysis with Feature Injection
Andy Palmer
high-availability systems for the mobile telecommunications industry and as a coach with a prestigious Agile consultancy. As a passionate programmer he is continuously developing his craft, writing code in Java, Perl, Ruby as well as some more obscur
Antony Marcano
Antony Marcano is co-founder of RiverGlide, a coaching, consultancy and training firm helping teams and organisations innovate with agility. He has been in software development for nearly 25 years, almost 20 of which have been either working in teams or guiding them and the organisations around them, as they aspire to greater agility. Antony is as much a practitioner as he is coach, consultant and trainer in topics from writing communicative, maintainable code to User Stories & BDD to effective team models, approaching change and Kent Beck's emerging 3X framework.
Beyond delivery: delight.
Marc B. McNeill
Marc is a passionate advocate of placing the customer at the heart of business. He has more than 15 years of experience in IT, user-centred design and customer experience with a focus on web strategy, program definition and successful project deliver
Experience Talk
Benjamin Mitchell
Benjamin Mitchell is currently working as a Project Manager at a European Investment Bank delivering a web-based trading platform using a Lean and Kanban.
He is passionate about working with software development teams to frequently deliv
The Evolution of Agile at Man - A tale of 2 projects.
Nik Patel
ScrumMaster / Test manager / release manager in the Finance sector over the past 16 years (5 years Agile the rest old school testing/development). At Man, part of the original team who helped the company move to an Agile DLC using SCRUM. I currently
Tom Roden
Tom Roden is a software delivery consultant, coach and quality enthusiast, helping teams and people make the changes needed to successfully adapt to the changing demands of their environment.
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Objective Agility: What does it take to be an Agile company
Featuring 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,...
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Using Agile Methods to Become Competent - Part I
Featuring 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...
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Beyond delivery: delight.
Featuring 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...
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Agile Business Analysis with Feature Injection
Featuring Antony Marcano and 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?
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Successful agile teams
Featuring 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...
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Enterprise architecture in a lean enterprise
Featuring 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?
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Experience Talk
Featuring Benjamin Mitchell
Benjamin will give an experience talk - more information soon! (Karl Scotland could not make it as he is snowed in)
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Open Space Unconference Sessions
Featuring 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...
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Cucumber from the horse's mouth
Featuring 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...
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Learning from Experience with Retrospectives - Part I
Featuring Rachel Davies and 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"...
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Jon Jagger's Cyber Dojo Part I
Featuring 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...
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The Evolution of Agile at Man - A tale of 2 projects.
Featuring Nik Patel and 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...
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Jon Jagger's Cyber Dojo Part II
Featuring 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...
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Learning from Experience Part II
Featuring Rachel Davies and 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"...
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Software quality – you know it when you see it
Featuring 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...
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Making 'Management' work with Agile
Featuring 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...
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4 Years of living Continuous Delivery - TDD of a business plan
Featuring Dave Clack and 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...
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Lean & Kanban eXchange
One day in London
Skills Matter is pleased to announce the Lean & Kanban eXchange 2009 taking place at Skills Matter in central London on December 1st - an intensive and intimate event aimed at bringing together leading thinkers and passionate community members.
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