2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 90 5107 Philippe Kruchten Plaza Ballroom A 13 1 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z This demonstration will show how the Scrum process and many XP/Agile practices can be implemented using Visual Studio Team System, Team Foundation Server, and the Conchango Scrum Process Template in a .NET development environment. The demonstration will follow a User Story from being added to the Product Backlog, through development during a Sprint, to deployment to production, and back again via a reported defect; covering the entire lifecycle cradle to grave. 90 89 Tommy Norman Grand Ballroom E 15 3 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z The business analyst role seems conspicuously missing from most agile methods. Do agile methods make business analyst an obsolete role? Certainly not! But how do you integrate what is sometimes portrayed as a plodding and documentation driven role into an agile project? This tutorial provides participants practical guidance for how the business analyst integrates and collaborates with all members of the team. During this workshop the participant will learn how to construct and evolve an agile business analysis process that is appropriate for their specific project environment. 90 341 Steve Adolph Columbus IJ 6 3 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Most agile methodologies tend to assume that the team is co-located in a single team room. They give little guidance as to how to address team distribution although proven practices are starting to emerge within the community. The Microsoft patterns & practices team has been experimenting with distributed teams for several years, mining proven practices from the community and experimenting them out on numerous agile projects. This talk summarizes those learnings and proven practices and gives examples of their application - both good and bad - within our teams. 90 447 Ade Miller Grand Ballroom C North 8 3 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Different testing approaches are needed because quality has many aspects besides functional requirements, such as making sure the code is reliable and secure. How do you know you’ve done the kinds of testing and quality processes are necessary for your product, especially on an agile project? The Agile Testing Quadrants help you categorize tests and plan for different testing activities needed over the life of a project. It can be used by the team as a base for this common vocabulary about testing, and as a mechanism to start discussions and encourage collaboration. 90 480 Janet Gregory Grand Ballroom D North 14 3 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z The Agile Alliance states that "The Gordon Pask Award recognizes two people whose recent contributions to Agile Practice make them, in the opinion of the Award Committee, people others in the field should emulate." This panel brings together some of the previous winners so that they may share their contributions and help encourage others to participate in building the body of Agile knowledge. For the intermediate practitioner, it should reinforce the notion that as we practice Agile and learn how to adapt for the best outcome, sharing what we learn helps the whole community. 90 512 Aaron Sanders, Jeff Patton Toronto 9 3 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Scheduling should be done independent of and orthogonal to workflow. In fact, you don’t have to create a schedule for a flow system. It will flow all by itself, and work will flow much faster and much more reliably than it could possibly follow a schedule. But take a closer look at that workflow: Just when you thought it was obsolete, the V model reappears. This talk will step through systems design, approval processes, and scheduling, development workflow, depolyment, from a completely different angle. 90 532 Mary Poppendieck Grand Ballroom F 6 3 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Are you thinking about trying agile approaches? Do you have an agile transition underway? Is your team or organization trying to become agile, but been less than successful thus far? A foundational implication – and the biggest potential roadblock – of the agile manifesto is culture change. Therefore, to be successful with agile approaches and especially to scale them, you *must* go beyond agile technical practices and simultaneously tackle culture changes. This session shows why this is so, introduces a simple culture model, and gives you an opportunity to try out a culture tool. 90 727 Mike Russell Columbus KL 1 3 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z The biggest risk to most projects is building the wrong product. Regardless of how fast your agile team becomes, nothing matters if you’re building the wrong product. In this tutorial we will look at both non-financial ways of both prioritizing product backlog items and choosing among competing project ideas. Included are relative weighting, theme screening, theme scoring, and Kano analysis. You will leave with hands-on experience in very practical ways to prioritize a product backlog. 90 1217 Mike Cohn Grand Ballroom B 4 3 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Agility in Action… This session will introduce five interactive games that a facilitator can add to their toolkit for team and management training. The games all illustrate the principles and dynamics that support Agility. The rationale for this session is that people learn best by embodying the learning, rather than just receiving knowledge at a head level. All participants will be immersed in the games; there are no observers. At the end of the session the participants will have a set of games they can introduce into their own organization to enhance their own Agile adoption process. 90 2001 Tobias Mayer Grand Ballroom A 2 3 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z In 2004, SEP tried adopting Agile practices. However, Agile failed to have the desired lasting impact across the entire organization. Things changed in 2007, when SEP implemented Kanban for the first time. We will explore how Kanban teams at SEP matured through the lens of the Dreyfus Model for Skill Acquisition. We will examine what this pattern has meant for institutionalization of Lean in the organization. We will discuss a counterintuitive technique for higher success and adoption rates of new methodologies. Finally, we will review common pitfalls teams encountered adopting Kanban. 45 2232 Chris Shinkle Atlanta 2 3 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z According to research almost 85% of today’s leaders are constrained by narrow, analytical and habitual thinking. Typically, they are still struggling with ways of thinking that make them defensive, controlling, and self-centered which deeply affect performance and teamwork. We know that agile leaders at post-heroic stages are much more capable of working in collaboration. So, what differentiate these leaders? What transformative process can be used to develop Catalyst leaders & teams? This presentation will show you a proven and powerful path to develop post-heroic leaders and teams. 90 2344 Gilles Brouillette Columbus GH 9 3 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z This hands-on session will cover a number of low cost, yet powerful research methods, like the ""burrito lunch"" to help you make better data-driven design decisions. We'll provide a number of techniques for recruiting research participants, creating better research questions, and what to do with your data once you've conducted your research. We'll provide hands-on demonstrations for how to conduct field research and interview participants. We'll even provide participants, yes, real people, for you to interview during the session. 90 5034 Russ Unger, Todd Zaki Warfel Acapulco 16 3 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 90 5108 Tore Dybå Plaza Ballroom A 13 3 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z In 2001, Follett Software Company (FSC) began work on the next generation of its library software. Many options were considered, including sending the effort off shore. In April 2001, members of the Destiny team attended a C-SPIN meeting where Martin Fowler spoke about Extreme Programming (XP). In what was considered a bold experiment at the time, the team chose to adopt an XP process ""the most well-known and controversial"" of the new agile processes. This experience report will tell of a ""do-it-yourself"" Agile success story, with changes, challenges and lessons learned along the way. 45 2424 Brian Spears Atlanta 2 4 2009-08-13T08:29:01Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z This talk will look at the product owner role on an Agile team from a Pragmatic product management perspective. Many software development companies rely on their product management organizations to represent the needs of customers and the market. Concentration on problems, the people who have them, and the circumstances under which they experience those problems is what makes the marriage of Pragmatic product management and Agile so valuable. This presentation will describe how the Pragmatic approach to the MRD gives the Agile product owner a headstart and the entire Agile team an edge. 45 90 Simon Orrell Crystal C 4 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z For almost a decade our community has claimed that agile is a risk-driven approach. Yet there is very little published material on agile risk management. Traditional risk management is based on avoidance of external variations. While, traditional project scheduling treats tasks homogeneously from a risk perspective. Lean pull systems and Real Options Theory provide new means to manage overall business risk in technology projects. This tutorial describes 3 techniques that evolved in the kanban community that increase sophistication of risk management and provide improved business agility. 45 96 David Anderson Grand Ballroom A 3 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z One of the most common questions asked of practicing Agile teams is: > How can we increase velocity? Many teams have had to answer this question, but is it the right question? Velocity is an excellent measurement for determining project timelines and progress towards them but doesn't give us any indication about the overall value of the features being delivered. All too often poor prioritization and solutioning are ignored because velocity is the KPI for the team. This session shows how to use value as a tool to ensure that you get more of the right things done. 90 123 Brandon Carlson Columbus IJ 6 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Engaged as a software consultant at a financial services company, we brought up the topic of Agile early on and were told, “No!” A Vice President at the company said that Agile had been tried there and failed, so the management decided that Agile was a waste of time and money and would be prohibited. Despite this edict, our team cleverly succeeded at covertly injecting “The approach that shall not be named” into a couple key projects. Our success caused management to reverse its firm anti-Agile stance, and the whole organization is now moving in that direction. 45 145 Ken Howard Toronto 2 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z This report describes how scrum was adopted by more than half of the software developers at Amazon.com (and counting). The adoption was due largely to the efforts, both accidental and purposeful, of an internal employee. Amazon's corporate and development cultures played important roles, both positive and negative. With no executive sponsorship, adoption occurred primarily a team at a time. The wide range of success across teams and organizations leads to a number of important lessons learned with regard to enterprise scrum adoption. The lesson: you can cause this to happen. 45 284 Alan Atlas Regency C 2 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z You've done user research. Now what? Join us for this hands-on session to learn how to interpret research data, prioritize findings, and create actionable design research items. Learn about the task analysis grid, how to create data-driven personas, and what the persona DNA model is. Find out how to use actionable design research to inform your prototype. We'll discuss 8 guiding principles that will help you avoid common mistakes made during prototyping. And finally, we'll discuss a number of prototyping methods and give a number of tips and techniques for common prototyping tools. 90 323 Joe Sokohl, Todd Zaki Warfel Acapulco 16 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Coding Dojos are sessions were participants are invited to participate in a programming challenge. They get the opportunity to practice Extreme Programming techniques such as Test-Driven Development, Simple Design and Pair Programming. In this dojo, the audience will be asked to concentrate on adding features (while preserving existing functionalities) to a Java project that has not been written with testability in mind. In other words, we will work on legacy code. The Randori format will be used to let as many participants as possible do actual coding. 90 402 Guillaume Tardif, Eric Lefevre-Ardant Grand Ballroom F 7 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Lack of good release planning is endemic. Teams seem caught up in iteration-at-a-time development and not planning for releases. Even those who create initial release plans often fail to keep them current. This approach enables teams to resist request for “spurious” information such as “how much is this project going to cost,” or “how long is this project going to take?” This session will address why release planning is so important and then cover a series of release planning topics such as value-driven planning and multi-level planning 90 411 Jim Highsmith Crystal A 8 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z XUnit is the generic name given to the family of tools/frameworks used by developers when developing automated unit tests. JUnit, NUnit, MsTest and CppUnit are some of the better known members of the family. High quality automated unit tests are one of the key development practices that enable incremental development and delivery of software. This tutorial provides the participants with a vocabulary of smells and patterns with which to reason about the quality of their test code and a set of reusable test code design patterns that can be used to eliminate the smells. 90 542 Gerard Meszaros Grand Ballroom C North 7 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Agile has all these weird, expensive-looking practices: pair programming, test-driven development, regular planning meetings, moving the programmers and business people closer together, focusing people on a single project, multi-disciplinary teams. We can't afford to go agile! In this session, J. B. Rainsberger introduces agile practices by relating them to core business matters: compounding early earned value and reducing unnecessary costs. Learn why practice and learning are really profit centers. Maybe you can't afford not to go agile! 90 553 J. B. Rainsberger Grand Ballroom B 12 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z We find games and simulations incredibly valuable in our coaching and training. Given the number of times we've seen "Does anyone have a game or simulation to ... ?" on the mail lists, we know we're not alone. While there's leverage in using games that others create, it's even better to create your own games to address your specific teaching points. In this session, we will introduce some essential elements of game design and demonstrate a process for designing a game starting with a learning objective. Participants will then use materials we supply to create their own Agile games. 180 705 Elisabeth Hendrickson, Chris Sims Columbus GH 11 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z What does it mean to be a professional software developer? What rules do we follow? What attitudes do we hold? And how can we maintain our professionalism in the face of schedule pressure? In this talk Robert C. Martin outlines the practices used by software craftsmen to maintain their professional ethics. He resolves the dilemma of speed vs. quality, and mess vs schedule. He provides a set of principles and simple Dos and Don’ts for teams who want to be counted as professional craftsmen. 90 908 Robert Martin Crystal B 10 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Project Managers comprise the single largest category of agile practitioners that are actively engaged in the industry (18%). However, there is no clear consensus on the role of project manager within the Agile community. Viewpoints range from: • The PM is complete waste. • The PM is a necessary part-time helper. • The PM is a crucial communicator and facilitator. So who's right? This interactive session will seek to address these questions about who is good, who is bad, why they are, and who says so. 90 1097 Jesse Fewell, Pat Reed Regency A 9 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Traditional thinking holds that the more critical the application, the more tightly its development must be planned, staged, and controlled. The truth is that a flexible culture is stronger, safer, and more robust. FDA regulatory standards are designed to support a learning organization – fully compatible with Agile! This session gives you practical tips for moving your customers and auditors to a flexible agile approach to planning, team interactions, and risk management. When the culture shifts, the result is not just that teams achieve their goals sooner, but safety is greatly enhanced. 90 1209 Brian Shoemaker, Nancy Van Schooenderwoert Regency D 1 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Agile coaches attempt to influence teams in different ways. Our experience is that agile coaches typically work by instinct and intuition. This makes it very hard to explain what coaches do and difficult to teach people how to coach agile teams. Richard Hackman claims in his book ""Leading Teams"" that there a three basic types of coaching intervention: Motivational, Consultative, Educational. We want to test out that theory and explore about what Agile Coaches really do. We aim to uncover specific coaching interventions that participants have tried and whether these interventions helped. 90 1809 Liz Sedley, Rachel Davies Regency B 5 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z **Intent** Provide the participants with a hands-on-experience of real world refactoring by taking an open source project and refactoring it. **Summary** Refactoring is a very well established practice not just in the Agile Community, but outside as well. This session is an attempt to help the development community understand refactoring a little better. It will provide a hands-on opportunity for developers to explore these concepts in action. This session will try to amplify the participant’s learning process by pairing them with other practitioners and peers. 180 2258 Naresh Jain New Orleans 7 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z As Agile is adopted by large enterprises, the number of transformation success stories has grown. But, transformation is an ongoing process, and maintaining organizational change is difficult. So, what happens after the success stories? What can IT leaders expect once the honeymoon is over? In this talk, Chuck Maples, SVP of R&D at Borland, will address these questions head-on, sharing his experiences in Borland’s Agile transformation. He’ll discuss the challenges that can emerge after the initial phases of transformation give way a new stage in the journey. 45 2272 Chuck Maples Atlanta 1 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Fear of decision making often leads teams to exhibit one or more of the dysfunctional symptoms of Agile ADHD. This tutorial will help agile practitioners overcome the fear of decision making by first embracing that there are no right or wrong decisions. Agile development is ultimately driven by a series of decisions, all of which are made in the face of uncertainty. Tutorial participants will take away principles and practices that enable their team to embrace uncertainty and be proactive in making better decisions at the most responsible moment. 90 3110 Bruce Winegarden, David Ullman San Francisco 9 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z This is a trick question, right? In agile, everyone works on the same items together, at the same time. Yet, the reality is we’re not all interchangeable cogs. Developers and testers each bring their own, unique skills to the table. The key to effective agile is not minimizing our differences, but building upon the strengths each person brings to the team. Join us for this hands-on simulation and retrospective as developers and testers explore how agile teams build quality into their process, how each member contributes to that quality, and how we can avoid traditional testing pitfalls. 90 3205 Abby Fichtner, Nate Oster Grand Ballroom D North 14 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Selenium is the 800lb gorilla of open source web application testing. For four years it has been steadily gaining a following and making a difference for corporations large and small. Such tools have always been a trap for adept Agile teams though. Too often teams rely on functional testing and skimp on the much more effective 'small' unit tests. Now with JBehave steering Selenium, we're seeing test scripts emerge that engage formerly perplexed management and business folks. The time has come for this type of tool pairing to be valued for its role in validating Agile in the enterprise 90 3207 Paul Hammant, Mauro Talevi Grand Ballroom E 15 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z This session will describe our experience in using the Scrum process of Software Development to create complex tools for use in animated movie production. Our process evolved out of the need to keep the task of UI design at least one sprint ahead of software development. Our products are designed for the creative in-house artists who use the tools for long hours over the course of movie production. We will also share ways to capture the complexity in the artists workflow and methods to break it down into reusable components both for graphical user interfaces and for software development. 45 3223 Rajesh Sharma, Brian Wherry Columbus KL 16 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 90 5110 Philippe Kruchten Plaza Ballroom A 13 5 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Agile development has grown a lot since its rebeleous 2001 start. In fact, it has grown to be the mainstream way of developing software. The time has come to drop the word 'agile.' Agile development is just modern practices in software development. There is no need to explicitly mark practices as Agile. There is no need anymore for opposing camps. Keeping the word Agile and things like ""the Agile conference"" is holding the development of modern SW development practices back. This session will be in debate form to discuss the above mentioned motion. 45 656 Bas Vodde, Steven Mak Grand Ballroom A 3 6 2009-08-13T08:28:49Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z An experience report (and video!) on the successful adoption and scaling of Agile practices within an IT organization through a year-long, innovative, and exciting campaign – the Amazing Team Race. This report shares successful strategies, some failed approaches, and finally how we created a culture of enthusiasm surrounding the adoption of Agile. It also demonstrates how widespread Agile adoption can be successful even in non-collocated team environments. The make-up of the IT organization consists of distributed teams with half of whom are outsourced contractors. 45 811 Gabino Roche, Jr., Belkis Vasquez Regency C 2 6 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z You championed Agile adoption in your organization. Interest grew as your projects become predictable. You led a group of agilists who helped spread the word to more groups. Life was good. Then senior management took notice of the improvements and decided to mandate adoption of Agile. They’ve skimmed some of the books, but don’t have any practical experience. Your agile adoption has just reached a critical stage as it moves from grass-roots effort to management directive. You’re about to lose control of your baby. You’re about to learn that you’ve created a monster. 45 2844 Michael Marchi Atlanta 1 6 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Today’s developers are quick to adopt leading-edge technologies that can accommodate project peaks and valleys, evolve and change, and support agile principles. Using the CollabNet platform, this session will demonstrate the agile best practice of continuous integration (CI) using cloud provisioning capabilities and the Hudson open source CI engine. Attendees will learn a framework that can be used in their environment, including an understanding of the components, tools, set up, and generalized use cases for development in both virtual private clouds and public clouds, like Amazon EC2. 45 3027 Darryl Bowler Columbus KL 15 6 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z This experience report, by a project's technical architect, details the adoption of agile methods across several teams after one high profile success. The organization had a long history of waterfall development and a clearly defined remit for technical architects. Years of refinement had led to a set of techniques which contradicted many of the ideals held by agile practitioners. The author's challenge was to maintain agility and fulfill responsibilities inherited from waterfall processes without reverting to the conventional practices that ultimately lead to the architect's ivory tower. 45 3030 Andrew Rendell Toronto 2 6 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z When charting new territory–-enterprise-scale Agile–-traditional roadmaps only take you so far. When landscapes change in weeks, product management must find a way to reconcile sprint plans and backlogs from multiple teams with longer-term product direction. David Wilby, SVP of Products at Borland, shares how his teams tackled the roadmap challenge during Borland’s Agile transformation. He’ll cover how roadmaps became a barrier to scaling Agile, how his teams adopted Agile roadmapping, the challenges, and the impact the new practices have had on Borland’s Agile transformation. 45 3032 David Wilby Crystal C 4 6 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z A good QA is worth their weight in gold, but the reality is that the best QA often have trouble working in an Agile Environment. The shift to a quality centred approach surely must be every QA's dream but there are underlying issues that prevent this adoption. In this session we delve into the mind of a career tester, probe the pain points & explore strategies to communicate the value of agile testing to the classically trained. We look at personalities & what drives people to want to test & the benefits that QA provide to a project beyond rubber-stamping the 'done' column on the task board. 90 140 Malcolm Beaton, Simon Bennett Grand Ballroom D North 14 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z All projects benefit from high quality code but achieving the full benefits of agile approaches demands higher-than-usual software quality. A Continuous Integration build provides an ideal platform for applying automated tools to issues of code quality. This tutorial looks at automated code quality tools that can be used to enforce or monitor code quality in Java and Ruby, and how they can be used to check quality manifested by: * style enforcement * lines per method * methods per class * code duplication * npath and cyclomatic complexity * test coverage 90 166 Steve Hayes Grand Ballroom C North 15 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Most Agile initiatives focus on delivery while neglecting the impact that such a radical change may have on the project and organization. The Agile PM must protect the team and help influence the change effort when there is no formal change management. Leveraging a military battle metaphor a lightweight technique can be used to map influences acting on a project. Participants will learn how to identify potential risks and how and where to respond. Spending minutes a day using this technique can mean the difference between an Agile change effort and the end of one Agile project. 90 253 George Schlitz, Giora Morein Regency D 1 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Do you understand why your team behaves the way it does? In this session, you’ll leave with ways to unlock the true potential of your team through better and more productive communication. You will learn how to identify behavioral profiles, and how to capitalize on the diverse behaviors found on typical teams. A highly interactive, fun, and refreshing look at the human element with actionable techniques that target **individuals** and their **interactions**. Topics range from enhancing interpersonal communication (Tango) to effectively leveraging the anatomy of your team (Square Dance). 90 286 Barry Rogers, Ken Howard San Francisco 9 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Participate in a hands-on workshop, where you'll learn how to use sketching and the design studio method for rapid design iteration. Find out how we've used methods borrowed from architecture and industrial design for faster better design. See how using the design studio method can help you generate several weeks worth of work in just one afternoon. Find out what the 6-8-5 method is. But wait... there's more. Think paper is for making airplanes? Think again. We'll show you how to do things with paper prototyping you never imagined, including AJAX-style transitions and simulations. 90 324 Todd Zaki Warfel Acapulco 16 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Experienced product managers working with agile product teams for the first time are stuck between old methods and new ones. Developers are requesting new artifacts, advocating new meetings, and defining new roles. Old processes and artifacts that seemed to be working are not valued by agile teams. While developers are learning how to deliver working code faster, without agile product management the team might be building the wrong things. Agile product managers and product owners face issues focusing on the business, technical, marketing, and sales roles required for effective agile teams. 90 375 Steve Johnson, Laureen Knudsen Crystal C 4 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z The instructors wish, when they were first learning test-driving, refactoring, and OO, that they had had a side-by-side comparison between code Heaven and code Hell. Such an object lesson would have made the value and benefits of agile programming practices so much more plain, so much sooner. Alas for us, but hurray for you! In this workshop you will be able to compare and work with two very different implementations of the same problem domain: one of them fabulously ugly, and the other of them — well — a lot better. This is a close-repeat of a successful session we gave at Agile 08. 90 403 Patrick Wilson-Welsh, Corey Haines Columbus KL 7 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Traditional development emphasizes “following a plan with minimal changes,” whereas agile stresses “adapting successfully to inevitable changes.” If agility is delivering customer value by being flexible, then how can measuring agile performance by adherence to schedule, cost, and scope be valid? We need to modify project success measures in order to build effective agile organizations. The session will build a case for changing performance measurement from the traditional Iron Triangle of cost, schedule, and scope to an Agile Triangle that focuses on value, quality, and constraints. 90 410 Jim Highsmith Crystal B 10 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Our ability to identify patterns of behavior and the likely reasons behind them helps when addressing team dynamics issues. The popular Scrum characters chicken and the pig turn out to be just two of many behaviors that comprise the [Scrum Bestiary](http://www.ademiller.com/blogs/tech/2008/10/scrum-bestiary/). Other examples include the seagull - who derails the team and leaves - and the fox - who is intent on stealing vital resources. This humorous workshop presents a taxonomy of some common behaviors on teams and looks at the drivers behind them and strategies for addressing them. 45 448 Ade Miller Atlanta 1 7 2009-08-13T08:28:32Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z You’ve read about agile, heard about agile, and your company is probably using it in some form by now. Here’s your opportunity to experience the rhythm of an agile project in action and learn first hand many of the practices. Through participation in the Agile/XP Game, this experiential workshop introduces Agile/XP in a non-threatening, non-technical, and fun way. Attendees will come away with an understanding of many of the best practices used to deliver high-quality software quickly. Experience how the various roles work together as on effective agile team. 90 476 Glenn Bernsohn, Michael Walkden Grand Ballroom B 12 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Find out why we give personal feedback, how to provide effective feedback, what makes feedback ineffective and how to deal with poorly phrased feedback. Learning what makes feedback effective helps you to seek your own feedback and improve, whilst being able to support the people around you. This is suitable for anyone who's nervous about giving or getting feedback. Coaches and other Agile Transformers may find this simple workshop helpful for their own teams. 45 517 Elizabeth Keogh Regency B 5 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Integration tests are a scam, a self-replicating virus that takes over your project and burdens you with long-running, fragile, hard-to-understand test suites. You're probably writing 2-5% of the integration tests you need to test thoroughly. You're probably duplicating unit tests all over the place. Your integration tests probably duplicate each other all over the place. When an integration test fails, who knows what's broken? When you refactor, you have to fix dozens of integration tests. Stop it. Learn the two-pronged attack that solves the problem: collaboration tests and contract tests. 90 708 J. B. Rainsberger Columbus IJ 7 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Test Driven Development is the core of the technical Agile practices. With TDD, programmers get instant feedback that their code does what they intend. This class shows the motivations and mechanics of TDD, but does not stop there. Attendees get first hand experience at TDD, writing well tested code in the challenging world of C++. Attendees see how TDD helps to prevent many bugs and memory leaks from ever making the bug list. CppUTest, an open source test harness, is used to collect, organize and automate C++ unit tests. 90 878 James Grenning, Bas Vodde Grand Ballroom F 7 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z The method of Modeling in Color (MIC) has its foundation in object-oriented analysis and design; however, given today's modern service oriented architectures (SOA), the approach is more relevant than ever. In any SOA, MIC can provide answers to difficult questions like: How are services properly designed? What's the appropriate level of granularity for those services? Basic MIC techniques will be discussed and how to break a Color Model into discrete, loosely coupled components will be examined. How to convert the componentized model into XML schema and into XML web services will be explored. 90 1417 Daniel Vacanti, Stephen Palmer Grand Ballroom A 3 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z The authors previously showed Scrum teams using XP practices achieved distributed velocity equal to local velocity with multiple distributed teams. Local velocity equaled distributed velocity and production increased linearly as teams scaled up to over 50 developers. Here we show a similar pattern for extreme time zone differences between San Francisco and India. Local velocity was established at five times industry average waterfall velocity. When team members were added in india, production scaled linearly. Detailed data on team process and performance will help others achieve the same goal. 45 1528 Jeff Sutherland, Guido Schoonheim Crystal A 8 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z As more development teams adopt agile, product managers must change the way they work to keep up with faster development cycles and shorter customer feedback loops. Product managers new to agile soon realize that agile processes require more involvement from their group. Given that most product managers are already overworked, how can they manage these new activities to derive more value from software projects and products? I will share my experience transitioning to Agile, pitfalls to avoid and propose solutions to the new challenges that arise. 90 2125 Catherine Connor Regency C 4 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Starting up an Agile team is one of the first things you might be asked to do when a company wants to "go Agile." What do you need to know before starting up a team? In the start-up, how much do teams need to know about Agile before they "go"? What do they need to know about each other...what the project is all about...who they will become as a team? These and other questions are answered as we walk through good ways to start-up Agile teams. 90 2341 Lyssa Adkins Toronto 2 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z In “The Fifth Discipline”, his pioneering work on the learning organization, Peter Senge writes that the practice of dialogue is a key skill for team learning. Dialogue is commonly confused with discussion, but as defined by Senge it is distinctly different. As a result of this confusion, the skills that enable effective dialogue are often underdeveloped or misunderstood by teams. In this session we’ll use a specific dialogue format called World Café to explore the many factors that influence dialogue quality, and how to accelerate agile team learning through the use of dialogue. 90 2794 Eric Babinet Regency A 9 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z This session describes a lightweight approach to code reviews used in co-located and geographically distributed agile teams. It covers lessons learned from several agile projects: real value, best practices and pitfalls of code reviews. The presentation explains how to make code reviews effective, relatively painless, and liked by the team. Moreover, it presents some interesting aspects of code reviews growing beyond their original intention. The session includes a demo on how Atlassian Crucible integrated with leading IDEs via Atlassian IDE Connector facilitates the whole process. 90 3070 Wojciech Seliga, Slawomir Ginter Grand Ballroom E 15 7 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 90 5111 Yael Dubinsky, Philippe Kruchten Plaza Ballroom A 13 7 2009-08-13T08:28:23Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z Regardless of your coaching experience, there are a wide variety of temptations you can fall into that affect the quality of your coaching. This presentation will describe: each of the 10 temptations, such as pride or impatience; the negative effects on you and/or your team for each temptation; and strategies to avoid falling into and overcoming each of the 10 temptations. There will discussion opportunties for people to learn from the more experienced coaches in the audience. Whether a new or experienced coach, this presentation will have information to improve your coaching. 45 1194 Stevie Borne Regency B 5 8 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z This is a journey starting in 2005 when establishing a new software company in Bangladesh 7000 km away from Denmark. Hiring 20 people in one week in Bangladesh and start using CMMI processes to integrate development in Denmark and Bangladesh. After some challenging time aborting the CMMI project and switching back to agile and lean techniques to make it work. Experience from implementing global big bang Scrum and building a kaizen culture. From long running projects, technical dept and integration nightmares to small batches, continuous integration and faster delivery of business value. 45 2236 Mads Troels Hansen, Hans Baggesen Crystal A 8 8 2009-08-13T08:28:16Z 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z A splendid way to know if you will succeed at agile in the workplace is to be guided by an agile experience in a volunteer setting, where little is masked. Volunteers became volunteers because, despite jobs, families and everything else in their lives, they see a unique reward from the donation of their time and efforts. The danger of the workplace is that, rather than keeping the eye on the prize, it is too easy for someone to replace the underlying motivational reward by the paycheck. This report shows how a volunteer organization was able to experience and learn the power of agile values. 45 3123 Ron Morsicato Atlanta 1 8 2009-08-13T03:46:00Z