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Agile, an Experiential Introduction
by Chris Sims
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Agile is a holistic approach to software development and the best way to learn about agile is to experience it. Over the course of this short workshop, we will engage the power of simulations and learning games to evoke and explore various aspects of the agile experience. Warning! This will be a participatory learning experience, without a PowerPoint safety net! <br> <br> Areas we will explore will include: <ul> <li> * Iterative vs. traditional project lifecycle <li> * Communication on a self-organizing agile team <li> * The role of velocity in release planning <li> * The power of inspect-and-adapt <li> * The interplay between iterative delivery and risk </ul>

Chris Sims is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), agile coach, and recovering C++ developer who helps software development teams improve their productivity and happiness.Chris is the founder of Agile Learning Labsas well as the Bay Area Agile Managers Support Group. He is co-author of The Elements of Scrum and has published over 50 articles on agile topics at InfoQ. Even more of his writing can be found on the Agile Learning Labs blog.

Chris Sims Chris Sims is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), agile coach, and recovering C++ developer... AgileLearningLabs.com /Presenter/2013/Chris-Sims-1661 CA ChrisSims True True
143 Agile
195 Scrum
390 Extreme Programming
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Agile, an Experiential Introduction

Agile is a holistic approach to software development and the best way to learn about agile is to experience it. Over the course of this short workshop, we will engage the power of simulations and learning games to evoke and explore various aspects of the agile experience. Warning! This will be a participatory learning experience, without a PowerPoint safety net!

Areas we will explore will include:
  • * Iterative vs. traditional project lifecycle
  • * Communication on a self-organizing agile team
  • * The role of velocity in release planning
  • * The power of inspect-and-adapt
  • * The interplay between iterative delivery and risk

Removing Impediments
by Chris Sims
Agenda Not Set Yet Room Not Assigned
Impediments prevent you and your team from making progress or doing your best work. We will use a simple three step system to identify, analyze, and remove impediments so that your team can deliver maximum value. We will use games and simulations to explore the different types of impediments that arise for real development teams, and then apply the 3 step model overcome those impediments. Bring your impediments and be prepared to have fun with them!

Chris Sims is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), agile coach, and recovering C++ developer who helps software development teams improve their productivity and happiness.Chris is the founder of Agile Learning Labsas well as the Bay Area Agile Managers Support Group. He is co-author of The Elements of Scrum and has published over 50 articles on agile topics at InfoQ. Even more of his writing can be found on the Agile Learning Labs blog.

Chris Sims Chris Sims is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), agile coach, and recovering C++ developer... AgileLearningLabs.com /Presenter/2013/Chris-Sims-1661 CA ChrisSims True True
143 Agile
195 Scrum
246 Project Management
418 lean
540 Coaching Skills
544 management
617 Product Management
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Removing Impediments

Impediments prevent you and your team from making progress or doing your best work. We will use a simple three step system to identify, analyze, and remove impediments so that your team can deliver maximum value. We will use games and simulations to explore the different types of impediments that arise for real development teams, and then apply the 3 step model overcome those impediments. Bring your impediments and be prepared to have fun with them!
Handson workshop for Better Unit Testing
by Llewellyn Falco
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Bring your laptop to try out a koan (puzzles for learning) in Either C# or Java. This session will explore the use of the open source library Approval Tests to facilitate better unit testing verification

As an Agile software consultant Llewellyn Falco routinely finds himself working with companies undergoing transformations who have hired him to improve their employees' ability to deal with messy, orphaned, and otherwise ugly code. He is the inventor of approval tests (<http://www.approvaltests.com>www.approvaltests.com) and you can get a pretty good idea of him form this blog post: http://tinyurl.com/6aklzv

Llewellyn Falco As an Agile software consultant Llewellyn Falco routinely finds himself working with... blog.approvaltests.com /Presenter/2013/Llewellyn-Falco-3133 ca LlewellynFalco True True
6 C#
143 Agile
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Handson workshop for Better Unit Testing

Bring your laptop to try out a koan (puzzles for learning) in Either C# or Java. This session will explore the use of the open source library Approval Tests to facilitate better unit testing verification
Agile at Enterprise Scale: The Tricky Bits
by Bernie Maloney
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Want to build a high performing team? How about a high performing business at enterprise scale? Agile thrives with individual teams, yet even Ken Schwaber asserts 75% of organizations using scrum won't succeed in getting the benefits they hope for from it. Many such organizations have been structured by default along hierarchical lines, rather than by design for iterative work. A set of established and emerging ideas to address organizational impediments point to a future where Agile introductions Go Big, rather than Go Home. Not simply theory, this session will overlay these ideas onto a real world example of a hw/sw business that scaled from break even to $4B in 4y. Come learn some Tricky Bits to help run Agile at Enterprise Scale.

I lead. For fun. As an intra*preneur, I've grown businesses from break even to beyond $100M. My teams have delivered award winning retail products; more times than many may believe. I thrive in ambiguous environments & love bringing order out of chaos, turning strategies into results.

Bernie Maloney I lead. For fun. As an intra*preneur, I've grown businesses from break even to beyond... http://about.me/berniemaloney /Presenter/2013/Bernie-Maloney-3768 CA @berniemaloney True True
143 Agile
247 Engineering Process
493 Enterprise maturity
544 management
545 team building
638 process improvement
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Agile at Enterprise Scale: The Tricky Bits

Want to build a high performing team? How about a high performing business at enterprise scale? Agile thrives with individual teams, yet even Ken Schwaber asserts 75% of organizations using scrum won't succeed in getting the benefits they hope for from it. Many such organizations have been structured by default along hierarchical lines, rather than by design for iterative work. A set of established and emerging ideas to address organizational impediments point to a future where Agile introductions Go Big, rather than Go Home. Not simply theory, this session will overlay these ideas onto a real world example of a hw/sw business that scaled from break even to $4B in 4y. Come learn some Tricky Bits to help run Agile at Enterprise Scale.
Clean Code: Homicidal Maniacs Read Code, Too
by Jeremy Clark
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There's no such thing as a write-once application. The world is constantly changing, and our code needs to change with it. We'll think in small pieces and take a look at some principles and techniques that will keep our code manageable and understandable. Think about the developer who will come after you. Now, imagine that he's a homicidal maniac who knows where you live. Examples will be in C#, but the principles apply to pretty much every programming language.

Jeremy Clark is an application developer, technical speaker, and Microsoft MVP with over 13 years of experience in all aspects of the development lifecycle. After hours, he puts together demos and technical articles for JeremyBytes.com, a website focusing on .NET technologies. Other times he can be found shredding on a plastic guitar (or playing a real guitar fairly badly). He lives in Anaheim, CA with a seedling redwood tree and his cats, Amanda and Toby.

Jeremy Clark Jeremy Clark is an application developer, technical speaker, and Microsoft MVP with over... http://www.jeremybytes.com /Presenter/2013/Jeremy-Clark-8502 CA @jeremybytes
21 Refactoring
143 Agile
392 Clean Code
454 Best Practices
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Clean Code: Homicidal Maniacs Read Code, Too

There's no such thing as a write-once application. The world is constantly changing, and our code needs to change with it. We'll think in small pieces and take a look at some principles and techniques that will keep our code manageable and understandable. Think about the developer who will come after you. Now, imagine that he's a homicidal maniac who knows where you live. Examples will be in C#, but the principles apply to pretty much every programming language.
Sprint Rhythm
by Steve Bockman
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EXPERIENCE THE RHYTHM, FLOW AND MECHANICS OF SCRUM. All Scrum projects share a set of events that occur on a regular cadence. If you've never worked on a Scrum team before, or if your Scrum project doesn't seem to have a smooth and natural flow, this session will let you experience and explore those things that all Scrum projects have in common. This hands-on workshop is designed to let you experience the rhythm and flow of backlog grooming, sprint planning, development, sprint review and sprint retrospective through several sprints.

Steve Bockman is a software developer turned productivity consultant. He is the founder of Agile Unlimited, a company in Northern California that focuses on helping organizations enhance their effectiveness. Steve is the originator of Team Estimation, a technique for collaboratively estimating work effort. He is also the author of <i>Predictability</i>, a business novel about creating reliable project schedules.

Steve Bockman Steve Bockman is a software developer turned productivity consultant. He is the founder of... www.agileunlimited.com /Presenter/2013/Steve-Bockman-3019 CA @stevebockman True True
143 Agile
195 Scrum
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Sprint Rhythm

EXPERIENCE THE RHYTHM, FLOW AND MECHANICS OF SCRUM. All Scrum projects share a set of events that occur on a regular cadence. If you've never worked on a Scrum team before, or if your Scrum project doesn't seem to have a smooth and natural flow, this session will let you experience and explore those things that all Scrum projects have in common. This hands-on workshop is designed to let you experience the rhythm and flow of backlog grooming, sprint planning, development, sprint review and sprint retrospective through several sprints.
Fantastic Features
by Steve Bockman
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PRIORITIZING PRODUCT FEATURES BY RELATIVE COST. If you have more features in your product than can possibly be developed by the release date, you'll want to make sure that the most valuable features are developed first. One possible approach is to prioritize the features in "bang for the buck" order. But assessing the relative profitability of features can be difficult. This interactive workshop and group discussion explores methods for calculating the relative costs of individual features, in order to make feature prioritization simple and manageable.

Steve Bockman is a software developer turned productivity consultant. He is the founder of Agile Unlimited, a company in Northern California that focuses on helping organizations enhance their effectiveness. Steve is the originator of Team Estimation, a technique for collaboratively estimating work effort. He is also the author of <i>Predictability</i>, a business novel about creating reliable project schedules.

Steve Bockman Steve Bockman is a software developer turned productivity consultant. He is the founder of... www.agileunlimited.com /Presenter/2013/Steve-Bockman-3019 CA @stevebockman True True
143 Agile
246 Project Management
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Fantastic Features

PRIORITIZING PRODUCT FEATURES BY RELATIVE COST. If you have more features in your product than can possibly be developed by the release date, you'll want to make sure that the most valuable features are developed first. One possible approach is to prioritize the features in "bang for the buck" order. But assessing the relative profitability of features can be difficult. This interactive workshop and group discussion explores methods for calculating the relative costs of individual features, in order to make feature prioritization simple and manageable.

Create Influence, On Demand
by Bernie Maloney
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Who do you know who might know someone who could SEE a benefit in CLEARLY sharing their ideas? Or, do you simply wish you could persuade stormtroopers these are not the 'droids they're looking for? Would you like to influence how others perceive you when networking, leading teams or interviewing? In this interactive (that means audience participation!) session we’ll cover: * Why this works * Simple, verbal techniques to build rapport fast * Practice on how to build and break rapport (helpful to keep discussions concise!) Come learn some simple, yet subtle techniques to shift communication effectiveness by a factor of 5 or more. And while participants are advised away from initial use with stormtroopers, VCs, angels, executives and clients are fair game.

I lead. For fun. As an intra*preneur, I've grown businesses from break even to beyond $100M. My teams have delivered award winning retail products; more times than many may believe. I thrive in ambiguous environments & love bringing order out of chaos, turning strategies into results.

Bernie Maloney I lead. For fun. As an intra*preneur, I've grown businesses from break even to beyond... http://about.me/berniemaloney /Presenter/2013/Bernie-Maloney-3768 CA @berniemaloney True True
143 Agile
246 Project Management
285 Marketing
544 management
617 Product Management
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Create Influence, On Demand

Who do you know who might know someone who could SEE a benefit in CLEARLY sharing their ideas? Or, do you simply wish you could persuade stormtroopers these are not the 'droids they're looking for? Would you like to influence how others perceive you when networking, leading teams or interviewing? In this interactive (that means audience participation!) session we’ll cover: * Why this works * Simple, verbal techniques to build rapport fast * Practice on how to build and break rapport (helpful to keep discussions concise!) Come learn some simple, yet subtle techniques to shift communication effectiveness by a factor of 5 or more. And while participants are advised away from initial use with stormtroopers, VCs, angels, executives and clients are fair game.

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