Program Overview

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Schedule

Tutorials – March 4, 2013

TimeTutorial
08:00–09:30  Registration 
09:30–17:30 “Kanban: A Simple Tool to Drive Sustainable Change”
Pawel Brodzinski
09:30–17:30 “Discovering Product Needs for Agile Delivery”
Ellen Gottesdiener
09:30–17:30 “Practical BDD for RIAs with JavaScript”
Carlos Blé
19:00  Speakers Dinner 

All tutorials include two coffee breaks (11:00–11:30 and 15:30–16:00) and lunch (13:00–14:00).



Conference (Day 1) – March 5, 2013

Track 1
(Room F3)		 Track 2
(Room F2)		 Track 3
(Room F1)		 Track 4
(Room E1)
07:30–09:00 Registration
09:00–09:15 Opening (Room F3)
09:15–10:15 Keynote (Room F3):
“Why Practices are not as important as Principles?”
Andrea Tomasini
10:15–10:40 Snack Break & Exhibition
10:40–11:25 beginner“Agile Test Automation at XING Mobile Team”
Sergej Mudruk		 advanced“Lean PMO – Oxymoron or possible”
Mike Edwards		 beginner“Finding Lean Success Across Distributed Environments”
Leonardo Mattiazzi		  
11:25–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:15 advanced“Exploratory Testing – for devs, testers, and you”
Markus Gärtner & Meike Mertsch		 advanced“Lessons learned: Doing BDD better with SpecFlow on the .NET platform”
Gáspár Nagy		 advanced“Confessions of a Coach: Agile Adoption War Stories”
Marko Taipale		 advanced“Writing Usable APIs in Practice”
Giovanni Asproni
12:15–13:45 Lunch & Exhibition
13:45–14:45 Keynote (Room F3):
“Bring balance to the force”
Markus Gärtner
14:45–14:50 Coffee Break
Room F3 Room F1 Room E1 Room E2
14:50–16:20 all levels Open Space advancedWORKSHOP I, Part I:
“Executable specifications in action: building mobile bank”
Vagif Abilov		 beginnerWORKSHOP II:
“The art of driving performance: Why successful agile teams need close monitoring and key ratios – and how to get there”
Lucius Bobikiewicz		 advancedWORKSHOP III:
“Dialogue Sheets for retrospectives and discussion”
Allan Kelly
16:20–16:45 Snack Break & Exhibition
Track 1
(Room F3)		 Track 2
(Room F2)		 Track 3
(Room F1)		 Track 4
(Room E1)
16:45–17:30 beginner“Aiming higher – using test automation to drive better quality”
Alexandra Schladebeck		 advanced“To Pair or not to Pair – That is not a question”
Sebastian Schürmann		    
17:30–17:35 Coffee Break
17:35–18:35 Keynote (Room F3):
“Agile Software Engineering @ SAP”
Asaf Saar
19:30  Social Event 


Conference (Day 2) – March 6, 2013

Track 1
(Room F3)		 Track 2
(Room F2)		 Track 3
(Room F1)		 Track 4
(Room E1)
07:30–09:10 Registration
09:10–09:15 Opening (Room F3)
09:15–10:15 Keynote (Room F3):
codecentric –
“Agile Architecture – Yet Another Oxymoron?”
Adam Boczek
10:15–10:40 Snack Break & Exhibition
10:40–11:25 beginner“Agile testing in the Real World: Putting the Manifesto to the Testo”
Daniel Maslyn		 advanced“Building an infrastructure to support continuous delivery”
Sarah Haselbauer		 beginner“Stop Talking, Start Listening! How Effective Feedback Improves your Software”
Sven Peters		 advanced“Hunter-gatherers and software develop­ment”
Hass Chapman
11:25–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:15 advanced“BDD is dead, long live BDD”
Jan Ehrhardt		 beginner“(In)Credible Leadership for Agile Engineering Teams”
Michael Leber		 advanced“Collaborate to get rid of the fixing phase!”
Rik Marselis		  
12:15–13:45 Lunch & Exhibition
13:45–14:45 Keynote (Room F3):
“Power Up Your Agile Planning and Analysis: Deliver Value Via Structured Conversations”
Ellen Gottesdiener
14:45–14:50 Coffee Break
Room F3 Room F1 Room E1 Room E2
14:50–16:20 all levels Open Space advancedWORKSHOP I, Part II:
“Executable specifications in action: building mobile bank”
Vagif Abilov		 expertWORKSHOP IV:
“Tulming Agile Airplane Manufacturer Workshop”
Eduard Kunce & Zuzana Sochova		 advancedWORKSHOP V:
“3 – 2 – 1 – Lifting Off Agile”
Birgit Panzram & Simon Roberts
16:20–16:45 Snack Break & Exhibition
Track 1
(Room F3)		 Track 2
(Room F2)		 Track 3
(Room F1)		 Track 4
(Room E1)
16:45–17:30 advanced“Retro­spective’s retro­spective”
Vicenç García Altés		 expert“The Soup Stone – Catalyst to Agile Adoption”
Remi-Armand Collaris		    
17:30–17:35 Coffee Break
17:35–18:35 Keynote (Room F3):
“Creating and Sustaining High-Performance Teams”
Peter Saddington


Conference (Day 3) – March 7, 2013

Track 1
(Room F3)		 Track 2
(Room F2)		 Track 3
(Room F1)		 Track 4
(Room E1)
07:30–09:10 Registration
09:10–09:15 Opening (Room F3)
09:15–10:15 Keynote (Room F3):
“Efficient or Just Busy?”
Pawel Brodzinski
10:15–10:40 Snack Break & Exhibition
10:40–11:25 all levels“Design Thinking”
Stefan Hampel		 all levels“Forward reasoning or learning from the past”
Arie van Bennekum		 advanced“Influencing Quality in large Agile projects”
Ray Scott		 advanced“How to detect smelly automated acceptance tests and why they are wrong!”
Kishen Simbhoedat­panday
11:25–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:15 advanced“Clean Code – is it worth the time and money to write your code so that it is trivial to understand and maintain?”
Thomas Sundberg		 advanced“Life Coaching techniques on Agile Projects”
Krystian Kaczor		 advanced“The developer doesn’t care about acceptance test frameworks”
Alexander Tarnowski		 advanced“Retrospectives are good, Prespectives are better”
Niels Malotaux
12:15–13:45 Lunch & Exhibition
13:45–14:30 advanced“BDD Lessons learnt”
Ant Koch & Tony Bruce		 expert“Scaled Retro­spectives”
Andreas Schliep		 beginner“Spotify Apps agile adoption story”
Alexander Andelkovic		 beginner“Smarter Software with Activity-Centered Design”
Stephan Schwab
14:30–14:35 Coffee Break
14:35–15:35 Keynote (Room F3):
“Risk and Decision: The ‘When’ rather than the ‘How’”
Olav Maassen & Chris Matts
15:35–15:45 Closing
15:45–16:30 Coffee, Snacks & Networking

 

Please note that the program is subject to change.

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