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Conference Agenda 2008

Wednesday, November 5th

  Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
08:00 - 09:00 Registration and Check In
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote: Scrum Insights Ken Schwaber
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15 Man and Machine Jonathan Kohl Agile Planning in Action Jim Shore The Journey to Agile Heather Regehr
XP Transition at BC Lottery Corp Barbara Hubert
11:15 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00   Are Agile Testers Different? Lisa Crispin DDD+BDD=Success John Vanspronssen Duncan Fraser
14:00 - 15:00 Agile Testing Matrix Janet Gregory Small is Beautiful - Scaling Agile Sanjiv Augustine The Agile Playground: Learning Games for the Agile Practitioner Michael McCullough
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:15 Agile Requirements Jennitta Andrea Business Case for Agility Alan Shalloway Interactive marketing and Branding - the Agile Way Adrian Moise
16:15 - 17:00 Distributed Agile - Written Standup?? Phillip Cave
17:00 - 17:30 Networking Reception
18:30 Agile Vancouver AGM
18:30 Birds of a Feather Session

Thursday, November 6th

  Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
08:30 - 09:00 Checkin
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote: Situated Agility - context matters, a lot Phillippe Kruchten
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15 Buikding a Kaizen Culture for a high maturity Agile Organization David Anderson Managing Software Debt Chris Sterling Moving from Quality Crisis to Quality-Driven Development with Fit Karl Andres/Biljana Peceli
How can testers team up with developers in an Agile environment? Simona Hera
11:15 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00   Database Development in Agile World Marc Munro Discount Usability Techniques Frank Maurer
14:00 - 15:00 Combining Agile and Model-Driven Software Development Peter Macdonald Cutting an Agile Groove: Coaching Agility David Hussman In Search of... an Agile Documentation Process Susan Patch
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:15   Implementing Agile across the Enterprise Alan Shalloway Standing up for Agile Practices in a Large Corporation ICBC
16:15 - 17:00   Releasing to Production Every Week Jeremy Glodstrom
17:00 - 18:00 Closing Ceremony