Conference Agenda

Check out the tutorial descriptions for November 1st and November 4th, the session descriptions for Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference, and the speaker bios. Registersoon before the conference is sold out.

Day 1 Tutorials – Monday, November 1st, 2010

08:00 - 09:00 Registration
Full Day 09:00 - 16:00 Making Geographically Distributed Projects Work Johanna Rothman
Half Day AM 09:00 - 12:00 Design Sense: Cultivating Deep Software Design Skills Michael Feathers
Half Day PM 13:00 - 16:00 XUnit Test Patterns and Smells: Improving Test Code Through Refactoring Gerard Meszaros

Day 2 Sessions – Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

  Process Technology Team
08:00 - 09:00 Registration / Coffee and muffins
09:00 - 10:30 Introduction Keynote — Agility: Fundamental Secrets of the Universe Chet Richards
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Portfolio Management with Agile EVM Chris Sterling Exploratory Testing Mobile Apps Jonathan Kohl From Big Boss to Steward Leader: Becoming an Agile Manager Esther Derby
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 From Concept to Backlog - What Happens Before Iteration Zero? Gerard Meszaros NoSQL for fun, profit and beer Eric Ridgeway Creating an Adaptable Life Johanna Rothman
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00 Implementing Agile within a Regulated Medical Device Company Christine Callaghan, Abhishek Swami Introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming - 200 level Donald Belcham Coffee, Tea, or Agile? Linda Rising
Embedded PMI — Improve Your Team‘s Project Quotient Barbara Hubert
17:00 - 17:15 Break
17:15 Reception

Day 3 Sessions – Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

  Process Technology Team
08:00 - 09:00 Registration / Coffee and muffins
09:00 - 10:30 Continuous Delivery Chris Turner, Thoughtworks Open Space Adam Dymitruk, Robert Reppel, Chris Nicola How to Develop Your Innate Leadership Gift Daily: An Agile Approach to Growth Christopher Avery
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Sufficient Design Josh Kerievsky Picking Your Poison: Integrating the OO and Functional Styles in Design Michael Feathers Deploying is just the beginning... Owen Rogers
Managing Urgent Requests: When does "embrace change" become churn? Heather Regehr
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Uncomfortable Truths about User Stories Jeff Patton Fixture-free Automated Acceptance Tests Mike Stockdale Learning is Key to Agile Success: Building a Learning Culture on your Agile Team Declan Whelan
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00 Applying Project Management to enable Agile projects (aka. "Do guns kill people?") Mike Edwards Fixed-Price Agile Contracts Dan Rawsthorne Open Retrospective on "Project: Much Ado About Agile 2010" Linda Rising
17:00 - 17:15 VAMUG AGM

Day 4 Tutorials – Thursday, November 4th, 2010

08:00 - 09:00 Registration
Full Day 09:00 - 16:00 Always Shippable Josh Kerievsky
Full Day 09:00 - 16:00 Leading and Coaching Success: Getting People to Take Responsibility & Demonstrate Ownership Christopher Avery
Full Day 09:00 - 16:00 Product Discovery with User Story Mapping Jeff Patton
Half Day AM 09:00 - 12:00 Domain Patterns Big and Small: Achieving a Rich Model at All Levels of Design Stefan Moser, Adam Dymitruk