Conference Agenda

Conference Agenda

Tutorials – Monday, October 24th, 2011
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	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
09:00 - 12:00	Test Automation Strategy for the less Technical Gerard Meszaros	Extreme Lego Scrum Game: go beyond where you've ever been before with lego bricks Dave Sharrock	From Big Boss to Supportive Leader: a Guide for Managers of Self-Organizing Agile Teams Esther Derby
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch on your own
13:00 - 16:00	Agile Test Automation Janet Gregory	Influence and Authority Johanna Rothman	Seeing and Steering Systems: Three Pragmatic Tools for Managers Esther Derby

Conference Day 1 – Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

	Process Room 1	Technology Room 2	Team Room 3
08:00 - 09:00	Registration / Coffee and muffins
09:00 - 10:30	Introduction Keynote: Where Is Agile Going? Johanna Rothman
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Discovering Startling Things from Your Version Control System Michael Feathers	Keeping Software Soft Gerard Meszaros	If You Were in a Room with an Elephant Would You See It? Mike Edwards
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:00	Agile Failure: Don't Look for Silver Bullets! Esther Derby	SOA – A Receipe for the Agile Enterprise Hans Schoebach	Leading Agile Change: Walking the Walk Dave Sharrock
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00	Risky Business: An Outside-In Look at Agility and Risk Management Todd Little	Cloud Computing Rockets your Org towards True Agility Kris Read	Appraisals and Compensation: The Elephant in the Room Mary Poppendieck
17:00 - 17:15	Break
17:15	Reception

Conference Day 2 – Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

	Process Room 1	Technology Room 2	Team Room 3
08:00 - 09:00	Registration / Coffee and muffins
09:00 - 10:30	Keynote - The Power of an Agile Mindset Linda Rising
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Applying Agile to Legacy System Transformations Michelle D'Souza & Amit Uttam	Cultivating a DevOps Culture Owen Rogers	The Geek Factor Robert Reppel Feature, Component or Mixed Teams – What works in scaled Agile? Chad Holdorf
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:00	Agile Adoption – Failing Slow and other redemptive stories Steve Rogalsky	The Inflection Point -- how long can you safely avoiding Automated Testing? Scott Bellware	The Straight Jacket of Agile Iteration Michael Vax
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00	Agile Isn't Enough Jeremy Lightsmith	Pitfalls and Perils of Agile Testing (with intro on Testing Quadrants) Janet Gregory	I Need To Vent… Just a Little Bit! Fish Bowl Panel Discussion
17:00 - 17:15	Break
17:15	VAMUG AGM

Tutorials – Thursday, October 27th, 2011
*Tutorial Ticket Holders Only**

	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
09:00 - 12:00	Assessing and Managing Technical Debt in Large and Long-Lived Software Development Projects Philippe Kruchten	Value Stream Mapping Mary Poppendieck	Patterns for Improved Customer Interaction Linda Rising
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch on your own
13:00 - 16:00	Need to speed up? Then slow down! : A practical introduction to Kanban Mike Edwards	Relentless Improvement: Creating a Culture of Problem Solving Mary Poppendieck	Problem Solving and Decision Making in Software Development Linda Rising

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