XP2009 conferentie

Van 25 tot en met 29 mei wordt de XP2009 conferentie georganiseerd, de jaarlijkse internationale agile conferentie (de tiende alweer). Deze keer wordt hij gehouden op Sardinië, Italië (bij het strand ;-).

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XP 2009 is the leading conference on Agile Methods for software development and industry management held annually in Europe. XP 2009 is the tenth consecutive conference with outstanding future ahead.

The conference offers a broad selection of experiences and interaction opportunities with leaders of the agile software development community.

Keynotes

• Mary Poppendieck "The Cultural Assumptions behind Agile Software Development"
• Ivar Jacobson "What they don't teach you about software at school: Be Smart!"
• Bjarte Bogsnes "A Journey Beyond Budgeting"

Tutorials

• Elements of an art - Agile Coaching (Erik Lundh)
• From User Story to User Interface (Jeff Patton)
• Promise is Debt - System Dynamics of Technical Debt (Willem van den Ende, Marc Evers)
• Framing Lean Software Development (Mary & Tom Poppendieck)
• Adventures in Retrospectives (Diana Larsen)
• Test-Driven Development with Mock Objects (Steve Freeman)
• Creating Proximity Over a Distance (Jutta Eckstein)
• Agile Analysis (Joke Vandemaele)
• Barely Sufficient Portfolio Management (Todd Little)
• Refactoring Strategies, Tactics & Tools (Joshua Kerievsky)
• Scaling Agility (Ivar Jacobson)
• Collaboration using the Agile Testing Quadrants (Janet Gregory)
• More about Beyond Budgeting - the full story (Bjarte Bogsnes)
• Kanban and the Zen of Lean Pull Systems (David Anderson)
• Working with CRRAP - Agility + Legacy (Mike Hill)

Workshops

• The Lego Lean Game (Danilo Sato and Francisco Trindade)
• Process Smells and Root Cause Analysis (Dave Nicolette)
• Coaching Agile in Large Organisations (Thomas Nilsson)
• What Does an Agile Coach Do? (Rachel Davies and James Pullicino)
• Mechanics of Good: Creating Well-Functioning Distributed Teams (Lars Arne Skår and Jan-Erik Sandberg)
• Test-Driven User Interfaces (Charlie Poole)
• The New New NEW! Product Development Game (Marc Evers and Willem van den Ende)
• Positioning Agility (Nilay Oza, Pekka Abrahamsson and Kieran Conboy)
• Product Owners Jamboree (Patrick Steyaert and Tom Tourwé)
• Climbing the Dreyfus Ladder of Agile Practices (Patrick Kua)
• Software "Best" Practices: Agile Deconstructed (Steve Fraser)
• Agile Product Line Engineering (Yaser Ghanam, Kendra Cooper, Pekka Abrahamsson and Frank Maurer)
• Test Driven Development: Performing Art (Emily Bache)
• Scrapheap Challenge (Lasse Koskela and Willem van den Ende)
• Business Value Game (Artem Marchenko and Vasco Duarte)
• Agile Research: A 10-Year Retrospective (Xiaofeng Wang, Minna Pikkarainen and Kieran Conboy)
• Continuous Integration (Thomas Sundberg)
• Executable Requirements in Practice (Pekka Klärck, Juha Rantanen and Janne Härkönen)
• Scrum Board Game (Wim van de Goor and Stefan van den Oord)
• Explaining the Obvious: How Do You Teach Agile? (Erik Lundh)
• Architecture-Centric Methods and Agile Approaches (Muhammad Ali Babar and Pekka Abrahamsson)
• Assessing the Effectiveness of Agile Methods (Massimiliano Di Penta, Sandro Morasca and Alberto Sillitti)
• Telling Your Stories: Why Stories Are Important for Your Team (Diana Larsen and Johanna Hunt)

The program also has an Open Space and 23 paper presentations on testing, standards and lessons-learned, research and education, customer communication and user involvement, teams and organizations.