Agile Cambridge 2012

Agile Cambridge 2012 has now finished. Agile Cambridge 2013 will run from September 25 - 27 2013 at Churchill College, Cambridge. Save the dates!

The conference programme contained 30 sessions from leading practitioners.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 27th / 28th September

See the daily conference programmes: Thursday 27th September | Friday 28th September

Thursday 27th September

08:00 - 09:00 Conference Registration. Tea / Coffee
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome to Agile Cambridge 2012
Mark Dalgarno (Software Acumen)
09:15 - 10:30 Keynote: Dave Snowden (Cognitive Edge)
10:30 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Tutorial:
Choosing the Right Agile Innovation Practices

Roman Pichler
(Pichler Consulting)

Case Study:
Rapid product design in the wild

Michele Ide-Smith
(Red Gate Software)
James Murtagh
(Red Gate Software)
Experience Report:
Building High Performance Agile Teams

Naveed Khawaja
(Morphilibrium)
Carl Bruiners
(Lloyds TSB)
Workshop:
Retrospective Dialogue Sheets

Allan Kelly
(Software Strategy)
Hands-On:
What's that smell? - Refactor away that nasty odour

Willem van den Ende
(QWAN - Quality Without a Name)
Marc Evers
(QWAN - Quality Without a Name)
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 14:45 Case Study:
BBC iPlayer for Xbox 360 - A Project Management War Story

Alex Johnston
(BBC)
Tutorial:
UX and Agile: How to do both and not lose your mind

Darci Dutcher
(IG Group)
Experience Report:
Powering Up Agile Analysis at GE Digital Energy

Cei Sanderson
(GE Energy)
Claire Masters
(GE Energy)
Experience Report:
Agile and the real world: A company 4 years into scrum.

Daniel Rothig
(Red Gate Software)
14:45 - 15:15 Tea / Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:45 Experience Report:
Achieving Maintenance Stabilisation with Agile, Kanban and Lean Thinking

Zsolt Fabok
(-)

Experience Report:
Scrum: Physical or virtual walls?

Paula de Matos
(European Bioinformatics Institute)
Workshop:
Questions not Stories: Build a business-value oriented team

Adrian Howard
(Quietstars)
Workshop:
Routes into agile coaching

Duncan Smith
(-)
Case Study:
Atlassian's growing pains when transitioning to continuous deployment

John Stevenson
(Heroku & Salesforce)

Experience Report:
Agile Transformations: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Wanda Marginean
(Rally Software)
17:00 - 18:00 Lightning talks & Birds of a Feather Sessions
18:30 onwards Conference Social Activities


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Friday 28th September

08:30 - 09:00 Conference Registration. Tea / Coffee
09:00 - 10:15 Keynote: Embracing Uncertainty
Dan North
10:15 - 10:45 Tea / Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15 Experience Report:
Introducing the Role of Developer in test and how it aids our Agile testing

David Hart
(IBM)

Experience Report:
Testing the way to faster releases

Amy Phillips
(Songkick.com)
Tutorial:
The Walking Skeleton

Paul Grenyer
(Naked Element)
Workshop:
Improve Your Coaching Skills

Rachel Davies
(Unruly Media)
John McFadyen
(JIME)
Hands-On:
Real-Time Collaboration Workshop

Jason Ayers
(Cincom Systems)
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:45 Experience Report:
DevOps, NoOps, UnrulyOps

Matthew Cooke
(Unruly Media)

Experience Report:
Management of Agile projects - are Project Managers redundant?

Anthony Willoughby
(KIT Digital)
Tutorial:
Executable Specifications, or how can speculation be avoided?

Thomas Sundberg
(Waymark AB)

Tutorial:
How to Narrow Down What to Test

Zsolt Fabok
(-)
Workshop:
Cracking Your Big Rocks - Large Problems Don't Talk Back

Simon Cromarty
(Red Gate Software)
Johanna Hunt
(Amido)
Continued

Hands-On:
Real-Time Collaboration Workshop

Jason Ayers
(Cincom Systems)
14:45 - 15:15 Tea / Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:15 Experience Report:
Continuous Delivery in the Cloud

Robert Chatley
(Develogical)
Tutorial:
Pleasing Customers: Some Considerations

Giovanni Asproni
(Asprotunity Limited)
Workshop:
Yes, retrospectives can be exciting, fun and successful!

Bhuwan Lodha
(McKinsey & Co)
Kanchan Khera
(McKinsey & Co)
Experience Report:
Making cross-shore, time-zone-spanning teams work

Ed Sykes
(1e Ltd)
16:25 - 16:30 Agile Cambridge 2012 Close Down
Mark Dalgarno (Software Acumen)


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CONTACT THE ORGANISERS

Agile Cambridge is organised by Software Acumen, based in Cambridge, England. We specialize in practical events for the software community.

Please email to contact us directly. We welcome your questions and comments.

You may also call +44 (0)1223 900107 if you have questions or comments about the event.