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Do We Need an On-Site Customer? An Exploration of Customer Involvement

James Shore (Titanium I.T. LLC)

Tutorials · Customer
Monday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 4

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From User Story to User Interface

Jeff Patton (ThoughtWorks)

Tutorials · Customer

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Monday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance West B
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Innovation Games(R) for Customer Understanding

Luke Hohmann (Enthiosys, Inc.)

Tutorials · Customer
Monday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance West A

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Introduction to Acceptance Test Driven Development

Naresh Jain (ThoughtWorks), Micah Martin (8th Light, Inc.)

Tutorials · Testing

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Monday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom South
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Product Owners: From Idea to Implementation

Robin Dymond (Innovel, LLC.), Mark Pushinsky (Capital One Financial)

Tutorials · Customer

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Monday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 8
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The Shout Kata: Programming a Client-Server infrastructure in full TDD

Emmanuel Gaillot (Octo Technology)

Tutorials · Developing
Monday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 5

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Demonstrating Responsibility: The Mindset of An Agile Leader

Christopher Avery (Partnerwerks Inc.)

Tutorials · Leadership
Monday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium

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Writing and Testing JavaScript-heavy Web 2.0 apps with JSUnit

Alex Chaffee (Pivotal Labs), Edward Hieatt (Pivotal Labs)

Tutorials · Testing
Monday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 4

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Agile and Entreprenuerial Thinking Patterns

Dan Mezick (NEW TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INC), Brian Mezick (newtechusa.com)

Tutorials · Leadership

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Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium
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Agile Developer Practices for Dynamic Languages

Paul King (ASERT), Rhys Keepence (ASERT)

Tutorials · Developing

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Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 8
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Stimulating Success: Agile Managers as Facilitators

Diana Larsen (FutureWorks Consulting, LLC)

Tutorials · Leadership

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Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Renaissance West A
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Test-first Practices in Regulated, Safety-critical Environments, an Agile Approach

Ron Morsicato (Agile Rules), Brian Shoemaker (ShoeBar Associates)

Tutorials · Other

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Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 19
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Agile for New Managers

Kay Johansen (Bits and Connections, LLC), Jeremy Brown (Novell, Inc.)

Tutorials · Leadership
Tuesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 4

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Customer Communication Boot Camp: What the Customer is Thinking, But Not Saying

Alexia Bowers (Ternary Software, Inc.), Brian J Robertson (Ternary Software, Inc.), Wade Lee (Ternary Software, Inc)

Tutorials · Customer

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Tuesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 5
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Effective User Stories for Agile Requirements

Mike Cohn (Mountain Goat Software)

Tutorials · Customer

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Tuesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom South
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Patterns of Microtesting for CRRAP

Michael Hill (Industrial Logic, Inc.)

Tutorials · Developing
Tuesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 8

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Programmers are from Mars, Customers are from Venus: A Practical Guide to Working With Customers on Agile Projects

Angela Martin (Martin IT Consulting Limited), Robert Biddle (Carleton University), James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington)

Tutorials · Customer
Tuesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance East

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Scripting Web Tests with Watir

Bret Pettichord (Dovetail Software), Charley Baker (Gap Inc Direct), Steven List (Dovetail Software)

Tutorials · Testing
Tuesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 19

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The Crystal Methods, or How to Make a Methodology Fit

Alistair Cockburn

Tutorials · Process

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Tuesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 12
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Web Application Testing In Java

Jake Dempsey (Sabre Travel Studios), Brian Knorr (Co-Creator)

Tutorials · Testing

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Tuesday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Renaissance West A
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Agile Analysis

Dan Rawsthorne (Danube Technologies)

Tutorials · Customer

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Wednesday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance West B
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Clean Code 1: Cleaning up a mess.

Robert C. Martin (Object Mentor Inc.)

Tutorials · Developing
Wednesday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium

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Dealing with the Immortal Code Base: More Strategies For Legacy Code

Michael Feathers (Object Mentor)

Tutorials · Developing
Wednesday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 5

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Executable project documents: Using essential examples to help bridge the gap between business and software perspectives

Rick Mugridge (Rimu Research), David Hussman (DevJam)

Tutorials · Customer

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Wednesday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 12
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Presenter First: TDD for Large, Complex GUIs

Scott Miller (Atomic Object), Bill Bereza (Atomic Object)

Tutorials · Developing

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Wednesday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 2
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The Gentle Art of Pair Programming

Oksana Udovitska (Oxygen), Wendy Friedlander (Oxygen Media)

Tutorials · Developing

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Wednesday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3
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Clean Code 2: Craftsmanship and Professionalism

Robert C. Martin (Object Mentor Inc.)

Tutorials · Developing
Wednesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium

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Escaping Legacy: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Eric Evans (Domain Language, Inc.)

Tutorials · Other
Wednesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Renaissance East

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Planning Is Good For You - Really! (Backlogs & Burn-downs for Project Planning)

Kelly Weyrauch (Medtronic, Inc.)

Tutorials · Customer, Planning

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Wednesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 10
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Agile Principles as a Leadership Value System: How Agile Memes Survive and Thrive in a Corporate IT Culture

Steve Baker (DTE Energy), Joseph Thomas (DTE Energy)

Tutorials · Leadership

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Wednesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom South
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Enterprise Agile at Yahoo!

Gabrielle Benefield

Tutorials · Leadership
Wednesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom South

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Full-stack webapp testing with Selenium and Rails

Alex Chaffee (Pivotal Labs), Brian Takita (Pivotal Labs)

Tutorials · Testing
Wednesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium

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LS3: Agile Leadership Clinic

Diana Larsen (FutureWorks Consulting, LLC)

Tutorials · Leadership
Wednesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 2

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Open Source Testing Tools to support Agile Development/Testing

Paul King (ASERT)

Tutorials · Testing

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Wednesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance West B
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Requirements-Driven Workshops for Agile Projects: Essentials for Product, Release and Iteration Planning

Ellen Gottesdiener (EBG Consulting, Inc.)

Tutorials · Customer, Planning
Wednesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 8

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Skills for the Agile Designer

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock (Wirfs-Brock Associates)

Tutorials · Other

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Wednesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 4
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Techniques for Understanding the Agile Customer

Hugh R. Beyer (InContext)

Tutorials · Customer

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Wednesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance East
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Test Team Integration in Large-Scale Scrum Implementations

Shaun Bradshaw (Questcon Technologies)

Tutorials · Leadership

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Wednesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom South
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Are we missing the point? User-Centered Design for Agile projects

Gabrielle Benefield, Michael Holzer (Co-presenter)

Tutorials · Customer
Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 10

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CI for the Web 2.0 Guy (or Gal)

Chad Woolley (Pivotal Labs)

Tutorials · Developing

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Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance West B
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Cynefin - Making Sense of Agile

Joseph Pelrine (MetaProg GmbH)

Tutorials · Organizational Change
Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 2

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Incremental Releases Users & Stakeholders Will Love

Jeff Patton (ThoughtWorks)

Tutorials · Customer, Planning
Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 4

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Introducing agile practices (or any new idea) to your team or organization

Linda Rising (Linda Rising LLC), Mary Lynn Manns (University of North Carolina at Asheville)

Tutorials · Innovation

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Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom South
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Storytelling Skills for Agile Teams

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock (Wirfs-Brock Associates), Rachel Davies (Agile Experience Limited)

Tutorials · Individuals & Teams
Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance East

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The Facts of Work: Living with Power and Politics

Bob Schatz (Agile Infusion, LLC)

Tutorials · Customer

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Thursday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 12
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To Catch a Bug, Think Like a Bug

Bob Evans (Agitar Software)

Tutorials · Developing
Thursday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium

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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Team Great!

Diana Larsen (FutureWorks Consulting, LLC), Esther Derby (Esther Derby Associates, Inc.)

Tutorials · Retrospectives

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Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance West B
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Introduction to Scrum

Dan Rawsthorne (Danube Technologies)

Tutorials · Customer, Developing, Individuals & Teams

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Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 10
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Lean Is More - Using Lean Software Development to Guide Agile Transitions

Paul Hodgetts (Agile Logic)

Tutorials · Process Improvement
Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance West A

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Refactoring Databases : Evolutionary Database Design

Scott Ambler (IBM), Pramod Sadalage (Thoughtworks)

Tutorials · Developing

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Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom South
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UAT and Beyond... Getting the Most From Your "Customer Team"

Lisa Crispin (ePlan Services Inc.), Janet Gregory (DragonFire Inc.)

Tutorials · Customer, Testing

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Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 4
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XUnit Test Patterns and Smells; Improving Test Code and Testability Through Refactoring

Gerard Meszaros (ClearStream Consulting), Geoff Hardy (ClearStream)

Tutorials · Testing

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Thursday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance East
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Agile Enterprise Rollout--The Greening of the Software Industry

Jean Tabaka (Rally Software), Ryan Martens (Rally Software)

Tutorials · Enterprise Agile

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Thursday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium
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Agile Development for Enterprise Software: Anecdotes of Adoption

Jamie Dinkelacker (Google Inc.)

Tutorials · Enterprise Agile

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Friday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom South
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Domain-Driven Design: Strategy

Eric Evans (Domain Language, Inc.)

Tutorials · Developing
Friday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance East

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Groovy: a language for Agile Development and Testing

Paul King (ASERT)

Tutorials · Developing

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Friday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 12
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Hiring For An Agile Team: Detecting Candidates Who Will Fit With the Team

Johanna Rothman

Tutorials · Leadership

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Friday, 08:30, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 10
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Running Tested Features - By Example

Kirk Knoernschild (TeamSoft, Inc.)

Tutorials · Testing
Friday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Renaissance West B

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Story Test Driven Development in Narrative Testing Tools

Michael Phoenix (SolutionsIQ), Paul Dupuy, Jr. (SolutionsIQ), Rand Huso (SolutionsIQ)

Tutorials · Testing
Friday, 08:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 19

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Agile is more than "Monkey see, Monkey do"

Brian Button (Asynchrony Solutions, Inc.), Peter Provost (Microsoft Corporation)

Tutorials · Leadership

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Friday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Renaissance West B
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Creating Data-Driven Tests with SpringUnit

Ted Velkoff (Integrity One Partners, Inc.)

Tutorials · Testing

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Friday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 19
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Functional Tests As Effective Requirement Specifications

Jennitta Andrea (The Andrea Group)

Tutorials · Testing

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Friday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium
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Scaling Testing in Scrum

Bob Galen (RGCG, LLC)

Tutorials · Developing

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Friday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom South
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XP 2000-2007: My Greatest Misses

J. B. Rainsberger (Independent Consultant)

Tutorials · Leadership

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