Agile Alliance Agile 2007 Marriott Renaissance

Washington D.C.

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Tuesday, August 14

Reaching New Heights: Learning to Adapt is Essential

Susan Ershler

Keynote · Other
Tuesday, 08:15, 1 hour 45 minutes | Auditorium

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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 and the Frightened Customer

Brian Button (Asynchrony Solutions, Inc.)

Experience Reports · Customer

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Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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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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Agile Tooling - A Point, Counter-Point Discussion

Ryan Martens (Rally Software), Ronald Jeffries

Vendor Talks · Other
Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour | Meeting Room 3

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Enterprise Agile Transitional Leadership

Pete Behrens (Trail Ridge Consulting), Steve Greene (Salesforce.com), Von Rhea (Corporate Express), Sue Holstad (JDA Software)

Discovery Sessions · Leadership

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Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Renaissance East
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ES1: Achieving Cooperation in Agile Software Development Environments by Binding the Individual and the Team Interests

Orit Hazzan (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), Yael Dubinsky (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Educators Symposium · Individuals & Teams
Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 2

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Greater successes by using Agile Techniques closer to the light bulb moment

Alan De Ste Croix, Alan Armitage (BT), Peter Wisniewski (BT)

Experience Reports · Customer

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Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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How to Assess Your Agile Readiness...Now!

Ahmed Sidky (Tangible Software), Lan Tran (Tangible Software)

Discovery Sessions · Leadership

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Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Renaissance West B
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Introduction to the Agile 2007 Conference

Jeff Nielsen (Command Information), Bob Payne (Electroglide)

Beginners Program · Other
Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall A

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Is Agile agile? Is it time we ate our own dog food?

Kent McDonald (Knowledge Bridge Partners), Chris Matts (Independent), Olav Maassen (QNH)

Discovery Sessions · Leadership
Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 12

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Legacy Agile, Applying Agile Practices in a Legacy Environment

Ron Hulen (Digital Focus), Dave McMunn (colleague), Andria Barber (CSX)

Discovery Sessions · Leadership
Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 18

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Measuring the Effect of Test-Driven Development

Keith Braithwaite (Zuhlke)

Discovery Sessions · Developing, Testing

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Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 5
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Scrum at a Fortune 500 Manufacturing Company

Richard Moore (3M Company), Richard Moore (3M Company), Kelly Reff (3M Company), Brian Hackerson (3M Company), Jim Graham (3M Company)

Experience Reports · Customer, Leadership

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Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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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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TDD for Managers

Dave Nicolette (Valtech Technologies, Inc.), Karl Scotland

Hands On · Management
Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 16

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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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The Power of Improvisation on Agile Teams

Jim York (FoxHedge Ltd), Tobias Mayer (Agile Thinking)

Hands On · Individuals & Teams
Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 15

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VT1

Alan Ridlehoover (Valtech)

Sessions · Other
Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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Weaving Domain-Specific Language Support into your Automated Testing Tool

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

Discovery Sessions · Testing
Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 10

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XR03: Building Trust with Collaboration

Mike Hill (Mandu Ltd)

Sessions · Customer
Tuesday, 10:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B

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Agile Practices in a Distributed Environment

Michael Vax (Agile Alliance, Agile Vancouver)

Vendor Talks · Offshoring

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Tuesday, 11:30, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3
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"Enabling Agile in a Large Organization"- Our Journey Down the Yellow Brick Road

Thomas Seffernick (KeyCorp)

Experience Reports · Leadership

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Tuesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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A Personal Chat with Susan Ershler

Susan Ershler

Discovery Sessions · Other
Tuesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Renaissance West A

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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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Agile Manifesto Panel

David Hussman (DevJam)

Beginners Program · Other
Tuesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall A

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Agile Planning in Action

James Shore (Titanium I.T. LLC)

Beginners Program · Customer, Planning
Tuesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium

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Agile Program Management: Lessons Learned from the VeriSign Managed Security Services Team

Luke Hohmann (Enthiosys, Inc.), Peter Hodgkins (VeriSign, Inc.), Luke Hohmann (Enthiosys, Inc.)

Experience Reports · Leadership

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Tuesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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Becoming Agile with Service Learning in the Software Engineering Course

Brian Hanks (Fort Lewis College)

Educators Symposium · Learning

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Tuesday, 14:00, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 2
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Business Value: What is it and what do we do about it?

Joe Little (Kitty Hawk Consulting)

Discovery Sessions · Customer

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Tuesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 18
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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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ES2

Gary Pollice (WPI)

Sessions · Other
Tuesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 2

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Establishing the Agile PMO; Managing Variability across Projects and Portfolios

Ash Tengshe (Capital One Auto Finance), Scott Noble

Experience Reports · Leadership

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Tuesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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Experiences In Using Automated Tests and Test Driven Development in Computer Science 1

Carol A. Wellington (Shippensburg Universiy)

Educators Symposium · Testing

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Tuesday, 14:00, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 2
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Lean and Agile In the Large - Principles, Practices and Experiences for Large Scale Software Development

Dave Thomas (Bedarra and Object Mentor)

Talking Heads · Leadership
Tuesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom North

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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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The One-Size-Fits-One Simulation

Tyler Jennings (Obtiva Corp.), Dave Hoover (Obtiva Corp)

Hands On · Process Improvement
Tuesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 10

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The Value of Agile in Experiential Learning of Software Development

Kelvin R. Boechler (SIAST, Kelsey Campus), Dr. Cyril Coupal (University of Saskatchewan)

Educators Symposium · Learning

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Tuesday, 14:00, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 2
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Value Stream Mapping in a Software Development Organization

Hubert Smits (Rally), Evan Campbell (Rally Software)

Hands On · Process Improvement
Tuesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Meeting Room 15

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VT2

Alan Ridlehoover (Valtech)

Sessions · Other
Tuesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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XR04: Agile PMO

Naresh Jain (ThoughtWorks)

Sessions · Other
Tuesday, 14:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B

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Your Enterprise Systems Hinder Business Agility – So What?

Werner Wild (EVOLUTION Consulting), Barbara Weber (University of Innsbruck), Tom Poppendieck, Willem

Discovery Sessions · Customer, Leadership
Tuesday, 14:00, 3 hours 30 minutes | Renaissance West B

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Absolute AgileSM - Applying the Synergy of Lean and Agile to Enterprise Transitions

Paul Hodgetts (Agile Logic), Justin Yaros (Kelley Blue Book)

Vendor Talks · Enterprise Agile
Tuesday, 14:30, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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Empowering Agile Transformation

Al Goerner (Valtech)

Vendor Talks · Process Improvement
Tuesday, 15:00, 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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Developing a Safety-critical System

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

Hands On · Developing
Tuesday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 3

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Agile adoption at Google: Potential and challenges of a true bottom-up organization

Mark Striebeck

Talking Heads · Leadership

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Tuesday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom North
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Agile Project Management for Contributors and Management

Jim Highsmith (Cutter Consortium)

Beginners Program · Leadership, Management

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Tuesday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Auditorium
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Common Areas At The Heart

George Dinwiddie (iDIA Computing, LLC)

Experience Reports · Other

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Tuesday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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Death of the Cubicle; the Open Office Experiment

Matthew Plante (Medtronic, Inc.)

Experience Reports · Other

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Tuesday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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ES3: Establishing a Common Agile Repository

Brian Hanks (Fort Lewis College)

Educators Symposium · Other
Tuesday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 2

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Introduction to Agile Methods & Knowledge Sharing

Frank Maurer

Beginners Program · Process

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Tuesday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall A
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On Rabbits, Space and Cards: Moving Towards an Informative Workspace

Johanna Hunt (University of Sussex), Tom Hume (Future Platforms), Devi Lozdan (Future Platforms)

Experience Reports · Other

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Tuesday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B
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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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XR05: Open Workspaces

Rachel Davies (Agile Experience Limited)

Sessions · Other
Tuesday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Congressional Hall B

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Agile Alliance Members Meeting

Brian Marick

Discovery Sessions · Other
Tuesday, 18:30, 1 hour 30 minutes | Grand Ballroom South

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