Where to find useful stuff from the Agile conference?

gmelnik — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:31:55 GMT

Agile conference traditionally publishes proceedings (that’s where you find all research papers and experience reports).

Attendees also receive a CD or a memory stick with tutorial materials (decks, handouts, demos etc.).

Several main stage talks are available as webcasts.

What about workshops? A workshop is really an opportunity for attendees to learn more from each other as opposed to from a lecturer/facilitator/presenter. Thus, typically, there is not much material produced ahead of time, when the proceedings and conference cds are being assembled. However, a good wealth of knowledge has been captured in workshop summaries that we encouraged workshop facilitators to publish on the conference public wiki after the conference: http://agile2008toronto.pbwiki.com/Agile2008+Sessions

Take a look!

Agile2008 selected sessions online

gmelnik — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:26:00 GMT

You wish you could have made it to Agile2008 in Toronto 2 weeks ago? A small number of sessions is now available online.

18 sessions have been recorded, 3 of which are already made available:

− Natural Laws of Software Development - Deriving Agile Practices by Ron Jeffries, Chet Hendrickson

− "We suck less!" Isn't mediocrity great? by David Douglas, Robin Dymond

− New Car Development in Toyota by Kenji Hiranbe

Another 15 will be gradually published at http://www.infoq.com/agile2008/:

− Future Directions for Agile by David Anderson

− 10 ways to screw up with Scrum and XP by Henrik Kniberg

− Agile and Beyond - The power of aspirational teams! by Tim Mackinnon

− Agile in Practice: What is ACTUALLY Going On Out There by Scott Ambler

− Prioritizing Your Product Backlog by Mike Cohn

− Manager's Introduction to Test-Driven Development by Dave Nicolette, Karl Scotland

− When Working Software Is Not Enough: A Story of Project Failure by Mitch Lacey

− Extremely Short Iterations as a Catalyst for Effective Prioritization of Work by Mishkin Berteig

− Fostering Software Craftsmanship in a Corporate Setting by Scott Dillman

− Measuring Agile in the Enterprise: 5 Success Factors for Large-Scale Agile Adoption by Michael Mah

− Colossal, Scattered, and Chaotic (Planning with a Large Distributed Team by Wes Williams, Mike Stout

− Now that the team's head is in the game, how do you get their heart in? by Jim McCarthy

− Technical lessons learned turning the agile dials to eleven! by Craig Smith, Paul King

− Introduction to Lean Software Development by Alan Shalloway

− Fully Distributed Scrum: The Secret Sauce for Hyperproductive Outsourced Development Teams by Jeff Sutherland

In addition, Alan Cooper’s "The Wisdom of Experience" keynote is available as a slide deck with speaker’s notes at http://www.cooper.com/journal/agile2008/

Note, InfoQ also hosts videos of several excellent sessions from the previous Agile2007 conference, including:

− The Role of Leadership in Software Development by Mary Poppendieck

− Succeeding With Agile: A Guide To Transitioning by Mike Cohn

− Agile in the Waterfall Enterprise by Michele Sliger

− The Agile Enterprise: Real World Experience in Creating Agile Companies by Jeff Sutherland

All experience reports and research papers will be available online via IEEEExplore. Search for 'Agile' under 'Conference Proceedings'.

Grigori Melnik: Thoughts on Agile Software Engineering and Beyond : proceedings

Where to find useful stuff from the Agile conference?

Agile2008 selected sessions online