Agile Open Northwest 2012 Session Notes
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Tuesday, February 7
Session T-1 - 10:00am
- One Year, One Team, Twenty Projects
- Removing Financial Impediments to Agile
- What is Greatness
- Accelerated Team Learning and Language Hunting
- The Agile Murder Book
Session T-2 - 11:10am
- The Ugly Truth About Paired Programming
- Post-Agile: Four Disciplines for One Goal - Discovery by Design
- Iron Chef Product Owner!
- Scaling Scrum With Three Lean Principles
- A Conversation About Cognitive Bias
- Agile in the QA Department
- Biz Value Estimation Game
- Test Tools and Automation
Session T-3 - 1:00pm
- I Wish We Hadn't Thrown Out the Baby with the Bath Water
- Agile Chartering Model and Method
- Roadmap to Continuous Delivery
- How the Lean Startup Changes Your Company
- CEO Pitch: Learning from VC
- Feel the Pain
- Leadership in an Agile Context
- Understanding Scrum Through Purpose Not Just Practices
Session T-4 - 2:10pm
- Eliminating QA Bottleneck in WIP-Limited Kanban Flow
- Self-Organization Revisited
- How Do You Recruit Agile Employees
- TDD for the Lapsed
- Building Trust Between Product Management and Engineering/Dev
- Tracking Architecture Work Before True User Stories
Session T-5 - 3:50pm
- Whole-Team Testing
- "Moneyball" Applied Behavioral Economics
- When Should We Decide?
- Functional Code
- Personal Kanban and You
Night Owl Session T-6 - 7:00pm
- Werewolf Game
- Story Games
- Teaching Theory and Techniques
Night Owl Session T-7 - 8:10pm
Wednesday, February 8
Early Bird Session W-8 - 8:00am
- Dependencies
- Scrum Outside of Software
- Velocity Smellocity
- Language Hunt 2: Last Chance!
- Units vs Hours
- Where Are We?
Session W-9 - 9:30am
- Letting Go of Conflict
- Agile Coaching Circles in Seattle
- Going from Scrum to Kanban
- Agile Strategy Mapping
- Technical Practices: What's In It For Me?
- Happiness Engineering: Business Value and Virtue
- Principles for Self-Organizing Teams
- Job Hunting
- ProtoTyping
- The Impediments Game
- Is Unit Testing Still Relevant?
Session W-10 - 11:00am
- Distributed Teams
- Steve Blank vs Steve Jobs: Measurement or Vision?
- Coaching Smells
- Minimum Viable Hypothesis
- Estimation Up Front
- Women and Agile
- Sailing Crews as an Analogy for Agile Team Processes and Teams
- The Dot Game
- Oooh, Shiny! Integrating New Tech into Agile Projects
Session W-11 - 12:30pm
- Performance Reviews and Salary Adjustments
- Agile Overkill - Where is the Line?
- Jane! Stop This Crazy Thing
- Frameworks for Multi-Browser Testing
- Physical Agile Spaces
- Your Experience Working With Teams Based in India
- Estimating in 1/4 the Time Than Planning Poker
Session W-12 - 2:00pm
- Agile Team Without Dedicated ScrumMaster
- PMI-ACP: Why Another Certification?
- User Stories and Beyond
- Principles Over Process
- Agile Wins
- Unit Testing Microsoft Technologies
- Agile and Fluent Proficiency
- Continuous Testing in Theory and Practice
