AgileSeminarSpring05

This new event is run by the AgileAlliance AgileSeminars program. The event is being sponsored by eXtremeTuesdayClub with drinks afterwards at TheOldBankOfEngland pub.

Date: 5th April 2005

Time: 16:30-18:30

Place: Kings College (Waterloo Campus), London WC2R in Franklin-Wilkins building lecture theatre 1.1

Registration: http://www.agileallianceeurope.org/uk_home/agileseminar/document_view

Who should attend and why?

Software delivery professionals involved in the development of and delivery of business critical systems, who are interested in learning more about Agile methods and how they can support rapidly changing business needs. We would encourage business people with responsibility for initiating software development projects to attend and learn more about extracting business value using Agile software development.

Timetable

16:30-17:15 An Introduction to Agile Software Development Presenter: KarlScotland

There are many different agile software development methodologies. This can be confusing for people who are new to Agile who do not know where to start. However, all the methodologies are based on the same values and principles, and many share the same practices. Therefore, an introduction to the commonalities of Agile methodologies, with pointers to how they are applied in specific examples, can be useful.

Karl has worked on domains ranging from multimedia to neural network to interactive TV, and has experienced both a complete lack of process, and an overly rigorous one. When he first discovered XP, and was given the opportunity to use it, he embraced it enthusiastically, and has never looked back. Since then he has also applied ideas from all the other main methodologies. Karl is currently Production Manager with a team of 15 developers, responsible of ensuring smooth delivery of a portfolio of projects across the organisation. Until recently, he was a Team Leader with BBC Interactive, with a team that developed software which delivered 78 services in 12 months, a feat which could not have been achieved without Agile tools and techniques.

17:15-17:30 Coffee Break

17:30-18:30 Talk: Distributed Agile Development Presenter: KeithBraithwaite WDS Global have had three teams running an international agile project for six months in Seattle, Poole and Singapore. Every working day, they use internet video to run distributed stand-ups to hand over between the teams in different time zones. The presenters will present the background to their project and describe their experience of distributed agile development, including some retrospective data and video clips from the stand-ups. They will then open the session for discussion.

Keith Braithwaite began his programming career writing compilers, moved on to wireless network planning, distributed systems for finance houses, and then the "e-commerce" boom. After the bubble burst he worked on applications and OS extensions for mobile phones, and is now working at WDS Global on the server side of mobile device management. He learned about XP from the c2 wiki, and was one of the earliest adopters of XP in the UK. He has helped organisations throughout the UK learn about and gain the benefits of XP, and is a frequent speaker on XP, agile methods and object-orientation.

18:45 Drinks at The Old Bank of England, 194, Fleet St, London, EC4A 2LT