Keynote speaker

Gabrielle Benefield

Scrum Training Institute

Gabrielle Benefield was Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo!, co-leading the company’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which now encompasses more than 200 teams projects and over 1,500 employees in the US, Europe, and India. Benefield holds a Masters of Digital Design from the University of Western Sydney, Australia and has over 16 years building enterprise software and web products at global companies. Benefield is a regular conference speaker, presenting papers and talks on Enterprise Agile and Agile User Experience and Design. She is co-author with Pete Deemer of The Scrum Primer.

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Pirkka Palomäki

F-Secure

Deploying Agile Company-wide: The Journey of F-Secure's Agile Transformation

Abstract

For more than four years F-Secure has been successfully adopting Agile Software Development. In this talk we will walk-through some of the key moments of that transition and will explain what options we took and why we chose that adoption path.

Bio

Pirkka Palomäki is Chief Technology Officer for F-Secure Corporation headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

He joined F-Secure in 1997 and has previously held positions in Product Management, Marketing and Research Development. Prior to joining F-Secure, Mr. Palomäki has worked at Telecom Finland (currently TeliaSonera) in the field of marketing, business development and development management for data communication services. He holds a Master of Science degree in International Marketing and Business Strategy from the Helsinki University of Technology.

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Henrik Kniberg

Crisp.se

Scrum is easy to learn, the challenge is usually how to get started

Abstract

Although Scrum is quite easy to learn, the challenge is usually how to get started. The first few steps are the most important. In this session I will present some patterns and tricks for helping mid-sized companies get started with Scrum - these fairly concrete techniques have evolved over several years of helping companies become more agile. Most of the techniques are not new, but I will illustrate them in the context of agile transitioning.

I will show examples of:

• Step-by-step transitioning
• Value stream mapping
• Root cause analysis
• Creating teams and figuring out who goes in which team
• Multi-team sprint planning (if time permits)

Bio

Henrik Kniberg is an agile coach at Crisp in Stockholm. He enjoys helping companies succeed with both the technical and human sides of software development.

During the past decade Henrik has been CTO of 3 Swedish IT companies and helped many more get started with Agile and Lean software development. As Certified Scrum Trainer Henrik does regular coaching and training together with Jeff Sutherland.

Henrik's book Scrum and XP from the Trenches has over 100,000 readers and is one of the most popular books on the topic. During the past year Henrik has won "best speaker" awards on two international conferences.

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Bas Vodde

Odd-e

A journey through product development literature

Abstract

There is a huge amount of literature about product development, team development, agile development and lean. Most of the messages are similar and have been so for the last many years. In this presentation, Bas will go through a quotes, which he found interesting, in a wide variety of books and articles and reflect on them. He'll explain why he found it interesting, how it relates concretely to agile development and daily life practices.

Bio

Bas is originally from Holland, however has lived in China, Finland, China again and is currently living in Singapore. In 2005 he moved to Helsinki, Finland to introduce Agile Development and in particular Scrum, in Nokia Networks. He is the owner of a small consulting company based in Singapore called Odd-e. This company is specialized in training and coaching related to agile and lean development. His main interests are in Scrum and especially how to use it within large companies and large projects. He also focuses much on the technical practices, especially test-driven development (including refactoring) and continuous integration because he strongly believes you need a well-factored code base if you want to be fast and flexible.

He is the author of an upcoming book called "Large Agile and Lean Product Development", written together with Craig Larman.

Bjarte Bogsnes

Statoil Hydro

A journey beyond budgeting - "Because the future ain't what it used to be"

Abstract

The oil and gas company StatoilHydro is Scandinavias largest company. An increasingly dynamic and unpredictable business environment has triggered a fundamental rethinking around the real drivers of good performance. The company decided to abolish traditional budgeting in 2005. Budgets were seen as a time-wasting barrier for performance, and are now replaced with a fundamentally different leadership approach and management process. The Beyond Budgeting concept has many similarities with the Lean and Agile principles.

The presentation will cover

• The case for change- what's wrong with budgets?
• The new leadership model - more than a change in finance processes
• The implementation journey - getting approval and overcoming resistance
• The partnership with HR - essential for success

Bio

Bjarte Bogsnes has a long international career in the oil business, both in Finance and HR. As Group Controller for the petrochemicals company Borealis he abolished budgeting in this company ten years ago. Bjarte has been advocating the "Beyond Budgeting" principles since then. He is currently heading up StatoilHydro's Beyond Budgeting project.. StatoilHydro is Scandinavia's largest company, with operations in 40 countries and a turnover of 100 bn USD.

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Pascal van Cauwenberghe

Business value game

Abstract

Objectives: learn how to assign business value to projects and stories, prioritize and make plans that bring value. Learn how to teach this.

Contents:

Agile teams want to deliver maximum business value. That's easy if the Onsite Customer assigns business value to each story. But how does the Customer do that? How can you estimate business value?

How do you decide between stories? How do you decide between projects? How do you decide between clients?

This session gives you some simple business value estimation techniques that are "good enough" for everyday use.

The session is run as a game, where teams of 'businesspeople' have to make plans for their development team. The goal of the game is to earn as much money as possible by delivering features and stories with the highest possible business value, like in the XP Game. This game is a complement to the XP Game: how do these 'business value points" on the XP Game story cards get chosen?

Each businessperson in the team represents one (or more) clients who will buy the team's product IF their feature(s) is in the product. The team is going to have to make some tough decisions; the team is going to have to disappoint some clients, because the development team has a finite capacity.

We provide the clients and their wishes. We suggest the techniques to estimate business value. The rest is up to you.

After the game, we look at how we can apply the lessons from the simulation to your "real world".

Bio

Pascal Van Cauwenberghe is a consultant based in Brussels who tries to solve more problems than he causes. To do this, he uses Agile, Lean, Theory of Constraints and Systems Thinking techniques.

He's one of the founders of the Belgian XP group and one of the organizers of XP Days Benelux. One day he and Vera Peeters invented the "XP Game", because they couldn't explain XP to their team and customers.

They've learned that games are an ideal way to learn. Since then he tries to transform work into play...

Marc Evers

Piecemeal Growth

Willem van den Ende

Right-sizing your unit tests

Abstract

Through this workshop you will get more insight in what makes a good unit test. By examining several code examples, you will learn to answer questions like: what is the right size and scope for a unit test? How does the design of production code affect test code and vice versa? What makes a unit test readable and maintainable? You will have the opportunity to share your ideas and experiences with other practitioners.

We invite participants to bring one or more examples of their own unit test code, to apply the findings from this workshop and to get suggestions for improvement from the group.

Lasse Koskela

Reaktor Innovations Oy

Bio

Lasse works as a coach, trainer and consultant, spending his days helping clients and colleagues at Reaktor Innovations create successful software products.

He has trenched in a variety of software projects ranging from enterprise applications to middleware products developed for an equally wide range of domains. In the recent years, Lasse has spent an increasing amount of time giving training courses and mentoring teams on-site, helping them improve their performance and establish a culture of continuous learning.

When not working with clients, Lasse hacks on open source projects, moderates discussions at JavaRanch, or writes about software development--most recently a book on Test Driven Development.

Abstract

Agile is fast becoming a commonplace, household term in software development organizations. Scrum is almost ubiquitous and more and more XP practices trickle into teams as they find themselves struggling to deliver software frequently. And the next buzz is starting to raise its head in the form of Lean Thinking with concepts such as one piece flow and Kanban. Just as we're starting to have more answers than questions about Agile methods and Scrum, this new blend of ideas raises whole new questions. Such as, whether we really need iterations or not?

Jukka Lindström

Reaktor Innovations Oy

Bio

Jukka Lindström is a leading software generalist and an experienced agile coach at Reaktor Innovations. He coaches and mentors people in technical skills, agile practices and teamwork. He is a passionate promoter of Lean Thinking, Scrum and Self-Organized Teams.

For the past twelve years Jukka has been involved in many software projects in diverse environments including start-ups as well as large global companies. He is also Certified Scrum Pracititioner.

Abstract

Agile is fast becoming a commonplace, household term in software development organizations. Scrum is almost ubiquitous and more and more XP practices trickle into teams as they find themselves struggling to deliver software frequently. And the next buzz is starting to raise its head in the form of Lean Thinking with concepts such as one piece flow and Kanban. Just as we're starting to have more answers than questions about Agile methods and Scrum, this new blend of ideas raises whole new questions. Such as, whether we really need iterations or not?

Geir Amsjø

Spitia.no

From Wasteland to Lean Machine

Abstract

Coaching a company in Lean or Scrum (or any other framework) means helping it to improve - not only to teach and implement new methods.All improvement must start with some kind of evaluation an analysis. What problems to solve? Which characteristics describe the market, the company culture, the current practice?

FINN.no is a highly successful classifieds site in Norway. Two years ago it had a large potential for improvement when it came to speed, innovation and quality. Through Lean Software Development, Scrum and coaching by Geir the company today is hardly recognizable.

Bio

Geir Amsjo has been working with software development since late 1980's in many different roles; Programmer, tester, designer, project manager, department manager, trainer and coach. In reality he has always worked with Software Process Improvement both in research projects, as a consultant and as a university teacher. How to find the best suited framework for optimizing product development?

Geir is known as a active spirit in the Norwegian IT industry arranging seminars, courses and workshops and participating in research projects. He arranged the first Certified Scrum Master courses in Norway together with Jens Østergaard and the IT-organisation Abelia. Currently he is training and coaching several Scandinavian organizations helping them to benefit from good Agile practices.

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Erik Lundh

Compelcon.se

Awakening the Agile Coach

Abstract

Do you want to help your peers discover better ways to live a working life? Maybe agile coaching is for you. Good agile coaches are skilled both in tech, people and organisations. But the best agile coach is often not one single person. The agile coach is not a go-between person. The agile coach makes teams self-sufficient. The agile coach help the best discover how to do so much more together with the rest. The best agile coach is your peer, not a consultant. This spring 30 Ericsson employees started their journey as agile coaches. NSN has recently trained 50 agile coaches and somewhat downplay the role of the Scrum Master in mature agile teams. (Source: Kaiti Vilki, keynote at XP2008)

Bio

Erik Lundh has spent the last few years with a coordinated agile effort within Ericsson. His team of experts built the agile coach training program that capitalize on Ericsson's large scale best practices and experiences as well as the teams combined experiences in coaching athletes, special forces and agile teams. The Ericsson agile approach merges high performance agile teamwork into a framework of large scale best practices highly influenced by Lean. Erik has been helping teams go agile since 2000. With 25 years experience in the software industry over many difference companies Erik has coached more teams than usual, since his unique approach, discovered by accident, seems to make the teams self-aware and clued on agile in record time. Erik is well-known in the international agile community, a speaker at many conferences, and a founder of the international Agile Coaches Guild."