Once you have learned what Agile is, your next question will be “how do I start using Agile?”
Knowing what Agile is, is quite different from knowing how to roll out an Agile process. The Agile Adoption stage will focus on lessons learned from rolling out an Agile process. Specifically, we are looking for presentations that address the following questions:
- How can you assess your potential for becoming Agile before starting a migration?
- How can you minimize delivery risk when moving to an Agile process?
- How can you implement an Agile process that recognizes your unique business model, customer, and company culture?
- What does the Agile migration process look like in application?
- What are the key foundation steps for starting a move to Agile?
- What are the best practices for getting executives, managers, customers and team members to buy-in to moving to an Agile process?
- Can you mix Agile practices with your existing processes when migrating to Agile?
- Can you migrate too quickly? Can you migrate too slowly?
- How can you sell adopting Agile during the current financial crisis?
- Should a move to Agile be driven from the top, the bottom or both at the same time?
If you have experience leading teams or companies to a more Agile process, we would love to have you lead a session. No doubt there are many consultants who have experience in this area and we welcome your sessions, but we would also like to learn about the experiences of employees who have rolled out an Agile process and lived with the team afterwards.
Sessions
| Time | Title | Presenters | Type | Room |
|---|
| Monday 11:00-11:45 | Kanban adoption at Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) | Chris Shinkle | Experience report | Atlanta |
| Monday 11:00-12:30 | The Agile Playground | Tobias Mayer | Workshop | Grand Ballroom A |
| Monday 11:45-12:30 | The Bold, New Extreme Programming Experiment - Now In Its Ninth Year | Brian Spears | Experience report | Atlanta |
| Monday 14:00-14:45 | Accidental Adoption - The Story of Scrum at Amazon.com | Alan Atlas  | Experience report | Regency C |
| Monday 14:00-14:45 | The Covert Agilist | Ken Howard | Experience report | Toronto |
| Monday 14:45-15:30 | The Amazing Team Race – A Team-Based Agile Adoption | Gabino Roche, Jr., Belkis Vasquez | Experience report | Regency C |
| Monday 14:45-15:30 | Descending from the Architect's Ivory Tower | Andrew Rendell | Experience report | Toronto |
| Monday 16:00-17:30 | Team Start-up: one of the first Agile Adoption activities | Lyssa Adkins | Tutorial | Toronto |
| Tuesday 11:00-12:30 | Pragmatically "Crossing the Chasm" from Project-level to Enterprise Adoption | Ahmed Sidky  , Chris Sterling | Talk | Regency C |
| Tuesday 11:00-12:30 | Don't Sell Buzzwords to Business Leaders, Learn How to Describe Real Value | Richard Sheridan , Clement "James" Goebel | Talk | Toronto |
| Tuesday 14:00-17:30 | Do I Still Have a Job? Roles and Org Structure in an Agile Transition | Alex Pukinskis, Mark Kilby | Workshop | Regency C |
| Tuesday 14:00-17:30 | Becoming Agile ... in an imperfect world | Greg Smith , Ahmed Sidky | Tutorial | Toronto |
| Wednesday 09:00-12:30 | Introducing agile to an organization | Linda Rising | Tutorial | Regency C |
| Wednesday 09:00-12:30 | Patterns of Agile Adoption Practices | Amr Elssamadisy | Tutorial | Toronto |
| Wednesday 14:00-15:30 | Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises | Dean Leffingwell | Tutorial | Toronto |
| Wednesday 14:00-17:30 | Creating Your Enterprise Adoption Plan: A Seven Layer Framework | Michael Spayd | Tutorial | Regency C |
| Wednesday 16:00-17:30 | Become a Better Agile Practitioner: Learn from other sources | Mike Sutton | Talk | Toronto |
| Thursday 09:00-10:30 | Moving to Agile in an FDA Regulated Environment | J.R. Jenks, Tim Hughes | Experience report | Regency C |
| Thursday 09:00-12:30 | The 7 Deadly Sins of Almost Being Agile | Bob Hartman, Richard Lawrence | Workshop | Toronto |
| Thursday 11:00-12:30 | May the Forces Be With You, Exploring the Forces Driving and Restraining Agile | Rod Claar , Douglas Shimp | Workshop | Regency C |
| Thursday 14:00-14:45 | Use of Agile Methods in Software Engineering Education | David Rico | Experience report | Regency C |
| Thursday 14:00-14:45 | 25% Ahead of Schedule and just at “Step 2” of the SAMI | ElMohanned Ahmed, Ahmed Sidky | Experience report | Toronto |
| Thursday 14:45-15:30 | The Ogre and The Wimp: Clever Influencing Tricks - Help the Most Reluctant Teams | Anda Abramovici | Demonstration | Regency C |
| Thursday 14:45-15:30 | An Executive Scrum Team | Alexandre Magno | Experience report | Toronto |
| Thursday 16:00-16:45 | Starting Agile implementation half way through the critical project | Katarina Thomas | Talk | Regency C |
