KEY TOPIC

The key conference topic is Making Distributed Agile Work. Which means we are going to talk a lot about distributed development, remote teams and globalization issues.

SPEAKERS

We invited over 30 speakers from the U.S., Canada and all around the Western and Eastern Europe: Belgium, Belarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine…

See the speakers list.

	Master classes. Additional registration required
Wed-Thu 16-17/09/2009	Master-class: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) by Robin Dymond
	Main conference program
Fri 18/09/2009	Main stage Congress Hall (400 seats)
9:00 – 9:45	Registrations, morning coffee
9:45 – 10:00	Opening
10:00 – 11:00	Keynote speaker	Jutta Eckstein “Proximity Over Distance”
11:00 – 12:00	Keynote speakers	Robin Dymond and Jürgen De Smet “Cooking the Product Stew”
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
Fri afternoon	Main stage The Main stage (250 seats)	QA & Dev stage (80 seats)	Russian-speaking stage (80 seats)
13:15 – 14:15	Vasco Duarte “Agile Scales, Waterfall doesn’t”		Denis Petelin “Самый непонимаемый принцип Agile Manifesto”
14:20 – 15:20	Jurgen Appelo “So Now You’re an Agilist. What’s Next?”	Maria Diaconu and Alexandru Bolboacă “Developers’ Toolkit in the Agile World”	Alek Kozlov “Ключевые факторы успеха Product Owner”
15:20 – 15:40	Coffee break
15:40 – 16:40	Zuzana Sochova “Scrum process under specific extremely short conditions”	Paweł Lipiński “Evolutionary Architecture”	Suren Samarchan “Опыт внедрения enterprise level agile”
16:45 – 17:45	Yves Hanoulle “Tips for creating a Self-Organizing team”	Xavier Quesada Allue “Visual Management for Agile Teams”	Andrey Bibichev “А какой у вас Agile: свежевыжатый или порошковый?”
17:45 – 18:00	Coffee break
18:00 – 19:00	Dimitri Baeli “An Agile Coach to start Scrum widely in a company”	Tomasz Wykowski “Process oriented approach to Agile Software Development”	Askhat Urazbaev & Nikita Filippov “Организация самоорганизации”
Sat 19/09/2009	Main stage The Main stage	QA & Dev stage	Russian-speaking stage
10:00 – 11:00	J.B.Rainsberger “An Introduction to Agile Through the Theory of Constraints”	Bartosz Bańkowski “Pitfalls of TDD Adoption”	Mikalai Alimenkou “Человеческий фактор в Agile как причина провалов”
11:00 – 11:20	Coffee break
11:20 – 12:20	Stanislav Vasilyev “Scrum or Scrum overseas. Making it all work with not collocated team”	Open Space Session Planning	Uladzimir Liashkevich “Принцип Inversion of Control в применении к Agile-разработке”
12:25 – 13:25	Mads Troels Hansen “Patterns for Successful Distributed Development”	Szczepan Faber “Java: tools & techniques for TDD”	Artem Serdyuk “Жизненный цикл компании по Адизесу и Agile”
13:25 – 14:30	Lunch break
14:45 – 15:45	Panel Discussion on Distributed Agile by Robin Dymond, David Hussman, J.B. Rainberger, Askhat Urazbaev, Alexey Krivitsky	Janet Gregory (2 hrs) “Seven Key Success Factors for Agile Testing Success”	Alexander Lesnevsky “Как Agile может помочь во времена кризиса”
15:50 – 16:50	Artem Marchenko “Agile Planning”	Janet Gregory (continued)	Timofey Yevgrashyn “Внедрение Scrum: три примера из реальной жизни”
16:50 – 17:15	Coffee break
	Main stage Congress Hall
17:15 – 18:15	Keynote speaker	David Hussman “Agile Journeys: How Did We Get Here and Where are We Going?”
18:15 – 19:00	Closing the Conference
	Master classes. Additional registration required.
Sun-Mon 20-21/09/2009	CANCELLED Master-class: Leading Lean Software Development by Mary and Tom Poppendieck
Sun-Mon 20-21/09/2009	Master-class: Coaching Agility by David Hussman
Mon-Tue 21-22/09/2009	Master-class: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) by Robin Dymond