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Video: Jutta Eckstein “Proximity over Distance”

Alexey Krivitsky — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:58:18 +0000

And now we are starting to put live the video clips.

Jutta Eckstein opened the conference with her keynote on Proximity over Distance, where she shared her rich experience of making distributed agile work.

Enjoy and watch for our updates as more video will be put live within the next days.

Mads Troels Hansen, “Patterns for Successful Distributed Development”

Alexey Krivitsky — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:49:52 +0000

Speaker: Mads Troels Hansen
Talk: “Patterns for Successful Distributed Development”

Patterns For Successful Distributed Development – Agileee2009

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Mads Troels Hansen
Denmark, @BestBrains ApS

Agile and Lean Coach at BestBrains, Denmark. Mads has more than 15 years of experience with software development, as developer, project manager, product manager, CIO and CTO. Mads is very experienced in delivering high business value using Scrum, Agile and Lean and has worked with Scrum and effective distributed development for many years. Mads has many years of experience in Product Management with both local and distributed teams. He is also CSM, CSPO and CSP. For more info, visit www.bestbrains.biz or www.twitter.com/madsth.

Talk: “Patterns for Successful Distributed Development”

Scaling the development organization with distributed teams can be very challenging. In this talk you will learn how to deliver higher business value with lower cost for distributed teams. Experience from failure and success in different offshore projects since 2005, are gathered in a collection of 8 patterns and specific techniques.

From an offshore perspective, you can use the techniques in your own projects and make them more successful. You will also get inspiration on how you can solve your own distributed problems.

In the talk, you will hear about

8 patterns for successful distributed development.
Specific techniques to use right away.
Distributed challenges and how to get them solved.
How the patterns are working together.
Many examples from different projects.

This talk will use a lot of visual elements, pictures and stories from the trenches.

Jutta Eckstein, “Proximity Over Distance”

Alexey Krivitsky — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:36:25 +0000

The speaker: Jutta Eckstein
The talk: “Proximity Over Distance”

Proximity Over Distance by Jutta Eckstein

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Jutta Eckstein

Jutta a partner of IT communication, is an independent consultant and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany. Her know-how in agile processes is based on over ten years experience in developing object-oriented applications. She has helped many teams and organizations all over the world to make the transition to an agile approach. She has a unique experience in applying agile processes within medium-sized to large distributed mission-critical projects.

This is also the topic of her already published book ‘Agile Software Development in the Large’ and of the one she’s currently writing on ‘Distributed Agile Software Development’. Besides engineering software Jutta has been designing and teaching OT courses in industry. Having completed a course of teacher training and led many ‘train the trainer’ programs in industry, she focuses also on techniques which help teach OT and is a main lead in the pedagogical patterns project. She has presented work in her main areas at ACCU (UK), JAOO (Denmark), OOPSLA (USA), SD West, SD Best Practices (both USA), XP (Europe) and Agile (USA).

The talk “Creating Proximity over a Distance”.

The Agile Manifesto asks for face-to-face communication, trust and close collaboration. But widely accepted wisdom is that trust needs touch. So how can you create this proximity over a distance?

You can bridge the distance using virtual communication channels wisely and by travelling – at least from time to time. Yet, even with these answers at hand it is important to make the travel beneficial and to know which virtual communication tools are helpful for what kinds of situation.

Another challenge global teams are facing, is overcoming cultural differences. Yet, these differences have their origin not only in geography and language, but also in strategies, politics, values and history. A company, no less than the broader society, shapes a culture that influences its employees’ behavior. A distributed team needs to leverage this and jointly develop a project culture and keep the project history alive for emphasizing the common culture.

In this session, Jutta will share her experiences in overcoming distances in distributed projects. Her experiences are mainly based on large global agile projects developing embedded or commercial software.

David Hussman “Agile Journeys: How Did We Get Here and Where are We Going?”

Alexey Krivitsky — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:45:15 +0000

The speaker David Hussman

The Talk “Agile Journeys: How Did We Get Here and Where are We Going?”.

Agile Journeys by David Hussman

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David Hussman

David teaches and coaches the adoption and improvement of agility as a delivery tool. His work includes helping companies of all sizes all over the world. Sometimes he is pairing with developers and testers, while other times he is helping to invent, evolve and plan the delivery of all types of products and projects. David also spends a great deal of time helping leaders at all levels find ways to pragmatically use agility as another way to grow and innovate their business.

Prior to working as a fulltime coach, David spent years building software in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. David now leads DevJam, a company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products in competitive cycles.

Along with teaching and coaching, David participates in conferences around the world. He has continuously publishes and has contributed to several books and many publications. He has helped create agile curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University.

For more information, check out the DevJam website www.devjam.com

The talk “Agile Journeys: How Did We Get Here and Where are We Going?”

Adoption and adaption of agile methods is growing wildly. As a full time coach, working across disciplines and borders, I am fortunate to see the practice and evolution of existing practices as well as a continuous emergence of new practices and idea. While some teams are new to agile methods, other teams are challenging the status quo of big A agile. Both groups are filled with a mixture of success and struggles.

If you are interested in hearing real world stories of what’s working, what’s not, and what’s new, please show up with an open mind and a blank page or three for notes. As story telling is great tool for learning, think of a few experiences and stories from your agile journey(s) which you might want to share. My coaching continuously teaches me the importance of listening to and learning from the stories of the agile community I coach and the agilists I meet. I plan to share a pile of stories and ask you to share some of yours.