Speaker: Bill Birnie, Standard Life
Session Title: Agile - Why Should Your Business Care?
Scheduled: Day 2, September 24th, 10:50 (Room 2)

Speaker Bio
Bill Birnie is Senior Manager in charge of I.S. Development Solutions for Standard Life, based in Edinburgh. He has over 23 years experience of working in a variety of I.T. roles at Standard Life, including programmer, analyst, designer and project manager. His key management roles have included leading our Y2K programme, establishing the Business Services function in our I.S. Operations area, and leading many major change programmes within our Life & Pensions business. He has led the introduction of Agile development techniques to Standard Life since late 2003.

• What does my business want from Agile ?
• Creating an Agile culture and the importance of measures
• Consolidating gains and driving more change.

Standard Life's award-winning use of Agile techniques is helping it achieve remarkable levels of productivity from its application development spend, and is supporting the positioning of technology provision at the heart of its business proposition. This session will cover the importance of linking your Agile enablement strategy to the needs of your business, and the challenges created by trying to change processes and beliefs that have been in place for many years.
Benefits of Attending: The audience will hear how Standard Life's adoption of Agile development techniques is helping them achieve remarkable improvements in their productivity and in the quality of their final delivered systems.
Bill will tell the story of how Standard Life has grown its capability since its initial Agile projects in 2004, with particular emphasis on how they have demonstrated the value of the approach by measuring the things that their business wants from its application development investment. This presentation also contains a unique insight into the things that business staff who work with I.T. development teams actually care about !
Intended Audience: Any application development or business change professional who is planning to start the adoption of Agile, or who wants to learn more about how to focus their current drive towards Agile.

Speakers: Mike Cottmeyer; Ole Jepsen; Dorothy Tudor
Session Title: Agile Certification – An Experience Report
Scheduled: Day 2, September 24th, 11:40 (Room 3)

Speaker Bio's
Mike Cottmeyer,  Ole Jepsen and Dorothy Tudor worked together on defining and implementing the three-level certification program for Agile Project Leaders.
Mike Cottmeyer is a Product Consultant and Agile Expert for VersionOne.  Prior to joining VersionOne, Mike was a Senior Project Manager for the CheckFree Corporation where he was leader of a portfolio of projects for their online banking and bill payment business unit. Mike has a traditional project management background but has worked primarily with Agile methodologies for the past four years. He is passionate about driving adoption of iterative and incremental techniques and helping to bridge the gap between traditional project management and agile project management. Mike is a certified PMP and a certified ScrumMaster.  Mike holds this certification at the Foundation, Practitioner, and Examiner levels.  He was recently named an honorary member of the DSDM Consortium for his work in this area. 
Ole Jepsen has more than 25 years experience in software development, project management, team facilitation and training with many companies worldwide. He is renowned in Europe as a highly esteemed collaborative facilitator and mentor for organisations looking to lead change. Ole’s Denmark-based consulting firm, GoAgile, offers mentoring and training to companies who want to change to Agile and Iterative development processes. Ole holds this certification at the Foundation, Practitioner, and Examiner levels.  He was recently named an honorary member of the DSDM Consortium for his work in this area.   
Dorothy Tudor has more than 25 years experience in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, with companies in the UK, America and Europe. Dot is a Certified Facilitator, PRINCE2 Project Manager and Trainer; BCS/ISEB Service Manager, DSDM Practitioner, Trainer and Examiner and a Certified ScrumMaster.   Her training and consultancy company, TCC has been at the forefront of DSDM coaching and training since 1995 and runs training in Agile Leadership. Dot holds this certification at the Foundation, Practitioner, and Examiner levels.  She is also a Director of the DSDM Consortium.   

Agile Certification - An Experience Report
In 2007, The DSDM Consortium launched the first Generic Agile Foundation and Leadership qualifications. There is quite a debate going on around Agile certification. We have folks in the Agile community community who believe certification goes against the very fabric of what the Agile movement is all about. Others believe that Agile certification in inevitable so we had better come up with something that embraces our value system. The trigger for venturing along the certification route was to satisfy what was seen as the "big sucking sound" of demand for respected and meaningful Agile qualifications.
The requirements were seen as coming from Companies, Project Leaders and individuals, as follows:

AS A Company I WANT to know how to prepare my project leaders to lead projects using agile principles -
SO THAT I can increase my organisation's ability to successfully complete projects using agile principles.

AS A Hiring Company I WANT to know whether a project leader I am considering hiring (could be either full time or consultant) is prepared to lead projects using agile principles -
SO THAT I can increase my organisation's ability to successfully complete projects using agile principles.

AS A Project Leader I WANT to know how to prepare myself to lead projects using agile principles -
SO THAT I can increase my value to organisations that want to successfully complete projects using agile principles.

In this session, we will discuss the history of the programme and options considered, the mechanics of how people go through the process, what we learned during pilots, how the program has adapted based on learning, and our experiences in the early phases of deployment. We have a tremendous amount of candidate feedback that we will present as well. We will present our findings and answer questions.
Benefits of Attending: To find out about the new generic Agile Foundation and Agile Leadership qualifications and the route to creating and establishing these. To discover the means to achieve these qualifications and to gain confidence in the professionalism and integrity of the qualifications themselves.
Intended audience: Companies, Project Leaders and individuals who identify with the requirements above or just want to know more about the qualifications.

Speakers: Rachel Davies, Agile Alliance; Andrew Craddock, Nlighten; Peter Measey, Radtac; Eamon Walshe Exoftware
Session Title: Introduction to Agile Part 1 and 2
Scheduled: Day 1, September 23rd, 10:55 (Room 3)

Speaker Bio's
Rachel Davies is an agile consultant and coach; helping teams use with agile software development techniques, such as test-driven development, heartbeat retrospectives and planning with user stories. She has been applying agile approaches since 2000 and has experience of a range of agile methods including XP, SCRUM, Lean and DSDM. Rachel is internationally recognised as a frequent presenter at industry conferences and a director of the Agile Alliance. You may contact her at rachel@agilexp.com
Andrew Craddock is an independent Agile Project Management Practitioner, Consultant, Trainer and Coach. He has over 10 years experience managing and leading Agile projects and has spent the last 6 years helping organisations transition from traditional to more Agile ways of working. Andrew is a Director of the DSDM consortium and a member of the core team of four responsible for the development of DSDM Atern.
Peter Measey is the Operations Director and co-Founder of RADTAC www.radtac.co.uk. RADTAC Services include Consulting, Training and Delivery Skills, to provide ‘Everything Agile’. With 25 years experience as a Project and Programme Manager, Consultant, Facilitator, Trainer and Coach within the Public and Private Sectors, Peter has excellent experience working within very many diverse environments. He has specialised in the agile space since 1996 and has managed and contributed to the implementation of some of the largest Agile transformations in the UK and internationally.
The Author of many Agile White Papers, Peter has also presented at numerous Public and Private Sector events on the subject of successful Agile transformation and the pragmatic use and implementation of specific agile approaches. Peter is an accredited DSDM Atern trainer, ScrumMaster, APLN (Agile Project Leaders Network) Practitioner, and Prince2 Practitioner.
Eamon Walshe: Since joining Exoftware he has helped clients establish the practices necessary to become a successful Agile company. Eamon had many years experience in Agile software development, training and mentoring. As a Distinguished Engineer with IONA he first encountered Agile in the form of a draft copy of Kent Beck's "Extreme Programming Explained" after which he became an advocate of XP within IONA. He worked as part of the team that drove the adoption of Agile by IONA's engineering department.

So you have heard that “Agile Works!” But what exactly is Agile?
The growing evidence base that Agile project methods deliver value faster and with higher quality is all well and good. However, if you and/or your organisation have little or no Agile experience – deciding where to start can be quite daunting.
Do not despair! This workshop is specifically designed for those either approaching the Agile arena for the first time or with limited experience. If you seek a clear, simple comparison of Agile methods and how they work – this will prove an invaluable starting point.
The workshop starts with an incisive history of project management approaches and goes on to explain both the rationale behind Agile ways and evidence base that has driven Agile to the fore.
The session then provides an unbiased introduction to the three leading methodologies by battle-hardened experts from each field with a comparison/contrast approach.
With the certain knowledge that not all projects are the same - a panel discussion will then consider how the leading methods may (or may not!) map onto different project contexts. There will be an opportunity for attendees to question the panel about their issues.
Benefits of Attending: The workshop provides participants with a top-level overview of Agile and a balanced appreciation of the different methodologies. Delegates will take away with them a clear understanding of whether Agile is ‘right’ for their organisation, its pros and cons and those of the different methodologies. Participants will have ample opportunity to ask questions and interact with the presenters in order to relate Agile to their own organisations. They will also be provided with onward knowledge and learning resource sources.
Intended audience: Anyone new to Agile, anyone wanting to understand the leading Agile options.

Speakers: Julian Holmes and Mark Lines - Unified Process Mentors
Session Title: Process Wars -A New hope
Scheduled: Day 2, September 24th, 14:20 (Room 1)

Speaker Bio
Mark and Julian have both worked worked in software development for over fifteen years and specialise in enhancing the software development capability of large and complex IT organisations. They have both become regarded as leaders in the successful use of RUP, but more recently they have been working to expand the use of Agile practices within the UP community, especially for large government and systems integration clients. They are both regularly invited to speak at Rational events, and are founder members of the IBM Rational Methods Client Advisory Group.

Speaker: Greg Hutchings, Valtech
Session Title: Distributed Agile Teams and Alternative Contractual Forms: What Works Best
Scheduled: Day 2, September 24th, 11:40 (Room 1)

Speaker Bio
Based in Paris, France, Greg Hutchings presently leads large distributed agile projects for Valtech (www.valtech.com). He coaches teams and companies on agile adoption and best practices. He spends most of his time launching and coaching large scale distributed agile programs and projects for clients in France but also consults elsewhere in Europe, the U.S. and in India. In addition to launching new agile programs, he is also is called in to help troubled projects transform into successful agile efforts, increasing customer collaboration, focusing on working software and closing communication gaps. Before joining Valtech, Greg was with ThoughtWorks (www.thoughtworks.com), in San Francisco, where he led agile engagements on the West Coast and in India. Greg has over 20 years of experience in leading teams to successfully build software products with client-centric feature driven focus using short iterations and automated build and test tools. His interest areas include innovative contractual forms that favor collaboration and support agile teams, methods and tools to increase cross cultural communication, collaboration tools that bridge distance and gaps in understanding, emerging processes and roles in distributed agile development, retrospectives, test driven development, better team alignment with business value, and helping to spread and adapt agile and lean thinking at the team and executive level.

• team organization and ramp up
• creating a shared culture
• selecting and refining the methodology
• planning releases and iterations
• organizing requirements, design and estimation workshops
• communication and travel patterns that work best
• adapting agile roles in distributed environments
• alternative contractual forms

I will provide an in-depth analysis of a distributed agile program at Valtech that ran for 20 months, from November 2006 until June 2008, in 4 locations: Paris, Toulouse, Bangalore and Toronto, with multiple releases to production and a total team size of just over 90 people. Consideration and the impact of three successive contractual forms that were used in this program will be discussed: fixed bid/fixed scope, time and materials (with a twist), and payment for production.

• building and supporting large distributed agile teams (15 min)
• in-depth case study (20 min)
• fixed bid, T&M and pay-for production contract alternatives (10 min)

• Gain an understanding of how to succeed with large distributed agile projects.
• Compare alternative contractual forms for creating team and customer alignment.
• Identify key agile practices you can use on your current or next project.

Speaker: Unconfirmed
Session Title: Gaining Boardroom Support for Agile
Scheduled: Day 1, September 23rd, 14:20 (Room 2)

Speaker Bio
Unconfirmed

Speakers: Roger Leaton and Beth Williams
Session Title: But you wouldn’t do Agile there!
Scheduled: Day 2, September 24th, 11:40 (Room 2)

Speaker Bio
Roger Leaton is an Agile Advocate within BT, encouraging the uptake of agile methods for both the BT IT organisation and across the wider BT business. Roger enjoys the challenge of working with colleagues to describe and extend the agile approach for a huge and traditional organisation. He presents regularly at BT events and carries the agile message outside BT, working with organizations such as Lloyds Auditors, and as a participant in conferences including the Agile Business Conference and Agile 2006, collaborating with companies such as Borland, Thoughtworks and exoftware. He is the editor of the BT Agile Cookbook which describes agile within the BT context and co-editor of the Distributed Agile Framework that shows how to make outsourcing effective with agile. He is a certified scrum master and has worked in the IT industry for nearly 30 years doing project management, business analysis, design, QA and software development from mainframes to desktops. His degree in Biological Sciences is sometimes helpful to understand the complexity of IT from an ecological perspective.
Bethan Williams is an Engagement Manager/Principal consultant in EMEA for Borland. In this role, Bethan is responsible for ensuring the successful roll out of Boland’s Application Lifecycle Management within large customers such as BT. With over ten years experience as an IT consultant, Bethan has helped a number of companies improve their IT organisations through the adoption of process and tools. She has been responsible for the creation & delivery of customised IT consultancy & training programmes for customers wishing to adopt of a variety of methodologies. As a certified Rational consultant, Bethan was also been responsible for establishing a “Pragmatic” version of RUP which she successfully rolled out to a number of software development houses in both Europe and Australia. In recent years, Bethan has worked with BT’s SOA department as both a scrum master and agile mentor, providing guidance on how to apply agile methods in seemingly “non-agile” environments whilst also performing the daily activities of a certified scrum master.

But you wouldn't do Agile there!
Thinking about the evolution of Agile beyond the early adopter phase, beyond pilot projects and small-scale operations – how do we gain the sponsorship of the early majority or the pragmatists that Agile can work for them? How do we approach the argument that Agile ‘won’t work here’ where the perception that environments where compliance, regulation or other factors prevent Agile being adopted? Roger and Beth discuss the techniques of adopting Agile in ‘unconventional’ environments full of “blockers” such as size, scale, regulations and others. Roger and Beth illustrate how BT and Boland worked together to cross the chasm in Agile delivery.
Benefits of Attending: The key benefit of this session will be seeing the proof points of success for Agile in environments where scepticism exists surrounding its effectiveness. Roger and Beth will present a number of real-world examples of how Agile has been deployed in challenging environments.
Intended Audience: Agile practitioners, business analysts and managers who are considering how to advance Agile in their organisation. .

Speakers: Jim Marchant, Rolls-Royce plc and Andrew Craddock, RADTAC Ltd
Session Title: Successfully Agile – a Giant Step Forward with DSDM Atern
Scheduled: Day 1, September 23rd, 15:30 (Room 2)

Speaker Bio
Jim Marchant joined Rolls-Royce in 1972 as a Technician Apprentice. Throughout his career Jim has had a great interest in what IT had to offer in the support of the engineering process and has gained a wealth of knowledge and experience in the area of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE). In recent years Jim has focused on the introduction and support of tools and methods that enable CAE and held the role of Group Manager responsible for CAE Support and Development from 2002-2006. In 2006 he was asked to lead a global team responsible for improving Computer Aided Design capability for Rolls-Royce world-wide. Frustrated by the bureaucratic and ineffective traditional methods in place for introducing new IT capability – resulting in projects that were invariably late, over-budget and delivering unhappily compromised solutions – Jim was ready to try a new approach to software project delivery. He now has a real story of success to be told about an initial project that delivered on-time, on budget and even exceeded expectations of business value.
Andrew Craddock was a Project Manager in the IT department of a large blue chip company several years before the term ‘Agile’ was applied to software development projects. Initially a sceptic about methods but grudgingly prepared to ‘try anything once’ he found that the DSDM approach to software development transformed his ability to deliver projects on-time, on-budget and to the satisfaction of his internal customers. Inspired as much by the journey as by the result Andrew took on the position of Process Improvement Manager in the same organisation and managed a programme to embed the DSDM framework as the standard for all software development projects. Since 2001 Andrew has worked predominantly as an Associate of RADTAC helping many of their clients make similar and sometimes even more successful journeys into the world of Agile software development. With a small team of RADTAC experts, he spent most of 2007 at Rolls-Royce leading a successful project to customise and support the use of DSDM Atern for a major business improvement programme.

Successfully Agile – a Giant Step Forward with DSDM Atern
Have you ever come across a project that delivered a high quality solution, on-time, on budget and exceeded business expectation? Nothing particularly unusual for a Rolls-Royce aero-engine programme but not necessarily the case for their IT projects. Agile methods puts the Business in the project driving seat – this presentation will show how the key principles and practices of DSDM Atern helped make this a reality on a major IT enabled Business Change Programme at Rolls-Royce. It’s not easy… It requires a total shift in thinking… But the investment pays significant dividends…
Benefits of Attending: Maybe you’ve heard the sales pitch and wonder if Agile working is really that good ? Maybe you’ve tried it out on a few small projects and wonder if/how it will scale up? Maybe it hasn’t worked out particularly well for you so far and you want to know why – and what you need to do to get back on track? This presentation by a seasoned Agile Consultant and, far more importantly, from a hands-on Business Leader (who started from a position of “no Agile knowledge”) in a truly Agile project will give you a taste of what it takes to succeed…
Intended Audience: Anybody interested in hearing a real story about the adoption of Agile working in a world class organisation, that was determined to bring the highest standards of quality and reliability, for which they are rightly recognised, to the troublesome domain of IT.

Speaker: Derrick Murray
Session Title: Breaking the Cycle of Distrust
Scheduled: Day 1, September 23rd, 15:30 (Room 3)

Speaker Bio
Derrick Murray joined the UK branch Munich Reinsurance in November 2003 as the Head of IT Development and has since been promoted to Director of Operations from April 2006. With responsibility for delivering top quality risk management and business development services to key UK and Ireland clients, he is responsible for managing all aspects of our service delivery. During his time at Munich Re, Derrick has been instrumental in transforming a number of key business processes including the introduction of the Agile methodology to develop a new claims system. Derrick has extensive experience of running international IT projects during his time at various software houses, GE and as a freelancer. Together with his degree in genetics and post graduate qualifications in computer science, he is well qualified to continue to help build a successful reinsurance business in the UK.

Breaking the Cycle of Distrust
Many projects with technology deliverables are introducing greater and greater levels of controls, specifications, quality checks, etc, as a (misguided) attempt to provide certainty of outcome. However, experience tells us that this a) rarely works, b) is never liked even when it does work, and c) perversely actually reinforces the distrust that interferes with getting on and doing it properly. Unless we understand the root causes of the distrust, and are bold enough to honestly deal with them, we'll be having this same discussion this time next year. That's quite a bold statement, and perhaps a little controversial . . . but still true, nonetheless.
Benefits of Attending: A refreshing approach on how to approach a problem that is as age-old as it is thorny.
Intended Audience: If you have been caught up in the apparent conflict between control and successful delivery – you should attend.

Speaker: Dave Nicoll, Project & Programme Manager, Silver Software
Session Title: Use of Agile Techniques in the Development of a Safety-Critical Rail Application
Scheduled: Day 2, September 24th, 11:40 (Room 1)

Speaker Bio
Dave Nicoll (Project & Programme Manager – Silver Software), has over 20 years experience of software development with 12 years experience of project management in both embedded real-time development and IT systems. Dave was the Project Manager at Silver Software during the development of the BCP with responsibility for the timely delivery of the product and the definition of the development process. Dave is a qualified Project and Programme Manager certified as a ‘Practitioner’ for PRINCE-2 and ‘Managing Successful Programmes’ (MSP).

Speakers: Mairi Osborne, Steria and Barry Fazackerley, Steria
Session Title: Estimating - Be Agile, Not Fragile
Scheduled: Day 1, September 23rd, 15:30 (Room 1)

Speaker Bio's
Mairi Osborne is a Principal Consultant with Steria, where she has worked with many clients to support them in performance improvements. These have been based on introducing better processes – DSDM, estimating, CMMI – and on using measurements to control and demonstrate performance. The combination of theoretical knowledge with delivery experience has enabled Mairi to develop a very practical approach to agile estimating.
Barry Fazackerley is an Executive Consultant with Steria and has been involved with the Consortium since its inception in 1994. He has been a member of the Board since 1998 and was elected chairman in 2001. He is an Certified DSDM Practitioner, Trainer, Examiner and a Certified Facilitator and GlobalFN Assessor. He has had many papers published on various Application Development topics including DSDM, JAD and Offshore Development. He has spoken at several leading conferences representing DSDM and is a strong supporter and signatory of the Agile Alliance. He has been a key architect in strengthening DSDM's profile as an agile approach. Within Steria, Barry has implemented DSDM for major organisations in Europe and North America transforming the organisations' delivery capability. He is a member of the UK Institute of Directors.

Speaker: Roman Pichler, Pichler Consulting
Session Title: The Agile Manager
Scheduled: Day 2, September 24th, 10:50 (Room 3)

Speaker Bio
Roman Pichler works as an independent consultant. He helps organisations to embrace Lean Thinking and Scrum. Roman's clients value his rich and diverse experience in creating a customer-focussed and collaborative work environment, which includes working with start-ups as well as large global companies. He is the author of the book "Scrum - Agiles Projektmanagement erfolgreich einsetzen". Roman is a regular speaker at international conferences and a Certified Scrum Trainer. See www.romanpichler.com for more information.

Speaker: David Piper
Session Title: Scaling Agile with CMMI Principles
Scheduled: Day 2, September 24th, 14:20 (Room 2)

Speaker Bio
David Piper is a Managing Consultant with Lamri Ltd, and an SEI Authorized CMMI Instructor. David specializes in working with clients in the UK, Europe and across the World to help them achieve their business improvement objectives. He has gained a reputation for working with difficult areas in organizations and turning them into business improvement leaders.

David is co-author of “Service and Component-based Development” which describes the Select Perspective development method, based on DSDM. He is also author of an extensive range of technical white-papers, describing the application of UML to the development of applications in a Service Oriented Architecture. Recent white-papers focus on clarifying complex and frequently misunderstood areas of the CMMI model and on the relationships between CMMI and other approaches to process improvement.

Scaling Agile with CMMI Principles
The agile movement focuses on the timely delivery of user needs with the minimum, appropriate, constraint on the team in terms of process, plans, management and control. Such an approach is fine in principal, but requires high levels of commitment and strong staff which can be hard to find – and will certainly not be universally available in most organisations. CMMI is often viewed as being “anti-agile” – a process-based approach to project delivery, determined to constrain teams to slavishly following processes which often are not effective.
This presentation shows that, in reality, CMMI can take a different approach to agility. It emphasizes the importance of delivering the right thing, with the right quality, at the right time to the right customer. This approach is supported by the organizational level thinking built into CMMI and its demand for process variety, not process homogeneity.
Intended Audience: The presentation is targeted at agile practitioners who wish to gain a wider understanding of the organizational implications of agility, and how agility can be combined with organizational concerns including resilience and scalability.  A second target are IT Delivery Managers who wish to understand how to deliver to customers with different needs in terms of speed of delivery, product quality and resource commitment.
Benefits of Attending: Attendees will gain a thorough understanding of agility and how it can be interpreted in an organizational context where delivery to different types of customer is a real requirement.

Speaker: Jeremy Renwick
Session Title: Delivering a Public-Private Partnership using DSDM
Scheduled: Day 1, September 23rd, 10:55 (Room 1)

• Delivering the National Packaging Waste Database (NPWD) on time and to budget 
• Facilitating a very diverse stakeholder community drawn from industry and the 4 regulators
• Managing the culture shock of imposing agile on a waterfall community
• Managing an agile project with a geographically distributed team
• Learning the lessons 
• Making the Environment Agency more agile

Benefits of Attending

• Understand how to manage some of the issues raised running an agile project in a waterfall community
• How to deliveri a government IT on-time and to budget
• How to run a DSDM project with a dispersed team

Intended audience: Programme and Project Managers looking to implement agile, Senior IT and Business Managers looking to get business benefits from IT development quickly.

Speaker: Keith Richards, Keith Richards Consulting
Session Title: The Ten Golden Rules for Successful Agile Projects
Scheduled: Day 2, September 24rd, 14:20 (Room 3)

Speaker Bio
Keith Richards is the founder and director of Keith Richards Consulting (KRC), a company which specialises in improving the way in which organisations manage projects and business change. Keith has over 30 years experience in I.T. and project management. He is a board member of the DSDM Consortium with responsibility for technical direction and membership services. He is an accredited DSDM Practitioner and Trainer, an accredited PRINCE2 Practitioner and Trainer and an IAF Accredited Facilitator. Keith has worked across all industry sectors and has been involved with a wide range of clients from SMEs to large government organisations. Recently, Keith led the team that created DSDM Atern, the new version of the DSDM Framework which can now be used on any project. He is currently specialising in the leading edge approach of combining DSDM Atern with PRINCE2. He is the author of Agile Project Management: running PRINCE2 projects with DSDM Atern (published by TSO). Keith is a regular speaker around Europe on topics related to project best practice, Agile approaches and PRINCE2.

• How to get a project off to a good start
• How to identify the important characteristics of the people involved on the project
• What you need to look for so that you can read the vital signals coming from the project team
• The importance of time and how it is being used in order to control the rest of the project
• How to embrace the inevitability of change (but also making sure it is the right kind of change!)
• If you are communicating in the right way most of the time or some of the time

Speaker: Martin Ryan
Session Title: The Battle of the Somme to the Present Day – Lessons in Agile
Scheduled: Day 1, September 23rd, 11:45 (Room 2)

Speaker Bio
Martin Ryan is a software development and integration project manager with 10 years and £20m worth of projects successfully delivered. Starting his career with IBM in the 1980s, he was a pioneering programmer on the first model of IBM Personal Computer. He has worked in a huge variety of roles and industries including Retail, Insurance, Airlines, Utilities, Distribution and Investment Banking and is currently Technical Services Director at DB Consulting, a Microsoft Gold Partner and agile software development specialist.

Speaker: Jon Saunders, Technical Project Manager, BJSS
Session Title: Flexing the Micro Process – Introducing Agile Benefits into Iterative Development
Scheduled: Day 1, September 23rd, 10:55 (Room 2)

Speaker Bio
Jon Saunders is a Technical Project Manager at BJSS where he has led many Agile development projects on behalf of major UK organisations. Jon has a particular interest in Agile project management having experienced waterfall and iterative methods in his career as a developer, technical architect and project manager and often found them lacking the necessary focus to deliver a well received and successful project. Throughout his career he has thrived on being able to introduce innovative and inventive solutions to the development process within BJSS and looks forward to opportunities to spread the benefits a little further.

Speakers: Karl Scotland, Yahoo and Dave Nicolette
Session Title: Manager's Introduction to Test-Driven Development
Scheduled: Day 2, September 24th, 11:40 (Room 1)

Speaker Bio's
Dave Nicolette, an IT professional since 1977, has been heavily involved with agile software development since 2002. He is a senior consultant with Valtech Technologies where he serves as an agile team coach and mentor and ScrumMaster for clients and for internal development teams. He is active in local user groups and the online agile community, and appears as a speaker and workshop facilitator at industry conferences. His main professional interest is in helping drive industry adoption of agile and lean principles and practices, especially organizational transformation of large enterprises.
Karl Scotland, is a versatile software practitioner with a wide range of skills, including development, project management, team leadership, coaching and training. He has worked on domains including multimedia, neural network, interactive TV, billing and the web, and has experienced both a complete lack of process, and an overly rigorous one. When he discovered XP, and was given the opportunity to use it, he embraced it enthusiastically, and has never looked back. Karl is currently Engineering Program Manager with Yahoo! Europe, as well as championing agile software development within the London office. He has previously spent 5 years with BBC Interactive leading a team that developed software which delivered 78 services in 12 months, a feat which could not have been achieved without agility.

Speakers: Dominic Stow, Principal Consultant, Fronde and Adrian Page, Change Management Manager, E.ON
Session Title: Successfully Introducing Agile Project Management within a Large Organisation
Scheduled: Day 1, September 23rd, 11:45 (Room 1)

Speaker Bio's
Dominic Stow (Fronde) has over 17 years experience in the information technology industry gained through roles at the BBC, Motorola, Fronde and as the director of a UK consulting company. He has worked across all industry sectors from both small to medium enterprises and blue chip clients. His entrepreneurial achievements include founding backpackersdiary.com, which has grown into a highly popular independent traveller’s web site and contractmonkey.com, a networked professional’s marketplace. Dominic joined Fronde in July 2004, where he has focused on the provision of strategic IT and business consulting around Agile Project Management and Agile Development working alongside Rob Thomsett, one of the worlds thought leaders in Agile Project Management. Dominic regularly presents at conferences, including recently at the Government Insights and CIO Summit in New Zealand. Dominic’s passion for collaborative leadership and its benefits in the successful delivery of projects remains his focus.
Adrian Page (E.ON) is currently responsible for “how” change and project management is performed in the Retail Division of E.ON within the UK. He identified the need for Agile Project Management within E.ON and worked closely with the Thomsett Company and Fronde partnership to ensure that it was successfully introduced and supported within E.ON. Adrian is keen on the reality and practicality of delivering change in fast paced competitive business environments. Adrian has had 10 years experience working in change and project management at E.ON. His time in the electricity industry has seen much change and he has played a major role in a number of business integration and restructuring projects, as well as delivering IT projects. Previously Adrian trained and qualified as an accountant for Price Waterhouse and worked at E.ON as an accountant.

• Speed up the process of converting strategic intent/ideas into only a limited number of projects
• Stopping initiatives that are flawed or conflict with other initiatives
• Driving more transformational change and limit tactical solutions

E.ON was attracted by the simplicity and power of Agile. They realised that the core values of Agile Project Management, openness, trust, honesty, courage and value were in line with their own and by introducing Agile Project Management, E.ON could deliver projects more successfully.
Benefits of Attending:

• Understanding the true role of Agile Project Management and what success really is.
• Understanding the link between organizational culture and successful adoption of agile project management
• Understanding structured methods to engage stakeholders
• Structured approach to introducing agile project management
• Benefits of Agile Project Management
• Challenges of introducing agile project management and how to overcome them

Intended audience: Project and Programme Managers, Exec and Business Managers, Development Managers and Leads, Business Analysts, Architects and Developers