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Agile Business Conference 2008
September 23rd - 24th
Keynote Speaker: Jutta Eckstein
Jutta Eckstein, 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 mission-critical projects. This is also the topic of her book ‘Agile Software Development in the Large’. Besides engineering software she 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).
Keynote Session: Staying Agile in a Global World: Distributed Agile Software Development
Today, there are not many projects left that are developed "at home" without outsourcing or offshoring. Outsourcing and offshoring, both imply that there is a distance between the project members. This distance can refer to geography, time, culture, language, politics and history. In an offshoring project you will often find that there is not only one kind of distance but rather a combination of these distances. Another trend that has currently gained momentum is agile software development. More and more projects regard agility as a critical success factor for software development. Agile development puts a strong emphasis on face-to-face communication and close collaboration between all project members. With distance on the one hand and close collaboration on the other hand - how can these two trends be squared?
In this talk, Jutta will report from her experiences in bringing these two trends together and which practices help and which hinder the success of a global agile project.
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