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Agile Business Conference 2008

Day 1, September 23rd

Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
08:45-09:30	Registration
09:30-09:40	Welcome to Agile Business Conference 2008
09:40-10:25	Keynote - Peter Morowski Senior Vice President of Research & Development, Borland Driving Agile Transformations from the Top Down
10:25-10:55	Coffee
10:55-11:40	Delivering A Public-Private Partnership with DSDM Atern	Flexing the Micro Process: Introducing Agile Benefits into Iterative Development	Introduction to Agile Part 1
11:45-12:30	Successfully Introducing Agile Project Management within a Large Organisation	The Battle of the Somme to the Present Day: Lessons in Agile	Introduction to Agile Part 2
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:15	Keynote: Rob Thomsett FACS, Author, Consultant Implementing Agile Project Management and Development - Key Learning from the Real World
14:20-15:05	Distributed Agile Teams and Alternative Contractural Forms: What Works Best?	Gaining Boardroom Support for Agile	Introduction to Agile Part 3 Open Floor - Context Considerations and Ask the Experts
15:10 - 15:30	Tea
15:30-16:15	Estimating: Be Agile Not Fragile!	Successfully Agile – a Giant Step Forward with DSDM Atern	Breaking the Cycle of Distrust
16:20-17:00	Plenary Q & A
17:00-18:30	Drinks Reception

Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
09:15-09:35	Registration
09:35-10:25	Keynote: Tim Difford Business Solutions Director, Steria The Accelerated, Green, Iterative and Lean Experience – Agile’s role in the greening of Business and IT change
10:30-10:50	Coffee
10:50-11:35	Manager's Introduction to Test Driven Development	Agile - Why Should Your Business Care?	The Agile Manager
11:40-12:30	Use of Agile Techniques in a Safety Critical Application	But you wouldn't do Agile there!	Agile Certification: An Experience Report
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:15	Keynote: Jutta Eckstein Author, Trainer Staying Agile in a Global World: Distributed Agile Software Development
14:20-14:55	Process Wars: A New Hope	Scaling Agile with CMMI Principles	Ten Golden Rules for Successful Agile Projects
15:00 - 16:00	Closing Keynote: Chris Avery Author, Mentor, Leader Personal Agility and Your Ability to Respond