Agilopolis Community Conference #2

Posted Mon, 09/07/2009 - 16:27 by admin

2009-09-23: Agilopolis Community Conference 2 is now only history - sad but unfortunately true. Summary of conference is available here.

Agilopolis Community Conference #2

Unfortunately. Roman Pilcher informed us that he cannot participate in our Conference. Despite of that, the team would like to invite you to second Agilopolis Community Conference #2, which will be held on 22 September 2009, in Wroclaw, Poland.

Agilopolis Community Conference is an half day non-profit conference, meant for anyone with some degree of experience with an agile way of working and thinking. Designed for agile practitioners to meet in self-organizing groups where they can share their ideas, challenges, hopes, wishes, experiences and experiments. Open Space Technology will be followed as conference approach in order to increase collaboration and allow the conference to take its direction from the participants themselves. It's the only conference where you co-create the conference while it happens.

The conference main theme is:
Commercial aspects of Agile

Facilitation of the conference will be done by Lukasz Jastrzebski (Nokia Siemens Networks)

Łukasz Jastrzębski is currently working as Line Manager at
Nokia Siemens Networks. During his daily work he is
responsible coordination of teams working on Intelligent
Network software.

During his carrier mainly at Siemens and Nokia Siemens
Networks, he has be working at various positions:
programmer, developer, senior developer and team leader.

Łukasz has graduated from Wroclaw University of Technology
(Computer Science). He is passionate about Agile and
software development. Łukasz is Sun Certified Java
Developer.

The topics for this conference are again up to you! Some of topic that already were proposed (rest can be found on Agilopolis Forum):

  • Shall each team member be allowed to contact with customer?
  • Customer relations: What to do if customer "claims/screams" that team did not provided the required functionality?
  • How to sell the Agile product if the costs are unknown?
  • How to present to customer Demo of system architecture?
  • How "agile" based contract should look like?
  • Shall the demo session be the only acceptance criteria?
  • How to prepare the acceptance test for customer?
  • Contract issues - how to convience customer?
  • How to implement Agile in fixed price contracts?
  • which tools can help for geographically splited teams?
  • What is the basis for statement that "succes of agile proejct comes from good motivation of the team"?
  • Imagine team working together 5 succesful years. Any motivating factors you could suggest?
  • Why financial bonus is not good motivator?
  • What is the critical size of the project when agile can be used?
  • Evaluation of team working in Scrum - how to do it?
  • When Scrum recommends to break user stories down to tasks?
  • Shall the sprint backlog be modified during sprint?
  • System Testing - how to manage?
  • How the fault corrections should be defined in backlog?
  • Agile vs. V-cycle - what are the main differences?
  • Subcontractors in agile
  • Non-functional requirements in backlog
  • Why assigning specific roles within agile team does not work?
  • Shall PM be located with the team in agile projects?
  • How testing tasks should be defined in sprint backlog?

Short information:

  • What: An Open Space event discussing agile practices and techniques.
  • Where: Hotel Jana Pawla 2, ul. Świętego Idziego 2, 50-328 Wrocław
  • When: 22 September 2009; 17:00-21:00
  • Facilitator: Łukasz Jastrzębski (Nokia Siemens Networks Sp. z o.o.)
  • Who: Anyone with some degree of experience in agile methods and processes
  • How: Open Space Technology - more details: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology
  • Cost: Conference fee in order to cover room and coffee
  • 20 zl if paid by bank transfer before conference
  • 30 zl at the day of conference

Bank account:
74 1140 2004 0000 3702 6072 1302
mBank, Odział Bankowości Detalicznej BRE Banku S.A

Only limited number of places are available, so be quick to register!
Inviation for the conference can be found as an attachment (please login first)

Once more, many thanks to our organization team!

Ewa Schumacher
eMail: ewa.schumacher@gmail.com
Tomasz Lukasiewicz, Wroclaw University of Technology/Research&Engineering Center
eMail: tomasz.lukasiewicz@agilopolis.com
Jerzy Wachala, Project Management Institute/Nokia Siemens Networks
eMail: jerzy.wachala@agilopolis.com
Marcin Koltonowski, Nokia Siemens Networks
eMail: marcin.koltonowski@agilopolis.com

Previous Agilopolis Conferences:

  • NSN (Silver Forum);
  • Research&Engineering Centre (WPB);
  • Hotel Jana Pawla 2;
  • Politechnika Wrocławska (B4);
  • Wrocławski Park Technologiczny.

Topics covered at previous conferences include but are not limited to:

  • Impelemtation of the Agile - how to start it.
  • eXtream Programming Practices and Tooling
  • Kanban in IT
  • Motivaton in Agile
  • Testing in Agile
  • Agile in non-Agile environment
  • Agile Project in reality – execution of an example project
  • Agile - differences and similarities to standard project management methods

Please check Agilpolis Community Days for more information about past events.

Sponsors:
Agile Innovation Factory