Abstracts

Speaker	Title	Abstract	Public
Padraig Brennan	Is your Agile my Agile ? The different faces to Agile	This presentation is for Project Managers , Developers or Senior Managers that have either been using Agile for some time or are beginning a transition. Padraig will present what are the key Agile fundamentals in any Agile Team or in any Agile Transition. Some real work experiences will be explored in order to demonstrate what are the key points that any developer or manager must address in order to make agile work well. Padraig will provide experience from leading the agile transition of a Large organisation over that past 3 years as well as leading Agile projects in a number of other companies over the past 10 years. All participants will learn how to achieve improved quality and productivity from their Agile projects.	All
Padraig Brennan	Practices of quality and testing when implementing Agile methodologies	This Presentation is for Project Managers and Developers who want to understand the importance of clean code , what it is and how to achieve it. Padraig will present some real world projects that have achieved significant quality improvements using these techniques. Much of the presentaion will focus on TDD , what it is and how to use it. The Coding Dojo technique will also be introduced, http://codingdojo.org/.	All
Frederic Oehl	Introduction to Agile Methods	In 2001, 17 software engineers published the Agile Manifesto. We will review the Manifesto to talk of the changes involved by the move to agile. We will also introduce some of the Agile Methods.	Beginner
Frederic Oehl	XP Game	Workshop to introduce the basic concepts of eXTreme Programming such as iteration, story points, velocity, etc. (cf. http://www.xp.be/xpgame.html)	Beginner
Ken Brennock	Practices of quality and testing when implementing Agile methodologies	Agile implementations often struggle to implement effective approaches to testing that achieve productivity enhancements with the required level of quality. The aim of this presentation is to provide insights into the various approaches and practices of quality and testing when implementing Agile methodologies. The presentation will examine past experiences where quality/testing have often not been successful, to the present where testers are starting to understand their role in a wide variety of agile team implementations and will conclude with considerations of what the future might hold for role of testing in agile projects.	All
Colm O'hEocha	New to Agile	1) Agile is different - it involves a paradigm shift in how we conduct software development. Its not just a case of buying a new tool and renaming roles in the team - it involves a highly pragmatic, risk-adverse approach to development, based on the same lean thinking that made manufactures like Toyota world leaders in product development. 2) Agile is good - research shows it is delivering real business agility, productivity, quality. Real world experiences with agile can be used to build strong business cases and demonstrate its benefits. 3) Agile is going mainstream - contrary to common myths, its not just for small co-located teams working on green-fields projects where quality isn't critical. Its being applied across global enterprises and a wide variety of project types.	Beginner
Nicolas Paez	Lightweight Agile framework for quality assurance in Small and Medium Enterprises	Based on their business needs, many software SMEs differentiate through the high quality of their deliverables, compliancy with standards and alignment with engineering best practices. In this session I will explain how an SME in that context, successfully used a lightweight framework based on premises like self-assessment, tailoring, automation and positive peer pressure that assured a high level of service quality while removing the implied costs that would be derived from implementing a QA department. The framework aligned with the company’s agile processes allowing teams, through the implementation of short iterations, to assess their compliancy with a tailored quality baseline and make reviews with the help of cross-teams Quality Reviewers. The result was a low cost framework that helped to grow factors like overall process quality while increasing quality perceived from the customer.	All
Romans Malinovskis	Implementing Agile development in an outsourcing company		All
Anne-Marie Charrett	Exploratory Testing Challenge	This session involves participants to come along and take part in a Exploratory Testing Challenge. This challenge will test a robot and demonstrate in very practical terms the powerful nature of Exploratory Testing.	All
Robert McGarry	Case Study	A case study for a project where we delivered a large case management solution to a central government agency in the UK using agile techniques and BPM technology.	All
David Williams	Agile Services Oriented Architecture	Does Agile development help you develop Service Oriented Architectures? What happens when you combine the world of SOA with Agile practices?	All