Kraków, Poland
13-15 June 2012
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People Build Systems Build People

The patterns and anti-patterns of human system design sound familiar, Jim Benson will discuss a few of them, including: Good/Bad UX, Enlightening/Confounding Data, Robust/Weak Architecture.

Alienation

Software people can experience various kinds of social disconnect - or alienation - through work. Agile adoptions compound this problem, although it's rarely perceived as such.

Gamified Retrospectives

Adding serious games, funware, with grain of gamification may help your team in finding creative solutions, thinking out of the box, and making them happier than ever before.

The Testing Pyramid: Bringing Testers and Developers Together

By working together to create the set of tests and then determining where that testing belongs, we can increase efficiency, reliability and reduce debugging time for failures in the future.

Journey to agility in Allegro Group

We will tell you a story about the agile transition in Allegro Group - large e-commerce company, operating in Central and Eastern Europe.

Why Limiting WIP Works

Pawel will reveal the mechanics of limiting WIP and identify false beliefs which we often embrace in software development. He'll show how these mechanics can be exploited to improve processes in both expected and unexpected ways.

The Beating Heart of Agile

We'll talk about self-regulating social systems, collective intelligence, organizational learning and self-organization and how all of the above are required to create an ecosystem where your organization and people can reap the benefits of an Agile approach.

Curing Agile Hangover with Craftsmanship

Focussing on empowered professional software engineers, well defined testing strategy, process automation, high investment in people development, requirements management and strong emphasis on quality.

Quit your job

If he can't convince you to quit your job, Daniel will offer suggestions for less radical things to experiment with to get more enjoyment out of your programming.

Beyond transparency - building trust and improving communications

This talk will look at some of the tools and techniques I use, and show how the mindset necessary to achieve transparency needs to include our dealings with the whole team.

Creating the Environment for Agility

Creating and maintaining the right environment is the primary function of higher-level management in an agile company.

Combining Kanban & Scrum - lessons from teams of sysadmins

Join me in discovering how a team of sysadmins dragged the best of kanban, added a chunk of Scrum and came up with a clear and sustainable process for support teams.

Where bad code comes from

Join me to explore some unexpected sources of bad code or why the head of KML's safety program caused the deadliest airplane collision in history.

Developer ! - Deliver software with higher qualtiy with simple trixs

During this session I will introduce how agile teams could get rapidly feedback of newly implemented and how to avoid the battle between develop and test.

Continuous Delivery

This is a short story how implementing a continuous delivery process magically solved most of the problems on our project and made our life easier and happier.

Maintaining Kanban in a multiproject, changing team

I will focus on improvements we made over two years of using kanban. At the end I will try to share some ideas we now have for further work with kanban.

Retrospectives, the most boring meetings ever

I've some spices in my suitcase that will turn any retrospective into a remarkable experience. Join me, to learn how to facilitate a retrospective your team will love.

Outsourcing and Agile - Yes! We can!

Take a product. A telco one. Put it into development. A large scale one. Let it be multi-everything: multi-site, multi-team, multi-national. Pour it with waterfall legacy and spice it up with outsourcing. Looks like Agile is not from this tale... Or maybe it is?

Speakers

Jim Benson

Modus Cooperandi
For the past two decades Jim Benson has worked at uncovering ways for individuals and groups to communicate, collaborate, and find clarity in unpredictable and amorphous environments.

Bob Marshall

In the course a careerhelping businesses dramatically improve the effectiveness of their software development and design engineering efforts Bob has worked at the cutting edge of software and business systems development for the best part of thirty years.

Monika Konieczny

iLoop Mobile
Monika works as a Project Manager/Scrum Master at iLoop Mobile coordinating the work of the teams creating tools to run mobile adds campaigns. She's also a PhD student especially interested in effective motivation and the use of gamification and simulation games to make teams happier and more productive.

Nancy Chacko

TicketLeap
Nancy Chacko has been working in the test field for over 10 years. She is a firm believer in automated testing and the value of targeted manual testing. She has recently helped to lead her team in a transition from "scrummerfall" to a legitimate agile process.

Jakub Szczepanik/Jacek Wieczorek

Allegro
Jacek works as Scrum Master in Allegro Group. He is passionate about agile software development and coaching. Jakub is the Agile Center Leader in Allegro Group, responsible for Scrum transition and coaching.

Pawel Brodzinski

Vsoft
Pawel is also well-recognized blogger writing about software project management at blog.brodzinski.com. He is a fan of choosing right approach to right problem and doesn't believe in a silver bullet. Pawel is passionate about leading great teams, fixing broken projects and creating high-quality software.

Andrea Provaglio

andreaprovaglio.com
Andrea is an independent professional in the field of Information Technology, with almost twenty years of working experience in three different continents. His mission is to help people develop better software and create better development teams; and to help the individuals improve technically and relationally.

Sandro Mancuso/Mashooq Badar

UBS
Sandro is co-founder of the London Software Craftsmanship Community (LSCC). Mashoog has a passion for creating simple quality software by applying the best of breed technologies, practices and processes.

Daniel Temme

Thoughtworks
Daniel has been developing software for 14 years. In that time he lost and then slowly rediscovered his passion for software development. These days he's trying to help others on their search.

John Cieslik-Bridgen

Lunar Logic
John has been a Scrum Master at Lunar Logic since 2009. Previously, he worked in the gambling industry as a software engineer and in project management. He started working in IT at the crest of the first dot com.

Andy Brandt

CodeSprinters
Andy is the founder of CodeSprinters and the creator of BananaScrum. He has been an agile coach working in various countries since agile's earliest days.

Kate Terlecka

Scrum.org
Kate is currently an independent coach and trainer and a Scrum Master for teams producing call center software. She is organizing work in a Scrum way, educating management and provides coaching for the organization and anyone willing to work better.

Marcin Floryan

Energized Work
Marcin continually learns to develop better software and to develop software better, to help others do it and to share that knowledge. He embraces values of eXtreme programming and aims to delight customers by delivering value.

Henrik Andersson

Jayway
Henrik started his career as a developer, then moved on to software testing. By speaking both languages he brings the gap between developers and testers closer.

Szymon Pobiega

Infusion Development
Szymon is the leader of Kraków .NET Developer Group. He is very passionate about software development and likes to share his passion in all available ways: by speaking, writing and tweeting.

Piotr Leszczynski

VSoft
Piotr deeply believes that Project Management is all about working with people. He is also positively biased about Clean Code and working especially with those who are passionate about their work and keep improving their skills.

Marc Löffler

Spoonique
Marc Löffler works as Functional Manager and Agile Coach at KARL STORZ in Switzerland. He loves reading books, playing Saxophone and speaking at conferences. His passion is to help teams implement agile frameworks like Scrum and XP and transforming our world of work.

Jan Biela-Abreu/Radoslaw Lont

Ericpol
Jan and Radosław led agile transitions to Scrum and kanban in different divisons of Ericpol and they'll be sharing their experiences and lessons learned.