Agiledays in St. Petersburg, September 17, 2010

There are as many conversations about Agile as there are books , but the question of how to make development flexible and effective in a particular company gives rise to a bunch of discussions. As practice and previous posts on Habré about Agiledays and meetings of the Agilerussia community show , interest in this topic does not fade. That is why we continue to make conferences related to the organization of development processes.

Congratulations to the inhabitants of the northern capital - Agiledays got to their city .

I think advertising Agiledays does not make sense. I can only say that this is the third time in the last year that we are getting together ( Moscow , Yekaterinburg) to discuss modern software development management approaches.

When?

This will all happen in one of the St. Petersburg hotels on September 17 .
There will be several streams: one or two main streams with reports and parallel sessions of master classes and   open spaces .

We have more than enough reasons to gather

People come to our conference: David Hussman , DevJam - consultant on process organization and product management.
David has been developing software for many years in a wide range of fields: digital video, medicine, biometrics, finance, commerce and education. Now David supports several agile communities around the world: the USA, Canada, Europe and even Asia. Contributed to the writing of several books (“ Managing Agile Projects ” and “Agile in the Large.” Dave is currently writing a book for the Pragmatic Programmer series.

At the conference, Dave will introduce us with his talk Products and People Over Process and Dogma, in which he will talk about how, in pursuit of an attempt to make an “Orthodox Agile”, not to forget why you use it, and try to shift the focus from creating a cool “process from books” to the simple achievement of your company's goals, reinforcing yourself with agile development practices .

David will also conduct a two-day Coaching Agility training for those who want to develop in the direction of Agile-Coaching as a new form of management in the company (creating highly productive teams).

Dan Rawsthorne - Senior Coach, Certified Scrum Trainer, Danube. Dan has been working in the IT industry for over 25 years. He went from a simple developer to a project and product manager. He worked both in small (3 people) and in huge (500 people) teams and gained tremendous experience in organizing work in projects of various lengths and complexity. Dan worked on improving processes at small hacking companies and huge organizations certified by CMMI and ISO.

Dan will read at the conference a report on typing User Stories "Storyotypes: The Patterns Within the Stories . "

Also under his leadership will pass two certifications of Certified Scrum Master and Certified Product Owner

Grigory Melnik   - Microsoft, Senior Program Manager at patterns & practices at Microsoft. He currently runs Microsoft Enterprise Library and Software Testing Guidance projects. His professional experience is over 15 years. As a software development engineer, researcher and professor at the university with over 40 publications, he has made a significant contribution to the development of modern methods for the development, testing and implementation of integrated software systems (including Acceptance Test-Driven Development).

Gregory has not yet announced the topic of his report to us, but we are sure that it will be interesting to listen to this person regardless of the topic.

Sergey Dmitriev , Making Waves , Oslo.

Working as Scrum Coach, he helped implement Agile from scratch in 4 companies.
Engaged in agile development since 2005, worked with remote and distributed teams, on small (3 developers) and large (100+ developers) projects. Coached over 25 teams in 6 different countries. Certified PMI project manager, certified by Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Practitioner, Sergey is currently working on his certification as a certified scrum trainer.

Sergey will share his experience and talk about how to make our teams and ourselves more responsible in relation to the product, and how the Agile team can help.

Who else will be?

Guests from Finland and Estonia
are Dmitry Viktorov , F-Secure . He and his team promised to talk about a practice called Business Iteration Planning
- Alec Kozlov , Scrum.ee , founder of the Estonian community Scrum.ee, one of the most experienced trainers in the post-Soviet space.
- Anton Keks , Codeborne . With success, he transferred the entire development center of Swedbank to XP.

St. Petersburg Agilists with many years of experience:
- Roman Yuferev , Avicode . One of the brightest speakers at Agiledays'09.
- Alexey Korsun, ScrumTrek . ScrumTrek representative in St. Petersburg and co-organizer of this conference. Alexey has spoken at Agile conferences more than once and helped St. Petersburg teams become Agile.

And this is just the beginning! More than 20 reports and workshops are planned.

Participation

To participate, you must fill out the registration form on the website of ScrumTrek - the organizer of the conference: scrumtrek.ru/company/registration-spb.

If you are ready to make an interesting report at the conference, send an abstract letter by August 5 to the address: agiledays@scrumtrek.ru

Conference website: spb.agiledays.ru