Breaking Acts Stage

Producer: Laurent Bossavit
Assistant: Eric Lefevre

Advancing the state of software development practice is a big job. Agile software development builds upon several generations of previous advances: structured programming, iterative and incremental models, object orientation… And Agile as it stands today is still a work in progress. For Agile software development to remain relevant, it must incorporate new ideas continuously.

This stage offers an opportunity to come across ideas that are relevant to Agile but not accepted yet as “mainstream”; it is also a forum for speakers who bring a fresh and surprising look to aspects of Agile we thought familiar.

If you’re looking for new ideas to keep improving your software development practices, Breaking Acts is the stage to be at.

* Subject to speaker confirmation

Timeslot

Session

Speaker 1

Speaker 2

Room

Tuesday

10:45-12:15

Agility, Evolution, Emergence, and the Primodial Ooze

Brian Foote

 

Essex Ballroom

10:45-12:15

The use of Ritual in Agile currently and identifying improving ways to harness the power of ritual

Mark Smith

 

Windsor East

10:45-12:15

Agile Game Development

Clinton Keith

 

Windsor West

14:00-17:30

Osgood East

14:00-17:30

Coaching self-organizing teams

Joseph Pelrine

Steve Freeman

Essex Ballroom

14:00-15:30

The Pomodoro Technique: can you focus - really focus - for 25 minutes?

Staffan Noteberg

 

Windsor East

14:00-15:30

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall... Why Me?

Portia Tung

Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

Windsor West

16:00-17:30

Good Used Cars, Cheap Health Insurance, and Successful Consulting Engagements

Michael Nygard

 

Windsor East

16:00-17:30

Agile Contracting

Rachel Weston

Chris Spagnuolo

Windsor West

Wednesday

08:30-10:00

Real Options in a Nutshell - Bottled Common Sense

Olav Maassen

Chris Matts

Essex Ballroom

08:30-10:00

Starfish are agile!

Vinayak Joglekar

 

Windsor East

08:30-12:00

Value Stream Mapping - Extending Our View to the Enterprise

Alan Shalloway

 

Windsor West

10:30-12:00

Stuck in your own code? Alleviate cognitive friction today!

Régis Medina

 

Essex Ballroom

10:30-12:00

Can IT Projects be insured?

Graham Oakes

 

Windsor East

14:00-15:30

Come and Take It! Lean Pull Applied

Rod Coffin

Don McGreal

Essex Ballroom

14:00-15:30

Agile and labour turnover - Should I stay or should I go?

Nicole Belilos

Willem van den Ende

Windsor East

14:00-15:30

The Doctor is "In" - Using the Office Hours Concept to Make Limited Resources Most Effective

Andrea Leszek

Catherine Courage

Windsor West

14:00-15:30

Agile operations and infrastructure: how infra-gile are you?

Patrick Debois

 

Windsor West

16:00-17:30

GTD + Kanban + Round Robin for Product Owners

Thomas Nilsson

 

Essex Ballroom

Enterprise Agile Consortium - Company to Company Mentorship for Agile Adoption

Sue Holstad

 

Essex Ballroom

16:00-17:30

The Hidden Life of Groups

Dan Mezick

 

Windsor East

16:00-17:30

Overcoming Brooks' Law

Kealy Opelt

 

Windsor West

Thursday

08:30-12:00

Operating on the Creative Edge: Applying Improvisation Techniques in Agile

Jim York

Tobias Mayer

Windsor East

08:30-12:00

Beginner's Mind--The Zen of Agile

David Hussman

Jean Tabaka

Windsor West

08:30-12:00

KFC Development - Finger Lickin' Good

Karl Scotland

Aaron Sanders

Essex Ballroom

14:00-15:30

Artful Making for Agile Teams

Lee Devin

Stacia Broderick

Essex Ballroom

14:00-15:30

Mature Agile with a twist of CMMI

Carsten Jakobsen

Kent Aaron Johnson

Windsor East

Agile development in a medical device company

Riaan Rottier

Victor Rodrigues

14:00-15:30

Swarming - The Birds and the Bees and Agile

Tom Perry

Dhaval Panchal

Windsor West

16:00-17:30

Estimating Considered Wasteful: Introducing Micro-Releases

Joshua Kerievsky

 

Essex Ballroom

16:00-17:30

The Agile Haiku Workshop

Elizabeth Keogh

 

Windsor West

Friday

08:30-10:00

Starting a Kanban System for Software Engineering with Value Stream Maps and Theory of Constraints

Corey Ladas

 

Essex Ballroom

08:30-10:00

Separation of concerns: How to decrease coupling and to raise cohesion

Mario Cardinal

 

Windsor East

08:30-10:00

Estimating Relative Complexity

Steve Bockman

 

Windsor West

 

Review Team