Expanding Agile Horizons

The Agile 2008 conference is created by a production team of highly respected Agile experts and practitioners to present a program that spans the whole spectrum of agile practice.

The Agile conference series is a organized as a program of the Agile Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to uncovering better ways of developing software inspired by the values and principles of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. A selection of past Agile Alliance conferences can be found at www.Agile200x.org

Conference Chair: 
- Agile Experience Ltd, UK

Program Chairs: 
- Microsoft, USA
- Poppendieck LLC, USA

Sponsor Liaison: 
- Agile Alliance, USA
Media Sponsors: 
- Accelinnova, USA
Press:  - Catapult PR-IR, USA

Volunteer Co-ordinator: 
- X2A Consulting, USA/Egypt
Assistant: Greg Smith - Washington Mutual, USA

Production Team

Agile & Organizational Culture
Producer: Marc Evers, Piecemeal Growth, Netherlands
Assistant Producer: Linda Rising, Independent Consultant, USA

Breaking Acts
Producer: Laurent Bossavit - Independent, France
Assistant Producer: Eric Lefevre - Valtech, France

Chansons Françaises
Producer: Emmanuel Gaillot - Octo Technology, France
Assistant Producer: J. B. Rainsberger - jbrains.ca, Canada

Committing to Quality
Producer: Steve Freeman - Independent, UK
Assistant Producer: Keith Braithwaite - Zuhlke Ltd, UK

Customers & Business Value
Producer: Kent J. McDonald - Knowledge Bridge Partners, USA
Assistant Producer: Greg Goodman - Genesis 10, USA

Developer Jam
Producer: Jeff Nielsen - Stelligent, USA
Assistant Producer: Kirk Knoernschild - TeamSoft, USA

Distributed Agile
Producer: Naresh Jain - Independent, India
Assistant Producer: Jutta Eckstein - Objects in Action, Germany

Designing, Testing, and Thinking with Examples
Producer: Brian Marick - Exampler Consulting, USA
Assistant Producer: Adam Geras - Ideaca, Canada

Leadership & Teams
Producer: Johanna Rothman - Rothman Consulting Group Inc, USA
Assistant Producer: Mike Griffiths - Leading Answers, Canada

Learning & Education
Producer: Brian Hanks - Fort Lewis College, USA
Assistant Producer: Robin Dymond - Innovel LLC USA

Legacy Systems
Producer: Brian Marick - Exampler Consulting, USA
Assistant Producer: Steve Freeman - Independent, UK

Live Aid
Producer: Bob Payne - Electoglide Inc, USA
Assistant Producer: Matt Scilipoti - Possiamo Consulting, USA

Main Stage
Producer: David Hussman - DevJam, USA
Assistant Producer: Jutta Eckstein - Objects in Action, Germany

Open Jam
Producer: Esther Derby - Esther Derby Associates Inc, USA
Assistant Producer: Tamara Sulaiman - Applied Scrum, USA

Questioning Agile
Producer: Jonathan Bach - Quardev, USA
Assistant Producer: Scott Barber - PerfTestPlus Inc, USA

Research
Producer: Philippe Kruchten - University of British Columbia, Canada
Assistant Producer: Yael Dubinsky - IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Research-in-Progress: Pekka Abrahamsson - VTT, Finland & Tore Dybå - SINTEF, Norway

Tools for Agility
Producer: Rick Mugridge - Rimu Research, New Zealand
Assistant Producer: Ron Jeffries - www.XProgramming.com, USA

User Experience
Producer: Jeff Patton - ThoughtWorks, USA
Assistant Producer: Angela Martin - Martin IT Consulting, UK/New Zealand

Musik Masti
Producer: Naresh Jain - Independent, India
Assistant Producer: Henrik Kniberg - Crisp, Sweden

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