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In stark contrast to the mind-numbing monologues you’d expect from other vendors, VersionOne Theatre presents the dramatic production A Day In The Lifecycle…, based on a true story*. This multi-act, action-packed feature highlights the pragmatic value a tool can offer in day-to-day product development activities – from product planning through your daily standup – illustrated within the context of the way agile teams actually work.

“One thumb, way up! A Day in the Lifecycle… was totally refreshing – entertaining and informative – a real breath of fresh air.” Ebert

The evolution of purpose built Agile development environments is starting to have dramatic impacts on streamlining an organizations ability to adopt Agile processes and deliver new business applications. This session will provide insight into how OutSystems All-in-One Agile Platform and Methodology extend core Agile concepts with automation.

As the agile horizons expand beyond software development and throughout the enterprise, the enterprise itself is evolving—becoming more dispersed and mobile. New technologies are changing organizations, applications, and the way we do business. But success is not one-size-fits-all. Organizations facing real-world challenges can’t simply adopt a rigid, purist approach. Command Information adapts agile methods to our clients’ specific business needs, while helping them seize the opportunities presented by Next-Generation technologies.

You mastered software development with Agile and now possess the knowhow to deliver high quality software quickly. Your next concern is what to build, not how to build it. There is an art to designing products. Customer iteration is a start but not necessarily the only approach you should use. This talk introduces Software Product Design, the art of applying industrial product design approaches to creating software. No sales pitch at this session. We’re talking product innovation and creativity.

This talk will tell the story of how to do agile development in the upcoming version of visual studio. We’ll talk about agile planning, quality early, TDD, continuous integration and improvement, connecting with customers and a host of other agile practices enabled through the new VS tools. This talk will showcase the tools by walking through the story of building Team Foundation Server v.next using the Visual Studio tools.

Distributed operations, open source tools, mashups, and SaaS are breaking down the traditional boundaries between vendor-supplied and custom-developed software. It’s now possible – if not necessary – to integrate development and run-time activities onto a seamless distributed platform. During this vendor talk, Charlie Rudd, President and CEO of SolutionsIQ, will demonstrate key elements of SolutionsIQ’s Agile development platform: • Mashups of SaaS and open source tools for development and continuous integration

The 21st century team encompasses employees, customers and partners working in- concert, often distributed globally. Benefits of a global labor pool have themselves introduced their own costs associated with the complex feedback loops that develop bet these teams. We recognize that the level of complexity in the enterprise will continue to grow and teams need to be outfitted with the right tools to reduce impediment to communication, maintain continuity and drive management through intelligence from the ground.

While a lot has been written about moving development teams to Agile, there is limited literature on helping product management teams shift from Waterfall to Agile models. Product managers often lack the mentors, experience and organizational models to be successful as their technical teams demand new artifacts and processes. This talk will cover how Agile Product Managers need to think and work differently, emerging conflicts between Product Managers and Product Owners, and opportunities for Agile to change how companies plan/market/sell their solutions.

An introduction to the Atern Agile framework from the DSDM Consortium. DSDM Atern is becoming increasingly recognised as the leader in providing the necessary rigor organisations demand when undertaking programmes (Agile in the Large) and Medium size programmes with the flexibility and responsiveness Agile approaches deliver. The free to view/free to use framework addresses the needs of all involved in the successfully delivery of a project and programme end to end, from the projects inception to post implement support.

Salesforce.com took a big bang approach to implement a SCRUM method, with huge success. This meant big changes to how Product Managers work, how we interact with the team, and manages dependencies between teams.

No more 200 page functional specs, no more waiting 12-18 months before features got into customers hands. No more changes to the release dates – how do we survive?