Agile Seminar Helsinki, Spring 2006
2006-03-17 17:00 - 19:45
The Agile Alliance and Reaktor Innovations are organizing the first Agile Seminar of 2006 in Finland on March 17th. The purpose of this seminar is to bring together IT and business on a forum that facilitates the exchange of ideas and experiences with agile, iterative, and incremental software development methods.
High quality content
We will hold these seminars infrequently, and therefore ensure high quality, best in class presentations and talks around Agile techniques and thinking. This meeting is a must for anyone with an interest in Agile.
Who should attend and why?
Software delivery professionals involved in the development of and delivery of business critical systems, who are interested in learning more about Agile methods and how they can support rapidly changing business needs. We would also encourage business people with responsibility for initiating software development projects to attend and learn more about extracting business value using Agile software development.
The event is free of charge and all presentations will be given in English.
Venue
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Kiasma theater
Mannerheiminaukio 2
00100 Helsinki
Walk in from the main entrance, leave your coat to the public cloakroom service, and continue straight forward towards the back of the building where the reception desk and the auditorium is located.
Registration
Program
Team Building and Agile Software Development
Vasco Duarte, F-Secure
17:00 - 17:45 (45 minutes)
The software development field is stressful. Some accounts put the percentage of stress-related problems at 7% of all occupational health problems in the software industry. That’s a huge cost for software development companies in missed work-days and loss of productivity. Is software development more or less stressful with Agile software development methods? In this talk we’ll see an example of how a team took on a high-profile, potentially high-stress project at F-Secure, and was not only able to cope with the stress, but deliver a product to the market before the original deadline, and keep up their excellent morale. This talk explores how team building combined with Agile software development methods can work its magic even in the most difficult of situations.
Vasco Duarte
Currently a Product Manager at F-Secure, Vasco Duarte is an experienced project manager, having worked in the software development field since 1997. Vasco has also been an Agile Believer and Practicioner since 2004, he is one of the leaders and a catalyst in the adoption of Agile methods and Agile culture at F-Secure. Vasco’s humble contributions to the improvement of the software development profession can be read in his blog.
Test Automation in Agile Development Today
Sebastian Nykopp, Reaktor Innovations
18:00 - 18:45 (45 minutes)
Quality Assurance in Agile Development requires an agile approach to testing, where testing activities are continually adapted to the requirements of the situation. A range of testing tools have emerged in the agile community to provide automation support for the forms of testing typically applied in agile projects.
Sebastian Nykopp presents an overview of current tools and practices in the field of agile test automation, ranging from support for test-driven development and developer testing to continuous integration and automated acceptance tests. The discussion is illustrated with examples drawn from experience applying these tools and techniques at Reaktor Innovations.
Sebastian Nykopp
Sebastian Nykopp is Chief Architect at Reaktor Innovations, the leading authority on agile software development in Finland. A Certified Scrum Master, Sebastian has over 10 years experience in the software business in roles ranging from developer and software architect to OO analyst and methodology consultant.
How Agile Works: Complexity and Agility
Joseph Pelrine, MetaProg
19:00 - 19:45 (45 minutes)
The use of so-called “Agile” methods such as eXtreme Programming and Scrum has helped many software projects to success, although it’s not always clear why and how. An understanding of the roots of agility, though, is is a requirement for adopting and adapting agile processes in organizations. New research in the field of social complexity theory provides an explanation for when and how agile methods work. By using techniques from this relatively new field, developers and managers can more easily adapt agile methods to the idiosyncracies of specific organizations and projects, are more aware of weak signals that can lead to problems, and can design interventions to correct them.
This talk provides a short introduction to social complexity theory, especially the Cynefin multi-ontological sense-making framework, and illustrates its application to agile software development.
Joseph Pelrine
Joseph Pelrine is C*O of MetaProg, a company devoted to increasing the quality of software and its development process, and is one of Europe’s leading experts on eXtreme Programming as well as Europe’s first certified ScrumMaster Practitioner and Trainer. He has had a successful career as software developer, project manager and consultant, and has spoken about it at such diverse places as IBM, OOPSLA and the Chaos Computer Club. His work focus is on field of social complexity and its application to Agile processes.
Joseph is also running a course on team dynamics in Helsinki on the 14th and 15th of March.
Contacts
Reaktor Innovations and Agile Alliance:
Lasse Koskela
Reaktor Innovations
+358-45-6709770
lasse.koskela@ri.fi
About
Agile Alliance
The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization that supports individuals and organizations who use agile approaches to develop software. Driven by the simple priorities articulated in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, agile development approaches deliver value to organizations and end users faster and with higher quality.
www.agilealliance.org
Reaktor Innovations
Reaktor Innovations is a business-to-business software company specialised in delivering high-quality solutions for its customers. Reaktor Innovations combines superior technological competence with the ability to understand our customers’ business needs. We aim at long-lasting, mutually beneficial customer relationships and being a trusted, strategic IT partner for our clients. Reaktor Innovations delivers IT solutions for companies operating in various fields of business such as banking, insurance, media, logistics, telecommunication and the public sector. Based in Helsinki, Finland, Reaktor Innovations employs 50 IT professionals.
www.ri.fi
F-Secure
F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses against computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile networks. We want to be the most reliable provider of security services in the market. One way to demonstrate this is the speed of our response. According to independent studies in 2004 and 2005 our response time to new threats is significantly faster than our major competitors. Our award-winning solutions are available for workstations, gateways, servers and mobile phones. They include antivirus and desktop firewall with intrusion prevention, antispam and antispyware solutions, as well as network control solutions for Internet Service Providers. Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges since 1999, and has been consistently growing faster than all its publicly listed competitors.
www.f-secure.com
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