Agile Seminar Helsinki, Fall 2006
2006-10-23 18:00 - 21:00
The Agile Alliance, Reaktor Innovations, and F-Secure are organizing the Fall 2006 Agile Seminar in Finland on October 23rd. 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
HTC Helsinki
Kolumbus auditorium, Pinta building
Tammasaarenkatu 3
00180 Helsinki
HTC Helsinki is located 500 meters from the Ruoholahti metro station, next to the last stop of tram line 8. F-Secure has nice driving instructions on their website that you can peruse.
Registration
Program
Agile Development in Product Business
Sampo Pasanen, Efecte Corporation
18:00 - 18:45 (45 minutes)
Sampo Pasanen
Sampo Pasanen, director of the product unit in Efecte Corporation, has been involved in product business for six years. One of his main concerns has been in making the product development process more and more efficient. He started his career at Efecte as a software developer and has worked as a release manager, quality manager, product manager and director in the product unit. Sampo has been looking at agile development from many angles and sees huge benefits to everyone if a software company decides to go agile.
Agility and IT Governance
Heimo Laukkanen, University of Helsinki
19:00 - 19:45 (45 minutes)
Heimo Laukkanen
What's Wrong with Agile Methods?
Tom Gilb, Independent consultant
20:15 - 21:00 (45 minutes)
Current agile methods could benefit from using a more quantified approach across the entire implementation process (that is, throughout development, production and delivery). The main benefits of adopting such an approach include improved communication of the requirements and, better support for feedback and progress tracking.
Tom Gilb
Tom Gilb, an independent consultant, teacher, methodologist and author, is without a doubt one of the leading thinkers in the global IT community. He has published a number of books and various articles on project management and testing in software development, and has worked with senior management as well as technical staff in applying and developing his world-renowned methods.
Tom’s latest book, Competitive Engineering: A Handbook for Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering and Software Engineering Using Planguage, was published in Spring 2005. A frequent keynote speaker, invited speaker, panelist, and tutorial speaker at international conferences, Tom’s clients include Nokia, Citigroup, Symbian, Intel, Microsoft, Ericsson, Sun Microsystems, Phillips, and Hewlett-Packard.
Following the seminar, Tom will be giving a 2-day public course titled “10 Principles of Agile Software Development: The Management View” on October 24-25th in collaboration with Management Events. All course participants will also receive a copy of Tom’s book, Competitive Engineering: A Handbook for Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering and Software Engineering Using Planguage. Members of the Agile Finland community can register for Tom’s course for a discounted price of €950 by using the promotion code “Agile Finland”.
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 60 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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