Agile Seminar Helsinki, Fall 2007
2007-10-03 18:00 - 21:00
The Agile Alliance, Reaktor Innovations, and F-Secure are organizing the Fall 2007 Agile Seminar in Finland on October 3rd. 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 methods for business-driven software development.
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?
This event is geared for the software project community including not just software delivery professionals but also business people with responsibility for initiating software development projects and extracting value from those investments.
The seminar will shed light on how software development can better support rapidly changing business needs and how the business can shrink their organization’s time to market with Agile methods.
The event is free of charge and all presentations will be given in English.
Venue
Restaurant Pörssi
Fabianinkatu 14
00100 Helsinki
Finland
Restaurant Pörssi is an impressive venue and perfect for festive banquets as well as smaller events.
Coffee and light snacks will be provided, courtesy of our sponsors.
Registration
Program
Lean Thinking and Toyota Way: Lessons for Product Development
Craig Larman, Valtech
18:00 - 19:00 (60 minutes)
Craig Larman
Craig has 20 years experience in helping organisations adopt OO and agile principles and is regarded as the world’s leading expert on agile adoption and has led the largest multishore agile project ever completed. He wrote the world’s best selling book on OOAD and UML and regularly delivers training & mentoring to organisations around the world.
The Agile Change in NSN
Petri Haapio, Nokia Siemens Networks
19:15 - 20:00 (45 minutes)
Petri Haapio
Petri Haapio has a programmer, analyst and computer science background. After being in product development for 10 years, he discovered Scrum. Petri was at that time working in a start-up company where he was able to try out alternative ways of working, and he adopted Scrum successfully with a small team in Finland 2002. Petri moved to NSN in 2004 where he is leading a company-wide agile/lean adoption.
Facilitating Change: How to Set Yourself Up for Success
Lasse Koskela, Reaktor Innovations
20:15 - 21:00 (45 minutes)
Lasse Koskela
Methodology specialist at Reaktor Innovations, Lasse has held a variety of roles in the IT industry, ranging from development to project management, from training to consulting, and testing to coaching. He is the author of Test Driven: TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers, and actively helps teams around Europe improve on their ability to develop products.
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 over 80 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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