Agile Seminar Helsinki, Spring 2008
2008-03-04 18:00 - 21:00
The Agile Alliance, Reaktor Innovations, and F-Secure are organizing the Spring 2008 Agile Seminar in Finland on March 4th at the HTC in Ruoholahti, Helsinki.
This seminar will have a slightly different format. Instead of the usual three talks we will have two high-quality talks followed by an opportunity to network with fellow participants for a whole hour – with snacks, of course.
Why we’re doing this
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
HTC Helsinki, the Pinta building Auditorium,
Tammasaarenkatu 3, 00180 Helsinki
Registration
Program
Thrashing: The Cause and the Cure
Mary Poppendieck, Poppendieck.LLC
18:00 - 18:45 (45 minutes)
Some companies are better than others at software development. The really good companies, the ones that have tackled most of the easy problems, all seem to have one problem left: they are trying to do more work than they have the capacity to deliver. Anyone who understands queuing theory realizes that trying to work beyond capacity will slow things down, not speed things up. Everyone who works with computers understands thrashing – an overloaded computer spends all of its time moving data around in its limited remaining storage area. This happens when disk usage reaches about 80 or 85% capacity, and the only solution is to do less or get more storage. This session will discuss what causes software development thrashing and how to stop doing it.
Mary Poppendieck
Mary Poppendieck started her career as a process control programmer, moved on to manage the IT department of a manufacturing plant, and then ended up in product development, where she was both a product champion and department manager. Mary considered retirement 1998, but instead found herself managing a government software project where she first encountered the word “waterfall.”
When Mary compared her experience in successful software and product development to the prevailing opinions about how to manage software projects, she decided the time had come for a new paradigm. She wrote the award-winning book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit in 2003 to explain how the lean principles from manufacturing offer a better approach to software development.
Over the past six years, Mary has found retirement elusive as she lectures and teaches classes with her husband Tom. Based on their on-going learning, they wrote a second book, Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash in 2006. A popular writer and speaker, Mary continues to bring fresh perspectives to the world of software development.
Product Owners and Product Managers in Agile environments
Ari Tikka, Nokia Siemens Networks
19:00 - 19:45 (45 minutes)
Clever can deal with situations where wise doesn’t get into. Product management has a great leverage. Scrum is very specific with R&D work and very sparing about the product management. This is for a good reason, but may be confusing. I hope to give understanding, vocabulary and thinking tools for you about often encountered questions. For example:- Product management’s role in the organization
- The Gap between product management and R&D
- One responsible person or a product owner team
- Where do project managers go?
- Benefits of user stories
- Prioritization and backlog maintenance
Ari Tikka
Ari Tikka has a MSc in Structural Mechanics, did hands-on programming for years and led organizational development programs for about ten years. He currently works in a team supporting the Agile transformation of Nokia Siemens Networks.
Snacks and networking
20:00 - 21:00 (60 minutes)
Contacts
Agile Alliance
Lasse Koskela (first name dot last name at ri dot fi)
F-Secure
Vasco Duarte (first name dot last name at f-secure dot com)
Reaktor Innovations
Timo Lukumaa (first name dot last name at ri dot fi)
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