Plaster Group Agile consultants Shama and Grant had a great time time last week at the Agile Open Northwest conference. This year’s open space conference covered the gamut of Agile-related topics and provided an engaging environment for lively discussion. The session topics included:
- Managing Stakeholder & Executive Expectations
- The Role of an Agile Manager
- Teaching Pairing
- Designing Programming Languages for Agile
- When Management Threatens to Kill Agility
- Adaptive Execution + Any Planning = Agile
- Thus Sayeth the Oracle
- CREATE Quality Code (Cohesion, non-Redundant, Encapsulation, Assertiveness, Testability, Explicit)
- Stuck? Root Cause Analysis
- Legacy Code
- How to be an Awesome Project Manager
- Measuring Team Productivity
- Agile: the Day After…
- Visualizing Teams
- Project Planning in an Agile Environment
- CFDs
- Agile Resumes and Interviews
- Lean Feature Experimentation
- End-to-End Quality & Other Challenges with Agile at Scale
- Managing Requests Without a Product Owner
- The 5 Rules of Learning
- What Happens When we Focus on Everyone’s Needs
- Why Cycle Time Distribution Looks Like it Does & How we Can Use it
- Seeding Agile in a Reluctant Team
- Working Remotely with an Otherwise Co-located Team
- Good People are Made, not Bought
- Avoiding Orthodoxy
Agile Open has graciously provided summaries of many session topics, complete with photos of any brainstorming and notes that took place during the discussion. This is a great resource if you are looking for Agile conversation-openers, need a quick reference after participating in the conference, or were unable to attend. Visit session notes and pictures on the AONW website by clicking here.
