Timeboxing -------------- 6:00-7:00 Lightning Talks, Networking And Pizza 6:10 Facilitation Basics 6:20 TDD: Writing The First Test 6:30 Introduction to Agile (AKA Agile in 5 minutes!) 6:40 Introducing Retrospectives 7:00-9:00 The Main Event - a participatory mix of talk and exercises with something for everyone from beginners to experts 9:00-10:00 Withdrawing To "The Victoria Hotel" 10:00 Onwards - After Party An Invitation ---------------- Mark and Robert invite you to an evening on retrospectives. Fresh from fun at XP Manchester, they promise to host a programme with little bit of something for everybody. Or your money back! (Easy for a free event.) Between 6pm and 7pm early birds network and catch a variety of Lightning Talks including short introductions to agile development, facilitation and (of course) retrospectives. The main event opens at 7pm and features a participatory mix of talks and exercises, including a Park Bench forum to share experiences of retrospectives and a session focussing on "Running Your First Retrospective". Why Retrospect? --------------- Iterative development methods are powered by a strong, positive feedback loop. This makes retrospectives an essential tool. Like any good tool, they can be used in a wide variety of ways - for example to bond teams, collect knowledge, generate insights or continuously improve process. But without good technique, these meetings can produce negative feedback - reinforcing failure and enculturising blame. But Who Are Mark And Robert? ---------------------------- Mark van Harmelen has worked in a whole slew of different areas in Computer Science, including, in the dim and distant past, staring down oscilloscopes and logic analysers looking for lost nanoseconds. Mark spent several years specialising in user interface and interactive system design, and, in part based on work at National Panasonic’s Tokyo Research Centre, produced Object Modelling and User Interface Design: Designing Interactive Systems together with a bunch of collaborators. In 2002 he led the team that formulated the establishment of the Meraka Institute in South Africa. Mark now runs Hedtek, a small software house that specialises the production of social software to support educational processes and other high tech topics; for example recently putting 1.3T linked data triples on the web. Mark teaches an annual software engineering course module in the University of Manchester’s School of Computer Science, most recently on agile methods. He has a PhD in Computer Science. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Object-Modeling-Interface-Design-Technology/dp/0201657899/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1301587951&sr=8-1 http://www.meraka.org.za/ http://hedtek.com/ http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~mark/ Robert Burrell Donkin is agile developer by day, open sourceror by night. Old enough to have experienced DSDM and Extreme Programming when they were shiny, he remembers well the dark days before test first. Open source highlights include micro-libraries in the Apache Commons, community building in the Apache Incubator and email protocol implementation in Apache James. Had fun helping Mark with last year's Agile course module. Elected a Member of the Apache Software Foundation in 2005. @itstechupnorth http://itstechupnorth.me.uk http://robertburrelldonkin.name http://www.jroller.com/robertburrelldonkin/ https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/robertburrelldonkin Linked in profiles: |
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