2017 Sessions

Tim Ottinger – Always Be Learning & Experimenting

Christopher Avery – The Responsibility Process

Jodi Womack – Get Momentum When You Need It Most

Esther Derby – Leaders at All Levels

Barry Tarlton – The MacGyver Mindset for Mastering Problem Solving

Daryl Kulak – Three Types of ROI – Thin, Thick and Thurmanator

Ryan Ripley – The #NoEstimates Movement

Tim Ottinger – Leading Knowledge Workers

Dustin Potts – Seven Deadly Sins of Agile Coaching

Dave West – Who Is the Product Owner, Anyway?

Rob Tarr & Ryan Cromwell – Modern Javascript Workshop

Matthew Badgley – Learning To Fly:  Purpose-Drive Teams

Steven Davidson – Agile Product Management Craftsmanship

Patricia Kong – Evidence-based Management & Metrics

Nate Lusher & Vicki Muscarella – Explosive Growth without Killing the Culture

Mandar Malunjkar, Eileen Ouellette, Kelly Kroskie, Michael Reggie, Dana Weigle, Neil Ritzert –Travelogue: Agility Transformation Journey at Alliance Data Systems and NetJets

Dan Wiebe – Writing rspec-Style Tests Respectfully

Jason Blackhurst – Developer-Initiated DevOps

Tommy Graves – Epistemology of Disagreeing

Kalpesh Shah – Outcome Over Output: Taking your Team to Next Level of Awesome !!!

Raj Indugula – Be Ready, Be Done: The Art of Slicing Stories

Kyle Mielke – Applying Lean Principles to Your Sales & Marketing Teams

Kyle Jenkins –  Trust – Can we build it? Yes we can!

Ryan Ripley – Advanced Scrum

Hunter Willett – Frameworks are Like New Golf Clubs, They Won’t Fix a Terrible Swing: How Understanding the Principles of Agile is the First Step

Amanda Laucher – Coal Miners to Craftsman

Peter Kananen – Hands-on Flow Metrics

Sam O’Brien – 12 Steps to an Agile Mindset

Cynthia Payne & Jim Grafmeyer – Chat Bots and Chat Ops

Linda Farrenkopf – Integrating Agile Into Your Manager’s DNA

Ben Thorp – The Elusive Magic of Teams

Dan Greenleaf – Agile Metrics

Manisha Mahawar – How To Deliver Effective Feedback

Jon Fuller – Building Mobile Apps Can be Hard

Ryan Ripley, Faye Thompson, Jodi Womack, Davd Faurio, Tim Ottinger – Continuous Learning Through Aggressive Curiosity

Connie Kobal, Jennifer Bentley, Christy Fenzl, Kyle Udall – Visual Requirements – How to Decompose Scope

Warner Moore – Building a High Performing WebOps Team

Kevin Fox – Building Delivery Pipelines with Jenkins’ Pipeline as Code

Jeff Dalton – Agile Performance Holarchy

April Jefferson & Brielle Maxwell – Embracing LEAN Thinking and an Agile Mindset

Jeremy Willetts – Taking Agile Principles and Practices to the Rest of the Organization

Jim Sammons, Jon Stahl, John Mason, Anji Lopez, Nilesh Thamane – Coaching Panel

Wendy Jacobs & Nate Lusher – Keep Calm and Story Map On

Chris Slee – APIs and the Agile Transformation

Chris Nelson – GraphQL – What It Is and Why You Should Care

2016 Sessions

Ellen Gottesdiener — Innovate and Invigorate Your Agile Discovery Practices  Video

Kevin Fisher — DevOps: Company Culture Can Make or Break DevOps Success  Video

Dave West — Scrum Turns 21: What is Next for Scrum for the Next 20 Years Video

Jon Stahl — Leading Lean  Video

Gil Broza — Being Agile: Having the Mind-set that Delivers Video

Srini Koushik — Why IT Doesn’t Matter In Today’s Exponential Organization  Video

Guru Vasudeva — Agile & Lean: A Marriage to Maximize the Value of IT  Video

Ryan Ripley — The Business of Agile: Better, Faster, Cheaper  Video

Johanna Rothman — Becoming an Agile Leader Regardless of Your Role  Video

Doc Norton — Building Blocks of a Knowledge Work Culture Video

Jason Womack — Get Momentum: Five Questions to Ask to Get Started  Video

Christopher Avery — The Responsibility Process

Gary Bernhardt — Reproducibility

Jeremy Willets — Introspection: The Key to Making Your Environment Conducive to Continuous Learning

Justin Browder & Bryan Schoeff — Perfect Strangers: How Project Managers and Developers Relate and Succeed

Dan Greenleaf, Andrea Boddeker, Scott Taylor & Brett Buchanan — Experiences of Portfolio Planning in a Lean Agile Environment

Rick Guba — Lean 101

Nick Martin & Adam Essenmacher — DevOps – The Promise of Agility, Delivered

Joe Beale — Introducing QA Into an Agile Environment

Ryan Cromwell & Dewayne Lane — Web Experience Workshop

Jeff Ivany, Jonathon Baugh & Lauren Cavileer — Digital Experience Workshop: Design Thinking, Lean UX, & Agile Delivery

Kimberly Clavin & Jonathan Stevens — Hands On With Techno-Fashion and Wearables/Women in Technology

Scott Preston — How To Build a Robotic Exoskeleton, aka Iron Man Suit

Dan Rice — Agile Portfolio Management – Build the right things

Tina Saunders — Navigating the People Side of Change on an Agile Project

Matt Barcomb — Using Flow-based Road Mapping & Option Framing

Steven Davidson, Ben Thorp, Zahid Hossain & Steve Carmichael — Agile Architecture

Dustin Potts – Agile Transformations – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

Eric Downey — Protocol Oriented Programming

Mike Doel — How Software Learns

Justin Searls & Todd Kaufman — TDD and Javascript workshop

Michael Mah — Beyond Productivity and Toward Market Dominance. What’s Next for Agile as the Great Disrupter

Jennifer Bentley, Connie Kobal & Larry Goldsmith — Visual Requirements Elicitation

Greg Dartt & Wendy Jacobs — Introducing Agile in a Non-Software World

Dante Vilardi — Crash Your Own Party: Functional Managers in the Next Wave of Agile Transformation

Alex Crabtree, Julie Dorazio, Christian Mavriplis, Andrew Lehman & Michael Vlasz — Business Intelligence Agility: Delivering Resilient Information Management Iteratively

Ben Blanquera, Alan Gilbert, Adam Torres, Matt Grover, Tim Heller & Zac Dziczkowski — World class engineering – a Startup Mentality to Speed, Scalability, and Solutions

Chris Nelson — Low Ceremony Microservices with Elixir

Dustin Williams — Applying the Open-Closed Principle: Never Write an IF Statement Again

Joseph Ours — How to Undermine Agile Transformations

Jeff Blankenburg — Fear

Doug Morgan & Dave Speck — Finding the Sweet Spot, the Art of Writing Scenarios

Jennifer Picolo & Benji Michalek –You are NOT Your User

Kimberly Clavin, Jill Yavorsky, Joy Kenyon, Katie Miller & Anna Weber — Women in Technology

Rob Tarr — Breaking up with Your Build Tools

Amitai Schlair — Shoestring Agility in a Velcro Organization

Jim Holmes — “OMG! This Codebase Sucks!” Paying Down Technical Debt While Continuing to Deliver Value

Keith Wedinger — Effective software documentation in an Agile environment

Amber Conville — Code Retreat

Brooks Myers & Jake Kuttothara — Mobile 3D Scanning: The Future of Digital Imaging

Michael Cao – How 3D Printing Actually Works

2015 Sessions

Aaron Patterson – # Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls  Video

Justin Searls – How Far We’ve Come With Open Source  PDF  Video

Alistair Cockburn – Agile is for Wimps: Software Development in the 21st Century  PDF  Video

Johanna Rothman – Agile Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization  PDF  Video

Michael Mah – Passion: What Agile Self-Organizing Teams Can Learn from Eco-Pirates  Video

Jon Stahl – LEAF: A Framework For Leaders/Agile Explained  Video

Ben Blanquera, Bob Myers, Chris Hawker, Philip R.O. Payne, Ray Shealy – Columbus BOLD  Video

Steve Farley – Nationwide DevOps – A Focus on Continuous Delivery and Reduced Variance  Video

Scotty Bevill – 7 Hidden Impediments of Leadership: Self-Awareness  PDF  Video

Ken Schwaber – Scaling Scrum to Sustain Productivity  PDF  Video

Anthony Crain – Intro to SAFe  Video

Mary Kaufmann, Kimberly Clavin , Stacia Edwards , Mike Neubig  & Kelly Wilson – Growing the Talent Pipeline  Video

Ken Schwaber & Alistair Cockburn – State of the Agile Movement  Video

Daniel Norton – Planning Work to Enable Continuous Delivery – FSGD – “Fizz-Good”  Video

Chris Espy – Well Begun Is Half Done  PDF

Dustin Willams – The Challenge of Implementing Automated Acceptance Testing  PDF

Jenny Bentley & Mary Rinehart – Visual Requirements  PDF

Jessica Soroky – How to Talk to Me:  Generations In The Workplace from a Professional Millennial  PDF

Ryan Ripley – Scrum Master Lessons from My 4yo Son  PDF

Stephanie Ockerman – Sustainability: The Key to Achieving Organizational Agility  PDF

Warner Moore – Preparing a Technology Company for Scale with DevOps  PDF

James Sweet – Business Agility  PDF

Paul Boos – Taking Flight from Aspiration to Transformation Action  PDF

Alex Burkhart – In Rust We Trust

Ben Thorp – Product Ownership:  Beyond the Scrum Guide

Brian Schrock – Manta – How Manta uses the cloud and employs DevOps practices

Brian Watson – Trends in Agile

Dave Mosher – Intro to Angular

Eric Bryant, Rooma Hartman, Rick Kierner , Jon Krebs & Matt Olms – You Can Lead a Team From Waterfall…

James Bender – BDD with Cucumber in .NET with SpecFlow

James Bender & Scott Preston – AngularJS & NodeJS with Velocity

Joe Ours – Thinking Fast & Slow – Cognitive Biases in the Workplace

Kevin Baribeau – Code Retreat

Mark Harris, Dan Renner , John Schaffner & Ben Stormer – Building Culture

Mark Holtman – Pillar Technology DevOps in Mobile Dev

Mary Kaufman – TALENT + BEHAVIORS + METRICS = YOUR FUTURE SUCCESS

Matt Darby/Mike Danko – Easy provisioning with DevOps & Ansible

Matt Dubbert  & Justin Kuss – Storming, Norming, Platforming: Our Approach to Developing a Developer-­‐Friendly Ecosystem

Michael Jebber – Agile Explained

Todd Kaufman – Intro to Node.js

Ty Crockett – Agile Outside of IT

2014 Sessions

Nilanjan Raychaudhuri : Keynote – Is Programming an Art or Science?  PDF  Video

Dave Hoover : Keynote – Winning at Cooperative Games  Video

Venkat Subramaniam : Keynote – The Art of Simplicity  Video

Srini Koushik : Keynote – Innovation in an Always-On World  PDF  Video

Mary Kaufmann, Mekka Don, Kevin Fisher, Rich Langdale, Wil Schroter & Brent Stutz : Keynote – Innovation  Video

Ken Schwaber : Keynote – The State of Agile  PDF  Video

John Huston & Mary Kaufmann – Innovation Workshop: Powered by Creativity

Raju Gandhi – Gittin’ Git  PDF  Video

Elizabeth Naramore – GitHub for More than Just Code  PDF  Video

Rob Keefer – Developer Peace of Mind: Harness the Power of Flow  PDF  Video

Zach Briggs – The JavaScript Playbook  PDF  Video

Andrew Vida – Code Retreat

Christopher Avery & Scotty Bevill – The Chaos of Leadership (and the Leadership of Chaos)  Video

Chris Hefley – The Joy and Pain of Limiting Work in Process  PDF  Video

Damon Poole – Creating an Agile Culture

Sean Heuer – Team Canvas: Making Teams the Atomic Unit of Delivery

Alan Czako; Steve Farley, Tim Heller & Rob Richardson – Life After the Initial Transformation

Don McGreal – Building a Powerful Agile Learning Experience  PDF

Brandon Childers & David Lim – Beyond Agile  PDF

Jim Holmes – That Sounds Great in Practice, But…  PDF

James Goebel – The Business Value of Joy  PDF  Video

Michael (Doc) Norton – Creating a Global Engineering Culture  PDF  Video

Brian Watson – Scaling Agile While Sherpas are Throwing Rocks

Anthony Crain – Using Metrics to Understand Agile Project Health  PDF

Mark Harris, Kymberli Cassidy, Bill Gray, Jon Kruger & Joe Ours – QA is a Team Sport

Jeff “Cheezy” Morgan – See the Value

Matt Anderson, Angela Metoyer & Glenn Watson – Power of Agile  PDF

Scott Preston – Chutes & Ladders & Building Software

2013 Sessions

Jim Weirich : Keynote – Kata and Analysis Video

Andy Hunt : Keynote – Uncomfortable With Agility: What Has Ten+ Years Got Us? Video

David Anderson : Keynote –Predictability and Measurement with Kanban PDF | Video

Neal Ford : Keynote – Abstraction Distractions PDF | Video

Guy Royse : Those Who Know History Are Doomed To Watch Others Repeat It  Video

Ken Schwaber : Measuring And Implementing Sustainable Business Practices For Competitive Advantage PDF1 | PDF2 | Video

Bart Murphy, Christopher Avery, Ellen Gottesdiener, Michael Mah : Industry Perspective & The Future of Agile  Video

Christopher Avery : Empirical Leadership: Proven Alternatives To Agile For Executives PDF1 | PDF2 | PDF3 | PDF4 | Video

Ellen Gottesdiener : Got Value? Making Product Decisions With A Practical, Sustainable Value Model PDF | Video

Carin Meier : The Joy Of Flying Robots With Clojure  Video

Jeff “Cheezy” Morgan, Michael “Doc” Norton: Battle Of The Belly Buttons  Video

Justin Searls : Sundering Your Web Apps With Lineman.js PDF | Video

Damon Poole : Scaling Agile with the Enterprise Agility Model PDF

Carl Erickson : Companies For Craftsmen PDF

Scot Burdette : Transforming Trends Into Business Value PDF

Isaac Montgomery : The Forest For The Teams – Finding Value When Drowning In A Sea Of Teams PDF

Justin Browder, Mark Harris, Gene Johnson, Jeff “Cheezy” Morgan, Russ Wangler :  Growing Agile: Recognizing, Measuring and Delivering Quality PDF

Jim Holmes : Zero to Eight. Lessons Learned Starting a Test Automation Team from Scratch PDF

Anthony Crain : Skill Growth Gamification PDF

Ben Blanquera, Ken Green, Tim Heller, Dustin Potts, Cam Wolff : Scaling Agile – An Executive View Of Enterprise Agile

Michael Mah : An Agile Throwdown: Munich Germany Takes On The Columbus Agile Benchmark Study  Video

Charley Baker : Change

Todd Greene : Achieving & Sustaining Business Agility

Dr. Chuck Suscheck : Influencing Teams With  Psychology

Joe Astolfi, John Dages, Terry Wiegmann : A Tale of Two Coaches

Brian Watson : Building Agile Teams

Bob Myers : Creativity 2.0 – Rediscovering The “Why” And “How” That Truly Motivates Hyper Productivity

Scotty Bevill : Thriving In The Change Within The Transformation

2012 Sessions

Chet Hendrickson & Ron Jeffries : Keynote — Spread Craftsmanship Throughout Your Team Video

Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) : Keynote – Clean Architecture and Design Video

Christopher Avery : Keynote – Your Agile Leadership Gift Video

Jurgen Appelo : Keynote – How to Change the World Video

Israel Gat : Keynote – Agile 2.0 Video

Ken Schwaber : Keynote – Scrum and Continuous Improvement Video

Zack Dennis : Sand Piles and Software Video

Brandon Keepers : Why Our Code Smells Video

Leon Gersing & Charley Baker : Truth, Myth and Reality in Software Development Video

Cory Flanigan : Cross Domain Hacking: Life Lessons Applied to Software Video

Scot Burdette : Driving Real Business Value Through Agile Video

Joe O’Brien : People Patterns Video

David Starr : Compile and Execute Requirements in .NET Video

Michael Mah : The Columbus Agile Productivity Benchmark Project; Initial Insights from Project Data PDF1 | PDF2 | Video

Jon Stahl & Michael “Doc” Martin : Agile & UX: Emerging Practices & Other CRAP Video

Daniel Vacanti : Lean Thinking Video

Matt VanVleet & DJ Daugherty : Eating Your Own Dog Food!

Dan Greenleaf & Dr. Charles Suscheck : Lean Software Development

Jeff Hunsaker & Todd Greene : Agile Product Management

Phil Japikse : Introduction to Context Specification – Behavior Driven Development

Kelley Allan, Brandon Childers, Poorani Jeyasekar, Joe O’Brien : Expanding Agile Beyond App Dev

Terry Wiegmann & Ayan Dave : Automating Testing in the Iteration

Joe Astolfi, Alan Czako, Steve Jones, Paul Mazak : Scrum Master/Coach/PM Facilitator

Daryl Kulak, Brian Knickle, Andrew Clute : Scaling Agility

Terry Wiegman, Linda Farrenkopf, Leo Gilbert, Ellen Gottesdiener, Dan Kohler : How BA & QA Roles Change in Agile

Gene Johnson : Retail + Agile = ?

Jon Kruger, Brandon Childers, Laurel Odronic, Chris Hoover, Lan Bloch : A QA Transformation Story

Isaac Montgomery : Designing an Agile Culture

Ellen Gottesdiener : Collaborate for Value

Ben Blanquera, Jeff Dennes, Michael Fergang, Bill Gray, Dustin Potts, Russ Wangler : Executive Level Concerns

Todd Kaufman : Lightning Talks – Craftsmanship

2011 Sessions

Ben Blanquera : Transforming the Enterprise (CIO Panel)   Video

Isaac Montgomery : How To Measure the Impact of Your Agile Investment PDF

Michael Mah : Ugly Teams  PDF

Dave Laribee : Rules for Software Radicals  Video

Dustin Potts & Tom Paider : How Agile Supports Or Conflicts With Standards Like CMMI and SAS70?  PDF   |   Video

Alan Czako & Randy Kubacki : How Agile Saved a Failing Project  PDF

Don McGreal : Agile Games  PDF

Jeff “Cheezy” Morgan : Acceptance Test Driven Development  Video

Kelly Allan : Keynote — Why Are My Answers Always Questioned?

Ken Schwaber : Keynote — Scrum Enterprise Adoption Strategies

John Huston, Jon Stahl, Mike Jones, Gene Johnson : Leading Agile Teams

Kermit Morse & Dan Wiebe : A Skeptic That Became An Advocate

Todd Kauffman, Leon Gersing, Jon Kruger, Jeff “Cheezy” Morgan, Jim Holmes & Tim Wingfield : Panel — Agile Testing

Tim Hibner, Ryan Cromwell, Nilanjan & John Dages & Barry Rogers : Panel — Agile Engineering

Jim Holmes : Agile Leadership

Matt Van Fleet : How to Connect Agile to the Organization and Maximize Business Value

Brian Hemker, Terry Wiegman, Mark Harris, Patrick Welsh & Ellen Gottesdiener : A BA/QA’s Role in an Agile Organization

Sean Heuer : Optimize Your Agile Work Environment

Ellen Gottesdiener : Structure Conversations to Add Value

Rick Ellis : Agile and Scrum are Contrary or Consistent with PMBOK

Joe Astolfi, John Jolley, Linda Farrenkopf, Mark Davidson : Making the Transition

 

 

2010 Sessions

Ken Schwaber : Keynote – State of Scrum PDF   |   Video

Isaac Montgomery : The Next Bottleneck – Addressing constraints Organizations  PDF

Tim Wingfield : A Little Lean With Kanban  PDF

Steven Harman : A handful of Git workflows for the Agilist  PDF

Michael Mah : Agile vs Industry (Lunch Keynote)  PDF   |   Video

Mike Cottmeyer : How Agile complements or conflicts with PMI / PMP principles  Video

Panel : MGR / Executive Roles within an Agile Environment  Video

Steve Riley : How to “Think Cloud”: Architectural Design Patterns for Cloud Computing  PDF

Ken Schwaber : Optimizing Total Cost of Ownership  PDF

Israel Gat : Toxic Code  PDF   |   Video

Todd Kauffman : Agile Languages what are they and why would I care? PDF

Alexei Govorine & Jeff Hunsaker : Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2010  PDF

Jon Kruger : Test Drive Development In Action PDF

Dustin Potts : Transforming the Enterprise to use Agile

Patrick Wilson-Welch : Agile Testing differs from Traditional Testing

Panel : QA/BA Roles within an Agile Environment

Bart Murphy : Agile IS Earned Value

Panel : Attracting and Leading Agile Developers

Jon Stahl : Agile-Lean from the Top Down

Leon Gersing : Introduction to Cucumber