Category Archives: Past Years
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