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Agile Alliance Lounge Grapevine Foyer

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First Time Attendee Orientation Center Foyer

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First Time Attendee Orientation Center Foyer

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An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide - Working with Culture: Michael Sahota Texas D LEtGO your Organization - Design a best-fit large Agile Organization: Raj Mudhar, Catherine Louis Dallas 5 Hands On Agile Immersion: Damon Poole Texas C Is It Worth It? Using A Business Value Model To Guide Decisions: Kent McDonald Dallas 3-4 The Product Partnership: Using Structured Conversations to Deliver Value: Ellen Gottesdiener, Mary Gorman Ft. Worth 5-6 Bad-Assed Double-Loop Learning: From Judgmental to Good Judgement: Derek W. Wade, Susan Eller Ft. Worth 3-4 Break Down the Silos: Collaboration Techniques for Teams: Maria Matarelli, Dan Neumann San Antonio 4-6 Users Are From Mars, Developers Are From Klingon: Derek Lane Texas 2 Simple Design Applied: Spend More Time Creating Valuable Code: Alistair McKinnell, Declan Whelan San Antonio 1-3 Distributed Agile Simulated Exercise: Dhaval Panchal, Michael Tardiff Texas 3 Make your iPhone Agile with automated iOS Testing: Eric Smith, Eric Meyer Ft. Worth 1-2 Get Over It! Stop Obsessing Over CMMI and Get On with Being Great!: Hillel Glazer Dallas 6-7 Pitfalls in Agile Testing and How to Avoid Them: Paul Carvalho Ft. Worth 7 Problem Statement to Scrum Board: Design Studio Using Systematic Creativity for Innovation: Will Evans Dallas 1-2 Agile Alliance Lounge Grapevine Foyer Coaches Clinic Center Foyer Open Jam Center Foyer

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Exhibits Area Grapevine ABCD

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ACT: A Planning Tool for Agile Change Agents: Jutta Eckstein, James Shore Texas D Shaping Your Agile Adoption Path: Jason Little, Don Gray Ft. Worth 7 Agile Inception Deck - 10 questions you'd be crazy not to ask before starting your project: Jonathan Rasmusson Ft. Worth 5-6 Brain Science: Facilitation and Game Toolbox: Samantha Laing, Karen Greaves Dallas 3-4 Where do agile leaders come from?: Kati Vilkki Ft. Worth 3-4 Improving Collaboration and Communication through Improvisation : Kupe Kupersmith San Antonio 4-6 Better Code, Littler Classes: Refactoring to Separate Concerns: Moss Collum, Laura Dean San Antonio 1-3 TDD for [Embedded] C: Bas Vodde, James Grenning Ft. Worth 1-2 'The Big Picture': Agility and Strategic Vision: Jimi Fosdick Texas 2 Agile and the nature of decision making: Dennis Stevens Texas 3 Lightweight Security in Agile Enterprise Environments: Introducing Threat Modeling Express: Rohit Sethi Dallas 6-7 Getting to the Next Level: Practicing Leadership Agility for Effective Agile Management: Bill Joiner, Michael Hamman Dallas 5 The Fastest Learner Wins: Exploring the Innovator’s DNA: Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck Texas C The UX of User Stories: Anders Ramsay Dallas 1-2

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Agile Philanthropy Dev Lab Startup Center Foyer

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Ice Breaker Reception Grapevine ABCD Exhibits Area - Ice Breaker Grapevine ABCD

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Dinner with a Stranger Registration Desk

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Open Jam Huddle Center Foyer

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Scaling up Excellence: Bob Sutton Texas A-B Agile Alliance Lounge Grapevine Foyer Agile Philanthropy Dev Lab Center Foyer Coaches Clinic Center Foyer Open Jam Center Foyer

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Software Change in the Solo Iterative Process: An Experience Report: Vaclav Rajlich, Chris Dorman Ft. Worth 7 Achieving Business Agility to Survive and Thrive: Mike Russell Texas D Agile In a Nutshell: Jonathan Rasmusson Texas 2 Stop Listening to Your Customers! Techniques for Deeper Customer Understanding: Brandon Carlson Ft. Worth 5-6 Cracking Your Big Rocks - Large Problems Don't Talk Back: Simon Cromarty, Johanna Hunt Ft. Worth 3-4 Quality Assurance - A Team Sport: Jeff Morgan San Antonio 4-6 Clean Code: Robert Martin Texas C Embracing HTML and CSS as Beautiful Code: Jim Morris San Antonio 1-3 TDD And A New Paradigm For Hardware Verification: Neil Johnson Ft. Worth 1-2 The AWG - An Engine of Sustainable Agile Enterprise Adoption: Jorgen Hesselberg Austin 1-3 Why Agile Needs More Cowboys: Mike Griffiths Austin 4-6 The 0-Page Agile Test Plan: Paul Carvalho Dallas 3-4 Lessons Learned Integrating UX into Agile Teams: Brian Sobus Dallas 1-2

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Knowledge Management in Distributed Agile Software Development: Siva Dorairaj, , James Noble and Petra Malik Ft. Worth 7

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A Methodology for Assessing Agile Software Development Methods: Shvetha Soundararajan, James Arthur Ft. Worth 7 Agile and PMI: Barbarians at the Gate: Andrew Burns Texas D This One Goes to 121: James Shore, Arlo Belshee Texas C Baby Steps and Pervasive Feedback: George Dinwiddie Texas 3 Kanban Pizza Game - the Kanban experience for foodies: David Bland, Dave Sharrock Texas 2 Strategies for Agile Portfolio Management: Kenny Rubin Ft. Worth 5-6 Building a Team from Values to Principles: A Step by Step Approach: Erin Beierwaltes Ft. Worth 3-4 Team Dynamics Interactive Games : Ken Howard San Antonio 4-6 Behavior Driven Development: Look, no frameworks!: Elizabeth Keogh San Antonio 1-3 Scaling Agile with Multiple Teams: Using Lean to Drive Business Value: Alan Shalloway Austin 1-3 Leading Conflict: A Systems Intelligence Approach to Conflict Facilitation for Leaders: Michael Spayd, Lyssa Adkins Austin 4-6 Teams are made of People! Personal Kanban for healthy self-organization and real-time: Jim Benson Dallas 6-7 Testing System Qualities: Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Joseph Yoder Dallas 3-4 Extreme Design — The Secrets to Successful Design Pairing: Samuel Bowles Dallas 1-2

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Agile Testing: Past, Present, and Future: Theodore D. Hellmann, Abhishek Sharma,, Jennifer Ferreira and Frank Maurer Ft. Worth 7

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User Experience Design Goes Agile in Lean Transformation – A Case Study: Minna Isomursu, Petri Voltti,, Markku Halonen and Andey Sirotkin Ft. Worth 7

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Estimate of the appropriate iteration length in agile development by conducting simulation: Ryushi Shiohama, Hironori Washizaki, Shin Kuboaki,, Kazunori Sakamoto and Yoshiaki Fukazawa Ft. Worth 7 Continuous Delivery: Jez Humble Ft. Worth 1-2 What's Done Is Done: An Exploration of What 'Done' Means At Various Levels: Daniel Gullo Texas 2 Working Effectively with User Stories: Silent Sizing and Definition of Ready: Ken Power Texas 3 Questions not Stories: Build a business-value oriented team: Adrian Howard Ft. Worth 5-6 The product owner role is a stupid idea: Improving how we handle customer requests: Jeff Patton Texas C The Power of Observation: Jukka Lindström Ft. Worth 3-4 The Silence of Agile: Steve Rogalsky San Antonio 4-6 Writing High Quality Code: David Bernstein San Antonio 1-3 Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large Scale Projects with Kanban & Scrum & XP: Henrik Kniberg Austin 1-3 Creating a Shared Vision: Strategies and Techniques to Inspire Teams: Brad Swanson Austin 4-6 A learningful life: Staying relevant and agile in high tech: Linda Rising Dallas 6-7 The SQALE method: Meaningful insights into your Technical Debt: Jean-Louis LETOUZEY, Oana Juncu Dallas 3-4 Simple Methods for Reliable User Involvement: Hugh Beyer Dallas 1-2

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Agile Development and User Experience Design Integration as an On-going Achievement in Pra: Jennifer Ferreira, Helen Sharp and Hugh Robinson Ft. Worth 7

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Documentation Work in Agile Teams: The Role of Documentation Formalism in Achieving a Sust: Christoph Johann Stettina, Werner Heijstek and Tor Erlend Fægri Ft. Worth 7

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Industry Analyst Panel Discussion San Antonio 4-6

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Open Jam Huddle Center Foyer

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A story about dinosaur called Mainframe and a small fly Agile: Zuzana Sochova, Eduard Kunce Ft. Worth 7 Let's Stay Agile! Applying the Framework for Agile Sustainability in our Teams: Mali Senapathi, Meghann Drury Ft. Worth 1-2 The Lean Pyramid - The Equilibrium of Agile Forces: Samuel Crescêncio Texas D What's the Point of Story Points - A Business Guide to Agile Estimation: George Dinwiddie, Bob Payne Ft. Worth 5-6 Cultural change with Spiral Dynamics to transform from 'doing agile' to 'being agile': Dajo Breddels Ft. Worth 3-4 Affordance-Driven Process Improvement: Designing a Process that Works for Your Team: Michael Keeling, Ariadna Font Texas 3 That Settles It! Techniques for Transparent & Trusted Decision-Making on Your Agile Team : Ellen Gottesdiener San Antonio 4-6 Fluid Code in the Real World: Arlo Belshee San Antonio 1-3 High-Gravity Distributed Agile Teams: Derek W. Wade Texas 2 Risky Business - An Outside-In Look at Real Options for Managing Risk: Olav Maassen, Todd Little Austin 1-3 Scaling Lean|Agile Development to the Large Enterprise with the Scaled Agile Framework: Dean Leffingwell Texas C Transforming a Worst Nightmare Leader to Situational Leader: Dave Neuman Austin 4-6 Testing As We Go: Perspectives on Testing as part of Done: Elisabeth Hendrickson Dallas 6-7 Creating Maintainable Automated Acceptance Test Suites: Badrinath Janakiraman, Jez Humble Dallas 3-4 Agile UX Research Practices Applied : Miki Konno Dallas 1-2 Hands on keyboards! Coding with Corey Haines (Part 1): Corey Haines Dallas 5 Agile Alliance Lounge Grapevine Foyer Agile Philanthropy Dev Lab Center Foyer Coaches Clinic Center Foyer Open Jam Center Foyer

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Scaling Scrum step by step: “The mega framework”: Rafael Maranzato Ft. Worth 7

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Successfully bootstrapping a large scalable Scrum practice at Royal Dutch Shell: David Segonds Ft. Worth 7

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Embracing Nihilism as a Software Development Philosophy: Ryan Bergman Ft. Worth 7 Agile Transformation - What to do with managers?: Arto Eskelinen Texas D The undocumented Agile Practice: take your team to the next level!: Gino Marckx Austin 4-6 The Stakeholder Management Framework for Teams, Programs, and Portfolios: Drew Jemilo Ft. Worth 5-6 Turning and turning in the widening gyre: Elizabeth Keogh Ft. Worth 3-4 Beyond Functional Silos with Communities of Practice: Brian Bozzuto, Dennis Stevens San Antonio 4-6 Raving Retrospectives -Innovation Games® & other techniques to facilitate creative retros: Kate Megaw, Brian Rabon Texas 3 Does Pair Programming Have to Suck?: Angela Harms San Antonio 1-3 Release Planning on a Budget -- Taking it Virtual!: Stephen Chin Texas 2 How to play basketball with a soccer team? Making IC development more agile.: Tobias Leisgang Ft. Worth 1-2 Agile Enterprise Architecture? Oxymoron or Savior?: Scott Ambler Austin 1-3 Scaling Agile Teams: Principles and Practices: Esther Derby Texas C Developers Exploratory Testing - Raising the bar: Sigge Birgisson Dallas 3-4 User Driven Development: Alline Watkins Dallas 1-2

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Agile's Role in Developing Robust Software Competency at Precor: Brent Barton, Brent Brooks Ft. Worth 7

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Exhibits Area Grapevine ABCD

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Combining Kanban and Scrum - lessons from the team of sysadmins: Kate Terlecka Ft. Worth 7 Patterns for Agile Adoption and Transformation: Mike Cottmeyer Texas D Values of the Fittest - Taking Cash and Staking Claims: Allen Hurst, Chris Weldon Ft. Worth 5-6 Agile Game Incubator: Don McGreal, Michael McCullough Ft. Worth 3-4 Building a Team Through Feedback: Lisamarie Babik, Johanna Rothman San Antonio 4-6 Remote Pair Programming: A Guide for Distributed Teams: Joe Moore Texas 2 Integrating agile with other Enterprise disciplines: Six Sigma, BPM & CM: Jason Tice Texas 3 Story Maps as Test Plans and Other Cross Cutting Guides: David Hussman Austin 1-3 Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility: Jim Highsmith Austin 4-6 Influencing Teams with Psychology: Charles Suscheck Ft. Worth 1-2 Agile2012 Program Review & Feedback - A Panel Discussion: Mitch Lacey Texas C Craftsmanship or 'The only way to go fast is to go well': Robert Martin Dallas 6-7 Better Unit Testing with ApprovalTests, an open source library: Lynn Langit, Woody Zuill Dallas 3-4 Hold the Sprinkles! Cupcakes, layers, and Agile UX design requirements: Carissa Demetris Dallas 1-2 Hands on keyboards! Coding with Corey Haines (Part 2): Corey Haines Dallas 5

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There and back again - from iterative to flow... and back to iterative!: Cecilia Fernandes Ft. Worth 7

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Task Board Evolution: Nayan Hajratwala Ft. Worth 7

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Agile Portfolio Management at NYSE : Gabino Roche, Jr. Ft. Worth 7 The Tester’s Role in Improving Developers' Testing Skills: Andrew Prentice Dallas 3-4 Agile FDA Mini- Plays, Mosh Pit Style: Brian Shoemaker, Nancy Van Schooenderwoert Texas 3 Down the Pub: How did that transition you were working on go?: Andrea Tomasini, Hendrik Esser Texas D How to Brainstorm : Lessons from Design Thinking: Jeremy Lightsmith Ft. Worth 5-6 Coaching is More than Telling People What to Do: David Hussman Texas C Evolve Your Agile Coaching Dashboard: David Parker Ft. Worth 3-4 The Contracting Two Step: Patterns for Successful Collaborations: Mary Gorman San Antonio 4-6 The Need for (Build) Speed: Lasse Koskela San Antonio 1-3 An Agile Accounting Model to Accelerate Enterprise Agility: Walt Wyckoff, Pat Reed Austin 1-3 Meet Scrum’s Big Brother, Dynamic Governance. Effectively Delivering Large Programs: Dan LeFebvre, John Buck Ft. Worth 1-2 Servant Leadership: Greg Hutchings Texas 2 Winning the Agile Race: Stop Watching The Runner And Pay Attention To The Baton! : Jay Packlick, Erik Meade Austin 4-6 The Nature of Software Development: Getting twenty pounds of fantasy into a five pound bag: Ron Jeffries, Chet Hendrickson Dallas 6-7 Using Rapid Prototyping for Design Iteration: Hugh Beyer Dallas 1-2

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Scaling Product Ownership at the US Air Force - A Story of Epic Proportions!: Peter Saddington Ft. Worth 7

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Overcoming Traditional Project Release Reporting with an Agile Approach Focused on Change: Hans Samios Ft. Worth 7

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Agile Alliance Members Meeting Texas C

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Agile 2012 Rodeo Circuit Event Grapevine ABCD Exhibits Area - Rodeo Circuit Grapevine ABCD

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Can Marketing Go Agile?: Randall DeFauw Ft. Worth 7 De-Mystifying Kanban: Understanding Its Many Faces: Alan Shalloway Texas C Giving Agile Teams the Roots to Grow and Wings to Fly: Dave Sharrock Texas 2 The Dirty Dozen - 12 Practices That Can Kill Your Agile Transformation: Angela Druckman Texas D Product Owner Snow and the Seven Angry Dwarfs: V. Lee Henson Ft. Worth 1-2 The Perils of Prioritisation : Simon Bennett Ft. Worth 5-6 Can laughing at our problems actually help us solve them?: Paul Goddard Ft. Worth 3-4 Using the Competing Values Framework & Five Dysfunctions to Improve Collaboration: Clement 'James' Goebel, Lisamarie Babik San Antonio 4-6 Deliberate Practice - becoming a better programmer: Alex Aitken San Antonio 1-3 Understanding Agile Program and Portfolio Management: Mike Cottmeyer Austin 1-3 Agile Values, Innovation and  the Shortage of Women Software Developers: Ken Judy Austin 4-6 Fixing Broke(n) Governments Through Serious Games: Luke Hohmann Texas 3 Cultivating Innovation for the 21st Century Workplace: Derek Neighbors Dallas 6-7 Acceptance Tests: Writing with the Future in Mind: Jeff Morgan Dallas 3-4 Making an Impact: Agile UX Team of One: Virginia Cagwin Dallas 1-2 Agile Alliance Lounge Grapevine Foyer Agile Philanthropy Dev Lab Center Foyer Coaches Clinic Center Foyer Open Jam Center Foyer

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Lean UX from UX Veterans: Lessons Learned in Creating & Launching a Complex Consumer App: beverly may Ft. Worth 7

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A Starting Point for Negotiations - Delivering with a Heterogeneous Team: Alfred Lorber Ft. Worth 7 Exhibits Area Grapevine ABCD

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Inside-out: Leading Change from the Middle using Lean Tools and Principles: Ed Kraay Austin 4-6 Organizational Agility: The Hidden Goal (And Missed Opportunity) of Agile Transformation: Michael Hamman Texas D Traversing the Canyon of Anarchy: From Agile Adoption to Agile Transformation: Tamara Sulaiman Runyon Austin 1-3 Connecting Product Vision to Everyday Agile Work : Kelly Looney Texas 3 How Much Will This Project Cost?: Johanna Rothman Ft. Worth 5-6 How to Mentor Software Apprentices: Doug Bradbury Ft. Worth 3-4 Moving from cooperation to collaboration: Angela Harms San Antonio 4-6 Easily Mocking Dependencies in C++: Bill Hanlon San Antonio 1-3 Distributed Agile in the Enterprise and Virtual Spaces: Melinda Stelzer, Bill Opsal Texas 2 Case Study: Being Agile in an Embedded, Product-Line Environment: Harry Koehnemann Dallas 1-2 The evils of multi-tasking and how personal Kanban can help you: Sandy Mamoli Ft. Worth 1-2 Demanding Technical Excellence and Professionalism: Robert Martin Texas C Selenium Users Anonymous: Dave Haeffner Dallas 3-4

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Leveraging Global Talent for Effective Product Agility: Todd Little Ft. Worth 7

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Agile in the bathtub: Gaetano Mazzanti Ft. Worth 7 Cars.com’s Agility Transformation Journey (Case Study): Si Alhir (Sinan Si Alhir), Len Lagestee Texas 2 Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Teams: Bob Galen Ft. Worth 1-2 Journey to Agility: Coaching a Transformation: Skip Angel Texas 3 Keeping the Dream Alive: Keys to Agile Sustainability: Susan DiFabio, Dan Neumann Texas D 1000 Words - Illustrating Project Challenges with Visuals: Chirag Doshi, Tarang Baxi Ft. Worth 5-6 ScrumMaster: The Coach Approach: Alida Cheung, Derek Hawkes Ft. Worth 3-4 Extreme Interviewing—Scale your Team, Preserve your Culture, Feel the Joy: Gregory Haskins, Benjamin Root San Antonio 4-6 Three Pair Programming Games: Zachary Shaw, Moss Collum San Antonio 1-3 Modeling, Simulation & Data Mining: Answering Tough Cost, Date & Staff Forecasts Questions: Troy Magennis Austin 1-3 Velocity is Killing Agility!: Jim Highsmith, Pat Reed Texas C 5 Free Leadership Tools that Improve Agile Results: Pollyanna Pixton Austin 4-6 It is the culture, stupid, but don't you dare touch it: Israel Gat Dallas 6-7 Big Data, Little Tests: John Heintz Dallas 3-4 Exploring UX techniques and practices - When should they be applied? Get some practice!: Ariadna Font Dallas 1-2

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Adobe Premiere Pro: Agile Adoption success in a hyper-competitive landscape: Peter Green Ft. Worth 7

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Real World Agile: Going All-In with Agile at Performance Health Technology: Chad Casady Ft. Worth 7

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Slow Down to Go Fast: Lessons Learned Shipping Bing Voice Search on Xbox : James Waletzky, Randy Santossio Ft. Worth 7 Pragmatic, Not Dogmatic TDD: Rethinking How We Test: Joseph Yoder, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock Dallas 3-4 Agile Antipatterns: The Agilist’s Guide to Traps, Tripwires, & Treachery: Adam Weisbart Texas 2 How to Change the World: Jurgen Appelo Texas D Play the Customer Development Game: A lean approach to business model discovery : Adrian Howard Ft. Worth 5-6 Wetware Craftsmanship: Better Coaching Through Improved Understanding of the Mind: Brian Bozzuto, Devin Hedge Ft. Worth 3-4 Motivated and Hyper-productive Agile Teams by Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Michael Mallete Dallas 1-2 Systems Thinking through Play: Patrick Kua San Antonio 4-6 What Does 'Self-Organizing Team' Really Mean?: Esther Derby Texas C 'How am I doing?' - Personal Retrospectives on Developing One's Craft: Diana Larsen San Antonio 1-3 Adopting CMMI® into Your Scrum Methodology: Susan Strain, Lee McKinney Texas 3 Dollars and Dates are Killing Agile: Brent Barton Austin 1-3 Risk Management is Too Important for Project Managers: Mike Griffiths Ft. Worth 1-2 It's all about teamwork - getting a team to turn into a high-performing engine: Jeff Sutherland Dallas 6-7

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Skiing and Boxing: Coaching Product and Enterprise Teams: Sergey Prokhorenko Ft. Worth 7

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Conference Party Glass Cactus Nightclub

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Adventures of an Accidental Entrepreneur. A High Tech Teleradiology Venture from India: Dr. Sunita Maheshwari Texas A-B Agile Alliance Lounge Grapevine Foyer

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Managing a collaborative multi-national team in real time: Joe Justice Texas A-B