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 * Selenium India 2018 Conference – Keynotes and Pre-Conference Workshop
   Announced
 * Where are the usual Agile topics at the Agile India 2018 Conference?
 * Why attend an Agile India Conference?
 * What Agile Values does your Org Culture embrace?
 * Agile India: Our Journey over the last 12 years
 * Agile India 2017: Meet our Keynote Speakers | Pre/Post Conference Workshops
   Announced
 * Eclipse Summit India 2016 – by the community for the community!

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SELENIUM INDIA 2018 CONFERENCE – KEYNOTES AND PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ANNOUNCED

March 23rd, 2018

The Selenium India 2018 Conference is thrilled to announce our keynote speakers:

 * Dan Cuellar – Creator of Appium
 * Maaret Pyhäjärvi – Awarded as the Most Influential Agile Testing Professional
   in 2016
 * Simon Stewart – Creator of WebDriver



Program: We’ve received a total of 139 proposals via our open submissions
system. Our program team is currently reviewing the proposals and we should have
the first list of speakers next week.

Pre-Conf Workshop: We are happy to offer the following four Full-day deep-dive
workshops on June 28th (pre-conf):

 * Fix a Bug, Become a Committer – Simon Stewart – Have you ever wondered how
   Selenium works under the covers? Only a handful of volunteers work to
   maintain this gigantic effort. Want to join?
 * Diving into Selenium -Andrew Krug – Want to get into Web Driver, but don’t
   know where to start?
 * Selenium Grid -Marcus Merrell & Manoj Kumar – Selenium Grid can be a bit
   daunting to get up & running. Attend a full-day workshop on running your grid
   effectively.
 * Advanced Appium – Srinivasan Sekar – Want to test your Android, iOS and
   Mobile Web Apps with a single script?

About the Conf:

The Selenium Conference is a non-profit, volunteer-run event presented by
members of the Selenium Community.

The goal of the conference is to bring together Selenium developers &
enthusiasts from around the world to share ideas, socialize, and work together
on advancing the present and future success of the project.

Sponsors:

Selenium Conference is a great opportunity to meet and get to know hundreds of
the world’s top Selenium talent. Whether you’re looking to connect with
experienced developers, testers, and users of Selenium, hire automation
engineers, promote your product, or just give back to the community, this is the
place to be. We love helping our sponsors find innovative ways to interact with
the community and achieve a great return on their investment in the conference.

Selenium Conference is organized by volunteer, passionate members of the
Selenium community. We rely on corporate sponsorship to keep ticket prices low
for attendees, as well as help cover the cost of the venue, food, beverages,
t-shirts, and more.

Check out our sponsorship guide!

Spread the Word: If possible, we request you to print these posters and put it
on your office notice board or forward it to folks in your network.

  

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WHERE ARE THE USUAL AGILE TOPICS AT THE AGILE INDIA 2018 CONFERENCE?

January 29th, 2018

I’m very excited to announce the 14th edition of Agile India Conference with
brand new themes and a fabulous lineup of speakers. Agile India is Asia’s
Largest & Premier International conference on Leading Edge Software Development
Methods.

Meet:

 * Alan Cooper – The Father of Visual Basic, Creator of Goal-directed Design
   methodology and inventor of the Persona concept
 * Steve Denning – Author of several books on Management, Leadership, Innovation
   and Organizational Storytelling
 * Linda Rising – Author of four books, most recently the Fearless Change
 * Gregor Hohpe – Author of Enterprise Integration Patterns. Technical Director
   at Google Cloud Computing
 * James Stewart – Co-founder of the Government Digital Service and x-Deputy CTO
   of the UK Government
 * Bjarte Bogsnes – Author of Implementing Beyond Budgeting, Chairman of Beyond
   Budgeting Roundtable and Senior Advisor Performance Framework at Statoil
 * Dr. Denis Bauer – Team Leader and Research Scientist in Cloud Computing in
   Transformational Bioinformatics at CSIRO
 * Jeff Patton – Author of User Story Mapping and the person responsible for
   bringing user-centered design thinking to Agile world
 * And 75 more thought leaders from 16 countries



The program spreads across 8 days (March 4-11th 2018, Bengaluru) with two
pre-conference plus two post-conference workshop days and four days of
conferences in between:

 * March 4-5th: Pre-Conference Workshops from our international experts
 * March 6th: Business Agility Day – Hosted by Agile Alliance
 * March 7th: Design Innovation Day – Hosted by Cooper
 * March 8th: Digital Transformation Day
 * March 9th: DevOps and Continuous Delivery Day – Hosted by Red Hat
 * March 10-11th: Post-Conference Workshops from our international experts

Schedule: Check out conference schedule for the lineup of workshops and
speakers.



By now it should be obvious that the usual agile presentation on mindset,
process, ceremonies, roles and responsibilities is not sufficient for
organizational agility. Hence our shift in the focus this year.

Tickets: Conference registration is now open and Smart Price offers are going
away soon. Register now for best deals!!



Check out the exciting offers for bulk registrations
–  https://2018.agileindia.org/agile-india-2018-bulk-booking-offers/.

Sponsors: We thank Agile Alliance, Cooper, RedHat, Scrum.org, Shell,
AddTeq/Atlassian, Scaled Agile, ICAgile and Scrum Alliance for sponsoring the
conference. If your organization wants to support this non-profit, volunteer-run
conference, please check out sponsorship options.



Look forward to meeting you at the conference.

P.S: Please help us spread the word and share these details with-in your
respective organizations and social network.

Follow us on Twitter or Facebook

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WHY ATTEND AN AGILE INDIA CONFERENCE?

February 7th, 2017

Did you know @agileindia has hosted 900+ inspiring speakers in the last 12
years.



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WHAT AGILE VALUES DOES YOUR ORG CULTURE EMBRACE?

February 7th, 2017

Learn from Industry Leaders & Experts about Integrating Agile Values into your
Org Culture at #AgileIndia2017



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AGILE INDIA: OUR JOURNEY OVER THE LAST 12 YEARS

February 7th, 2017

This video captures it all…



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AGILE INDIA 2017: MEET OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKERS | PRE/POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
ANNOUNCED

January 11th, 2017

Agile India 2017 is Asia’s Largest and Premier Conference on Agile, Lean, Scrum,
eXtreme Programming, Lean-Startup, Kanban, Continuous Delivery, Lean UX, Product
Discovery, DevOps, Enterprise Agile, Patterns and more…



Smart Pricing is still available as of 11 January. REGISTER TODAY before prices
increase!

Also check out the Conference Program



Sponsorship: If you think this is an important conference and would like to
support it, please check our sponsorship guide.





OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Isabel Evans – Independent Quality and Testing consultant

Isabel has more than thirty years of IT experience in the financial,
communications, and software sectors. Her work focuses on quality management,
software testing and user experience (UX), She encourages IT teams and customers
to work together, via flexible processes designed and tailored by the teams that
use them. Isabel authored Achieving Software Quality Through Teamwork and
chapters in Agile Testing: How to Succeed in an eXtreme Testing Environment; The
Testing Practitioner; and Foundations of Software Testing. A popular speaker and
story-teller at software conferences worldwide, Isabel is a Chartered IT
Professional and Fellow of the British Computer Society, Programme Secretary of
the BCS SIGiST, and has been a member of software industry improvement working
groups for over 20 years.

Joshua Kerievsky – CEO @ Industrial Logic Inc.

Joshua is a globally recognized thought leader in Agile and Lean software
development. He is an entrepreneur, author and programmer passionate about
excellent software and discovering better, faster and safer ways to produce it.
As the founder and visionary leader of Industrial Logic, Joshua is currently
defining what it means to practice modern agility. Modern agile practitioners
work to Make People Awesome, Make Safety A Prerequisite, Experiment & Learn
Rapidly and Deliver Value Continuously. Joshua is a sought-after international
speaker, author of the best-selling, Jolt Cola-award winning book, Refactoring
to Patterns, and a guru-level practitioner of Lean/Agile methods. His pioneering
work in Agile processes has helped popularize Agile Readiness Assessments,
Chartering, Storytest-Driven Development and Iterative Usability, many of which
are now standard in Agile/Lean processes. He is an active blogger on
forward-thinking, modern software topics with an edge.

Dave Thomas – Founding Director of Agile Alliance, Founder of YOW! Conferences @
Kx Systems

Dave Thomas, Chief Scientist/CSO, Kx Systems, Co-Founder and past Chairman of
Bedarra Research Labs (BRL), creators of the Ivy visual analytics workbench and
ACM Distinguished Engineer. Founder and past CEO of Object Technology
International (OTI), becoming CEO of IBM OTI Labs after its sale to IBM. With a
unique ability to see the future and translate research into competitive
products, he is known for his contributions to Object Technology including IBM
VisualAge and Eclipse IDEs, Smalltalk and Java virtual machines. Dave is a
popular, humorous, albeit opinionated keynote speaker with an impressive breadth
of business experience and technical depth. He is a thought leader in
large-scale software engineering and a founding director of the Agile Alliance.
With close links the R&D community Dave is an adjunct research professor at
Carleton University in Canada and held past positions at UQ and QUT in
Australia. He has been a business and technical advisor to many technology

companies including Kx Systems. Dave is founder and chairman of the YOW!
Australia and Lambda Jam conferences, and is a GOTO Conference Fellow.

Rajesh Rudraradhya – Vice President and Head of Engineering @ Hike Messenger

Rajesh spent more than 15 years in the Silicon Valley, working for companies
like Digital Equipment Corporation, HP, Google and Motorola. He joins Hike from
Motorola where he was most recently the Director and Head of Wearables and
Internet-of-Things software. Rajesh’s expertise lies in creating scalable,
consumer-facing software products in the mobile space, overseeing end-to-end
engineering & product development life cycle, and building cross-functional
teams. Offering in-depth business and technical acumen, complemented by strong
expertise in shaping product strategies into tangible products, strengthening
stakeholder alliances, integrating Agile best practices, and streamlining
processes that increase revenue, lower costs, and create business value.

Nate Clinton – Managing Director @ Cooper

Nate is the Managing Director at the San Francisco office. In his role, he
blends the decisiveness and collaborative skills of a product manager with the
acumen of an economist to build bridges with people and organizations. Equal
parts teacher and student, Nate leads initiatives in content creation, business
development, and creative leadership.

At Cooper, he helped United Airlines find new ways to reward loyal customers,
led an effort at GE Healthcare to create a strategy for the international
expansion of a key product line, and designed solutions for workplace
collaboration, delivering technology to schools, and the future of the connected
kitchen. Before Cooper, Nate led design and product management at BuildZoom, and
was a Director of Product Management at Thomson Reuters.

Mitchell Hashimoto – Founder and CTO @ HashiCorp

Mitchell Hashimoto is best known as the creator of Vagrant, Packer, Terraform
and Consul. Mitchell is the founder of HashiCorp, a company that builds powerful
and elegant DevOps tools. He is also an O’Reilly author. He is one of the top
GitHub users by followers, activity, and contributions. “Automation obsessed,”
Mitchell solves problems with as much computer automation as possible.

Jez Humble – Owner @ Jez Humble & Associates LLC

Jez Humble is co-author of the Jolt Award winning Continuous Delivery, published
in Martin Fowler’s Signature Series (Addison Wesley, 2010), and Lean Enterprise,
in Eric Ries’ Lean series (O’Reilly, 2015). He has consulted for many Global 500
companies to help them achieve technical excellence and deploy a culture of
experimentation and learning. His focus is on helping organizations discover and
deliver valuable, high-quality products. He is co-founder of consulting company
Humble, O’Reilly & Associates, and teaches at UC Berkeley.

PRE/POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

Workshops have very limited seats. BOOK EARLY to ensure you don’t miss these
great opportunities!

Modern Agile Workshop: Joshua Kerievsky

Much has changed since the publishing of the Agile Manifesto in 2001. Pioneers
and practitioners of lean and agile methods have examined weaknesses and
friction points, experimented with simpler approaches, and produced agile
processes that are safer, simpler and far more capital efficient. The result is
modern agile. It’s values-driven, non-prescriptive and an easier starting point
than antiquated agile processes. Modern agile amplifies the values and practices
of organizations that have discovered better ways to get awesome results. Are
you still cramming low-quality work in the end of each sprint, struggling with
growing technical debt, arguing about “definition of done” or frustrated that
“management/product never gives us time to do it right?”

Quality in Use: The Beating Heart of the User Experience: Isabel Evans

In today’s business environment, the user experience and the commercial
imperatives have become overwhelmingly important. As testers, it is vital that
we understand quality in use and the user experience, in order that we focus our
tests correctly.

“Quality in Use” measures human, business, and societal impacts of products
(usability, accessibility, flexibility, commercial, safety). This builds to a
User Experience (UX) and are underpinned by technical and engineering qualities.
For the people selling, supporting, or using the products, this is the beating
heart of the customer experience. Without these “big picture” attributes,
delivered software will not be acceptable, may result in reduced profits, and
may not be legal. In the tutorial, Isabel will use examples from real projects
to discuss how to design tests derived from the user personas, contexts of use,
and acceptance criteria.

Agile Leadership: Accelerating Business Agility by Todd Little, Kent McDonald,
Niel Nickolaisen

Leaders today face constant, accelerating change driven by technology and
incredibly high expectations from both internal and external. As IT leaders, we
need to transform our roles and our departments. In this workshop, we focus on,
teach and practice the tools of transformational leadership. After each part of
the training, participants are ready to use the tools to re-define their roles
and deliver what their organizations need – brilliant leadership.

Disciplined Agile in a Nutshell by Scott Ambler

Disciplined Agile (DA) is an IT process decision framework for delivering
sophisticated agile solutions in the enterprise. It builds on the existing
proven practices from agile methods such as Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP),
Lean software development, Unified Process, and Agile Modeling to include other
aspects necessary for success in the enterprise. The one-day workshop is not
technical and is suitable for all team members. The workshop is also valuable
for management tasked with moving from traditional approaches to agile.

Leading Creative Ideation by Andrew Kaufteil, Nate Clinton

Crack your head open and release a surge of creative ideas with engaging
activities that promote clarity, inspiration, and buzz within your organization.
We’ll cover methods and facilitation tools to ensure you run fruitful
brainstorming sessions, leading your team to more and better ideas. You’ll learn
to frame the problem you’re solving, come up with an exploration strategy, and
facilitate the session, giving you and your team new ways to get inspired and
energized when looking for solutions.

Analytics Driven Testing for Mobile Apps by Julian Harty

Testing of mobile apps is easy to do poorly, however, we don’t need to be
constrained by mediocrity. Instead let’s learn about the foundations of how
mobile platforms and development technologies are used to create apps and how
these are then interpreted by the devices the apps are installed on so that we
know the sorts of bugs and problems that affect many mobile apps i.e. testing
techniques that may be generally applicable to most apps.

The Art of Refactoring by Joshua Kerievsky

Code that is difficult to understand, hard to modify and challenging to extend
is hazardous to developers, users and organizations. Refactoring, or improving
the design of existing code, is one of our greatest defenses against such code.
Yet many programmers lack formal training in refactoring. Furthermore,
management tends to lack knowledge about the value of refactoring. This one-day
workshop is designed to address these needs.

NoEstimates? by Woody Zuill, Todd Little

Let’s explore the purpose and use of estimates in the management of software
development efforts, and consider possible alternatives. Why do we estimate and
are we making estimates that are actually useful? In this session we’ll
participate in some interactive information gathering exercises to see if we can
gain a shared idea of our current understanding of the purpose and use of
estimates. We will examine the nature of software development projects and
explore some real data to shed light on the art and science of software
estimation. Our exploration goal is to see if we can work together to come up
with some ideas about improving on the traditional approaches to using
estimates.

Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble

Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming
process. The practice of continuous delivery sets out the principles and
technical practices that enable rapid, low-risk delivery of high quality,
valuable new functionality to users. In this workshop, Jez Humble presents an
in-depth guide to the principles and practices behind continuous delivery and
the DevOps movement, along with case studies from real companies and ideas to
help you adopt continuous delivery and DevOps within your organization.

The Fast Foundation Workshop by Jeremy Kriegl

Once upon a time, we had ‘Discovery’, ‘Define’, and ‘Design’. These phases let
us explore the problem and the audience, while conceiving a holistic solution.
Now we have sprints, complete with a backlog that seems like it appears
overnight and a development team that is going to build with or without design
to guide it. How do we continue to create great products? This 1-day workshop
enables you to engage your clients and stakeholders to quickly define the key
elements of your product or project, aligns the team, and identifies critical
risks. When it is complete, everyone has a good idea of what is going to be
built as well as what it will take to get there.

Enabling Company-wide Agility in a Dynamic World by Jutta Eckstein, John Buck

Today companies are expected to be flexible and both rapidly responsive and
resilient to change, which basically asks them to be Agile. Yet, doing Agile
(the mechanics) is different from being Agile (the mindset). The mindset lets
you apply flexible Agile patterns not only for software development teams but
for whole company. In this workshop, we will examine what being Agile really
means and how it can be implemented by combining principles from the Agile
Manifesto, Sociocracy, Beyond Budgeting, and Open Space. We’ll draw on
everyone’s experiences to show the path to transforming our companies into agile
enterprises – from Board to janitor, offering concrete tools and methods that
participants can apply right away.

Container-driven Continuous Deployment with Docker, Git, and Jenkins by David
Laribee

In the early 2000s, eXtreme Programming (XP) introduced agility to software
engineers. Contemporary cultural and technical innovations – container
technology, distributed version control systems, the proliferation of free and
open source software, and the DevOps movement – have significantly expanded our
possibilities.

In this one day, hands-on workshop, we’ll build a modern continuous deployment
pipeline based on Git, Jenkins, and Docker.

Spread the Word

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ECLIPSE SUMMIT INDIA 2016 – BY THE COMMUNITY FOR THE COMMUNITY!

August 5th, 2016

Year 2016 is special for Eclipse users and community in India – we have the
first ever conference focused on Eclipse Technologies, Eclipse Summit India,
scheduled for Aug 25th to 27th in Bangalore at the Hotel Chancery Pavilion.
Eclipse Summit India is being organized in collaboration with the Eclipse
Foundation and will feature some of the best speakers from the past EclipseCon
conferences around the world.

In 2010, we organized the first “Eclipse Day” – a day for the Eclipse community
in Bangalore to get together and share expertise. We still remember that day at
a small but cozy hotel on Infantry Road in Bangalore, when we kicked off the
very first “Eclipse Day” in India. We followed the tradition in 2011, when SAP
came forward to organize it in their campus. There were two more Eclipse Day
editions in Bangalore in subsequent years – one organized at IBM and the other
one at BOSCH. Each year we raised the bar in terms of content as well as
participation. Thus the idea of Eclipse Summit was born!



The conference is spread across 3 days – Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Day-1,
Thursday, is dedicated for pre-conference paid workshops. We have lined up 4
workshops by technical leaders in Eclipse space in some of the key Eclipse
technologies – Eclipse IoT, Eclipse e4 Platform, Eclipse JDT and Eclipse
Modeling Framework. The next two days are dedicated for conference tracks – we
have two tracks each on Friday and Saturday. On each of the days, we kick off
the proceedings with keynotes by thought leaders in the Industry.

On Friday, we are privileged to have Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of
Eclipse Foundation deliver the Keynote. On Saturday, we have two keynotes –
Sumit Rao, VP of Engineering at Cerner Corporation, as the first keynote speaker
and Viral Shah, co-creator of the Julia Language as the second keynote speaker.
You can find the complete program here:
https://confengine.com/eclipse-summit-2016/schedule/rich

Friday Aug 26th, we have two tracks – one focusing on Language Runtime (Java,
Node.js, Mobile) and the other on Eclipse IoT Technology. We are fortunate to
have leaders from each of these areas – Srikanth Sankaran, whose talks at past
EclipseCon were rated amongst the best, will take us through the evolution of
Java beyond Java-9, while Benjamin Cabé, Eclipse IoT expert at Eclipse
Foundation will unveil the power of Eclipse IoT technologies. These talks are
followed by a variety of talks and demonstrations that will expose you to the
latest developments and trends in these areas.

On Saturday, the event continues with the focus on language technologies in one
of the tracks, while Eclipse Platform focus on the other track. In the language
track, Stephan Hermann, Java language guru, will take you through the dynamism
in Java language while in the platform track, we have Prouvost, an expert on
Eclipse e4 Platform unraveling the mystery of e4. Don’t know what e4 is? Well,
now you have a reason to not miss this!

Eclipse Summit India is a conference organized by the Eclipse community for the
community. Organizers have done their bit in lining up some of the eminent
speakers, who are experts in their own domains. Now it is your, Eclipse
community’s – turn, to contribute to it by actively participating to make it a
success. Eagerly looking forward to meet you all at the conference!

We’ve last few seats left, register here:
https://confengine.com/eclipse-summit-2016/register

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AGILE INDIA 2016 – 5 CONFERENCES + 16 PRE/POST CONF WORKSHOPS (MARCH, BANGALORE)

January 28th, 2016

Over the last 9 months, our program team of 26 volunteers from 8 different
countries have worked together to put together a fantastic program for you.

We got a total of 333 proposals and have selected 108 proposals spread over 10
days.




CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

We are happy to confirm that we’ve 86 Speakers from 18 countries presenting at
this very conference.




CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The team has worked very hard to make sure we’ve a nice balance of topics
selected for you at the conference.




ONLINE REGISTRATION

CHOOSE FROM 5 CONFERENCES:

 * Agile Leadership Conference
 * Agile Team Culture Conference
 * Enterprise Agile Conference
 * Continuous Delivery and DevOps Conference
 * Lean Startup Conference

AND 16 PRE/POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS:

 * Agile Portfolio Management Workshop by Shane Hastie – Mar 14, 9:45 AM – 6:00
   PM
 * How to Roll Rocks Downhill Workshop by Clarke Ching – Mar 14, 9:45 AM – 6:00
   PM
 * Agile Engineering for the Web Workshop by James Shore – Mar 14, 9:45 AM –
   6:00 PM
 * Disciplined Agile In A Nutshell Workshop by Scott Ambler – Mar 14, 9:45 AM –
   6:00 PM
 * Liquid Organisation Workshop by Stelio Verzera – Mar 14, 9:45 AM – 6:00 PM
 * Agile Leadership Academy: Scaling Agile by Sanjiv Augustine – Mar 14, 9:45 AM
   – 6:00 PM
 * Getting2Alpha: Build your MVP faster and smarter with Game Thinking by Amy Jo
   Kim – Mar 20, 9:45 AM – 6:00 PM
 * Lifting Off Workshop by Ellen Grove – Mar 20, 9:45 AM – 6:00 PM
 * Test Automation Code Retreat Workshop by Jeff “Cheezy” Morgan – Mar 20, 9:45
   AM – 6:00 PM
 * Lean Product Development Workshop by Jez Humble – Mar 20, 9:45 AM – 6:00 PM
 * Building a DevOps Culture Workshop by Nicole Forsgren – Mar 21, 9:45 AM –
   6:00 PM
 * Agile Software Development for Distributed Teams Workshop by Jutta Eckstein –
   Mar 21, 9:45 AM – 6:00 PM
 * Large-Scale Scrum Introduction Workshop by Ran Nyman – Mar 21, 9:45 AM – 6:00
   PM
 * Collaboration Tools Workshop by Michael (Doc) Norton – Mar 21, 9:45 AM – 6:00
   PM
 * Agile Management – Management 3.0 official training Workshop by Angel
   Diaz-Maroto Alvarez – Mar 21, 9:45 AM – Mar 22, 6:00 PM
 * The Nexus – Scaled Professional Scrum workshop by Steve Porter – Mar 22, 9:45
   AM – Mar 23, 6:00 PM

Register here: https://confengine.com/agile-india-2016/register


AGILE INDIA 2016 SPONSORS

Big thanks to our sponsors for supporting the conference.

 * Title Sponsors – J.P. Morgan & Temenos+Agility
 * Theme Sponsors – Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org, Scaled Agile Inc. and IBM
 * Gold Sponsors – Crest and Aconex
 * Conference Book Sponsor – LitheSpeed
 * Reception Sponsor – Scaled Agile Inc. and Chef

We’ve a couple of more sponsorship opportunities available.

Check: http://2016.agileindia.org/#sponsor/become-sponsor


SOCIAL LINKS:

 * Facebook
 * Twitter
 * Website
 * YouTube
 * Email

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WHY DID THE STATS DIP IN AGILE INDIA 2015 CONFERENCE?

August 8th, 2015

Agile India 2014 Conference was happy to host 1236 Attendees from 28 different
countries. The attendees belong to 226 different companies and play 342
different roles. More details…

However in Agile India 2015 Conference we hosted 817 Attendees from 26 different
countries. The attendees belong to 165 different companies and play 270
different roles. More details…

Also there was a proportionate drop in the number of sponsors. 14 sponsors in
2014 as opposed to 11 in 2015. So many people ask us why the numbers dipped?
That’s a fair question. Following are the reasons why we think the numbers
dipped:

 1. We moved from Four 1-day mini-conferences to Two 2-day mini-conferences. (So
    naturally the count will dip. In 2016, we are back to Five 1-day
    mini-conferences.)
 2. In 2015, we shrunk the program team size to 9 members from 29 members in
    2014. Reason: we wanted to experiment and see what happens if we don’t
    decide the team upfront, but add members to the team only based on their
    contributions (esp. via the Submission System.) I guess that did not work
    out all that well. In 2016, we are back to a 26 member team that is decided
    upfront.
 3. Overall the planning for the 2015 conference was delayed. Only in Sep 2014
    we started actively working on the conference. As opposed to starting in
    July 2013 for the 2014 conference. (For 2016, we started work in June 2015
    itself.)
 4. Part of the reason for the delay was because, we were busy planning the
    Agile Pune 2014 Conference. Now planning 2 fairly large, international
    conferences on the same topic, 4 months apart, can lead to them competing
    with each other. Each year we do organise a bunch of smaller, regional
    conferences. However with the Pune conference we got bit ambitious. A good
    lesson learned.
 5. The themes selected for the 2015 conference was a repeat from the most
    popular themes from 2014 conference. In hindsight, that was a bad idea.
    Participants and Companies want something new every year. (For 2016, we have
    5 brand new, relevant and trendy themes: Research Camp, Lean Startup,
    Enterprise Agile, Continuous Delivery & DevOps and Agile in the Trenches.)

I can go on…but you get the idea.

This does not mean we will stop experimenting. We’ve been successfully running
this conference for 11 years and every year we try something new, something
different. That’s what keeps the excitement & enthusiasm for us (a group of
volunteers, with regular day-time jobs.)

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A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH

August 1st, 2015

In software world we call this speculative generality or YAGNI or over
engineering.

IMHO we should not be afraid to throw parts of your system out every 6-8 months
and rebuild it. Speed and Simplicity trumps everything! Also in 6-8 months, new
technology, your improved experience, better clarity, etc. will help you design
a better solution than what you can design today.

Just to be clear, I’m not suggesting that we do a sloppy job and rewrite the
system because of sloppiness. I’m recommending, let’s solve today’s problem in
the simplest, cleanest and most effective/efficient way. Let’s not pretend to
know the future and build things based on that, because none of us know what the
future looks like. Best we can do is guess the future, and we humans are not
very good at it.

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