I am an agile coach and developer. I thrive on helping teams become high performing teams.

I want to learn through collaborative sessions with like-minded, and hopefully not sosi like-minded agile coaches.

I would like to host a session on the topic of the “hero”. This is the dedicated developer who takes on too much and her behaviour causes a downward spiral where their tight control of the software impairs others and their own frustration grows as others are unable or unwilling to help.

Sameh Zeid

I am CSP, PMP and SixSigma Black Belt. I have presented a session in Orlando Scrum Conference 2010. I have more than 20 years of experience in Software Development and Process Improvement.

I want to network and learn through interaction with people.

I am proposing “2″ topics

• Using Scrum to achieve enterprise agility through the Process Management areas of CMMI.
• Understanding Kanban implementation for software maintenance.

Dave Rooney

I’m a veteran Agile Coach with over 20 years industry experience. I’ve been involved with Agile since 2000, and have helped organizations from pre-funding startups to the Fortune 15 improve their software delivery process. I’m also a co-founder of the Agile Ottawa Group, and an active writer, speaker and advocate of agile methods in Canada.

I would like the opportunity to meet with other coaches, share our experiences and to learn ways to improve my own work.

I would be interested in leading a discussion about what I consider to be the quite sorry state of the software development profession. I feel quite strongly that a fundamental change is needed to be able to call ourselves true professionals, and that our position as coaches uniquely positions us to drive that change.

Susan Davis

I’m an independent agile coach based in Toronto, ON. I’ve been learning and applying agile software development principles for nearly ten years, as a team member, lead, manager, facilitator, and coach.

My takeaways from the conference are Networking, insights, and new views of familiar and unfamiliar problems.

My potential topic is “The Scrum Master versus the Self-Organizing, Empowered Team”: does centralizing the activities normally associated with the SM in one person create another silo? Or does the SM genuinely protect the team from time-wasting activities of no value? (And if so, how does that differ from the “hero” concept?)

Michelle Benes

I am relatively new to the agile world. In 2008 I took a scrum master certification course and proceeded to steer my current company towards a more agile methodology.

I’m hoping to meet more people in the area that are using agile processes and learn what has worked for them.

I’m interested in exploring the following topics:

1. What does it mean to be a “high performance” team, and how do you get there?
2. When does it make sense to not use agile?

David Dame

I’m a Senior Software Manager passionate about Software Quality Assurance and Agile Development. I have made a successful career of customizing theory and best practices to fit in a number of software/IT companies and industries. I currently work at Open Text.

I would like to learn how people have adopted agile practices in a global enterprise.

I would be interested in hosting a session about agile testing legacy products with considerable technical debt.

Gino Marckx

I am an agile coach and recently became agile practice lead for Thoughcorp. For my work, I strongly rely on my passion for team dynamics, my experience in leadership positions, and my technical expertise. I am co-founder of the Toronto Agile Software Development Community, organizing conferences and events in the GTA, and co-organizer of XPDays Benelux.

I am particularly interested in the challenges that come with applying agile in enterprise environments.

I am interested in hosting sessions about

• How can we introduce agile in a way that we improve the enterprise processes, interacting with product management and the operational processes.
• How can we guide teams better to move from shu to ha to ri?

Michael Norton
Unfortunately can’t make it!

Over 20 years of software development and leadership experience ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 clients in multiple industries. An avid Agilist for the past ten years. A coach, a mentor, and a passionate team member.

I am currently a senior developer with ThoughtWorks. I’ve recently presented at SDT conference in Pittsburgh and CodeMash in Sandusky. Presenting later this year at PrairieDev.

I’ve presented on User Experience and User Centered Design, Functional Programming with Scheme, Scaling Agility, and Crafting a Development Career.

I have been involved in a few large scale transformations, always from a development stand-point. I work with the developers to hone their engineering practices and develop a cadence.

I am interested in learning more about the management and executive aspects of these transformations.

I would like to discuss the key engineering practices fledgling teams should adopt.

I would like to discuss the role of UX/UCD and how they fit with Agile practices.

I would like to discuss the management and executive considerations of large-scale agile transformations (or small-scale for that matter)

Siraj Sirajuddin
Unfortunately can’t make it!

Siraj is a Lean Agile Coach with 6+ years of Agile experience and more than 19 years with several organizations.

Siraj wants to Energize the Agile community in Canada!!!

Siraj’s topic is “The Influencer’s Mantra” – A workshop based on my life and career experiences as a Lean Agile coach.

Gil Broza

Agile coaching for teams and individuals + personal breakthrough coaching. Adoption of effective Agile methods, and re-aligning broken or mediocre implementations.

Learning, ideas, new connections

Pragmatic (vs dogmatic or metaphysical) Agile coaching

Gerry Kirk

Passion for community, for transforming the world of work and beyond. I try to apply Agile thinking in non-software environments, including faith communities. I have a real heart for nurturing community, whether that be a team, company or other form.

Strong experience working with small companies looking to adopt Agile.

I discovered Agile / Scrum in 2007 after 10 years working as a developer, QA manager, then project manager. Since then, I’ve worked to transform teams and organizations as a scrum master and coach/trainer.

Visit http://www.gerrykirk.net

Learn from others, connect, grow, contribute. I really enjoyed the open space day at the Orlando Scrum Gathering.

Topics I am interested in hosting:

* Coaching circles, or how to find community as an independent coach
* Sacred moments in our work: how we’ve experienced them and how to create an environment for them to occur

Ellen Grove

I’m an Agile coach, a software tester, and a positive deviant. I love working with teams to help them work better together, make better stuff, and have more fun while doing it.

This will be my third Agile Coach Camp — I’m really looking forward to exchanging great ideas with a fantastic group of people and watching the sparks of creativity ignite.

One of the things I’m interested in is in doing non-software work using Agile. I’m also interested in discussing influencing change in public sector environments, and how to grow coaching skills (both in myself and others).

Michael Sahota

Agile & Lean coach. I help clients adopt Agile to improve delivery of value. Make software a humane profession.

Connect. Learn. Share stories.

am really interested in how people manage product backlogs in real life. What contexts exist and how choices are made.

Stephane Lecuyer
Unfortunately can’t make it!

I am an Agile coach assisting organizations in their transition to Agile and Scrum. I am positionning myself at the organization level to help managers better understand the impacts of that kind of transition.

Hear the experience of other coach about organizational impacts of an Agile transition.

I would like to present a new model that can be use as a dashboard to pilot an Agile transition.

Alexei Zheglov

A software developer with more than 10 years of experience, I worked as part of a team using some elements of agile for the last couple of years. In 2010, I got an opportunity to lead my own agile implementation (fortunately, I was prepared for it).

I want to learn more about: backlog management, acceptance testing, Kanban, and agile teams’ workplace design.

I am interested in hosting a discussion of agile developers’ tools and techniques.

Selena Delesie

I am passionate about helping people learn, grow, and define and reach their goals. In successful organizations the people come first: they are empowered, creative, learning, challenging, and having fun. Creating a learning culture that is open and collaborative.

I am eager to share and learn from experienced agile coaches, and learn about techniques others have used to help people and organizations succeed with agile.

I am interested in hosting a session on how to coach people in becoming high performing as an agile team member when they (and their management) are more interested in individual heroics.

Martin Scherer

I have an undergrad experience in software development that I rarely ‘actively’ used today. What I do find is that many of the development cycles are useful for leading non-software projects. Today I manage the outreach activities for the Faculty of Engineering at Waterloo, and handle multiple teams of various sizes for these projects.

I’m interested in learning how to use Agile development in non-software development contacts (from a more project management position).

I’m interested in discussing the current system of operations we are using in our group to manage staff/projects and have it be used as a discussion point for how apply agile principles to a non-software workforce.

Jean-Francois Gingras

I have been working in IT for over 20 years, of which 12+ year were in Project Management. I have become aquainted with Scrum three (3) years ago and now we are in the process of rolling it out to a large financial institution.

I would like to hear agile coaching stories from the very people practicing it.

I am interested in a discussion on opportunities and risks of rolling agile in a large traditional organizations.

Senior Software Engineer for Tsavo Media.
My goal is to see how others are having success or failures with there agile endevours

A system engineer learning the agile process.
See what kind of ppl practice agile process in Toronto
Risk management and agile process in relation to PMI.

I am a software/systems architect with many years of experience designing, developing, and testing software for several industries (wireless, HR, finance, etc.).
I hope that by attending I will gain some more insight into how agile teams work so that I can change how I interact with the team, and also design high-levels systems so that an agile team can more easily work with it in their agile process.
I’m not sure I would be able to chair a session. I would like to be able to pick the brains of people much more knowledgeable in the field than me.

I love the game of software development. I can play many positions: developer, jester, architect, tester, historian, business analyst, coach, visionary, story teller, …

I’m more comfortable playing in some positions. I suck less in some positions.

On any project, I’m willing to play most any position if that seems to be what is needed to get results.
I want to have opportunities for deep conversation about coaching Agile Transitions and Technical Practices.

More importantly, I want to have fun.
Introduce Agile. Create Visibility. Now what? I would like to share stories of struggle and success in introducing engineering practices: CI, DDD, SDD, SOLID, TDD, WELC, etc.

Shawn Button

I am a software developer and agile enthusiast. I have been using agile development practices for about seven years, and have been developing as part of a Scrum team for the last eight months.
This is my first agile conference, and I am looking forward to meeting people with a variety of different experiences. I am particularly interested in sharing experiences with agile development techniques such as acceptance-driven development and refactoring of legacy code.
I would like to see some discussion about the reasons that individuals (e.g., developers, testers, product owners) have resistance to transitioning to agile, and about ways to help the process.

Adam Purkiss

Recently got CSM I have been scrum mastering a number of teams at the same time since the beginning of the year while the company is in the process of rolling agile out accross the enginneering department. While not being a scrum master I am the build and deploy manager :)
I want to get a feel for how people have rolled out agile across multi disciplinary teams that touch everything from hardware to servers to operations.
I would be interested in hosting a session on how to get mixed software and hardware disciplines working together in a tighter team. Is that the right way or are there other solutions.

I have over 20 years in software development, and am currently a senior program manager. I have a PMP & PgMP and am always looking for ways to improve results by developing people.
We have started our Agile journey and I would like to learn from others going through similar experiences, and develop a network of peers for future interactions.
Starting the Agile journey — there doesn’t seem to be a lot of information on how to change an organization to be Agile. I have led the start of our Agile journey, and am now working on our next steps. I would be willing to lead a discussion where we can share our collective experiences and challenges with changing the way your company works together.

Talk about how to apply Agile practices and principles to COTS implementations. What are the differences in practices? Do all the principles apply? How about Kanban — is it better suited to COTS?
Meet lots of people, hear lots of perspectives, contribute lots of my perspectives.
Agile & COTS

Cara Scott

As an Instructional Designer at MKS, I develop on demand and instructor led training programs in ALM solutions, Agile being one of those integral solutions.
I am looking forward to hearing the user stories, successes and challenges others are experiencing with Agile. While I have seen agile concepts such as sprints and the daily stand up meeting at work in software development industries for over 5 years now, my knowledge is only from observing and not directly practicing. I am extremely interested in learning from agile practitioners so that I can develop highly impactful, relevant course ware for learners. I also plan to become a certified Scrum master and am looking forward to entering this course with more knowledge under my belt.
For example, I am not familiar with Kanban. I am also fascinated with the use of agile for non-software projects.
What makes for an effective Scrum Master? How are silos eliminated?
How do you make believers out of the non-believers?

Tremeur Balbous

As an agile coach, I’m helping teams to discover, learn and adopt agile/scum methodology. I discovered agile through french XP group meetings in 2004. I then created an agile group in France (Nantes) on September 2008, a few months before I left for Montreal. I’m now an active member (co-organizer) of the Montreal agile group
I’m interested in helping teams to grow and to face its challenges. I’m more particularly interested to share experiences in bootstrapping agile teams. I think coach is as important as agile in “agile coach”, I’m also looking for coaching tools.
I’ll bring questions about “sprint 0″, “team bootstrap”, and coaching skills.

Marc-Andre Filion-Pilon

I am an agile coach and ScrumMaster, with a 4+ years experience in agile methodologies (mainly XP), and having worked in IT in Montreal and Belgium.
For me, the coach camp would be a great opportunity to meet new people, share experience and learn new (and hopefully better!) ways of doing things in the Agile world.
I really like the “openspace” format because we can have real conversations, not only one-way presentations. Being relatively new to the Agile world, I would be eager to hear about agile/coaching success stories, but also real nightmares. And learn from these experiences…

Jennifer Janik

With 15 years of experience developing applications using extreme programming and agile development practices, I understand the importance of helping business partners to meet highly competitive market windows through agile portfolio management of features and functionality.
I am looking forward to hearing ideas from a wide variety of people on how to bridge the gap between business partners/market demands and the development teams that are building the solutions.
I look forward to discussing ideas about how to streamline the end-to-end process from requirements planning through to deployment that will help to improve operational efficiencies while delivering optimal solutions to customers.

Jason Cheong-Kee-You

I’m an Agile coach in Toronto.
Coaching is more than just improving skills and adding process. If you improve skills and add process, but have no strategy for dealing with legacy code, then you will fail.

I believe that good coaches shepherd their clients through five linear stages.

The first stage is Denial: characterized by the lack of progress visibility, and the belief that everything will be right if the developers work harder.

The second stage is Visible: the company has a good understanding of the team’s productive capacity, but no knowledge of how to improve things.

The third stage is Test-Infected: the developers have improved their unit testing capabilities, but they aren’t yet competent enough to deal with legacy code.

The fourth stage is Craftsmanship: the developers improve the quality of their code base over time.

The fifth stage is Accountable: the company has found internal staff to fill all the essential roles that the coach was fulfilling.
I’m seeking to share coaching experiences with others for mutual learning.
Success stories of companies with legacy code. How does a company successfully change its culture and attitude towards code without tests?

I am an Agile Coach/Software Developer and Certified Scrum Professional who’s background includes both private and public sector. I have a special interest in using Agile with .Net technologies.
I would like to share my experiences introducing Agile into the government and to new organizations. I would like to learn how to interact better with Project Managers.
I could host a talk on introducing Agile to Government or how to make culture change in an organization.

Colin Doyle

I have over 25 years of experience in software development, covering all aspects of the software development life cycle. I have worked on projects that span the divide from heavyweight plan-driven (DOD-STD-2167A) to pure Agile (XP & Scrum). I am currently one of the Customer Requirements Managers at MKS, where I help direct the evolution of MKS Integrity, an Application Lifecycle Management platform. As part of that role, I am the agile practices lead within MKS, and will have just finished presenting at ADP West 2010 on the topic of “”Making Agile work in highly regulated environments”".
I am interested in hearing about people’s experiences and challenges in implementing agile, particularly in complex environments.
I would be happy to discuss applying agile values and practices to complex environments, particularly in the areas of:
- highly regulated environments
- software product lines or other re-use models
- highly distributed development organizations

I am a Senior Business Analyst who is just learning Agile, and I like what I’ve learned so far. In addition to using Agile for IT projects, I see possible applications for it and I want to start digging in with both hands. To the table I am bringing a lot of questions, and hopes for broader insights.
A stong Agile contact base, introductions to people using Agile in different industries, insight into how I may be more Agile where I am working today, and where Agile might take me in the future.
Is Agile being used in just IT Project Execution? Probably not! How else is is Agile being used and what does that look like?

Ian Chamberlain

My role is Practice Leader, Agile at Shaw Communication Inc.

I want to meet agile coaches and discuss their experiences in growing agile skills and practices within an enterprise.
I am very interested in the Agile Skills Project (http:///www.agileskillsproject.org) and how a learning agile culture can be established in an enterprise.

Nathan Hughes
Unfortunately can’t make it!

I’ve been working in database and software development and management for 15 years. For the last five years I’ve lead teams in size from five to eighty at a marketing and advertising technology company in Detroit, MI. I’ve been a part of a number of agile development transformations, using XP and SCRUM, with all the ups and downs introducing agile into a business brings. I am passionate about the business value and team value agile principles can deliver, and helping companies understand and benefit from these principles.
I have decided to take my career deeper into agile leadership, coaching, and mentorship. I am excited to meet other experts that have already started their journey and hearing from them about it, as well as meeting others on the same path. Sharing experiences, lessons, and insights will help me organize and solidify my own experiences. In particular, I am excited to hear from others on effective ways to evangelize agile throughout the business, building support in areas outside of engineering and IT.
Potential Topic: Agile principles often just “make sense” to technical team members. Even when they are reluctant about a specific area (pair programming and TDD come to mind), programmers are usually scientific and bold enough to give it a try. Other areas of the business need different information in order to jump on the boat, and their comfort level is across the map. How have others moved a business into acting and supporting agile development and operational methodologies?

Software development consultant specializing in Agile transformation and coaching.
A chance to share ideas and techniques with like minded Agilists.
I would be interested in discussing guiding/providing road maps for people with little or no experience in Agile towards effective participation in high-performance Agile teams.

5 years experience as an Agile QA team leader.
Explore Lean principles as the evolution of Agile. Hear how other folks introduced teams to Agile/Lean concepts.
1) Test planning as user story review
2) Using Cumcumber to automate acceptance criteria
3) Communicating the test footprint to the team and stakeholders

I am an Agile coach who has a passion for helping teams and organizations improve through the use of common sense.
Meet new people and gain insights into practices I can add to my toolkit.
I am interesting in talking about the message being delivered by the Agile community. Does your client really care about Agile? Seems to me they are after results, not ‘being Agile’

Tom Churchwell

I’m a QA Director and want to talk through Automated Acceptance Tests
New techniques for capturing an articulation of what the business needs and a way to trace it directly to working code
Story Driven Development. Driving Unit level TDD through automated story testing.

QA Engineer with 7+ Year experience
Agile Practice and implementation
Agility in QA and PMP

I am an Agile developer in the Detroit metro area. I caught the Agile bug a few years back and am an Agile coach camp groupie since the first coach camp in Ann Arbor in 2008.
What I am hoping to get out of the conference is more insight into how people become change agents in their organizations. I often struggle with gaining trust and the right approach. I’s love to hear what others are doing.
A potential topic I would like to host is “Being your team’s agile coach”. Typically, I am a team member that is on a team that has an agile coach. However, if you truly want a self organizing team, everyone on the team needs to the agile coach role in some way I am interested in discussing how we get to this point.

Bob Sarni
Unfortunately can’t make it!

I am a certified scrum coach and certified scrum trainer. Most of my experience in the last 6 years is in large organizational transitions to agile.
I am currently on an enterprise transition gig in Greece and hope to be back in time for the conference – 90% sure I will be there. My goal is have great discussions with other coaches about our experiences and ideas for the future.
I would be interested in talking about the impacts of organizational politics in large enterprise adoptions of agile.

I have over 18 years of experience in software development industry starting with development, team lead, and solution architect. For the past 2 years I have been managing projects as scrum master and I am very interested in Agile software development. I can bring my experience in implementing Agile Scrum in our team as well as managing distributed teams.

- Network with peers in the Agile software development community.
- Learn from others about their experience in agile software development.
- Share my experience in managing a fairly large software project using agile Scrum.
- Explore consulting opport
- Crafting User Stories and product roadmaps.
- Agile maturity Models.
- Release and Sprint Planning

I have multiple years in IT ranging from development to management. Industry areas include online reservation systems, heavy duty batch systems as well as standard company support systems. During this time, I have constantly introduced Agile techniques into the development processes resulting in packages that are reliable and add business value.
Learn, learn, learn

Meet people and share experiences about how Agile can be presented to management in terms they understand.
Implementing Agile practices with distributed (non co-located) teams.

Can Agile be expanded to include more than the development group

I’m an entrepreneur and developer who is measuring the time/value equation on every decision made.

This leads me to deep questions and some surface thoughts on practical use of agile philosophies.
Exploration of principles and practices.

Connections to agile developers, in particular those pushing the practices into realms adjacent to software development (ie. system administration, database management, email handling)
Specialized team members and agile practices.

David Juche

I am a development manager at McAfee and have been working to introduce and fold Agile methodologies into our work environment.
Learn from others on issues/solutions so I can bring more clarity to our attempts to work with Agile here at McAfee.
How to run standups so everyone is engaged, interested and the team finds them valuable through the entire project?

Michal Antkiewicz

Postdoctoral Fellow at Univeristy of Waterloo and an aspiring software consultant focusing on improving software engineering practices and tools. Implemented tools for forward-, reverse-, and round-trip engineering of code and framework-specific models. Evaluated requirements engineering practices of a major financial institution. Mentored many masters and Ph.D. students.
Meet people from the trenches, learn about agile adoption successes and failures. In particular, I’m interested in 1) incremental adoption, and 2) experiences with tools for project management, code analysis, refactoring, and testing.
Is that true that agile teams have short iterations just not to forget about what they are doing? What happens after a few years when the original team members left the organization? What are the best methods for dealing with documentation for maintenance? Since the code is all that’s left up-to-date, how to use it best as a source of knowledge?

Rob Adlers

I’m a 16 year veteran software quality assurance analyst now Scrum Master. I’m working with multiple teams currently under transition from waterfall to agile/scrum. I have experience in very diverse industries with software and hardware development.
I’m hoping to expand my current knowledge Scrum arsenal to help improve my teams at work. I’m also curious to understand more about team motivation and normalization of waterfall to agile/scrum transition from other Scrum veterans to help better understand where we are in the bigger picture of transition and how I maybe able to make the transitions a little faster/smoother.
Team motivation through transition

Alan Kay
Unfortunately can’t make it!

In the change acceleration business using Solutions Focus. Have many applications – from strategic planning to stakeholder consultation. Work with a broad range of companies – banks to children’s aid.
Build on the many commonalities between agile and solutions focus – there are be many.
Share how solutions focus team coaching can speed up change in a not-for-profit organization and where agile fits in as an adjunct

Morley Howell

I’ve been developing software for 15 years, and a few years ago, I found myself becoming increasingly frustrated with the entire process. A couple friends of mine had gotten into agile, and were really enthusiastic. I set about looking for an opportunity to give this a try, and began working on an agile team about 4 months ago. I have since done my CSM certification with Lyssa Adkins and have become the Scrum Master for the team.
I want to learn how to be a better Scrum master and coach for my team, and learn about how other people do agile.
A potential topic I would like to explore is the balance between the primary work of the team and efforts to improve the effectiveness of the team.

As I understand it, one of the key aspects of an agile team is a commitment to continuous self-evaluation and improvement. Doing this takes time and effort which could have otherwise gone towards the primary work of the team. How do you balance these?

What if you have a team or team member(s) that are highly focused on the primary work, and undervalue and/or undermine the improvement process?

What if the team has made improvements over time, but has plateaued in this respect and become complacent?

Michael Lant

http://michaellant.com/
I have been architecting and developing software for about 20 years with experience in over 20 industries. During that time I have used a wide range of methodologies. To date, I’ve used Agile in three organizations and XP in another. My initial experience with Scrum and Agile was not overly positive. Subsequent kicks at the can yielded increasingly better results.

I am hoping to share knowledge and experience with other Agile practitioners.

I’m happy to share my experiences with Prioritizing Agile Stories and Agile Defect Management

I am a Scrum Master running a small team that is trying to finish a crazy project using stone knives and bear skins to create a 21 century application. I bring determination and in-the-trenches experiences to the table.
I want to see success stories of how real world applications of Agile are being used in creating product.

This will be my third Coach Camp. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the brain exchange that takes place at these events. Since the last camp, I’ve taken on the role of an internal Agile coach. I hope to gain some insights from other internal coaches on how best to support the org as we transition to Agile and other software engineering best practices.
Have another great Coach Camp experience sharing thoughts and experiences with fellow Agilists.
Challenges of an internal coach.

Christian Gruber

I work in a productivity group at Google, acting both as a team-lead for engineers who create tools to increase/improve productivity and product quality, and also as a coach for waterloo teams at Google who experiment with agile methods. I bring experience of nearly 10 years of various forms of agile approaches, software development, and organizational learning.
I want to connect with my peers, learn better coaching skills, help with problem solving, get help with problem solving, and generally bone-up and stay fresh. Pulling in the experience of a community is invaluable to avoid navel-gazing.
A potential topic I’d love to explore is that of achieving common vision for a team’s purpose among a host of competing agendas of stakeholders. How do you drive consensus, or, failing that, prioritized democratically derived purpose.

I work for Open Text and am a Agile coach/trainer. Our teams work within an Iterative and Incremental Development framework which is very similar to scrum.
Meet other coaches and trainers in the field and learn from them.
Managing the Product Backlog

Mishkin Berteig

- co-founder of OpenAgile
- co-founder of Berteig Consulting (agile coaching and consulting company)
- over 12 years experience with agile methods (Scrum, XP, Lean, OpenAgile)
- Certified Scrum Trainer for almost 5 years
- father of four
- meet cool people
- learn lots of neat stuff about coaching
- agile beyond software; agile in management, agile in non-profits, agile in general project management, agile in teams

Patrick Wilson-Welsh

I’m an agile coach who has specialized in all manner of green bars. I care a lot about the automated testing triangle, TDD, and Agile Testing. I care about their cultural mechanisms as well as their practical mechanisms. I am addicted to learning. I am working on a book with Mike Hill on the first steps down the Agile Programming Path, in which we focus on statement-level and method-level Clean Code, purposefully excluding object-modeling, and class-level SRP.
Learning, connection, inspiration, sharing.
Method-level complexity and TDD, and 16 practices and principles surrounding them, that might help non-agile programmers learn agility easier and faster. Please see this.

Eric Laramee

Throughout my career I have acquired numerous valuable skills as a programmer, analyst and project manager and also holds a bachelor’s degree in psycho sociology.My wide-ranging experiences come together to form an effective tool box for coaching teams on how to deliver high quality software that answers exactly to the client’s needs. I’ve been an Agile coach for over two years now. I’ve coached teams in the avionics, gaming, insurance, medical and banking industry.
Learn! There’s always a better way of doing things and through open discussions we can come up with something that allows us to move forward.

Secondly, being one of the organizers of the Montreal Agile Coach camp in 2011, I’d like to get a feel for the events.

Role of a PMP certified project manager in an Agile transition: Blog

Francois Perron

I joined Pyxis Technologies recently as an agile coach. During the past two years, I worked as an internal agile coach and a ScrumMaster in two insurances companies. Before that, I had the great pleasure of being part of a super cool and super performing agile team.

I’m interested in sharing and learning ways to get people out of the status quo. How to have teams question themselves

I look forward to share my experience within a great team to other coaches to help us understand how it can be accelerated without skipping steps.

Finally, I would like to discuss about the technical practices side of agile coaching. It seems to me that it is not having the attention it deserves when transitioning to agile. (I’m a Clean Code fan!)

Doina Brejan

I have been in software development for over 10 years (the last 6 with PointClickCare) ? growing from developer, team lead to Project Coordinator and Development Manager.
We started using Agile a couple of months ago, and I am excited to attend the conference to learn and absorb from people with agile development techniques.
What makes for a successful agile coach?
Driving and motivating people.
How do you apply agile in non development teams ? management?

Phil Green

20 yrs in software. Internal Agile coach and trainer.
I’d like to share knowledge and experiences with other coaches, have some arguments, improve my coaching, help others do the same, have some fun along the way.
Topics of interest include connecting product management with the product owner role, organizational change, teams, growing internal coaches.

Jon Stahl

Co-founded LeanDog (agile coaching. & consulting company). We help companies with organizational transformations to Agile and delivery.

Our boat/office in Cleveland provides a home for over a dozen monthly user group meetings, we co-organize events such as Cleveland: GiveCamp, Ignite, Startup Weekend & Code Retreats.
Meet more good Agilists and learn with them.
I could host a session on Kanban or share my latest thoughts on Agile From The Top Down: Executives Practicing Agile. I would share 25 physical boards for this session and suggest refactoring the PMO. I would value feedback on this.

Thanou Thirakul

I’ve been working in an agile environment for over 10 years. I have experienced working on a long running project with 20+ team members. I’m also writing an open source Agile tool set to help scaling up an agile team.
I’m very interested in large scale and long running Agile projects. In this context, to be successful, different approaches are needed than typically used on a 4-6 people team doing a web application for 4-6 months.
Large scale and long running Agile projects. What are the challenges? How do we keep them sustainable?
How can a team manage the domain and technical knowledge that spans many years? How can we get new developers up to speed quickly?

Christopher Duro

I am a software test architect and senior QA manager living 2 hrs south of Niagara Falls. Former Wall Street IT/management consultant; former agile/RUP coach with Valtech. Currently a practice lead for financial services testing at one of the world?s largest QA organizations.
Discussion about agile coaching and the progress towards agile adoption
In many larger IT shops, testing is a separate discipline. Testers are hired, trained, and assigned to complex waterfall projects by centralized QA departments. However, many central testing teams have limitied automation capabilities and virtually no exposure to agile. So, how can central testing organizations be coached/mentored on meeting the needs of an increasing number of agile projects? These testers are often ‘free’ resources to projects and can be helpful if leveraged correctly.

Todd Charron

I’m an Agile Coach and Scrum Master in Toronto.
I look forward to meeting and sharing experiences with other coaches.
I would be interested in a session discussing what to do when the team isn’t concerned about the quality of their work.

Peter Yu

A software developer at Intelliware Development Inc. with over 10 years of agile software development experience.
Learn more about coaching agile teams effectively.
Introducing change – there has got to be a better way – lessons learnt.

Alina Ticknor

I’m a QA manager whose organization specializes in providing flexible outsourced QA services to clients. Leading and working within outsourced teams has allowed me to participate in projects of varying size and scope, and to learn about integrating a test team into an existing organization with its own unique culture, products, and processes. I have had the opportunity to work with clients who have made it through their early difficulties and embraced Agile, as well as clients who are considering a transition to Agile, or are in the early stages of adoption.

This will be my first Agile Coach Camp; I’m excited to meet with other members of the community and to discuss, share, and learn.

Some of the topics I’m most interested in discussing:

Strategies others have found successful in promoting continual improvement of “”whole team”" attitudes and practices, especially in organizations where individual teams have historically operated quite separately from one another.

Stories from coaches who have helped organizations grow from isolated pockets of learning and individual efforts to a collaborative culture of learning and shared experience.

Gavin Bee

I am an Agile Software Developer, Architect, and Coach. I thrive on doing whatever the team needs done.
I want to meet other practitioners and share our experiences. I plan to learn and meet some excellent new people.
I would like to host a session exploring what to do when your team plateaus. You have been steadily improving as a team, completed several projects successfully, and now everything seems good. Good is good, now how do we get to Great?

Krzysztof Czarnecki

I am a software engineering professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Waterloo.
I look forward to learning about the latest trends in Agile Development and in particular about real-world experiences of the participants. I will draw on these examples when teaching software engineering courses.
I would like to hear about experiences in introducing agile techniques in large organizations that operate in a waterfall fashion.

I would bring a very enthusiastic attitude to learn more!
I am a student from UW who is on coop currently with the Student Life Office. We are attempting to follow an agile methodology on one of our larger development projects, and a conference like this, with the experience it gives, would be invaluable.
Anything relating to agile development. Management, scrum, software architecture , and user stories are the top of my list though.
Well what I would be interested in is creating an agile software architecture, *however*, I have no experience with even a traditional software architecture, let alone one that makes sense in an agile environment.

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