| Agile Development Forum - Boston - November 1-2, 2007 |  |
| Thursday, November 1, 2007 | |
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7:30pm - 9:00pm |
Welcome Reception and Networking |
| Friday, November 2, 2007 | |
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7:30am - 8:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:00am - 8:15am |
Introduction Scott Maxwell, Senior Managing Director, OpenView Venture Partners |
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8:15am -9:15am |
Development Process: Lessons Learned from the Portfolio Steve Rabin, CTO, OpenView Venture Partners |
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9:15am -10:15am |
Principles of Agile Development - Part 1 Jeff Sutherland, Inventor of Scrum Agile Development Process, Senior Adviser to OpenView Venture Partners |
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10:15am - 10:30am |
Break |
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10:30am - 12:00pm |
Principles of Agile Development - Part 2 Jeff Sutherland, Inventor of Scrum Agile Development Process, Senior Adviser to OpenView Venture Partners |
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12:00pm - 12:30pm |
Lunch |
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12:30pm - 1:00pm |
Lunch Presentation: Agile and Outsourced Development The Offshore Perspective: Alex Adamopoulos, Exigen Services The Silicon Valley Perspective: Ian McFarland, Pivotal Labs |
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1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Using Project Management Tools to Support Agile Development Robert Holler, CEO, VersionOne |
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2:00pm -2:15pm |
Break |
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2:15pm -2:30pm |
Transitioning to Agile: A Case Study at eEye Kate Kawalek, VP Engineering, eEye Digital Security |
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2:30pm -4:45pm |
Open Discussion with Our Expert Panel Moderator: Steve Rabin Participants: Jeff Sutherland, Robert Holler, Kate Kawalek, Ian McFarland, David Hussman, Founder and CEO of devjam.biz, Torsten Weirich, EVP Product Development, Acorn Systems |
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4:45pm - 5:00pm |
Closing Day Comments Scott Maxwell, Senior Managing Director, OpenView Venture Partners |
Testimonials
"It's been one of the most informative forums I have been to. Jeff [Sutherland's] presentation was awesome. It's also been great to meet many of the other development leaders in the portfolio. All in all, very good."
Matthew Howland, CTO, LoyaltyLab
Matthew Howland, CTO, LoyaltyLab
"We knew very little about agile when we started, and I want to start implementing agile processes on Monday morning. I was impressed with the forum."
Sam Gutmann, CEO, Intronis
Sam Gutmann, CEO, Intronis
"The forum was enlightening! We learned a lot about what agile development is all about. Especially interesting was the discussion around common development mistakes, which highlighted a number of issues that we can immediately address in our own team".
Chris Siakos, CTO, Exinda
Chris Siakos, CTO, Exinda
"We walked away with a number of ideas that we are planning to implement immediately."
Miroslaw Franek, VP Engineering, Open-E
Miroslaw Franek, VP Engineering, Open-E
"Openview brought a wonderful group of people together at this event!"
Jan Hichert, CEO, Astaro
Jan Hichert, CEO, Astaro
