TURKU AGILE DAY WED-THU March 17th - 18th 2010 @ ICT-BUILDING, TURKU


Department of Information Technology, IT student clubs Digit and Asteriski, and
IT alumni organization 0-kerho from University of Turku proudly welcome You to
Turku Agile Day '010 Conference, the coolest software conference ever arranged
in Turku! The conference is held on March 17th - 18th 2010 at ICT-building,
Turku.

During the conference you will find out what is the hottest hot in the agile
software development world right now. The conference starts with hands-on
tutorials and workshops on Wednesday, while the pragmatic presentations on
Thursday reveal how the big players use agile methods and how You can adapt the
methods in Your own projects. There's something for both agile experts and agile
newcomers. The conference also provides an excellent networking opportunity by
means of a conference dinner.

Feedback from Turku Agile Day '09 (www.turkuagileday.fi/past/2009) suggested
that we should provide more hands-on sessions for the participants. Having this
valuable feedback, we decided to answer to the queries. On Wednesday we will
provide hands-on workshops 'for everyone' - from development practices
(continuous integration, test-driven development) to testing practices
(exploratory testing). If you wonder how to guide your development to get the
story done, Acceptance-Test-Driven Development workshop is meant for you. For
those interested in Lean SW development and prioritizing backlog items, the
'Gaming track' (Lean Manufacturing Game, Business Value Game) should provide the
most value.

Browse http://www.turkuagileday.fi and enroll now!


AGILE SW DEVELOPMENT IN A NUTSHELL

Agile SW development has been one of the top topics in SW industry lately. The
development methodology has raised from the realization that waterfall-like
project management methodologies do not reflect to the real world requirements
fast enough. Thus, one main concerns of agile sw development is to be adaptable
- any sw project should not fear change, since change is evitable in a SW
project. Agile aims to tackle the changing requirements by releasing early and
often and demonstrating the process to the customer. Getting feedback from the
customers is crucial for the project success.


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Wednesday, March 17th 2010, is a hands-on day with 8 workshop sessions. See
http://www.turkuagileday.fi/conference for the schedule

Thursday, March 18th 2010, is a full-day conference with 10 speakers from all
over the world.

See latest conference program from http://www.turkuagileday.fi/conference


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Elisabeth Hendrickson (http://www.qualitytree.com/company/elisabeth/,
http://testobsessed.com/)


PRICING AND ENROLLMENT

Go to register.turkuagileday.fi and enroll!

Pricing:
* Main event, Thu 18th: 100€
* Workshops, Wed 17th: 80€
* Early-bird discount, until January 8th 2010:
   * conference day: 10€
   * workshop day: 20€
* Member (member of Digit or Asteriski) discount for the main event: 20€
* Student fee for conference: 5€

All fee's are VAT exempt.
Enrollment closes 14 days before the event.


REFUND AND CANCELLATION POLICY

Full refund, no cancellation fee before December 31st, 2009
Full refund, 50€ cancellation fee after December 31st, 2009
No refund after March 1st, 2010

Br,
Tomi Juhola




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Hi,

The next Agile Dinner Tampere will be on December 9 at restaurant Plevna. We
will continue the discussions of OO Days, which is held on the same day at
Tampere University of Technology. (See http://www.cs.tut.fi/tapahtumat/olio2009/
for more information about OO Days.)


Welcome!


Place: Restaurant Plevna, Itäinenkatu 8, Tampere
Time: Wednesday, 9th of December, 2009, 18:00 -
Theme: OO Days
Host: Antti Tarvainen; antti.tarvainen@...; +358 50 570 2177
Registration:
http://confluence.agilefinland.com/display/af/Agile+Dinner+Tampere+20091209


Antti

Heads up all attendees!

So far 28 people have registered (a new record?) and I had to change
to to more spacious venue.

We will meet at 18.00 in the cabinet of the restaurant Kolme Sepää at
Mannerheimintie 14.

http://www.rafla.fi/kolmeseppaa/en/front_page

See you tomorrow!

- Ari

On Nov 24, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Ari Tanninen wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> A discussion about agile testing started in Scan-Agile 2009 that was
> followed by a Workshop on Agile Testing on ninth of  this month. Since
> testing is such a hot potato right now, let's continue the discussion
> next Tuesday over dinner.
>
> There will be a short talk to start the discussion, followed by the
> usual dinner.
>
> Sign up now!
>
> http://confluence.agilefinland.com/display/af/Agile+Dinner+Helsinki+20091201
>
> - Ari

Hi,

I just got the word that the Top 10 countries generating clicks to the
XP2010 website are:

Norway     493
United States     220
Sweden     154
United Kingdom     107
Germany     89
Finland     75
Brazil     63
Canada     50
Italy     42
Netherlands     38

Finland is currently #6 - barely beating BRAZIL.

This would be downright embarrassing if I didn't know that a bunch of
Finns on this mailing list are going to submit a horde of superb
experience reports by the deadline - this Sunday, December 6th.

Lasse

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:11 PM, lassekoskela <lasse.koskela@...> wrote:
> Hi ya'll,
>
> The call for submissions for the XP2010 conference next summer in Trondheim is
open. In fact, the first deadlines (for research papers and experience reports)
are only a couple of weeks away!
>
> Please consider submitting proposals - there's a lot of activity around agile
methods going on in Finland and the community at large would surely benefit from
us sharing our experience.
>
> http://xp2010.org/calls
>
> Lasse

--
Lasse Koskela
* Author of "Test Driven" (Manning Publications, 2007) *
* Reaktor - http://www.reaktor.fi/en *

2009/11/26 Jonas Lindström <jonas.lindstrom@...>
> a request, can next meeting be about impediments, what they are, how they are
communicated and how to solve them?

It can be - if someone organizes the meeting and announces that the
topic is impediments...

Lasse

Hi,

we had a student from Tallinn University at Scan-Agile for just Bjarte's
presentation. Now he has arrantged a seminar with Bjarte. Any interested, please
check out.

Ari Tikka
+358 400 308 304
www.aritikka.com



After listening the presentation of Bjarte in Helsinki I decided to invite
Bjarte to have a seminar in Tallinn. It will take place on Friday, December 4th
from 9.00 to 14.30 and will be held in English.

Also, I wonder, if it would be possible to invite some people from Finland to
participate in the seminar. As it is held in English there might be some
managers who are interested in the topic and it would be interesting to mix
together or compare the experiences of Finnish and Estonian managers (we are
having a discussion session at the end). Could you spread information on the
event?

Please see http://www.alfonso.ee/ENG

Thank you and best regards,
Taavi Ahven +372 56562323

ill come ...

a request, can next meeting be about impediments, what they are, how they are
communicated and how to solve them?

From: agilefinland@yahoogroups.com [mailto:agilefinland@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Ari Tanninen
Sent: den 24 november 2009 14:57
To: agilefinland@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [agilefinland] Agile Dinner Helsinki next week, theme: testing



Hello everyone!

A discussion about agile testing started in Scan-Agile 2009 that was
followed by a Workshop on Agile Testing on ninth of this month. Since
testing is such a hot potato right now, let's continue the discussion
next Tuesday over dinner.

There will be a short talk to start the discussion, followed by the
usual dinner.

Sign up now!

http://confluence.agilefinland.com/display/af/Agile+Dinner+Helsinki+20091201

- Ari



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Unfortunately the original event had to be canceled due to presenters'
schedules. However, we have a new date and presentation about continuous
improvement. The dinner will be held Tuesday 15th of December 2009:
http://confluence.agilefinland.com/display/af/Agile+Dinner+Oulu+20091215

Welcome!

--- In agilefinland@yahoogroups.com, "jjaalino" <juho.jaalinoja@...> wrote:
>
> Topic: Business Value Game organized by Pertti Kontio ja Tarja Käckman
> Time: Tuesday, 08-December-2009, 18.00 pm
> Venue: Sokerijussin Kievari http://www.sokerijussi.fi , Pikisaarentie 2
> Registration:
http://confluence.agilefinland.com/display/af/Agile+Dinner+Oulu+20091208
>
> Welcome!
>

Hello everyone!

A discussion about agile testing started in Scan-Agile 2009 that was
followed by a Workshop on Agile Testing on ninth of  this month. Since
testing is such a hot potato right now, let's continue the discussion
next Tuesday over dinner.

There will be a short talk to start the discussion, followed by the
usual dinner.

Sign up now!

http://confluence.agilefinland.com/display/af/Agile+Dinner+Helsinki+20091201

- Ari

Hi ya'll,

The call for submissions for the XP2010 conference next summer in Trondheim is
open. In fact, the first deadlines (for research papers and experience reports)
are only a couple of weeks away!

Please consider submitting proposals - there's a lot of activity around agile
methods going on in Finland and the community at large would surely benefit from
us sharing our experience.

http://xp2010.org/calls

Lasse

Hello.

Who should we invite to give a talk at next year's Scan-Agile conference? Please
reply on this thread.

All suggestions are welcome, although the final decisions will be up to next
year's organizers.


Antti
Agile Finland executive committee

Topic: Business Value Game organized by Pertti Kontio ja Tarja Käckman
Time: Tuesday, 08-December-2009, 18.00 pm
Venue: Sokerijussin Kievari http://www.sokerijussi.fi , Pikisaarentie 2
Registration:
http://confluence.agilefinland.com/display/af/Agile+Dinner+Oulu+20091208

Welcome!

Hi,

The next agile dinner will be on learning and practicing skills related to
software development.

Welcome!


Place: Restaurant Esperanza, Hämeenkatu 10, Tampere
Time: Wednesday, 18th of November, 2009, 18:00 -
Theme: How to practice
Program:
   * 18:00 - Dinner and discussion

Host: Mikko Suonio; mikko.suonio@...; +358 40 503 8074

Registration:
http://confluence.agilefinland.com/display/af/Agile+Dinner+in+Tampere+20091118


Best,

   Mikko

--
Mikko Suonio
mikko.suonio@...
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikkosuonio


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