Here you can always check the program. Select talks that interest you the most. See the latest tweets about the Agile Saturday even if you (by some weird reason) do not have a Twitter account!

And of course there you can check out our sponsors who helped us a lot to make the Agile Saturday happen!

See you tomorrow in Hotel Euroopa!

WTF do I know about agile development? Not a lot to be honest.
But then again I realised that this whole agile thinking thing is not, or should not be, exclusive to development. I have ideas how agile is related to sex, marketing and, of course, neuroscience…”

Is Robin an agile marketer? You decide. Whatever he is, he has been a successful salesman and (internet) marketing entrepreneur for longer than he cares to admit and has “advised” hundreds of companies around the world.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/robingurney

Gáspár Nagy is an agile development coach with more than 10 years of experience in enterprise software development. http://blog.gasparnagy.com/

Closing keynote speaker confirmed for Agile Saturday VII!

Encyclopedia Waterfallica suggests that testing should be performed after the implementation completely finished. It also suggests that developers should not know the tests to be used for verification in advance at all, otherwise they would build an application that fulfills only the given test cases.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Agile Testing gives a new emphasis to testing: it contains more practical, so called agile ideas. This guide is becoming more and more popular among developers and testers nowadays. Why? First, it is slightly more exciting; and “secondly it has the words Don’t Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover”.

Skype is a little piece of software that lets you make free calls to your friends all over the world. It is the aim of Skype to become a universal, secure, easy-to-use communications platform and tool for all people and any imaginable purpose.

Swedbank is a full-service bank for both private individuals and companies in the home markets Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Our focus is our customers’ needs and wishes – not our products.

Elisa is a telecommunications and ICT service company. Elisa is easily approachable and things run smoothly from start to finish. Elisa conducts through continuous interdisciplinary research.

Trinidad Consulting focuses on helping our customers build and order better software. Our core competences are usability, analysis and making sure that the delivered end result works properly and matches the customer needs. We also represent AppDynamics application performance management products in Baltics and Finland.

Codeborne is a software development company developing with agile principles, working closely with the customer, delivering working software from day 1, helping others with delayed projects, training to work the agile way.

Ignite is a software development company that believes in transparency and simple solutions that work, comparing to endless planning and negotiations that lead to nothing. In our lab we try out new technologies and see how we can use them in practice.

Webmedia group was founded in the year 2000 and has grown over 80% per year. This remarkable growth places us among the fastest-growing technology companies in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Despite our rapid development, we are still managed by our founders and many of our employees are company shareholders. Our flat structure fuels our entrepreneurial spirit and passion for what we do.

Check the preliminary program here and register now!

The wait is over, Agile Saturday VII is scheduled for 12th of May!

Book it in your calendars and stay in touch for more announcements!

– Agile Estonia crew

How to Make Tea Party Rock – Viktoria Saat

Challenging requirements – Gojko Adzic

Lean vs Scrum vs Common Sense vs Reality – Jaanus Lang

Team Leadership – Ari Tikka

Choose a Pattern! – Anton Keks

One of the main attractions this time was definitely the lecture by Gojko Adzic about challenging requirements. Gojko is a highly-renowned and experienced agile coach who quickly won the hearts of the audience with his energetic performance and received a load of positive feedback. In addition to him we had a number of Finnish and Estonian presenters with different topics and workshops, including Henri Kivioja from Ericsson Finland, Kitty Mamers from Skype and Hannes Lents from Garage48.

This time we really made an effort to get some feedback from participants both about the lectures and the whole event altogether, which gave us a pretty good overview of the positive and negative aspects people noticed.

The most mentioned problem in the feedback, as many of you might have already guessed, was the lack of cool air. It’s unfortunate that the ventilation system failed, but on the other hand – it is nice that the main problem of such a large-scale event is the ventilation and not the topics, presenters or overall organisation.

Photos of the event can be seen on Agile Estonia’s Facebook page, videos of lectures will be uploaded soon. The next Agile Saturday is planned for the beginning of next year with one keynote speaker already confirmed. In case you have any ideas or propositions concerning the next Agile Saturday, be sure to let us know.

Thanks and see you next year!