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How to get rid of Agile in a few simple steps

Management fads come and go. Here today, gone later today. How to make sure no fad ever sticks but improvement is constant? A few guidelines on how to get rid of the buzzwords and keep the good stuff in the Agile saucepan.

Lean and the Enterprise: Maersk Line’s journey

“The journey that the world’s largest shipping company, Maersk Line, have taken so far in testing, implementing and learning about Lean-Agile across the whole organisation. Maersk Line operates the world’s largest container shipping fleet, with 325 offices in 125 countries, with a turnover of $26 billion per year. Maersk Line IT spends over $100m p.a. on development, over 20 development teams spread around the world with a mix of onshore/offshore and thin outsourcing. The Wrath of Waterfall: Historical view of how we worked
First Contact: A giant project (X-Leap) – ­what we learned. what worked, what didn’t
The Search for Agility: LPD – piloting eight Lean Product Development practices
The Final Frontier: The Enterprise! Agility at scale (rolling out across the organisation, scaling and centralising key components)
Next Generation: LPD 2.0 (what we’re doing now, where we’re heading)”

UI Tests in Java and Scala

“Testing is boring? Testing is for testers? UI Tests are time-consuming?
Forget it!
Let’s see how developers in Codeborne write code, unit-tests and UI tests with fun. Let’s meet the Selenide – our open-source library for writing concise, readable, boilerplate-free UI tests in Java and Scala.”

We want to thank our sponsors who have helped us to make this event happen.

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.

Playtech is online-gaming solutions provider for the industry’s top operators. Playtech Estonia was the company’s first development center and has remained to be the corporate’s largest one. We consider ourselves to be one of the biggest software companies in Estonia with more than 600 specialists in Tartu and Tallinn.

Devtraining is a training company that offers its services to IT developers who want to find solutions to their professional challenges using acquired new skills and knowledge.

We offer quality training courses where we teach the best IT practices and we are commited to provide practical experience that participants can start using in their work immediately.

Unlike other Estonian IT training companies, Devtraining offers solutions from IT developers’ perspective.

Software development company
Developing with agile* principles
Working closely with the customer
Deliver 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.

more sponsors coming soon…

Stream from main stage: http://www.livestream.com/agilesaturday7

Stream from second stage: http://www.livestream.com/agilesaturday7c

Great news everyone! Now you can have AgileSaturday on your mobile or iPad!
Just open the application by scanning the QR code or by following this link.

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!

We want to thank our sponsors who have helped us to make this event AWESOME!!!

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.

Great news everyone! The registration for the next Agile Saturday that will happen on 12th of May is now OPEN!

Check the preliminary program here and register now!

“When I was invited to keynote at Agile Saturday VII, I nearly fell off my chair. Surely some mistake.

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

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”.

It’s been a while since we had our last Agile Saturday last autumn.

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

LESS is a network of individuals that regularly organizes conferences about Lean and Agile Product Development. This year LESS2011 has a clear focus on
management innovation and organization transformation.
The Keynotes include Lean specialists Peter Middleton and Jams Sutton as well as
radical management proponent Steven Denning and a representative of the most
promising approach to budgeting and strategy: Bjarte Bogsnes.

The LESS team wants to encourage all local communities to participate by
offering a special discount code. Agile Estonia members will get a 100Eur
discount on the price of registration if they register with the
AGILEESTONIACOMMUNITY discount code: http://less2011.leanssc.org/register/

See you in Stockholm!

Here is the live streaming from the lobby of Agile Saturday VI.

“You have heard stories about brilliant teamwork. Do you have means to lead one?

Enablers are needed for productive teamwork. Are you missing one?

Which unspoken question eats the energy of the group? What group pattern is on? Understanding of Group Dynamics gives a key also for leading a single meeting or larger organization. ”

J.B. Rainsberger is a well-known rock star speaker in the Agile community. He is the author of JUnit Recipes book and an active promoter of TDD (Test Driven Development). Apart from doing some paid trainings in Estonia, he has agreed to give a free talk on the upcoming devclub.ee meeting. Don’t miss this opportunity on September 27th.

After soaking in the Waterfall, got tortured by the Scrum You, queued by the KangBang and then stopped to Lean on something – the process is still not perfect! Here you shall hear the saga of team Artify, last three-year experiences with different startups, finding & creating value for customers and building the team. If not useful, then definitely memorable :D!

Ericsson Finland started Agile transformation in 2008 with the first Scrum Team. Since then they have scaled up to 30+ teams and set up a complete e2e setup supporting Agile. This transformation has been (and still is) profound change in organizational thinking and culture.

Henri Kivioja is delighted to share the experiences and learnings from this journey.