Join Scrum community members from around the world as they come together in heart of Lisbon for the 2011 Scrum Alliance Regional Gathering: Portugal. You'll find plenty of ways to participate as you share experiences, exchange information, and collaborate with fellow Scrum users. Get value and expert insight that provides you with a framework for evaluating and incorporating Scrum while you learn from experienced practitioners and leaders in the Agile community. Participate in two days of programming that includes open space, international keynote speakers, and a richly diverse lineup of events.

Local and International Speakers, including:

• José Ângelo Pinto (Portugal)
• Jurgen Appelo (Netherlands)
• Geoff Watts (United Kingdom)
• Lasse Koskela (Finland)

Timely Topics, ranging from

• Kanban to Cross-Functional Teams
• Evolutionary Design to Fixed-price Projects
• Traditional Project Management to Full-on Scrum
• Plus many more

Multiple sessions to choose from, with

• Four keynote speakers
• 12 breakout sessions
• Open Space

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Keynote: Evolutionary Design presented by Jim Newkirk

How much of the design of a system changes during implementation? When these inevitable changes occur the design must evolve to meet the new requirements. If it is truly inevitable then an interesting question can be posed? Instead of spending a large amount of time upfront on the design can you put in place a series of practices to enable the design to evolve during the implementation? This session highlights the various practices of Evolutionary Design (i.e. Test-Driven Development, Refactoring, Simple Design, and Continuous.

Agile Scales, Waterfall Doesn't presented by Vasco Duarte

This talk is a tale about how, for many years, we were sold the idea that Agile does not scale when it is actually Waterfall and plan-driven are the approaches that do not scale. In this talk we will also introduce how a large company (3000+ developers) works in an agile mode even for the largest projects: 1000’s of developers in an Agile project is not Utopia, it’s business as usual at one of the largest software companies in the world

Essential Scrum Patterns presented by Ademar Aguiar

Teams willing to start adopting Scrum usually face many problems that must be carefully addressed, one by one, in a disciplined and informed way, especially when they are not aware of the key problems and respective best ways of solving them. Based on the existing body of literature, case studies, and lessons learned, "Essential Scrum Patterns" aims to compile the most essential best practices of Scrum in pattern form, since patterns are a very effective way of communicating expertise and best practices. In addition, it is proposed a way of organizing the overall body of literature of Scrum, where Essential Patterns act as key entry points to beginners and experts looking for more knowledge and expertise about Scrum and related disciplines.

Business Agility: How to take advantage of an Agile R&D? presented by Vasco Duarte

Many companies have jumped on the Agile bandwagon. That's good, but what for? In this talk we explore the consequences and possible benefits of adopting Agile for your Business. It's not enough to benefit your R&D, we need to learn how Agile can help our whole company.

Complexity vs. Lean: The Big Showdown presented by Jurgen Appelo

Agile software development is (in part) based on the idea that software teams are complex adaptive systems. And Lean software development is (in part) based on systems thinking. Many Agile and Lean experts have borrowed terms from complexity theory (like "self organization" and "emergence"). But what is the difference between complexity theory and systems thinking? And how does complexity thinking compare to Lean software development? Are they different, or aligned? Can we use one to better understand the other?

Keynote: The Omnipotent Scrum Developer presented by Lasse Koskela

The textbook Scrum Team is cross-functional, self-organizing and hyper-productive. That may sound like a high bar to set (and it is) but this challenge is something to take seriously. The software industry is slowly but steadily finding new, better ways to deliver and perform and we're not alone – the world of work is on a constant lookout for better results. In order to stay ahead of the competition or simply to stay in the game, we need to expand our attention and learning efforts outside of our personal expertise towards other disciplines such as business analysis, database optimization, interaction design, behavioral psychology, and (gasp) take a fresh look at our methods of creating software products. Building on stories about their experiences, Lasse explains how this constant pressure to transform has driven project success at Reaktor for the past few years. 
 

Building Teams when moving to Large Scale Software Development presented by Joao Barreiro

When Projects increase the number of Teams, new factors come into play. What factors are those and how can we build teams for this new reality?

This presentation serves as an introduction to scaling for those new to the subject. It shows factors faced by teams and projects when the number of teams increases. Also shows possible solutions and how Agile Coaches can help the organization with the change.

The Boss Who Breaks All the Rules presented by Tiago Andrade e Silva

For 25 years, Ricardo Semler  has been putting into practice what increasing numbers of modern management gurus are now preaching. He heads a democratic company, Semco, where employees set their hours, determine their salaries and choose their bosses. In this session we will talk about the main management changes that Semco introduced, which are very aligned with the agile mindset. We’ll also hear from managers of five companies on their real and concrete experience in putting some of these concepts in practice.

Invited speakers for this session: Rui Pedro Alves (Partner at Rupeal), Jurgen Appelo (Book author “Management 3.0”), João Pedro Martins (CTO at Create.IT), Alexandre Magno (Principal at AdaptWorks) and Miguel Muñoz Duarte (Partner at Imatch)

Keynote: Contracts and Scrum: Making it Work presented by Mitch Lacey 

It is impossible to do Scrum in a traditional project environment that requires teams to provide a fixed date of completion, a fixed budget and a fixed scope of work. Or is it? In this talk you will hear from Mitch Lacey as he describes the fallacies on our projects today, mainly how we lie to our customers and they press the “believe” button, only to realize at the end that things are not what they appear. Mr. Lacey will introduce you to two techniques that you can use with your customers to not only use Scrum but to build what they meant, not what they asked for, all while doing it for less than an traditional project.

Can't Scrum, Won't Scrum presented by Geoff Watts

Most organisations attempt to modify Scrum to ease the pain of transition and the proponents of Kanban market that as an "easier" path to agility than Scrum. Is Scrum actually too difficult to implement? Is the idea of "Enterprise Scrum" an impossibility? Geoff will draw on his experiences to explore whether companies can't do Scrum or, alternatively, won't do Scrum.

Emerging Architecture: an agile approach for hyper-productive architects presented by Fernando Nunes

A significant amount of IT projects fails on budget, time, functional requirements or customer expectations. Because complex systems do not exist in a vacuum, the reasons for those failures are many times related to systems integration conflicts, technology coupling and badly designed interactions. To anticipate all the potential issues of integration is also unrealistic, costly and time-consuming. In this session, we’ll focus on what are the important patterns to consider when using an Agile approach to Architecture, assuming that we don’t need to identify upfront every system detail but instead we’ll rely on an Emerging Architecture.

Scrum in the Enterprise - Turning the Oil Tanker presented by Paul Goddard

How long does it take to transform a company of 10 people to Scrum? How about 100 people? How about 10,000? This is still no blueprint for success when it comes to scaling Scrum into a large enterprise. Can it be done? Where do we start?  This session will look at examples of Scrum implementations in large organisations, talking about their successes and failures to date. Companies looking to embark on this journey need to be aware of rough seas ahead. But if you have the right crew onboard, the oil tanker will begin to turn...

Acceptance Test-Driven Development for Scrum Teams presented by Lasse Koskela

By now our industry has pretty much accepted the value of automated developer tests (unit tests, micro tests, module tests, and what have you) and the practice of Test-Driven Development is slowly making its way into becoming a mainstream practice of craftsman programmers for ensuring code's correctness as well as aiding in its design. Similar benefits can be delivered with Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), a test-driven approach to implementing features. Lasse will explain the dynamics of this practice and showing how it can be implemented in various ways, ranging from a simple people-centric practice to a test automation-backed engineering method.

The Big-Ass View on Competence presented by Jurgen Appelo

This session deals with craftsmanship and excellence. Everybody knows it is important, but few know what an organization (and management and Scrum Masters) should do to support and promote craftsmanship when projects are run by self-organizing teams. You will learn
•    How to develop competence with 7 organizational approaches
•    How to optimize the whole measuring performance on multiple levels
•    How to optimize the whole measuring performance in multiple dimensions
•    The differences between managing, coaching, and mentoring
•    How to use social pressure and adaptive tools to support competence

Keynote: Fostering team work through SCRUM and PMBOK Guide presented by Jose Angelo Pinto

PMBOK guide is a standard for managing projects, applicable to any project everywhere in the world. PMBOK is composed of 42 processes and organized in 9 knowledge areas. Project life cycle is one of the most important concepts for PMBOK users and followers, since its understanding and use makes project managers life more predictable.

SCRUM is a framework used to organize teams and get work done more productively with higher quality. It provides teams with the ability to decide the amount of work to be done and how to do it, thereby providing a more enjoyable and productive working environment.

Are these two different concepts incompatible? How can we become SCRUM project managers and still manage the project, maintaining a vision of all the work to be done, being able to accomplish milestones and understanding cost perspectives, whilst the power of deciding is attributed to the team and whilst the quality is not controlled by the project manager?

And how to make the team aware of the requirements relative importance, connecting their decisions, that are made according to the SCRUM framework, with the sponsor expectative and satisfying most of the stakeholders?

These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this time frame and will be complemented with real stories from the SCRUM and PMBOK project managers.

Executive Scrum presented by Alexandre Magno

In the executive business world today, change is a constant, and be prepared to them is a must. This way, Scrum reveals to be an appropriate framework to be used in executive business teams once they start to work focused on ROI (Return On Investment) and in the business goals, acquire teamwork spirit, making strategy and execution nearer, improve continuously and deliver value quickly. In this work I will talk about my experience on using Scrum with senior management and how the results supported Scrum promotion for other projects inside the company.

The Scrum-CMMI Method Gathering Game presented by Ana Paula Valente Pereira

The latest version of the CMMI-DEV model recently released by the SEI includes specific guidance for agile environments, which denotes their recognition of the value of agile practices. However the examples provided are mixed with so many types of different processes and approaches that it is hard to see how the CMMI model can be implemented in an agile way by reading a (very boring) 500 page document.

This session will take a ludic approach for helping agile practitioners to learn the CMMI model. Attendants will be playing a game based on Magic Gathering Cards in order to understand how to reach the CMMI goals with Scrum practices. By playing this game they will have a better understanding of the CMMI Model and how it can even be used do institutionalize Scrum at the organizational level.

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Speaker: Vasco Duarte - Finland

Bio: Currently an Agile Coach in Nokia, Vasco Duarte is an experienced product and project manager, having worked in the software industry since 1997. Vasco has also been an Agile practitioner since 2004, he is one of the leaders and a catalyst in the adoption of Agile methods and an Agile culture at Nokia and previously at F-Secure.

Speaker: Ademar Aguiar - Portugal

Bio: Ademar Aguiar is a Professor at Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP) and does Research & Development at INESC Porto. He has over 20 years of experience on software development and has specialised on software design and architecture, namely application frameworks and software patterns, agile processes, and software documentation, topics about which he has authored research papers and presented courses to academic and industrial audiences. He obtained a PhD at FEUP addressing the documentation of object-oriented application frameworks using an approach supported on wikis. Currently, his main research interests are on wiki-based tools to support agile software development, and architecture, design and evolution of complex software systems, such as framework-intensive applications.

Speaker: Jurgen Appelo - Netherlands

Bio: Jurgen Appelo is a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, developer, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and… Dutch guy.

Since 2008 Jurgen writes a popular blog at www.noop.nl, which deals with development management, software engineering, business improvement, personal development, and complexity theory. He is the author of the book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations. He is also a speaker, being regularly invited to talk at business seminars and conferences around the world.

After studying Software Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, and earning his Master’s degree in 1994, Jurgen Appelo has busied himself starting up and leading a variety of Dutch businesses, always in the position of team leader, manager, or executive. Jurgen has experience in leading a horde of 100 software developers, development managers, project managers, business consultants, quality managers, service managers, and kangaroos, some of which he hired accidentally.

Speaker: Lasse Koskela - Finland

Bio: Lasse Koskela works as a coach, trainer, consultant and programmer, spending his days helping clients and colleagues at Reaktor create successful software products. He has trenched in a variety of software projects ranging from enterprise applications to middleware products developed for an equally wide range of domains.

In the recent years, Lasse has spent an increasing amount of time giving training courses and mentoring client teams on-site, helping them improve their performance and establish a culture of continuous learning. Aside from consulting leaders and managers, Lasse enjoys proramming and works frequently hands-on with software teams.

In his spare time, Lasse hacks on open source projects, moderates discussions at JavaRanch, or writes about software development. In 2007, he published a book on Test Driven Development and is currently working on his next book. He is one of the pioneers of the Finnish agile community and speaks frequently at international conferences.

Linked In Profile: http://fi.linkedin.com/in/lassekoskela

Speaker: João Barreiro - Portugal

Bio: João Barreiro is a Scrum Master, Coach and Trainer at Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). He worked as Software Developer, Team Leader and Project Manager before embracing Agile Development as Scrum Master in 2007. After his first agile project, he become interested in share Agile values, principles and practices with everyone, becoming a Coach and Trainer. He coaches management and development roles for several NSN projects.

Speaker: Tiago Andrade e Silva - Portugal

Bio: Tiago is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Portugal. He was the founder of ScrumPT user group and has beenactively evangelizing Scrum in the local community. Before entering Microsoft he was the CTO of Fullsix, where he adopted and experienced Scrum in practice.

Tiago holds a Master in Computer Science (UNL) and Post-Graduations in Management of Tech Companies (UC). He is also a Project Management Professional (PMI), Certified Scrum Professional, Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Master.

Speaker: Mitch Lacey - USA

Bio: Mitch Lacey is an agile practitioner and trainer. Mitch has been managing projects for over fourteen years & is credited with many plan-driven & agile projects.

Mitch honed his agile skills at Microsoft Corporation, where he successfully released core enterprise services for Windows Live. Mitch's first agile team at Microsoft was coached by Ward Cunningham, Jim Newkirk & David Anderson.

While at Microsoft, he transitioned from Program Manager to Agile Coach, working hand-in-hand with groups throughout their transition to Agile practices. After Microsoft, Mitch was the Agile Practice Manager at Ascentium Corporation where he practiced agility on the projects he ran every day while coaching customers on agile practices and lessons on agile adoption worldwide.

As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a registered Project Management Professional (PMP), Mitch shares his experience in project and client management through Certified ScrumMaster courses, agile coaching engagements, conference presentations, blogs & white papers.

He has authored “Adventures in Promiscuous Pairing” presented & published at the Agile 2006 conference, “Transitioning to Agile: Key Lessons Learned in the Field” presented and published at the Fall 2007 PMI Global Congress in Atlanta, Georgia and "The Impacts of Poor Estimating - & How to Fix It" presented & published at the winter 2007 SQE Agile development conference in Orlando, Florida.

He has presented at Agile Alliance Agile 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 conferences, the 2008 Better Software Conference and the 2008 and 2009 SQE Agile Development Practices conferences. He was the stage producer for the Organization and Culture stage for Agile 2009 and continued that trend by producing the Leadership and Organizations stage for Agile 2010.

Mitch is currently authoring a book targeting new Scrum teams on how to survive the first year of Scrum. The book will be published by Addison Wesley and is scheduled for publication in 2011.

Speaker: Geoff Watts - United Kingdom

Bio: Geoff Watts was the first Certified Scrum Trainer and the first Certified Scrum Coach in the UK and has been helping companies transition to Scrum for the last 8 years. Having started his journey at British Telecom, he has seen many attempts at transitioning from waterfall to agile as his experience ranges from telecoms to pharmaceuticals; from publishing to solicitors; and from investment banking to education allowing him to identify common patterns of both success and failure.

Speaker: Fernando Nunes - Portugal

Bio: Fernando Nunes is a Lecturer of Computer Science course at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL) and Software Engineer at Rupeal. He worked at Sapo PT as Software Engineer with major responsibility on the Sapo Service Bus, where he developed the skills as a Scrum Team developer and Scrum Master and got experience in distributed software architectures, web services design and implementation, best practices and design patterns. He started working with Scrum since 2008 as a member of Centro Cálculo at ISEL. He holds Informatics and Computer Engineering Science Graduation (ISEL), Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner (Scrum Alliance).

Speaker: Paul Goddard - United Kingdom

Bio: Paul Goddard is an agile coach with experience of working with several scrum teams and projects, and is a keen practitioner and trainer of scrum and agile delivery. Starting as one of the first practicing ScrumMasters within BT (formerly British Telecom), he now acts as an independent coach for teams new to scrum and agile techniques. His coaching skills have been used on some of the largest agile transformation projects in the world to date, including multiple geographically dispersed teams using an offshore model. Paul's experience with enterprise scrum was widened while acting as a ScrumMaster for Nokia where he was involved with both applying, teaching and coaching scrum.

Speaker: José Ângelo Pinto - Portugal 

Bio: José Ângelo Pinto has over 20 years of experience in project, program and portfolio management for many companies and organizations.

He holds a degree on Management and Masters on Information Systems and Economics. Actually, he is doing research on Economics and Administration for his PhD.  

Mr. Pinto is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a certified accountant and a certified trainer.

He is involved in the development of small companies, investing on entrepreneurship of young people with strong technical capabilities, but needing advice on selecting projects, managing finance, in short, how to establish and run companies, since usually it's not their knowledge. Some examples are Bullet Solutions, Vivacidade, FirstOnly, Josorac.

He is a Professor on partial time and essentially on night classes on ISLA - Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração, being in charge of the development of several courses on that institution. He is also a professor on several master classes, essentially on Project Management and Finance courses.  He has several published papers, on Project Management, on Balanced Scorecard and on survey analysis among others.

Mr. Pinto is a founder director and the actual president of the PMI - Portugal Chapter and he is the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Regional Director for the PMI Information Technology and Telecommunications (IT&T) Specific Interest Group (SIG).

He is a known international key note speaker in project management events, in places like Almaty (Kazakhstan), São Paulo, Brasilia and Belo Horizonte (Brasil) Cairo (Egypt) or Geneva (Switzerland). He is also a know presenter and participant in PMI events all over the world.

Linked In Profile: http://pt.linkedin.com/in/joseangelopinto

Speaker: Alexandre Magno - Brasil

Bio: Alexandre Magno is Director and Leader of AdaptWorks, an AdaptCo. company. He was the first Certified Scrum Trainer of Brazil and have accumulated extensive experience in implement Scrum and other Agile methods in different areas of businesses such as: start-ups, financial institutions, marketing agencies, software factories, airlines, ISVs

Speaker: Ana Paula Valente Pereira - Portugal

Bio: Ana Valente Pereira is a founding partner of WhatEver Consulting Group, a firm that helps organizations and teams to adopt an integrated set of practices that foster innovation and enterprise agility.

Ms. Pereira founded several spinoffs of the group: WhatEverSoft -  the first Sun Authorized Java Center established in Portugal and LeanDo Technologies – a company aiming at cutting waste in software delivery. She contributes to the continuous evolution of the LeanDo methodology, based on a unique blend of Agile and Lean principles.
As a strong believer in Open Innovation she is also a committer in the Eclipse Process Framework – an open source project providing content on agile practices and processes for software development.

Prior to that, she worked for more than 10 years in INESC R&D on process modelling and object-oriented software methodologies. She holds an MSc in computer science from IST-Lisbon. 

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