Chicago Scrum Gathering Program detail
Program Overview
The Chicago Scrum Gathering was held April 14-16, 2008.
General Sessions were Monday, April 14 and Tuesday, April 15.
An Open Space event was held April 15-16, 2008.
Conference materials are tagged in our resources section. They are also hyperlinked from the program below.
Monday, April 14, 2008
| 8 - 9 a.m. |
Registration for "Scrum and Agile Basics" morning sessions | ||||
| 9 - 10 a.m. |
Scrum and Agile Basics Track 1 |
Scrum and Agile Basics Track 2 |
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| "Agile 101 - A Gentle Intro" presented by Chris Sims, Technical Management Instititute | "Visibility - The Name of the Game" presented by Danny Kovatch, CSP, Sela | ||||
| 10:15 - 11:15 a.m. | "24.com: A Scrum Coaching Case Study" presented by Peter Hundermark, CSP, CSC, SPRiNT-iT Africa | "Writing User Stories for Your Product Backlog" presented by Mike Cohn, CST, Mountain Goat Software |
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| 11 a.m. | General registration opens | ||||
| 11:30 - 1 p.m. |
Opening Community Lunch "State of the Alliance" address presented by Jim Cundiff, Scrum Alliance Managing Director |
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| General Sessions |
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| 1:30 - 3 p.m. |
"Scaling Scrum" presented by Mark Woyna, CSM, Chicago Board Options Exchange |
"ScrumMaster - Org Change Agent - Mapping the Change Battlefield" presented by George Schlitz, CSP, BigVisible Solutions, Inc. and Giora Morein, CSP. |
"Architecture in an Agile Organization" presented by Chris Sterling, CST, Solutions IQ |
"What Makes Agile Projects Succeed (or Fail)?" |
"Inspect & Adapt: Lessons Learned from an Enterprise Roll-out of Scrum" presented by Cheryl Neeser, CSM; Lonnie Weaver Johnson, CSM; Rod Hunter, CSM, Fidelity National Information Services |
| 3 - 3:30 p.m. | Break | ||||
| 3:30 - 5 p.m. |
"Lessons From the Battle Front" presented by Nimesh Soni, CSP; Jared Rakes, CSP, Liquidhub |
"The Road from Project Manager to Agile Coach" presented by Lyssa Adkins, CSP |
"Drifting Toward Invisibility: The Transition to the Electronic Task Board" presented by Tom Perry, CSP, Authorize.net |
"Using Ritual and Ceremony to Sustain Agility and Stave Off Process Fatique" presented by Michael Tardiff, CSM, Solutions IQ |
N/A |
| 7 - 9 p.m. |
Banquet Panel Discussion with Mike Cohn, Harvey Wheaton, Dan Rawsthorne, Ph.D., Tobias Mayer, and Tom Mellor (One ticket included in conference fee. Cost for additional Banquet ticket: $50.) Dress is business casual. |
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
| 8 - 9 a.m. | Breakfast | ||||
| General Sessions | |||||
| 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. |
N/A |
"The Scrum High Wire Act: Leadership for Scrum Teams" presented by Tom Perry, CSP, Authorize.net |
"Complex Backlogs" presented by Dan Rawsthorne, Ph.D, CST, Danube Technologies, Inc. |
"Applying Scrum for an In-House Software Project" presented by Pradyumn Sharma, CSM, Pragati Software Pvt Ltd |
"Applying Scrum on a Government Project in a Waterfall Organization" presented by Syed Rayhan, CSP, Nimat Haque, CSM, Code71; Christopher Linde, Virginia Dept. of Motor Vehicles |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. | Morning break | ||||
| 10:30 - 12:00 p.m. |
"Ambassador Model for Effectively Distributed Scrum Programs" presented by Giora Morein, CSP, George Schlitz, CSP, BigVisible Solutions |
"Prioritizing Your Product Backlog" presented by Mike Cohn, CST, Mountain Goat Software |
"User Experience and Scrum" presented by Matt Roadnight, CSM, Conchango |
"Working Myself Out of a Job - The Effective ScrumMaster's Plight" presented by Chris Sterling, CST, Bryan Stallings, CST, Solutions IQ |
"Scrum in Video Game Development" presented by Harvey Wheaton, CSM, Criterion Games, Electronic Arts |
| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. |
Luncheon Keynote presentation: "Navigating State Farm Through Its Agile Journey" by Tom Mellor, CSP, Scott Klein, CSM, Paul Zilmer, CSM, Stan Geison, State Farm Insurance |
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| 2 - 6 p.m. | Open Space event facilitated by Michael Herman | ||||
| 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. |
Cocktail Reception for Gathering attendees hosted by the DRW Trading Group Buckingham Ballroom of The Allerton Hotel |
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
| 7 - 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 - Noon. |
Open Space event facilitated by Michael Herman |
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| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch with "Scrum Updates" by Ken Schwaber, CST, Advanced Development Methods, Inc. | |||
| 1:30 - 3 p.m. | Open Space reports | |||
| 3:30 - 5 p.m. |
"The Year of Living Dangerously: Extraordinary Results for an Enterprise Agile Revolution" by Steve Greene, CSM, and Chris Fry, CSM, SalesForce.com |
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