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Better Software Conference 2011
Conference at-a-Glance
 

 
Go to:  Sunday  |   Monday  |   Tuesday  |   Wednesday  |   Thursday  |   Friday

Sunday
8:30 Software Testing Certification—Foundation Level Training Sunday-Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 3-day Course
 
  Certified ScrumMaster Training Sunday-Monday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 2-day Course SOLD OUT
 
  Product Owner Certification Sunday-Monday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 2-day Course
 
  Agile Architecture Workshop Sunday-Monday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 2-day Course
 
  Agile Testing Practices Sunday-Monday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 2-day Course
 
8:30 Bonus Session - Making Agile Work: An Introduction to Agile Development Practices Sunday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
 
5:00 Conference Registration 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
 

 
Monday
8:30 Multi-day Training Classes continue (8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
 
8:30 Business Analysis and Requirements Workshop (Two days) Monday-Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
 
8:30 Agile Testing Workshop (Two days) Monday-Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
 
8:30 Tutorial Sessions (8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
 
Full-day Tutorials Half-day Tutorials
 
MA Agile Benchmarking and Release Estimation: Building Your Metrics Database
Michael Mah, QSM Associates
 
MB Integrating Risk Management into Project Planning
Payson Hall, Catalysis Group, Inc.
 
MC Quality Assurance: Moving Your Organization Beyond Testing
Jeff Payne, Coveros, Inc.
 
 
MD New! What’s Your Leadership IQ?
Jennifer Bonine, Up Ur Game Learning Solutions
 
ME Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World
Ahmed Sidky, Santeon
 
MF New! Scaling Agile with the Lessons of Lean Product Development Flow
Alan Shalloway, Net Objectives
 
MG Dysfunctional Agile Team Patterns
Don Gray, Independent Consultant
 
MH Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
Andy Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC
 
MI New! CMMI® Crash Course for Traditional and Agile Development Lifecycles
Hillel Glazer, Entinex
 
MJ New! Getting the Requirements Right—The First Time
Tim Lister, Atlantic Systems Guild
 
12:00 Lunch
 
1:00 Tutorial Sessions (1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
 
Full-day Tutorials (Continued from AM) Half-day Tutorials
 
MA Agile Benchmarking and Release Estimation: Building Your Metrics Database
Michael Mah, QSM Associates
 
MB Integrating Risk Management into Project Planning
Payson Hall, Catalysis Group, Inc.
 
MC Quality Assurance: Moving Your Organization Beyond Testing
Jeff Payne, Coveros, Inc.
 
 
MK Laptop Required Essential Test-driven Development
Rob Myers, Agile Institute
 
ML Tuning and Improving Your Agility
David Hussman, DevJam
 
MM From Zero to Hero: Getting Started with Kanban
Chris Shinkle, Software Engineering Professionals
 
MN New! Measurement and Metrics for Test Managers
Rick Craig, Software Quality Engineering
 
MO Collaborating with Non-Collaborators
Pollyanna Pixton, Accelinnova
 
MP Writing Great User Stories
Jean Tabaka, Rally Software Development
 
MQ New! Configuration Management Best Practices
Bob Aiello, CM Crossroads
 

 
Tuesday
8:30 Multi-day Training Classes continue (8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
 
8:30 Business Analysis & Requirements Workshop (Two days) Monday-Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
 
8:30 Agile Testing Workshop (Two days) Monday-Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
 
8:30 Tutorial Sessions (8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
 
Full-day Tutorials Half-day Tutorials
 
TA New!  Continuous Delivery with a Rapid Deployment Pipeline
Martin Fowler and Jez Humble, ThoughtWorks
 
TB Agile Project Risk Management: A Systematic Approach
Jeff Payne, Coveros, Inc.
 
TC New!  Project Management Best Practices
Karl Wiegers, Process Impact
 
TD The Leadership Tutorial: Improving Your Ability to Stand and Deliver
Andy Kaufman, Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development, Inc.
 
 
TE Releasing Large-scale Agile Projects
Bob Galen, iContact
 
TF New! Starting Up Great Agile Teams—or Resetting Existing Ones
Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd, Agile Coaching Institute
 
TG Agile Project Design: Building Strong Backlogs
David Hussman, DevJam
 
TH New! Consultants’ Skills You Can Use Today
Payson Hall, Catalysis Group, Inc.
 
TI Design Patterns Explained: From Analysis through Implementation
Alan Shalloway, Net Objectives
 
TJ New! Collaborate through Innovation Games®
Bob Hartman, Agile For All, LLC
 
12:00 Lunch
 
1:00 Tutorial Sessions (1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
 
Full-day Tutorials (Continued from AM) Half-day Tutorials
 
TA New!  Continuous Delivery with a Rapid Deployment Pipeline
Martin Fowler and Jez Humble, ThoughtWorks
 
TB Agile Project Risk Management: A Systematic Approach
Jeff Payne, Coveros, Inc.
 
TC New!  Project Management Best Practices
Karl Wiegers, Process Impact
 
TD The Leadership Tutorial: Improving Your Ability to Stand and Deliver
Andy Kaufman, Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development, Inc.
 
 
 
TK Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Teams
Bob Galen, iContact
 
TL New! Agile Estimation and Planning: Scrum, Kanban, and Beyond
David Hussman, DevJam
 
TM Understanding and Managing Change
Jennifer Bonine, Up Ur Game Learning Solutions
 
TN New! Going Back to the Well: Principles of Software Design
Chuck Allison, Utah Valley University
 
TO Understanding Scrum: An Experiential Workshop
Mitch Lacey, Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc.
 
TP New!  Agile Program Management for Agile and Non-agile Projects
Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.
 
 
4:30 Welcome Reception (4:30 - 5:30 p.m.)
 

 
Wednesday
8:30 Keynote PresentationBuilding Great Teams, Geoff Bellman, GMB Associates, Ltd.
 
10:00 Networking Break
 
10:15 Leading Projects & Teams Design & Code Cloud Computing Special Topics
  BW1 Reading the Tea Leaves: Predicting a Project’s Future

Payson Hall,
Catalysis Group, Inc.
BW2 Coding for Keeps: How to Write a Good Function

Chuck Allison,
Utah Valley University
BW3 Cloud Computing: Everything I Wanted to Know But Was Afraid to Ask

Ed Laczynski,
Datapipe
BW4 Mobile App Development: Choices and Decisions

Julian Harty,
eBay
 
11:30 Lunch • Visit the EXPO, Open 11:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.; 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
 
12:45 Keynote PresentationCosmic Truths about Software Quality, Karl Wiegers, Process Impact
 
2:00 Networking Break • Visit the EXPO, Open 11:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.; 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
 
2:30 BW5 Teamwork Is an Individual Skill

Christopher Avery,
Partnerworks, Inc.
BW6 Prefactoring: Extreme Abstraction, Extreme Separation, and Extreme Readability

Ken Pugh,
Net Objectives
BW7 Virtual Private Clouds: A Secure Approach for Testing in the Cloud

Prashant Suri,
QA InfoTech
BW8 Improving Your CMMI® Organization through Lean and Agile Techniques

Paul McMahon,
PEM Systems
 
3:45 Networking Break • Visit the EXPO, Open 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
 
4:00 BW9 Faltering Projects: Getting Them Back on Track

Johanna Rothman,
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.
BW10 Avoiding Over and Under Design

Alan Shalloway,
Net Objectives
BW11 Performance Testing in Cloud-based Environments

Alim Sharif,
Ultimate Software Group
BW12 Implementing a Security-focused Development Lifecycle

Cassio Goldschmidt,
Symantec Corporation
 
5:30 Reception in the EXPO, 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
 

 
Thursday
8:30 Keynote PresentationDeception and Estimating: How We Fool Ourselves, Linda Rising, Independent Consultant
9:45 Networking Break • Visit the EXPO, Open 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
10:15 Leading Projects & Teams Business Analysis & Requirements Metrics Testing & QA
  BT1 Carrots and Sticks: What Incentives Really Work?

Linda Rising,
Independent Consultant
BT2 Evaluating the Quality of Requirements

Donald (Mark) Haynes,
Ajilon Consulting
BT3 Essential Attributes of Software Development Metrics

Timothy Fong,
Done Partners
BT4 Focusing Testing on Business Needs

Selena Delesie,
Delesie Solutions
 
11:30 Lunch • Visit the EXPO
 
12:45 Keynote PresentationGeography Matters: What Data Tell Us About Offshoring, Co-location, and the Flat World, Michael Mah, QSM Associates
 
2:00 Networking Break • Visit the EXPO
 
2:30 BT5 Projects and Politics: Working with Executives

Debra Hansen,
QA InfoTech
BT6 Specifying Effective Non-functional Requirements

John Terzakis,
Intel
BT7 Sleep Better at Night: A Release Confidence Metric

Terry Morrish,
Synacor
BT8 Defect Prevention: A Tester’s Role

Mike Ennis,
Accenture
 
3:45 Networking Break
 
4:00 BT9 Risk-based Development with Standards-compliant Software

Thomas Bento,
Certified Compliance Solutions
BT10 Quality Requirements: Succeeding with Waterfall Releases

Filip Szymanski,
Hewlett-Packard
BT11 Understanding and Using Code Metrics

Joel Tosi,
Red Hat
BT12 Questioning Best Practices: The Story of One Test Team’s Transformation

John McConda,
Moser Consulting
 
5:30 Leadership Summit Reception (Summit registration required)
 

 
Friday
8:30 Bonus Session - The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST) 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
 

Leadership Summit
Agile Leadership Summit by APLN (8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.)

Join your peers and agile industry veterans to explore one of the biggest challenges facing agile today—leadership! You’ll hear what’s working—and what’s not—and have the opportunity to share your experiences and successes.
 

 

 
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