Agile Africa 2015 is fast approaching. We are happy to announce that there are 7 workshops this year; including “Programming for Humans” by Kent Beck, and a “Code Sparring Tournament” by Doug Bradbury.
With the amazing line-up of international and local speakers, Agile Africa 2015 is certainly on par with the best Agile events anywhere in the world. Our local community has an opportunity to get all of the value of a top international conference without having to fly halfway across the world. Seats are limited so don’t miss your chance of attending what promises to be a most memorable event.
Here is the full programme Agile Africa 2015. Book now before its too late!!
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We’re pleased to announce the line-up of speakers, poster presentations and workshops for Agile Africa. |
Key Note Speakers |
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Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of the Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development software development methodologies. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto in 2001. His contributions to software development include patterns for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and Extreme Programming. |
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Dr. Rebecca Parsons is ThoughtWorks’ Chief Technology Officer. She has more than 20 years’ application development experience, in industries ranging from telecommunications to emergent internet services. Rebecca has published in both language and artificial intelligence publications, served on numerous program committees, and reviews for several journals. She has extensive experience leading in the creation of large-scale distributed object applications and the integration of disparate systems |
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Aslam Khan has been building software for long enough to make peace with the fact that software design is ridiculously difficult. After 20 odd years, he still finds a way to work at the extremes – lines of code and strategy. Most teams he works with will tell of his off the wall experiments in agile software development. In between, he is writing the book Grokking Functional Programming. And when he doesn’t have enough to do, he blogs at http://f3yourmind.net. Mostly though, he is focused on software development that is centred on the enhancing and appreciating the humanity in all of us. |
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Paul E. McMahon has been an independent consultant for 18 years helping organizations improve their development and management performance. Prior to his independent work Paul acquired twenty-four years of experience as a software developer, project manager and internal company coach working for Link Simulation and Lockheed Martin. He has taught Software Engineering at Binghamton University and published more than 50 articles on software and systems development and management. |
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Doug Bradbury is the Director of Software Services for 8th Light in Chicago. He was one of 8th Light’s original Software Craftsmen, and he authored the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship. Doug helped 8th Light develop and refine its modern apprenticeship program, and has mentored dozens of apprentices into successful software careers. Doug’s interest in social justice and reconciliation has brought him to Africa on a number of occasions. He has met with developers in Kigali, and is excited about exploring more possibilities in programming-based business on the continent. |
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Talks and poster sessions
Workshops
Pavel Dabrytski – User-Centered Design With Pragmatic Personas |
Have you ever wished that your cellphone provider, your bank and government would start listening to the users and build software which is relevant? How often you find yourself lost in filling in endless forms and left unaware of status of your requests for weeks? How often those companies try… |
09:00 – 12:30 |
Protea Hotel Parktonian, Braamfontein |
R200-00 per person |
Carsten Feilberg – How Change Affects Us |
One of the core ideas of working in an agile fashion is to be able to cope with changes. Usually we refer to program changes, new user stories or changing functionality that we have already built. But changes also happens to the team, the organisation, the customers and all those ‘other’ things… |
13:30 – 17:00 |
Protea Hotel Parktonian, Braamfontein |
R200-00 per person |
Carsten Feilberg – Learn To Use Session Based Test Management In Agile Projects |
Session-based Test Management was invented more than 15 years ago and is quite simple to explain: by using charters to direct chunks of testing and debriefing often to build and share knowledge, the value of testing is
increasing. Changes are easily taken in and handled, and even if using… |
09:00 – 12:30 |
Protea Hotel Parktonian, Braamfontein |
R200-00 per person |
Doug Bradbury – Code Sparring Tournament |
You think you’re good? Like really good? Care to challenge your peers to a coding contest? Practice you skills by competing head-to-head with fellow Coders in an ultimate test of your programming and problem solving skills.
Here is how it works:
• The coding challenge… |
09:00 – 16:30 |
Protea Hotel Parktonian, Braamfontein |
R400-00 per person |
Paul E. McMahon – Essence: A Thinking Framework To Power Software Development Team Performance |
Paul E. McMahon asserts that the problem with software development projects is not with the processes, tools, methods or practices organizations are using, but rather with the way organizations are going about deploying this guidance. Join Paul in exploring how you can use the new Essence “… |
09:00 – 13:00 |
Protea Hotel Parktonian, Braamfontein |
R1850-00 per person |
25% Saving for Super Group Tickets
For organisations with more than 10 attendees, we have the super group ticket, which represents a 25% saving on the normal ticket price.
To register click here and for more information email ashleigh@jcse.org.za