Schedule and Brochure

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USEFUL INFORMATION
We ask that all attendees of Agile on the Beach abide by our Code of
Conduct, this is available to view online here www.agileonthebeach.
com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/AOTB-Code-of-Conduct.pdf
CONTACT FOR AGILE ON THE BEACH
Claire Eason-Bassett
Conference Office
Ground Floor, Performance Centre
Penryn Campus
T: 07967 824493
E: [email protected]
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Abacus: 01326 212141
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SHOP
The Campus shop sells a variety of snacks and is a
short walk from the conference space. Please ask a
member of conference staff for directions.
WELCOME TO
AGILE ON
THE BEACH
2016
BEACH PARTY!
The Agile on the Beach Party – Enjoy the beautiful
Gyllyngvase Beach on Thursday night where we will
be throwing a party for all delegates, speakers and
sponsors to enjoy. The beach party is a short walk from
the town and complimentary shuttle buses will run at
approx. 7pm from the Falmouth Hotel and making various
stops around Falmouth and return buses start at 10:30pm,
please see the app or delegate notes for timings or to
locate your closest stop.
The party will start at 7pm and food will be served from
7.00pm – 9:30pm.
If you If you are staying on the Friday night you are
welcome to join us for the retrospective Boat Party!
Enjoy a fantastic locally sourced picnic on the boat
washed down with some fizz. Tickets are £28 Per
person and can be booked via the AOTB website.
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NOTES
WELCOME TO AGILE
ON THE BEACH 2016!
This year we have over 50 fantastic speakers and
sessions across 5 themes exploring topics and
sharing stories from software delivery through
to whole business agility. Our warm thanks to all attending and speaking
this year and to our fantastic sponsors. Everyone
attending the conference is welcome to join us
at our pre-conference pasty and ale gathering
at The Poly, and, our beach party on Thursday
evening at Gyllyngvase Beach.
P.S
seeing you again at
We look forward to
6&7 July in 2017.
our earlier dates of
We trust you will enjoy your time at Agile on
the Beach and hope you have a fantastic agile
experience. Thank you for joining us
Best wishes,
Toby Parkins @tobyparkins,
Belinda Waldock @belindawaldock,
Mike Barritt, Allan Kelly @allankellynet,
Mark Smith @lemarksmith,
Claire Eason-Bassett @mackskyevents,
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
DR LINDA RISING,
{Agile Leadership & Teams}
@RisingLinda
Linda Rising is an independent
consultant who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She
has written and contributed to many books and
numerous articles, with her latest book published
last year – More Fearless Change co-authored
with Mary Lynn Manns. Linda is an internationally known presenter on topics related to patterns, retrospectives, influence strategies, agile
development, and the change process. With a
Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the field of
object-based design metrics, Linda’s background
includes university teaching and software development in a number of different domains.
DR. REBECCA PARSONS,
{Continuous Delivery }
@rebeccaparsons
Rebecca has more years of application development experience than she
cares to admit, in industries ranging from telecommunications to emergent internet services.
She has extensive experience leading in the creation of large-scale distributed object applications and the integration of disparate systems.
Before coming to ThoughtWorks she worked
as an assistant professor of computer science
at the University of Central Florida where she
taught courses in compilers, program optimization, distributed computation, theory of computation and computational biology. She also
worked as Director’s Post Doctoral Fellow at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory researching
parallel and distributed computation, genetic
algorithms, computational biology and nonlinear dynamical systems. Rebecca received a
Masters of Science in Computer Science from
Rice University and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University.
SOFWARE DELIVERY
PAUL BOOCOCK
CODEWEAVERS LTD
{Continuously delivering
software to big brands}
@paul_boocock
Synopsis: The ability to react and deliver working software quickly is a vital component to
the way we work. Our clients run some of the
biggest brands in the world, so how do we continuously deliver software whilst ensuring we
keep our clients happy and our quality high?
Bio: Paul is the Academy Leader at Codeweavers, a leading finance technology specialist in
the automotive industry. Paul focuses on staff
development and learning across the entire
business but with a particular focus on the development. Prior to Codeweavers Paul was a
University Lecturer at Staffordshire University
teach Software Engineer and Computer Games
Programming. He has always been a developer
at heart and relishes the opportunity to teach
others as well as still getting his hands dirty.
JO CRANFORD
CULTURE AMP
{Build In Quality}
@jocranford
Synopsis: After months of hacking things together, small changes often break a dozen other
features. Even with every refactoring technique
in the book, it’s going to be incredibly hard to
improve unless you can make increasing quality
part of your team’s development process. This
talk discusses what constitutes “good code”, with
practical to bring code quality and craftsmanship into your development lifecycle.
Bio: Jo is a lead developer at Culture Amp, the
world’s leading culture analytics platform. Jo is
an experienced Ruby developer, a strong advo-
cate of clean code and good tests, and has been
working in agile teams for over ten years. She
is passionate about increased diversity in the
tech industry. When she’s not at her computer
she can be found running around the Tan, or
biking along the beach.
SARAH GLANVILLE &
PAUL LEMON SKY
{Moving on Up}
@girlstest2 | @anthonylime
Synopsis: Building a brand new
agile team of over 100 people
in 4 months is an exciting, challenging and rewarding task and
Sarah and Paul will talk through the highs and
lows and share their learnings from doing this.
Sky are creating a brand new digital centre in
Leeds, the heart of the Northern Powerhouse
and this talk will share the experience of the
first team to land in Leeds. How do you seed
the culture, recruit the right people, set up the
correct working practises and continue to deliver a committed roadmap?
Bio: Sarah Glanville is an enthusiastic and motivating speaker who has held several positions
in Agile organisations and is passionate about
inspiring women into a role in STEM careers.
She has worked in many male dominated environments and is a strong believer in diversity
being the key to a successful team. Sarah is
currently a Scrum Master at Sky, where she ensures the wellbeing of her team and empowers
them to continuously improve their practices
whilst still meeting the high expectations of
their customers. Paul Lemon is a technical leader with over 16
years industry experience. He has a passion
for the creation and development of digital
products and content. He is an expert at agile
technical delivery both leading and/or collaborating with stakeholders, project management
and creative experts.
He is the Head of Technology for Sky’s 70+
online service team, heading up the team of
Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Engineers
and Testers which he helped to build in Sky’s
new tech hub in Leeds.
LYNDSAY PREWER
EQUAL EXPERTS
{Smoothing the continuous
delivery path – a tale of two
architectures} @lyndsp
Synopsis: What makes Continuous Delivery easy
and what makes it hard? Should it be all Scala,
Docker and microservices, or is .Net, Windows
and monoliths a safer bet? This session shares
best practices and anti-patterns encountered by
two teams, with very different architectures, both
on their journey to successful continuous delivery.
Bio: Lyndsay is an Agile Delivery Consultant. He’s
spent the last twenty years helping developers,
teams and organisations improve their software
delivery. He’s currently consulting for Equal Experts, at HMRC, on the delivery of HMRC’s new
Gov.UK digital tax services. He speaks regularly
at European conferences (Agile Cambridge, Agile
Testing Days, Agile Lean Europe) and London
Meetups. For more information, check out
lyndsayp.com.
WOUTER LAGERWEIJ
{Testing in a Continuous
Delivery World}
@wouterla
Synopsis: Hey, do you remember when everyone was asking what the role of the tester
would be in an agile team? It’s happening again!
A team that releases every commit needs to
take testing seriously. That changes the role of
the tester once again. And of developers, too.
It puts the customer centre stage again.
Bio: Wouter Lagerweij is an independent Agile
Coach operating out of The Netherlands. He loves
spending time with teams and organisations to
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figure out how to improve the way they make
software, and make it more fun. To make that
happen Wouter uses the knowledge and skills
gathered in over eighteen years of experience
applying Agile processes and practices from XP,
Scrum, Kanban, Lean and Systems Thinking. To
turn those improvements into real business opportunities, Wouter has added Lean Startup/Lean
Enterprise approaches. He’s even known to, occasionally, use common sense.
JIM BARRITT
THOUGHTWORKS
{Finding the merkle tree in
the block chain forest}
@jimbarritt
Synopsis: You may have heard that “block chain”
technology is going to change the world (http://
www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/how-blockchain-technology-could-change-the-world) . This
talk will take you behind the scenes to explore
what exactly is block chain anyway, from a technical perspective.
Bio: Jim Barritt has been writing code for many
years. He is currently a Principal Consultant
for ThoughtWorks. His passion is the code and
systems architectures, helping teams deliver
reliably and rapidly. https://about.me/jimbarritt
DAVID BROWNHILL &
CRAIG SCOTT-ANGELL
{Penetration Testing in the
Release Pipeline}
@easingwoldbrowd
Synopsis: Agile development
teams that have security verification requirements for their
user story acceptance criteria will have these
defined using a BDD-style scenario. The talk will
explain how the security tests can be defined
and implemented using a framework combining tools from the popular KALI Linux tool-set.
Bios: David is a Non Functional Test Consultant
currently working with implementing non-functional requirements as part of a continuously
deploying pipeline. In addition to security this
includes performance and operational acceptance scenarios.
Craig is a Software Test Engineer with extensive
experience in quality assurance through a career in defence, Finance and internet economy
businesses. Craig is passionate about building
quality from the start and thrives on the challenge of cultivating a security conscious culture
to ensure continued success in the current climate of online threats.
ELIZABETH POPE
HOLIDAY EXTRAS
{10% time the pros and
cons?} @Lizzie_Pope
Synopsis: I’m lucky enough to work for a company who offer 10% time, and believe it’s had
many benefits for our team including engagement and performance improvements and as a
tool for both retainment and attraction. However
sometimes it can be hard to keep the business
bought in to the idea of a very expensive team
doing ‘nothing’ one day a fortnight. I’ll also share
tips and tricks to get your team to make the most
of their Learning and Development time without
telling them what to do!
Bio: Liz started out as a QA Engineer at Holiday
Extras in 2010. She’s come a long way since then,
after revamping their testing team she had a
spell as a Scrum Master before finding herself
managing a team of developers. Liz has 3+ years
experience in Management, focusing mostly on
developing high performance and supporting
the changing needs of a growing team. She currently Leads a Web team of 70+ people, and is
passionate about having a motivated and empowered team.
JON JAGGER JSL
{ The design and
implementation of cyberdojo} @JonJagger
Synopsis: cyber-dojo.org is an open-source
browser-based environment where teams can
practise programming. Under the hood it uses
docker – but in an unusual way.
Bio: I’m a self employed software consultant
specialising in practice, process, TDD, and complex-adaptive systems-thinking. I’ve worked with
Accenture, Aviva, Cisco, Ericsson, Friends Provident, HP, Microsoft, Operator, Ordnance Survey,
RBS, Reuters, Renault F1, Schlumberger, Tandberg
and many many more. I’m 31 years old (hex) and
I’ve loved software since I was 10 (decimal). I live in
Somerset in England. I’m married to the beautiful
Natalie and dad to Ellie, Penny and Patrick. I love
coarse fishing and salmon fishing. I’m the ex ACCU
conference chairman. I’ve had some C# books
published. I’m the co-author with Olve Maudal of
the Deep C/C++ slide deck (over 600,000 views).
BYRAN WILLS-HEATH
BLUEFRUIT
{How we implemented TDD
in Embedded C/C++}
@byranwh
Synopsis: We’ve been developing embedded
software using TDD since 2009. This talk presents
some of the patterns and practices that help us
deal with the extra complications incurred when
practising TDD in an embedded environment.
Bio: Byran began developing software at school
as a teenager on BBC Micros; 22 years later he’s
still passionate about software development. He’s
worked in the embedded software industry for
the past 16 years, working in a range of industries
using technologies from 8051s to ARM microcontrollers. He currently lives in Cornwall, England
working at Bluefruit Software. His recent focus has
been on software testing of bare metal systems.
AGILE BUSINESS
KAMILA PIOROWSKA
{Mindful Agile: The
Foundation of How We
Grow} @kamilapiorowska
Synopsis: In this highly interactive workshop,
we will share with you the concept and practice
of Mindful Agile and how it can help you overcome the seemingly insurmountable challenges
you face so that instead of having a mind that
is constantly full, you can live a more effective
life through mindfulness.
Bio: Kamila is a mindfulness teacher and Agile
coach with experience in delivering Agile projects in a number of financial institutions. Kamila
loves running Agile training sessions, coaching
Scrum Masters and senior leaders. She currently works as an Agile coach in the central Agile Adoption Team of one of the world’s largest
Agile transformation in the finance sector. Kamila is passionate about addressing resistance
to change when scaling Agile in organisations
which have historically been managed using
command and control.
JON TERRY LEANKIT
{Does this FizzGood? Learn
how to improve velocity,
predictability & agility}
@leanitjon
Synopsis: Come learn how (and why) to apply
the FSGD (Frequent Small Good Decoupled) technique to effectively break down work. This LeanKit
way of working provides teams with a simple
yardstick for making effective decisions to allow
rapid, continuous delivery without a lot of cross
team scheduling and coordination. It simplifies
abstract Lean-Agile concepts into something everyone can easily understand and cheerfully apply
on a daily basis.
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Bio: Jon Terry is Chief Operating Officer of LeanKit.
Before LeanKit, Jon held a number of senior
IT positions with hospital-giant HCA and its
logistics subsidiary, HealthTrust Purchasing
Group. He was among those responsible for
launching HCA’s adoption of Lean/Agile methods. Jon earned his Global Executive MBA from
Georgetown University and ESADE Business
School in Barcelona, Spain, and his Masters
Certificate in Project Management from George
Washington University. He is a Project Management Professional, a Certified Scrum Master,
a Kanban Coaching Professional, is certified in
the Lean Construction Institute’s Last Planner
Method, and trained in the SAFe Lean Systems
Engineering method.
ED HOLT DSDM
{The Agile Business}
Synopsis: With the advent of
the inter-connected ‘Digital
Age’ there is growing pressure on the wider business (beyond IT) to act in a nimble, responsive,
agile way – and this represents an essential opportunity to become ‘The Agile Business’. Ed was
the Founding Chairman of the DSDM Consortium and was closely involved in its early work
as an IT-focussed method. He has recently been
undertaking market research on the spread and
scope of ‘agile’ into the wider enterprise. This
session summarises the findings and points the
way for organisations to collaborate to create
‘The Agile Business’.
Bio: Ed is a ‘seasoned’ (ie old!) executive with
a 30 year track record in the software industry
covering both large scale applications (at IBM
leader MSA) and software development (4GL /
OO / Component / CASE – you name it!). He was
instrumental in the founding of the DSDM Consortium over 20 years ago, when it led the drive
for responsive software development – this
was the very early days of ‘agile’ even though
it wasn’t called that in those days!
Since 1994 the not-for-profit Consortium has
been evolving an industry standard for building
IT systems in an iterative (agile) way. The Consortium was set up by a small group of suppliers
and customers at a time when Agile methodology was a niche approach to running projects,
but DSDM wanted to prove to a wider audience
that an Agile approach can deliver the business
value from projects that bosses demand. And in
the last 20 years there have been hundreds of
organisations of all sizes running thousands of
projects using DSDM to great effect, delivering
what the users wanted in a responsive manner.
DAVID LEACH
LEANINTOAGILE.CO.UK
{Measuring Agile success}
@AgileLeachy
Synopsis: "How do we measure success in
Agile? Some would say it's easy, just measure
customer satisfaction, others (whilst perhaps
misinformed) might look to try and compare
development team velocity. So what does a
good metric look like? In this talk I will describe
the metrics that can be used at the individual,
team, department and organisation level and
the impact on behaviour and performance of
choosing a good metric and also the negative
impact when choosing a poor metric. The weight
we lose when dieting is driven by the food we
eat and the exercise we take i.e the actions and
activities required to reach the lagging metric
of weight loss or BMI reduction. Otherwise its
just luck if we lose weight, how much to we rely
on luck in business?"
Bio: Having spent 14 years in Digital teams in a
number of different roles both on the business
and IT “sides”, I am now Head of Agile Practice,
leading the Lean and Agile coaching team. I run
the meetup Agile in Covent Garden. Co-host
the London Lean coffee and I have a new blog
agileleachy.uk
ANDREA PROVAGLIO
STRATEGIC IT CONSULTANT
& AGILE TRANSFORMATION
COACH
{Value} @andreaprovaglio
Synopsis: A voyage into the multidimensional,
systemic and subjective nature of Value in software development, with the intent of providing
ways to create a shared understanding of what's
"valuable" for all stakeholders.
Bio: I help IT organizations to implement better
ways of doing business; and I coach executives,
managers and teams who want to improve technically and relationally. My main focus is on
helping companies to transition to organizational and cultural models that are better suited
to the kind of knowledge work that’s so typical
of software development — which includes, but
it’s not limited to, Agile and Lean.
PAUL MASSEY BLUEFRUIT
{Case Study: Seven Years of
Agile} @paulgmassey
Synopsis: Bluefruit Software
adopted Agile seven years ago. Come and hear
about the journey and some of the key lessons
learnt along the way, including why Agile was
adopted, how the transition occurred, top practices that made the biggest difference, how Agile
affected our customer relationships and what
the benefits have been.
Bio: Paul has been programming commercially
since his teenage years, and is the leader at the
top of the Bluefruit tree. He held various roles
within the software industry before starting his
own business in 2000, Absolute Software Ltd. This
small embedded software development company
enjoyed 50% growth year on year, thanks to Paul’s
“Quality First” vision and innovative use of Agile
methodologies. In 2014, the company underwent
a complete rebrand, changing its trading name
to Bluefruit Software, and celebrated its £1mil
turnover milestone!
CORINNA BALDAUF
SIPGATE
{Agile accountants and
other rare specimen}
@findingmarbles
Synopsis: Tired of IT being an agile island? At
sipgate, the agile mindset spread to all parts of
the company: from HR over Accounting to kitchen
staff. Lets explore 10 examples of how agile thinking manifests throughout everyday company life.
Look forward to strategy retreats for all, pairing
everywhere, peer feedback and many more!
Bio: Corinna Baldauf [http://finding-marbles.
com/] has tried on every Scrum role for size
and is happiest as a developer. She strives to
make things useful, simple and beautiful for
sipgate.de [http://sipgate.de] and as well as her
private projects. Her most popular creation is
Retromat [http://plans-for-retrospectives.com/].
She hopes that Wall-Skills.com [http://wall-skills.
com/] will be equally well known someday.
STUART WARD IDBS
{Can you be agile and
compliant?} @sdcward
Synopsis: What happens when you take an organisation, which has been using waterfall for 25
years, to the new world of agile? In 2015, IDBS
transformed how it creates software, which is
used by a number of business verticals including regulated pharmaceutical environments, to
facilitate R&D. This session will show how the
move to agile was implemented along with the
benefits and challenges seen.
Bio: Stuart is Head of Business Analysis, responsible for ensuring that IDBS products meet the
needs of customers. He has grown the Business
Analysis team so that it can provide the necessary domain experience required by the agile
development teams to create software which
can facilitate R&D.
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DRAGAN JOJIC
CAPAGILITY CONSULTING
{Rising to the Agility
Challenge} @DrJojic
Synopsis: Organisational agility could be the
difference between succeeding and failing. It
relies on everybody in the organisation knowing what they are doing and why, and deciding
by themselves how to best do it. This talk will
look at how a company can rise to the agility
challenge by evolving the themes covered in my
InfoQ article with the same name.
Bio: Dragan has over 30 years of technology
and business coaching, consulting and project
management experience gained with a variety
of products and services organisations. Over the
past ten years, his primary focus was on Agile
and business change consulting with banking,
insurance and online gaming clients. His specialist area of interest is organisational agility and
the culture needed to support it.
NIGEL BARKER, MPAD
{Positive Disruption & Agile
Trouble Making}
@nigel_brkr
Synopsis: From an early age we are taught to
avoid causing trouble. Don’t rock the boat, people
don’t like fuss. We are conditioned NOT to question but to follow. The question “Why?” is being
replaced by “OK.” “What happens if?” is giving
way to “We have to do it that way.” But without
trouble makers the human race wouldn’t have
evolved. We should thank the trouble makers,
not shun them.
Bio: Nigel has worn many hats in his career, from
systems architect to journalist to radio presenter.
He now resides in the world of story telling using
whatever tools are available and appropriate to
the audience. As The Positive Disruptor Nigel
draws from Neitzsche: “All great things must first
wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to
inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
GEZ SMITH, BUNNY PICNIC LTD
{Agile Marketing: The
Incomplete Guide}
@gez_smith
Synopsis: "For years, marketers have used
up-front planning and specification to launch
campaigns in a single big bang. This worked in
predictable and well-understood environments,
like TV and press advertising, but the Internet
has now made marketing far more complex,
fast-paced and uncertain. As a result, the old approaches often dont work, and the answer may
lie in agile. Based on Gez’s research at Bristol
University and 10 years experience of using agile
in marketing and comms environments, this talk
looks at how agile can be used in marketing, and
the potential blockers to making it a reality."
Bio: Gez is a Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Professional who has been working with agile and scrum for over 10 years, for
clients including 10 Downing Street, the BBC
Trust, Lloyds Banking Group and Glastonbury
Festival. After two years postgraduate research
into agile at Bristol University, from the perspectives of strategy, organizational change, leadership and marketing, in early 2016 he published
his second book, titled “Agile Marketing: The
Incomplete Guide”. You can download for free
from www.bunnypicnic.co.uk/book.
MARC HEASMAN
KAINOS
{Being Agile: business
survival essentials}
@Atomised2000
Synopsis: Digital technologies are not only
radically changing how services are delivered,
but they are fueling changes to customer demands and opening markets to new competition. Adopting an Agile approach to software
development is one way in which organizations
can increase their flexibility and respond to
these changes, but on its own this isn’t enough.
This talk will explore the drivers and features
of digital transformation needed to survive in
today’s ever-changing business landscape.
Bio: Marc is a leader in digital transformation and has a strong background in public
service strategy and delivery. Having led Agile
development on one of the Government’s 25
exemplar digital programmes, he combines
practical experience with academic study from
the Academy of Digital Business Leaders. He
joined Kainos in September 2015 and is currently supporting DVSA’s digital transformation
of its MOT Testing Service.
AGILE TEAMS
EBEN HALFORD
ORGOLOGY
{StringTheory: Hidden
Connections in Teams}
@Ebstar
Synopsis: "This session will look at what makes
teams different from groups, the structures
that enable teams, team motivation, organisational context, appropriate team coaching
and intervention models and finally the role of
social capital in facilitating teams and enriching
business.
Bio: Eben is an Executive and Organisational
Change Coach with over 20 years experience
in the IT Industry. Working with companies
from startup to FTSE100 global corporations
in a diverse range of industries from finance to
advertising and much more in between. During
this period, Eben has held a variety of positions from developer to CTO. Eben now coaches
change at the portfolio, program and team level
with a focus on systems leadership and effective
teamwork. Eben is an accredited coach and a
certified LKU Kanban and SAFe trainer.
KAREL BOEKHOUT
{Accelerated learning with
Mob Programming}
@karelboekhout
Synopsis: "What to do if you have a team that
needs to explore a lot of new territories in
software development and you don’t have a
senior to guide them? You let them discover it
themselves, as group.
Bio: Karel is an Agile Coach operating out of
the Netherlands with a background in Change
Management and Process Management.
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KWASI OWUSU-ASOMANING
ANDY BOWSKILL
CHRIS CAMACHO
CDK GLOBAL TEAM
{Team Motivation – Putting
Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose into
Practice} @CDKGlobal
Synopsis: "How do you define Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose? In this session 3 speakers will
share their thoughts on these concepts along
with an open and honest view of the Agile journey they have had so far and the lessons they
have learned along the way. We all know agile
development is a team sport, we need to build
a shared understanding, respect and drive to
deliver the very best for our customers and
make sure we develop and grow doing it. This
concept is often summarised as Autonomy,
Mastery and Purpose and forms the bedrock
for any Agile culture."
Bio: 3 speakers from CDK who represent,
product management (Chris Camacho), development (Andy Bowskill) and scrum mastery
(Kwasi Owusu-Asomaning) all with a mixture
of experience and time at CDK. All three work
across multiple international teams and are
responsible for designing, building and delivering a quality dealer management software and
making sure they have fun doing it!
JUDITH ANDRESEN
CONSULTANT
{Ship fast!} @janosch007
Synopsis: "Lead-time measures the time between the generation of ideas
and the deployment of the final product to the
customer. Judith explains different approaches
to shorten the lead time."
Bio: Judith Andresen mainly accompanies as an
agile coach companies in their agile transition.
She regularly writes in blogs and journals and
gives lectures on the insights and experiences
of her work.
DAVID LONGMAN
{Keeping distributed agile
teams ‘face to face’}
@dlongman
Synopsis: Probably most of us would agree
that in a perfect world, Agile teams would sit
together, but what happens when this is not
possible? What can you do to help the team
function well together. In this session I'll describe some low and high-tech solutions I have
used to address this.
Bio: Dave Longman is a Product Owner and
Scrum Master with 6 years experience building
distributed agile teams. He currently works for
Headforwards leading an agile team split between Cornwall and Kent. Previously he worked
for IDBS in Surrey building agile teams split
between UK locations and the US.
LAURA DELNEVO
CAMERON & WILDING
{Winning your clients’
trust with Agile project
management} @LauraDlnv
Synopsis: Having worked with a variety of clients and projects in the publishing sector (TMG,
Sage Publications, The Economist), winning client's trust is the underlining common denominator of success for me, as a project manager.
For my agency this translate to: happy, satisfied
and (hopefully) returning customers. Agile is at
the core of all of this!
Bio: Laura has worked with a wide range of clients and platforms throughout her career. She
started supporting campaigns within the home
entertainment field (Universal, Sony, Disney).
In order to align her professional career to her
personal interests and passions, Laura took a
step further becoming an account manager for
third-section clients and NGOs.
HANIF JAMEEL & MIA FILISCH
7DIGITAL
{Empowering Teams To
Change: From Components
To Features} @7digital_UK
Synopsis: The organisation of
work around siloed component
based teams can lead to difficulties in maximising the value delivered by a development
process, and introduce coordination overheads
which are difficult to resolve. At the same time,
managing changes to the structure of teams is
often a challenging process, especially if they are
directly imposed. In this session we will explore
the key lessons and insights gleaned from a
developer and product led iterative transition
to feature based teams.
Bios: Hanif is a senior software developer at
7digital, responsible for advancing our core
platform technology. He has a passionate interest in process improvement and helping teams
become as effective as they can be.
Mia started out at 7digital in the world of customer and client operations, where she enjoyed
working with technologists and learning new
things so much than in 2014, she finally decided to make a change and become a software
developer.
ADAM POLCZYK
APSS (UK) LTD
{Performance
Management: the new
team responsibility}
@adampolczyk
Synopsis: Traditional performance reviews are ineffective and especially unsuitable for Agile teams.
In this session Adam will share the learning from
over a year of experiments with an alternative
approach that is aligned with the Agile values of
respect and fast feedback. He will argue that it
is now possible and desirable for Performance
Management to become a team responsibility.
Bio: Adam is an Agile practitioner with 30 years
experience of commercial software development. He started programming when he was 11
years old and hasn’t stopped since. For the last
15 years however, his focus has been helping
teams and organisations apply Agile values to
be more effective and to create a better working
experience for their people. He is an accomplished and energetic Scrum Master and Agile
Coach who loves sharing great ideas. When he
isn’t walking about, he still likes making things
and is the creator of team-sense.co.uk.
IAN HAWKINS
SIEMENS HEALTHCARE
{Incredible Agile Teams}
Synopsis: Is your team incredible? If we had a world agile team league table,
where would you come? How would you improve? This session explores what it takes to
be a top performing agile team.
Bio: Ian Hawkins is an experienced scrum master at Siemens Healthcare, working with more
than 30 other scrum teams across the world on
3D medical imaging software. He runs the Agile
Oxfordshire user group, bringing together agile
enthusiasts from a wide variety of industries
and experiences.
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TOBY PARKINS & LYSSA FEE-CRUMP
HEADFORWARDS &
SOFTWARE CORNWALL
{Design a Degree 2.0}
@tobyparkins|@LyssaCrump
Synopsis: A few years ago at
AOTB we ran a Design a Degree
session because we were constantly hearing from employers in the industry
that the education system was failing to produce
enough high quality IT graduates. This year we
are taking it to the next level.
We want our universities to be producing graduates with the right skills to walk into a workplace.
That is why we want to speak to employers,
to industry professionals, to graduates and to
students to find out what they think should be
being covered on a computer science degree.
Bio: Lyssa is Marketing Manager at Headforwards, a Committee Member at Software Cornwall as well as being a STEM Ambassador. She
has been an agile evangelist in the marketing
world for a number of years and is passionate
about finding new ways for tech to improve our
customer relationships.
Toby is a director at outsource software development company Headforwards as well as
at the technical web agency UKNetWeb. He is
also the president of the Cornwall Chamber of
Commerce and a Hall for Cornwall Trustee. He
has over 21 years experience working in the
tech industry.
ROBERTA STAFFORD
CAPITAL ONE
{Agile values and principles
– for non software
development teams}
@robertastaffo1
Synopsis: "Think agility is just for software development teams? It isn't. This session will help
identify and explore practical tricks and tips to
help teams embed agile principles and values
into their world where their goal isn't iterative
software development.”
Bio: I have been working as a scrum master
and agile coach at Capital One for the last 3
years and am part of the transformation team
that is helping Capital One to change the way
it works to become a more nimble, responsive
and dynamic organisation.
PRODUCT
ADRIAN HOWARD
QUIETSTARS
{Iterative Persona}
@adrianh
Synopsis: "How can you help everybody in your
team understand the customer — especially
if you're not sure yourself? Persona help, but
traditional persona development sometimes
doesn't work well in agile contexts. We'll show
you how to iteratively build models of your customer with the whole team. Demonstrating
practical techniques for integrating ongoing
research with agile approaches to product vision and strategy."
Bio: Adrian Howard is passionate about building
effective teams and great products.You’ll find
him working with startup and product development teams, combining coaching & teaching
with hands on UX & development work.
With more than fifteen years experience working with startups, established businesses and
agencies Adrian is an active member of the
Agile, Balanced Team & Lean UX communities.
He regularly teaches and speaks on integrating
Lean, UX and Agile methods.
LUKE SZYRMER
LAUNCH TOMORROW
{Using Landing Pages to
Prove Business Value}
@LaunchTomorrow
Synopsis: "There is nothing so useless as doing
efficiently, that which should not be done at
all". --Peter Drucker
If you are going to build a product or a feature,
make sure your prospects want to buy it with a
landing page test--first."
Bio: Luke is the author of the #1 bestselling
book “Launch Tomorrow” in the Amazon cat-
egory of “Start a Business”. He is a Lean Startup
community activist in London, and runs regular
meetups to help founders apply Lean Startup
principles such as testing to their business. He
also co-organises Lean Startup Machine in London. In addition to mentoring at Lean Startup
Machine, Luke mentors startup founders. He’s
spoken at Google Campus, Launch22, and LeanCamp. Professionally, he is a product manager
in financial technology. He enjoys the challenge
of distilling complex technical and organizational ideas down to their essence, so others
can benefit from his research.
MIKE TREBILCOCK
CORNWALL COLLEGE
{Growing Skills : I am
digital} @MikeTrebilcock
Synopsis: There’s something exciting happening
with Digital Skills education in Cornwall, find out
more about the new Digital Academy Cornwall,
how Software Cornwall and The Cornwall College Group are disrupting traditional education
to help Cornwall’s Digital economy grow. Expect
Robots, gadgets and shameless appeals for help.
Bio: Mike is head geek at I am Digital, an exciting
new Digital Academy being created in Cornwall
with Cornwall College and local industry. Mike
is also Business Systems project lead for The
Cornwall College Group, one of the largest further education colleges in the UK. Mike is an
active committee member for Software Cornwall, where he leads educational engagement
and outreach, linking with schools, industry
and Code Club UK inspiring and growing the
next generation of digital engineers. Mike has
recently completed a Masters Degree in Agile
Software Projects.
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KAT MATFIELD
SKYSCANNER
{User testing on a
shoestring – Interactive
session} @LovedayBrooke
Synopsis: Agile research and discovery phases
rely on observing and speaking to real users
about their real behaviour. Just one problem
we can’t always trust what they say or what they
do. This talk outlines the ways in which your
users (and the rest of us) behave irrationally,
and how to conduct research that gets you to
the truth, regardless.
Bio: Kat Matfield is a digital product and service designer. She’s worked with start-ups and
large corporates to help make innovative new
digital services or improve existing ones. She’s
fascinated by all the areas of life in which people
believe strange things and behave irrationally,
and how to design services that embrace this,
instead of fight against it.
DAN GOODWIN
FFFUNCTION
{User testing on a
shoestring – Interactive
session (No computers)
(Introductory)}
@bouncingdan
Synopsis: Testing whatever you’re working on
with real users is one of the best ways to uncover
design issues and it doesn’t have to be expensive.
Anyone involved in the design and development
process for a product or service can run effective
user tests if they follow some simple guidelines.
This workshop will show you how.
Bio: Dan is the user experience director at fffunction, a user-centred design agency in the
South West of the UK. With a background of
fifteen years’ experience in agency and in-house
software and web development, he is an allrounder with strong technical and people skills
in addition to user experience. He loves user
research and bringing users and empathy for
them into every step of a project. Dan loves the
sea and gets in it or near it whenever he gets
the chance. He likes good coffee, good beer,
and good and bad flapjacks.
BRETT ANSLEY
CONSULTANT
{Accounting for Agile
software} @pbansley
Synopsis: "Reporting the cost of our projects
is a necessary evil and it's often seen a bureaucratic overhead. Learn how to achieve a level of
reporting that your financial team will love with
the minimal impact on your software teams."
Bio: I’m an efficiency and optimisation freak and
passionate advocate of the customer experience.
I hate waste and love making the customer’s journey as easy as possible. I have been working in
Agile teams for nearly 10 years. I was introduced
to Agile by a team of Thoughtworks coaches, I
later joined Thoughtworks where I spent time as
an Agile coach, Business Analyst, Delivery Principal and Change Programme Director. After 5
years with Thoughtworks I spent a year working
at the Government Digital Services (GDS) of the
Cabinet Office on the Government as a Platform
programme. I left GDS to take up the role of Chief
Product Officer for VictoriaPlum.com an online
retailer of bathroom and bedroom furniture.
DARCI D DUTCHER
LEXIS NEXIS
{Running Killer Workshops
without killing yourself}
@DarciD
Synopsis: Good workshops are invaluable to
companies and teams while bad workshops
can be demoralizing and a waste of time. The
session will cover tips and tricks that can be
used to make sure workshops are a good use
of the attendee's time.
Bio: Darci is a user experience designer and
agile consultant with a background in cognitive
psychology and technology. Her first job was
designing airplane cockpits and she has also
done UX work in industries including healthcare,
travel, finance, publishing, not-for-profit, compliance and technology. In addition to focusing
on solutions that are delightful and easy to use,
encouraging collaboration is one of the goals
that Darci has wherever she goes.
DAVID ESPLEY
LEXIS NEXIS
{User Stories and other
agile failures} @DavidEspley
Synopsis: Should agile practitioners avoid large
corporate clients. Are they just too hard to take
on a progressive journey. Helping companies
that think they are already agile to actually
adopt agile is an interesting challenge, for a
start, nobody likes to be told that they are doing
it wrong. In this talk David shares his experience
of helping larger corporate clients to act more
like Lean startups, discusses how you wean
people off their agile washed legacy processes
and let go of some of the big company baggage.
Bio: David Espley is the CTO at LexisNexis and has
spent the last 20 years working in the software
industry. Having embraced agile 15ish years ago,
he has decided that he now knows less about
utopia than when he started but certainly knows
more about the destinations along the way. David
is currently helping LexisNexis to embrace the
ethos of agile and not just the occasional practice.
CAT SWETEL &
MIKE CAPONERO
TIDAL RIVER
{UX and A3 Thinking: User
First Problem Exploration}
@CatSwetel |
@mikeydoubletap
Synopsis: Has your team or
organization ever delivered a
fun, shiny solution, only to realize later it was
a solution to a problem that doesn't exist? A3
Thinking (pioneered by Toyota) is a method
for problem exploration and validation that
can mitigate the risk of delivering unneeded
products and features by helping to identify,
explore, and validate problems and solutions.
Bio: Cat is an experienced lean and agile practitioner and coach. When not working, she enjoys
hiking, reading feminist literature, and making
jokes about Bitcoin.
Mike uses his instructional design skills to continuously improve and adapt trainings to effectively meet current clients’ needs and contexts by
engaging participants in the active construction
of knowledge of lean/agile principles in socially
interactive and cooperative settings. He is a
former science teacher and current college debt
slave, holding a BS in Environmental and Organismal Biology and MAT in Science Education.
Mike embraces the research-backed theories
of education in which learners take an active
role in the construction of knowledge through
inquiry and experimentation; approaches which
correspond to the core principles of the improvement and coaching kata of TPS and PDSA/
A3 problem solving approach.
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DARWIN PELTAN & ALISTAIR LEE
PRODUCT PILOT
{Faster feature discovery
with Google Design Sprints}
@darwin | @docket
Synopsis: Stop debating new
product ideas and start putting
them to the test using Google
Ventures' Design Sprints. This technique allows
teams to generate new ideas and test them
with users in just five days. In this session you’ll
learn how to plan and run a successful product
Design Sprint.
Bio: Darwin is passionate about building products
and services that customers love. He has more
than 10 years of experience and has worked
with startups, charities and large commercial
organisations. Darwin is an active member of
the agile community and is a co-organiser of the
Product Tank South West community.
Alastair is co-founder of Product Pilot, a digital
product development consultancy based in Bristol. He has a background in Product Management and strategic UX and has lead digital teams
at the BBC, Time Out, and Bristol City Council.
BONUS TRACK
ROBERT CHATLEY
DEVELOGICAL LTD /
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
{Education for Engineers}
@rchatley
Synopsis: How can we best design education
programmes that prepare students to be effective software engineers in the modern world?
What do they need to learn? How can we teach
these things? Can we use the same principles
to develop effective training and development
programmes for professionals?
We will present how we applied principles and
tools from agile methods to a university software engineering course - what worked and
what didn't. We will draw on the expertise and
experience in the room to discuss the most
important things for people to learn to work
effectively in software development, and then
try to design new possible course structures to
address these.
Bio: Robert is a visiting lecturer in Software
Engineering at Imperial College London, and at
the University of Oxford. Commercially Robert
works as a consultant, coach and trainer with a
focus on agile development. Robert’s previous
experience includes working at Google, where
he was an engineer on the team responsible for
their Tv Ads product. He also acted as an agile
coach and conducted training in agile development in Google’s offices throughout the EMEA
region. Before joining Google, Robert worked
as a technical lead at Kizoom, one of the earliest
companies in the UK employing XP at scale. He
has chaired the XPDay conference, and acted
as programme chair for the SPA conference.
Robert holds an MEng degree in Information
Systems Engineering and PhD in Software Engineering from Imperial College London.
MICHAEL RAWLING
UNRULY.CO
{How to bring your
personas to life without
needing an exorcist…
(Interactive workshop, no
computers)}
@hedshot
Synopsis: Are User Personas haunting you?
Does your team have trouble using personas
because as they seem too intangible? In practice
unbelievably unrealistic: insubstantial, unhelpful and eventually ignored? Your project maybe
haunted by ghost personas! Lost, walled up behind a stack of documentation, technically now
just a whisper in your conscience, a glimpse of
users in a corner of your eye...irrelevant...crying for usability where no one can hear them?
Bio: Michael Rawling is the Lead Product UX at
Unruly Media, a social media video company.
Mike’s professional experience in UX and UI
development dates back to 1998 and since then
has explored new ways of more effectively realising the massive potential that technology
offers and that each product starts with. He
has consulted on, designed, engineered and
led such teams and initiatives for Konami, Wiley
Publishing, UK’s National Lottery, Tesco.com,
LoveFilm and Granada/ITV-UK and Toyota. Mike
is @hedshot on Twitter and takes a lot of photos.
ANDY LONGSHAW
LEXISNEXIS
{Are projects agile?
(Intermediate)}
@andylongshaw
Synopsis: Most good software has a long life
and evolves continuously, keeping pace with the
needs of its users whereas, a project is a temporary structure. Some agile software projects
have succeeded, and some have failed. What is
it that differentiated those that succeeded from
those that failed? Do projects even make sense
in a truly agile software development context?
Bio: Andy is a pragmatic software developer
who unfortunately has tended recently to end
up in roles like development manager. He has
worked for many companies from a large multinational through to a 4-person startup but is
getting to the age where he is beginning to forget half of them. He has been very fortunate
that some thoughtful and intelligent people
have spent their time helping him to learn some
really useful and interesting stuff so he tries to
give some of that back when he can.
KEITH BRAITHWAITE
ZUHLKE ENGINEERING LTD
{TDD as if You Meant It
(Interactive session-bring a
laptop)} @keithb_b
Synopsis: TDD is a core Agile technical practice but too often done poorly. It is rare to see
practitioners really let the Tests Drive Development, but that's the key: designs evolved
through TDD seem to be measurably different
from designs created in other ways. In this session attendees will experience first-hand how a
solution can evolve through TDD. They can take
this experience back to their day jobs to inform
more effective deployment of TDD in iterative,
incremental, evolutionary development.
Bio: Keith Braithwaite is a Principal Consultant
and Director of Customer Solutions at Zuhlke
Engineering Ltd. He manages their Manchester
office. He was one of the early adopters of eXtreme Programming in the UK and a well known
promoter of Agile development. He blogs at
http://cumulative-hypotheses.org/
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THURSDAY SCHEDULE
8.30 › 9.00AM
Registration
9.00 › 9.05AM
Welcome to Cornwall
SOFTWARE DELIVERY
STUDIO A
BONUS TRACK
STUDIO E
PRODUCT
STUDIO F
TEAMS
STUDIO K
BUSINESS
STUDIO L
9.05 › 9.50 AM
KEYNOTE - LINDA RISING
10.00 AM BREAK
10.30 ›
11.15 AM
11.30 AM ›
12.15 PM
CONTINUOUSLY DELIVERING
SOFTWARE TO BIG BRANDS
Paul Boocock
MINDFUL AGILE: THE
FOUNDATION OF HOW WE
GROW | Kamila Piorowska
-
STRING THEORY: HIDDEN
CONNECTIONS IN TEAMS
Eben Halford
ITERATIVE PERSONA
Adrian Howard
BUILD IN QUALITY
Jo Cranford
DOES THIS FIZZGOOD? LEARN
HOW TO IMPROVE VELOCITY,
PREDICTABILITY & AGILITY
Jon Terry
ACCELERATED LEARNING
WITH MOB PROGRAMMING
Karel Boekhout
USING LANDING PAGES TO
PROVE BUSINESS VALUE
Luke Szyrmer
EDUCATION FOR
ENGINEERS
Robert Chatley
12.15 › 1.20 PM LUNCH
1.20 ›
1.50 PM
MOVING ON UP
Sarah Glanville & Paul Lemon,
Sky
THE AGILE BUSINESS
Ed Holt, DSDM
TEAM MOTIVATION
Kwasi Owusu-Asomaning,
Andy Bowskill & Chris Camacho,
CDK Global
GROWING SKILLS
Mike Trebilcock,
Cornwall College
-
2.00 ›
2.45 PM
SMOOTHING THE CONTINUOUS
DELIVERY PATH A TALE OF TWO
ARCHITECTURES | Lyndsay Prewer
SEVEN YEARS OF AGILE
Paul Massey
KEEPING DISTRIBUTED AGILE
TEAMS ‘FACE TO FACE’
David Longman
HOW TO DO EFFECTIVE
RESEARCH IN AN IRRATIONAL
WORLD | Kat Matfield
TDD AS IF YOU MEANT IT
Keith Braithwaite
TESTING IN A
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY WORLD
Wouter Lagerweij
MEASURING AGILE SUCCESS
David Leach
EMPOWERING TEAMS TO
CHANGE: FROM COMPONENTS
TO FEATURES | Hanif Jameel & Mia Filisch
USER TESTING
ON A SHOESTRING
Dan Goodwin
TDD AS IF YOU MEANT IT
(CONTINUED)
PENETRATION TESTING
IN THE RELEASE PIPELINE
David Brownhill &
Craig Scott-Angell
VALUE
Andrea Provaglio
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT:
THE NEW TEAM RESPONSIBILITY
Adam Polczyk
2.45 › 3.15 PM BREAK
3.15 ›
4.00PM
4.15 ›
5.00PM
5.15 › 6.00PM
LIGHTNING TALKS
AGILE ON THE BEACH PARTY
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FRIDAY SCHEDULE
9.00 › 9.05AM
Good Morning
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SOFTWARE DELIVERY
STUDIO A
BONUS TRACK
STUDIO E
PRODUCT
STUDIO F
TEAMS
STUDIO K
BUSINESS
STUDIO L
9.05 › 09.50AM
KEYNOTE - REBECCA PARSONS
10.00 BREAK
10.30 ›
11.15 AM
10% TIME
THE PROS AND CONS?
Elizabeth Pope
AGILE ACCOUNTANTS
AND OTHER RARE SPECIMEN
Corinna Baldauf
-
WINNING YOUR CLIENTS’
TRUST WITH AGILE PROJECT
MANAGEMENT | Laura Delnevo
ACCOUNTING FOR
AGILE SOFTWARE
Brett Ansley
HOW TO BRING YOUR
PERSONAS TO LIFE
WITHOUT NEEDING
AN EXORCIST…
Mike Rawling
11.30 AM ›
12.15 PM
THE DESIGN AND
IMPLEMENTATION OF CYBERDOJO | Jon Jagger
CAN YOU BE
AGILE AND COMPLIANT?
Stuart Ward
SHIP FAST!
Judith Andreson
RUNNING KILLER WORKSHOPS
WITHOUT KILLING YOURSELF
Darci Dutcher
1.20 AM ›
1.50 PM
BEING AGILE: BUSINESS
SURVIVAL ESSENTIALS
Marc Heasman, Kainos
POSITIVE DISRUPTION AND
AGILE TROUBLE MAKING
Nigel Barker, MPAD
DESIGN A DEGREE 2.0
Toby Parkins & Lyssa FeeCrump, Headforwards
USER STORIES AND OTHER
AGILE FAILURES
David Espley, Lexis Nexis
2.00 ›
2.45 PM
HOW WE IMPLEMENTED TDD
IN EMBEDDED C/C++
Byran Wills Heath
RISING TO THE AGILITY
CHALLENGE
Dragan Jojic
INCREDIBLE AGILE TEAMS
Ian Hawkins
UX AND A3 THINKING USER
FIRST PROBLEM EXPLORATION
Cat Swetel
ARE PROJECTS AGILE?
Andy Longshaw
FINDING THE MERKLE TREE
IN THE BLOCK CHAIN FOREST
Jim Barritt
AGILE MARKETING
THE INCOMPLETE GUIDE
Gez Smith
AGILE VALUES & PRINCIPLES FOR
NON SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
TEAMS | Roberta Stafford
FASTER FEATURE DISCOVERY
WITH GOOGLE DESIGN
SPRINTS | Darwin Peltan &
Alistair Lee
ARE PROJECTS AGILE?
(CONTINUED)
12.15 LUNCH
-
2.45 › 3.15 PM
3.15 ›
4.00PM
4.15 ›
5.00PM
PANEL DISCUSSION & CLOSE
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SPONSORS
THE AGILE ON THE BEACH TEAM WOULD
LIKE TO THANK ALL SPONSORS FOR
THEIR GENEROSITY AND SUPPORT.
We are delighted to welcome Sky as Gold Host sponsors of our
Software Delivery track at Agile on the Beach 2016.
As sponsors we look forward to hearing from the Sky team including a
lunchtime session on Agile at Sky with their Head of Technology Paul
Lemon and one of their Scrum Masters, Sarah Glanville.
We are delighted to welcome CDK Global as Gold Host Sponsors of
our Teams & Practices track at Agile on the Beach 2016
CDK Global is the largest global software provider of integrated information technology and digital marketing solutions to automotive dealerships
and manufacturers in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Our systems are used by over 26,000 dealers throughout the world,
name any household car brand you can think of and the chances are
CDK Global is a preferred supplier. CDK Global is evolving the automotive
industry through technology with 27,000+ clients across 100+ countries
and 9,000+ employees worldwide.
www.cdkglobal.co.uk
DSDM Consortium
We are pleased to welcome DSDM Consortium as silver Speaker sponsors of Agile on the Beach 2016 in our Business track. Ed Holt of DSDM
will be hosting a session on Agile Enterprise
DSDM is a proven Framework for Agile project management and delivery,
helping to deliver results quickly and effectively. It concentrates on strategic goals and incremental delivery of real business benefits while keeping
control of time, cost, risk and quality. The DSDM Consortium is the not-forprofit community behind the Framework, providing products and services
that support organisations and individuals in their learning, adoption
and application of DSDM. Training and certification in both Agile Project
Management, Agile Business Analysis, Agile Programme Management are
offered by a range of organisations accredited by APMG International.
www.dsdm.org
Kainos is a high growth, UK-based provider of IT
services, consulting and software solutions. The
Group specialises in the development of digital
technology solutions; software design and agile
software development; automated testing services; technology support services; and related
ancillary services such as project management,
all provided across multiple sectors.
www.kainos.com
Cornwall is a beautiful, dynamic
county with a rich industrial and
cultural heritage. As a region it
doesn’t fit a national mould,and
as a college, neither do we.
Adaptive, responsive and creative; we are constantly evolving and developing provision that is right
for you, your career and the future of Cornwall.
The Cornwall College Group is the county’s largest education and training provider. We support 35,000 learners of all ages each year, 2,000
of whom are studying at university level. Our
achievements are plentiful, and our proven track
record of over 10,000 apprentices in the past ten
years makes us the most successful provider of
apprenticeships in South West England.
www.cornwall.ac.uk
Falmouth University is a vibrant and forwardthinking specialist arts institution that is a key
player in the national and international creative
scene. Our justifiable international reputation
for excellence in Art, Design, Media, Performance and Writing has grown from over a century of nurturing original thinking, supported by
highly talented and professional staff.
www.falmouth.ac.uk
We are pleased to welcome LexisNexis to the
conference. David Espley will be sharing their experience of User stories and other agile failures.
www.lexisnexis.co.uk
We are delighted to welcome Plymouth University as Exhibit sponsors of Agile on the Beach
2016. School of Computing, Electronics and
Mathematics, Plymouth University
Invest in Cornwall exists to help companies
and investors establish
businesses in Cornwall
(UK) and aims to make
the decision to do so as
simple as possible. Invest in Cornwall provides
information that is relevant, makes introductions, and advises on financial assistance available. Working in partnership with UKTI, Invest in
Cornwall provides pre-relocation services such as:
• Finding suitable premises for businesses via
comprehensive property searches
• Providing advice on what sources of funding
and support businesses may be eligible for
• Providing recruitment advice on how to
access the highly skilled talent pool available
in Cornwall
• Understanding the leading sectors in Cornwall
with a wealth of information and insight about
your industry
• Providing access to market sector specialists
to help you with business decisions
www.investincornwall.com
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We are a provider of bespoke IT solutions, business outcomes and specialists. With experience
across a number of sectors, the provision of
quality and cost effective solutions is at the
heart of what we do. Rowe IT have always
been strong advocates and practitioners of
Agile methodologies and, as a local company
based in Cornwall and Devon, we are proud to
be one of the sponsors of Agile on the Beach
www.roweit.co.uk
Software Cornwall is a not for profit community
network and the hub of Cornwall's fast growing tech cluster. The Software Cornwall team
along with members and volunteers, work collaboratively to connect, promote, support and
grow the tech community. They do this through
fantastic array of activities, from running learn
to code Missions with Cornwall's future software
engineers to, helping local tech businesses to
identify funding and business support to help
grow their businesses. Meet us on our stand to
find out more and help us name the new Agile
on the Beach sponsored Mission to Mars robot!
To find out more about Cornwall's great tech
community, visit www.softwarecornwall.org
Supporting businesses to create an agile working culture and adopt agile practices. Being Agile
provide a range of agile training and coaching
support to teams and orgnaisations across the
UK. Based in the South West. For more information on training and consultancy, and to read
more about Being agile in Business visit
www.beingagile.co.uk
Sullivan Cuff Software is a leading developer of
clinical decision support software. We believe
in continuous improvement and dedicated
customer support to ensure that our software
delivers meaningful benefits to patients and
healthcare professionals.
www.scslhealth.com
Headforwards is a software development company whose primary aim is to create and deliver
custom software with our clients focusing on
the business value it brings. Using both agile
philosophy and process understanding, we
bring together effective software development
teams that are not only flexible in developing
software that meets business requirements,
they also continuously strive to do so in better
and better ways.
www.headforwards.com
We work on a vast range of events; from creative festivals to conferences to corporate dinners and everything in between! We can offer
a range of services – to help in one bit or every
part of the event. It’s up to you.
www.mackerelskyevents.co.uk
MPAD is an established and vibrant communication agency that takes pride in producing effective,
beautiful and tailored communication solutions.
www.mpad.co.uk
Our coffee points at the conference will be sponsored by Crypto Fintech. An exciting FinTech
start-up revolutionising recurring payments.
www.fairdues.com
InfoQ.com is a practitioner-driven community
news site focused on facilitating the spread of
knowledge and innovation in professional software development.
Specialising in helping companies that produce
software to sell or to provide a business service.
Typically my clients are companies in the ISV
or SaaS space but I also work with corporate
IT departments on occasion.
www.allankelly.net
Pixxcell is a time travelling atlas of human curiosity (the world’s first, we think). We enable
anyone to build stories of amazing journeys,
places, events and people across the globe.
Whether you’re a traveller, travel blogger, photographer (or just have a story you want to tell)
Pixxcell will make your story look awesome.
www.pixxcell.com
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Thank you to UKNetWeb for providing our website and hosting. At UKNetWeb we are a strategically led, technically focused, web design and
development company based in the heart of
Cornwall. We are pleased to provide Agile on
the Beach with a website solution. Delivering
a range of websites and web based systems to
clients throughout the UK and beyond, we are
well placed to aid businesses of all sizes reach
their full potential online.
UKNetWeb have been championing Agile for
a number of years simply because it achieves
better and more realistic outcomes. We are
more than happy to take people through a brief
1-2 hour induction into how Agile works, how it
compares with other methodologies, and how
to use it as a project owner to achieve more
than previous traditional project management
approaches.
www.uknetweb.com
Thank you to Methods & Tools for their help in
raising awareness of the conference as a media
sponsor. Methods & Tools is a free software
development magazine on Software Testing,
Project Management, Agile, Scrum, UML, Requirements, Programming (Java,.NET, Ruby,
Ajax), Databases, CMMI, Open source Tools,
Software Development Jobs.
www.scrumexpert.com