Past Events

Agile2019

August 5 – 9, 2019 | Gaylord National | Washington, DC

Our annual conference is dedicated to furthering Agile principles and providing a venue for people and ideas to flourish. This is where the Agile tribes meet!

Agile2019 Program Team

Conference Chair

Emma Armstrong

Program Chair

Brandon Carlson

Program Chair

Dana Pylayeva

Program Chair

Agile2019 Session Videos

Retrospectives: 548 Days To Fix 1 Line of Code
We kept having retrospectives, but nothing changed. A year-and-a-half of retrospectives gone by. Each one about the same problem that never gets fixed. Dates are missed, morale is low, and we’re ready to throw in the towel. I was a software engineer…
A Practical Look Into Self-Selecting, Distributed Teams
Your company acquires a team based in another country. A switch in company strategy requires the formation of new teams. A project is cancelled and team members suddenly need to be reassigned. These scenarios happen, so how do you handle these change…
Small Scale Scrum
This presentation was based on the written report authored by Leigh Griffith and Agnieszka Gancarczyk, Small Scale Scrum. Agnieszka spent a year researching Small Scale Scrum for her final thesis and has recently graduated with an MSc in Computi…
Undercover Scrum Master
After three years as a Scrum Master and Agile coach, I hit a wall coaching a team that did not want to try popular Agile engineering techniques such as TDD and pair programming. I had become a Scrum Master after four years working on the business ana…
Sharing techniques to continuously improve the XP Laboratory
Since Agile Methods formalization, the software engineering education has also been impacted with universities adapting their courses as a way to suit this new software processes. At the University of São Paulo (USP), there is a discipline called XP …
Live from DC, It’s Saturday Night: the agility of SNL
Saturday Night Live is one of the longest running Agile institutions in the world. For 44 years, they have developed and delivered small batches of comedy in weekly intervals. Talk about sustainable development. But how do they do it? Turns out, the …
Transforming Healthcare with Business Agility
The cost of healthcare administration is crushing Americans. According to [National Institute of Health](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53942/), it was projected to be $315 billion in 2018. This is we (a major healthcare payer) recognized an o…
More about Thinking Fast and Slow
When Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in 2002, and then published a book called "Thinking Fast and Slow" that presented his insights, most of us who "think for a living" were intrigued by his message. Unfortunately, most of us don't have time to r…

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