Agile Vancouver is a non-profit user group run by volunteers. Our goal is build and strengthen the community of agile practitioners within Greater Vancouver. We are affiliated with the Agile Alliance and host lively regular monthly meetings, and an annual conference.

Videos are on the conference website

Our IV annual conference was a success.  It was sold out, so you may be one of those who did not manage to attend.  You missed the incredibly warm and friendly atmosphere of the event, you missed the opportunity to talk to celebrities.  But at least you can see the recorded presentations.  We will be adding the videos as we produce them. 

For now you can see the following videos:

Presenter Title Mary Poppendieck The Five Habits of Successful Lean Development Michael Nygard Antibodies of the Corporate Immune System Eric Evans Strategic Design: Avoiding Traps Responsible People Tend to Walk Into Linda Rising Deception and Estimation: How We Fool Ourselves Philippe Kruchten What colour is your backlog?–or: what do we do next? Alex Aizikovsky Acceptance Test-Driven Design Johanna Rothman Lean/Agile Project Portfolio Management Alex Aizikovsky Acceptance Test-Driven Design James Goebel How Being Agile Changed Our Human Resources Policies Michael Feathers Error-Proofing and Error Handling as First Class Considerations in Design Ade Miller Distributed Agile Development Michael Hugos If Agility is Good for IT it's good for the Rest of the Company Too- Michael Hugos Robert Reppel Ridinig Entropy: Evolution of Software Architectures over Time: Patterns, Smells and Interventions Rob vanSpronssen Disciplined Agile: Agile Techniques within the Iron Triangle Chuck Clark Agile Operations: Knowing is Halh the Battle Mike Stockdale Performance Tuning: An Agile Approach James Lewis Agile Adoption Anti-Patterns Linda Rising Influencing Strategies for Agile Developers (tutorial)

 Agile 101 Seminar in Victoria (Details are here)

Deploying to Production Every Week (videos are here)

Agile Vancouver Comes to PMI (Details are here)

Agile Vancouver 2009 - Much Ado About Agile IV

The fourth annual conference will be coming this fall to the Plaza 500 in Vancouver, British Columbia Nov 2-5, 2009.

The conference will consist of two days of conference sessions (Nov 3, 4) and two days of tutorials (Nov 2, 5). We have already arranged a great set of speakers for this year's conference, including:

•  Eric Evans     is a thought leader in software design and domain modeling, and is the author of Domain-Driven Design. Eric is an expert in integrating sophisticated design and bringing agility to software projects
•    Michael Feathers is a mentor, consultant, and thought leader in the Agile community.  He specializes in design and technical practices.  He is also the author of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"
•   Martin Fowler is an author, speaker, and consultant who's primary areas of involvement are in object-oriented development, refactoring, patterns, agile methods, enterprise application architecture, domain modeling, and extreme programming. Martin is one of the original authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.
•    Michael Hugos is a mentor and thought leader in business and IT agility, an IT Industry columnist, blogger. Michael is the author of several books, as well as being a speaker on technology and business strategy.
•    Mary Poppendieck wrote the book on how the lean principles from manufacturing offer a better approach to software development. Mary continues to bring fresh perspectives to the world of software development.
•    Linda Rising is an internationally known presenter on topics related to patterns, retrospectives, customer interaction, influence strategies, and the change process
•    Johanna Rothman works with companies and managers to improve product development and delivery and has published a number of books and articles on management and related issues.

Click on the Conference link to see the agenda and to register.

Videos are on the website

Videos of Katherine Radeka's and Eric Ries's presentations on "Lean Development for Lean Times" mini-conference in April are finally attached to the event webpage.  Follow this link.   We  apologize for the delay.