Agile Vancouver

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.

Conference 2010: Call for Proposals

This is the call for proposals for Much Ado About Agile 2010. Use the embedded email link to submit your abstract and other relevant details.

Upcoming Events

On Monday evening, April 26, this month's member meeting, "User Experience is Everything", looks at how user experience applies to more than websites and that, in software development, usability of the end product is intricately linked to how it was created. Join us at Sophos to listen to the presentation and join in the discussion.

On Friday, April 30, check out the one-day seminar on "Introducing Agile Methodology to Project Manager" presented by Dr. Eugene Nizker.This is a joint event with the Project Management Institute, and is being held at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel Metrotown.

Agile Vancouver Presents a one day conference "Exploring Agile Testing"

The videos have been posted, click the link at the left.

Responding to requests from our Agile community and feedback from the Much Ado About Agile 2009 conference, Agile Vancouver is pleased to present a mini-conference Exploring Agile Testing.

"Exploring Agile Testing" will be held on Tuesday, May 25th, at the Plaza 500 hotel in Vancouver, BC. The agenda starts with an informative tutorial from Jonathan Kohl in the morning, followed by several one-hour sessions in the afternoon, and concludes with an open panel discussion.

Join us for a day of learning more about Agile testing, networking with your peers, sharing challenges and success stories, and getting valuable feedback from experts.

Attend the full day mini-conference for $250, or just the afternoon sessions for $75. Both prices include lunch.

Space is limited, so register early! Register at http://agilevantestingconference2010.eventbrite.com/.

See agenda here

Recent Event Details

March 29, Linda Rising delivered her powerful talk “Who do you trust?”. The video have been uploaded here.

To watch video of the January event "A Guided Tour of a Whiteboard Culture" by Michael Vax go here.

Videos from the 2009 Conference

Our IV annual conference was a success, and it sold out quickly. If you were one of those who did not manage to attend, at least you can see the recorded presentations. We have published the following videos from the conference:

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
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 Half the Battle
Mike Stockdale	Performance Tuning: An Agile Approach
James Lewis	Agile Adoption Anti-Patterns
Linda Rising	Influencing Strategies for Agile Developers (tutorial)

Videos from other events

Videos from the presentation on Deploying to Production Every Week are here.

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