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pre-conference tutorialsTUESDAY, november 10, 1:00-4:30 HALF-DAY AFTERNOON TUTORIALSTI Pragmatic Thinking and LearningAndy Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmers, LLCSoftware development happens in your head—not in an editor, IDE, or design tool. We’re welleducated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware—our brains? JoinAndy Hunt for a look at how the brain really works (hint: it’s a dual processor, shared bus design)and how to use the best tool for the job by learning to think differently about thinking. Andy looksat the importance of context and the role of expert intuition in software development. Learn to takeadvantage of pole-bridging and integration thinking. Compare different laterally-specialized functions,including synthesis vs. analysis and sequential processing vs. pattern-matching. Discover the onesimple habit that separates the genius from the “wanna-be.” Andy helps you discover how to learnmore deliberately by managing your knowledge portfolio. Explore practical learning techniques,including mind maps, reading techniques, and situational feedback that help you cope with thetorrent of new information that assaults each of us.TJ The Beginner’s Mind: Keeping Your Agile Adoption FreshJean Tabaka, Rally Software DevelopmentJoin Jean Tabaka on a journey that gives you insight into how the best agile teams truly engage andadapt. Using interactive exercises to investigate the notion of “Beginner’s Mind” versus “Expert Mind”,Jean invites you to embrace an agile adoption approach that keeps your mind in the present, opento new ideas, and always curious. She “opens the agile kimono” by sharing experiences of teams thathave successfully adopted Beginner’s Mind and teams that unfortunately embraced Expert Mind. Jeanchallenges you about your team’s decision styles, agile practices, and notions of best practices—anyof which can inadvertently invite the damaging blinders of Expert Mind. She invites discussion withinsmall groups about how Expert Mind practices actually impede agile maturity and keep teams fromgelling. Finally, Jean invites you to create and share a set of Beginner’s Mind practices with otherparticipants in a quiet reflection of how to stay fresh. Bring your experiences and curiosity—andexpect to be surprised!TK Fearless Change: Introducing New IdeasLinda Rising, Independent ConsultantThose who attend conferences or read books and articles discover new ideas they want to bring intotheir organizations—but they often struggle when trying to implement those changes. Unfortunately,those introducing change are not always welcomed with open arms. Linda Rising offers provenchange management strategies to help you become a more successful agent of change in yourorganization. Learn how to plant effective seeds of change and what forces drive or block change inyour organization. In addition to using these approaches to change your organization, you can usethem to become a more effective person. Come and discuss your organizational and personal changechallenges. Linda shows how the lessons from her book, Fearless Change: Patterns for IntroducingNew Ideas, can help you succeed. Learn how to overcome adversity to change and to celebrate yourimprovement successes along with your organization’s newfound practices.TL Agile Estimating and PlanningMike Cohn, Mountain Goat SoftwarePlanning is important for all projects, especially agile ones. Unfortunately, we’ve all seen manyworthless plans and are tempted to throw out planning altogether. Regretfully, too many teamstoday view planning as something to be avoided, and too many organizations view plans assomething to hold against their development teams. But don’t give up yet! With the right type ofagile estimating and planning, you can create an accurate and useful project plan that looks sixto nine months in the future. Join Mike Cohn to learn new skills that will help you create reliableplans that improve decision-making and break the cycle of poor estimates and failed expectations.Leave with a solid understanding of and experience in agile planning as you learn new approachesto estimating—unit-less points, ideal time, and more. Practice estimating with the popular PlanningPoker® technique and see how these techniques work on fixed-price and fixed-scope projects. WithMike and the other participants, you’ll explore techniques that dramatically increase your project’schances of on-time completion.TM Blending Kanban and Extreme Programming NEWJoshua Kerievsky, Industrial Logic, Inc.Extreme Programming (XP) ignited the agile movement ten years ago by offering a simple,minimalistic approach to software development. More recently, Kanban has emerged to provide asimple, minimalistic approach to software development management. What happens when you blendKanban with XP? You get one heck of an agile process! Joshua Kerievsky explains how his team hasspent the past few years adjusting XP principles to fit Kanban and adjusting Kanban to fit XP. Joshuadescribes the waste he often found in traditional XP practices, the formalities in Kanban that did notprovide much value, and how the blended version of Kanban and XP has helped his team practicean ultra-lean, dependable, agile development approach. Explore with Joshua how you can install andimplement a blend of Kanban and XP today rather than start with ten-year-old agile processes andslowly evolve to the newer, leaner methods now in demand.In the industry since the early 1980s, AndyHunt is one of the seventeen foundersof the Agile Alliance, which launched theAgile Manifesto and the agile movement.Andy is a programmer, consultant, author,publisher, and co-founder of the PragmaticBookshelf. He co-authored the best-sellingbook The Pragmatic Programmer and sixothers, including the award-winning Practices of an AgileDeveloper and the recent Pragmatic Thinking & Learning.At conferences and private corporations throughout the USand Europe, Andy is a frequent speaker on topics rangingfrom software development to management and cognition.When not working, Andy is an active musician composing,recording, and playing trumpet, flugelhorn, and piano.An agile fellow with Rally SoftwareDevelopment, Jean Tabaka has morethan twenty-five years of experience in IT.After studying DSDM in the late 1990s, shebecame an agile devotee, working withorganizations worldwide to deliver morevalue faster through the adoption of agileprinciples and practices. Specializing inscaling agile practices, guiding leadership shifts, applyinglean, and building continuous planning practices, Jean usesa collaborative approach in helping organizations adoptagile. A Certified ScrumMaster Trainer and a CertifiedProfessional Facilitator, Jean is the author of CollaborationExplained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders.You can reach her at jean.tabaka@rallydev.com.Linda Rising has a Ph.D. from ArizonaState University in the field of objectbaseddesign metrics and a backgroundthat includes university teaching andindustry work in telecommunications,avionics, and tactical weapons systems. Aninternationally known presenter on topicsrelated to patterns, retrospectives, and thechange process, Linda is the author of Design Patterns inCommunications, The Pattern Almanac 2000: A PatternsHandbook, and co-author with Mary Lynn Manns ofFearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas. Findmore information about Linda at www.lindarising.org.A Certified Scrum trainer, Mike Cohn isthe founder of Mountain Goat Software,a process and project managementconsultancy and training firm. He is theauthor of newly published Succeedingwith Agile: Software Development usingScrum, Agile Estimating and Planningand User Stories Applied for AgileSoftware Development, as well as books on Java and C++programming. With more than twenty years of experience,Mike has previously been a technology executive incompanies of various sizes—from startup to Fortune 40.A frequent magazine contributor and conferencespeaker, Mike is a founding member of the ScrumAlliance and the Agile Alliance. He can be reached atmike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.Joshua Kerievsky leads Industrial Logic,a fourteen-year-old company thatguides organizations in successful agiletransitions. He has more than twentyyears of experience in the software field,is an expert and early pioneer in agilemanagement and Extreme Programming,and is a prolific author of eLearning albumsthat help companies around the world “scale agility faster.”Joshua’s 2004 bestselling book, Refactoring to Patterns,won a Jolt Cola award. His pioneering work in agileprocesses has helped popularize readiness assessments,storytest-driven development, and agile chartering.Call 888.268.8770 or 904.278.0524 to register • WWW.SQE.COM/ADPREG 13