News & Events

Upcoming Events

Date	Event	Location	Description
2 September 2010	New England Agile Bazaar	IBM Innovation Center, Waltham, MA, USA	Topic: "Offshore Agile: Successes and Sorries". 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and David Grabel will speak about what happens when Agile principles like "small, self-directed teams" and "continuous customer input" collide with the economic realities of offshore development. Can Agile projects succeed when they are spread across two or more continents with different business cultures?
23 September 2010	ASQ Boston	Pappa Razzi, Burlington, MA, USA	Topic: "Bug-Free Code: A Case Study You Can Use". 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Nancy Van Schooenderwoert will present a look at detailed metrics from a three-year agile project where a newly formed development team produced a new embedded software product from scratch, at 3 times the normal productivity rate. The only thing powering this team was the conviction that through genuine teamwork everyday commercial applications could be built to the high standards typical of aerospace work, within an ordinary budget.

Date

Event

Location

Description

2 September 2010

New England Agile Bazaar

IBM Innovation Center, Waltham, MA, USA

Topic: "Offshore Agile: Successes and Sorries".

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and David Grabel will speak about what happens when Agile principles like "small, self-directed teams" and "continuous customer input" collide with the economic realities of offshore development.

Can Agile projects succeed when they are spread across two or more continents with different business cultures?

23 September 2010

ASQ Boston

Pappa Razzi, Burlington, MA, USA

Topic: "Bug-Free Code: A Case Study You Can Use".

5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert will present a look at detailed metrics from a three-year agile project where a newly formed development team produced a new embedded software product from scratch, at 3 times the normal productivity rate.

The only thing powering this team was the conviction that through genuine teamwork everyday commercial applications could be built to the high standards typical of aerospace work, within an ordinary budget.

2010 Events

Date	Event	Location	Description
16 June 2010	Glasgow Caledonian University	Glasgow, Scotland	Topic: "Virtual Tour of a Lean-Agile Team". A free evening presentation by Nancy Van Schooenderwoert that used examples from a real team building a safety-critical embedded product. The presentation introduced the concept of Lean Thinking for development, as distinct from manufacturing. The real key is the way lean principles unite the business and technical sides of an organization to engage customers. Companies where senior managers lead the lean-agile program achieve significantly better results than those where it is limited to the technical departments.
1-4 June 2010	XP 2010	Trondheim, Norway	Topic: "Transient State: From Funding to First Iteration for Embedded Systems". On Friday, June 4, 2010, Nancy Van Schooenderwoert presented a 90-minute tutorial on how agile principles shine in complex situations such as embedded systems development. The talk explored practical, proven techniques for navigating the early "transient state".
24-26 May 2010	13th Software Design for Medical Devices	San Diego, CA, USA	Topic: "Jump Out of the Waterfall: Applying Lean Development Principles in Medical Device Software Development". Brian Shoemaker and Nancy Van Schooenderwoert presented a workshop at the 13th Software Design for Medical Devices conference of the International Quality & Productivity Center (IQPC) showing how recent developments in team organization, design philosophy, and development models have permitted higher productivity and lower defect rates than were ever possible with traditional linear/sequential "waterfall" thinking.
20 & 21 May 2010	Lean Software Development Workshop	Glasgow, Scotland	Lean-Agile Partners and Lean Data Solutions present: Mary and Tom Poppendieck, "Leading Lean Software Development Workshop".
18 May 2010	Boston SPIN Meeting	Burlington, MA, USA	Topic: "*When It Just Has* to Work: Agile Development in Safety-Critical Environments*". Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Brian Shoemaker explained why agile software development, properly done, is actually safer and* more efficient than traditional development practices. The focus was on medical applications the same principles apply to all types of safety-critical software.

Previous Events

Panel on Teamwork at the Deep Agile Seminar 2009, April 2009

Audience at the Deep Agile Seminar 2009, April 2009

Photographs from Deep Agile 2009: Agile for Embedded Systems

1. Panel on Teamwork (left to right): Russel Hill, James Grenning, Jack Ganssle, Ellen Gottesdiener, and Nancy Van Schooenderwoert (moderator).
2. The audience in rapt attention at Deep Agile 2009.

Date	Event	Location	Description
21-23 October 2009	Project Management Conference 2009	Christchurch, NZ	Workshop and presentations by Nancy Van Schooenderwoert at the Project Management Institute (PMINZ) annual conference on the south island of New Zealand. 21 October: "Beyond Basics: Lean-Agile Project Management" course. 22 October: Representing Agile in the PMBOK/Prince2/Agile panel debate. 23 October: "Charting Your Agile Adoption Path" breakfast seminar.
14 October 2009	Agile Professionals Network, Auckland	Auckland, NZ	Presentation by Nancy Van Schooenderwoert on "Seven Paradoxes of Agile".
16 October 2009	Agile Professionals Network, Christchurch	Christchurch, NZ	Presentation by Nancy Van Schooenderwoert on "Seven Paradoxes of Agile".
29 September 2009	Engineering Executive Forum Monthly Meeting	Bedford, MA, USA	Presentation by Nancy Van Schooenderwoert on "Agile Facts vs. Myths: The Straight Scoop for Executives".
8 July 2009	Agile Yorkshire Monthly Meeting	Leeds, UK	Presentation by Nancy Van Schooenderwoert at the Agile Yorkshire monthly meeting.
24-28 August 2009	Agile 2009 Conference	Chicago, IL, USA	"*When it just has* to work: Agile Development in Safety-Critical Environments**", presented by Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Brian Shoemaker. Nancy Van Schooenderwoert was Marketing Stage Producer for the Agile 2009 conference.
28 May 2009	Agile Bazaar Monthly Meeting	Pizzeria Uno, Newton, MA, USA	"A Jet Engine On Your Pinto: When HyperSpeed Agile Teams Pull A Slow Organization". Presentation by Nancy Van Schooenderwoert.
25-26 April 2009	Deep Agile Seminar 2009: Agile for Embedded Systems	Cambridge, MA, USA	Nancy Van Schooenderwoert hosted this first-of-its-kind event, with speakers Jack Ganssle, James Grenning, and Russel Hill.
4 Nov 2008	Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference	Grand Rapids, MI, USA	Nancy van Schooenderwoert presented a 3-hour tutorial on "Embedded Agile Development Techniques".
29 Oct 2008	Software Development Best Practices 2008	Boston, MA, USA	Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Rick Brenner spoke on "Planning Your Agile Initiative".
16 Sep 2008	Boston SPIN	Burlington, MA, USA	Nancy Van Schooenderwoert spoke on safety-critical software using Agile practices.