We are delighted to confirm our line up for 2016

We will have 5 tracks over 2 days on the themes of

Software Delivery, Teams & Practices, Product Design & Management, and Business, as well as a bonus track of 4 double workshop sessions.

Keynote : Dr. Rebecca Parsons, ThoughtWorks’ Chief Technology Officer and Director of Agile Alliance.

Keynote: Dr Linda Rising, internationally known for her work in patterns, retrospectives, influence strategies, agile development, and the change process.

Software Delivery Track

• Build In Quality – Jo Cranford
• The design and implementation of cyber-dojo – Jon Jagger
• How we implemented TDD in Embedded C/C++ – Byran Wills-Heath
• 10% time the pros and cons?
  -Elizabeth Pope
• Testing in a Continuous Delivery World
  – Wouter Lagerweij
• Continuously delivering software to big brands – Paul Boocock
• Smoothing the continuous delivery path – a tale of two architectures – Lyndsay Prewer
• Penetration Testing in the Release Pipeline – David Brownhill  & Craig Scott-Angell
• Finding the merkle tree in the block chain forest – Jim Barritt
• Moving on Up – Sarah Glanville & Paul Lemon – Sky

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Agile Teams & Practices

Agile Teams

• Accelerated learning with Mob Programming –  Karel Boekhout
• Keeping distributed agile teams ‘face to face’  – David Longman
• Ship fast!  –  Judith Andresen
• Performance Management: the new team responsibility – Adam Polczyk, APSS (UK) Ltd
• StringTheory: Hidden Connections in Teams – Eben Halford, Orgology

• Hire An Apprentice: Evolutionary Learning at the 7digital Technical Academy – Paul Shannon, 7digital Group Plc
• Winning your clients’ trust with Agile project management –  Laura Delnevo, Cameron & Wilding
• Incredible Agile Teams – Ian Hawkins, Siemens Healthcare
• Final session to be confirmed
• Track Sponsor Session to be confirmed – CDK Global

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Agile Business Track

• Measuring Agile success – David Leach, Leanintoagile.co.uk
• Value – Andrea Provaglio, Agile Transformation Coach
• Mindful Agile: The Foundation of How We Grow – Kamila Piorowska & Portia Tung, Independant
• Case Study: Seven Years of Agile – Paul Massey, Bluefruit
• Does this FizzGood? Learn how to improve velocity, predictability & agility – Jon Terry, LeanKit
• Can you be agile and compliant? – Stuart Ward, IDBS
• Agile Marketing: The Incomplete Guide – Gez Smith. Bunny Picnic Ltd
• Agile accountants and other rare specimen – Corinna Baldauf, sipgate
• Rising to the Agility Challenge – Dragan Jojic, Radtac Ltd

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Product Design & Management

• Iterative Persona  –  Adrian Howard, Quietstars
• How to do effective research in an irrational world –   Kat Matfield, The Round/Silicon Milkround
• UX and A3 Thinking: User First Problem Exploration – Cat Swetel, Tidal River
• User testing on a shoestring – Dan Goodwin, fffunction
• Running Killer Workshops without killing yourself – Darci D Dutcher, LexisNexis
• Using Landing Pages to Prove Business Value –   Luke Szyrmer, Launch Tomorrow
• Faster feature discovery with Google Design Sprints –   Darwin Peltan & Alistair Lee, Product Pilot
• Accounting for Agile software – Brett Ansley, Brett Ansley Consulting

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Bonus Track

There will be 4 bonus interactive workshops this year at Agile on the Beach, all double sessions

• Education for Engineers – Robert Chatley, Develogical Ltd / Imperial College London
• How to bring your personas to life without needing an exorcist… – Michael Rawling, Unruly.co
• TDD as if You Meant It – Keith Braithwaite, Zuhlke Engineering Ltd    
  
• Are projects agile? – Andy Longshaw, LexisNexis

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Tickets on sale – Super Early bird tickets available until 31 May (or sold out)

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