AgileNorth 2010

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AgileNorth's aim has always been to provide a forum to explore agile software development approaches by networking to share and gain knowledge.

The 5th AgileNorth Conference is being held on Friday 14th May 2010 at Adelphi Conference Room, UCLan, Preston, Lancashire.

Our speakers this year have a story to tell. We hope to include real experiences from those who have lived through an agile event whatever the level of experience.

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Today's Spotlight On...

Paul Shannon and Craig Judson

Paul graduated from the University of Nottingham and worked briefly in research and development in the mobile telephony industry before starting at Codeweavers Ltd in 2004. In late 2007 he attended a Certified Scrum Master course and began developing software using agile practices with the rest of the team.

Craig Judson joined the company in 2006 after graduating from Staffordshire University. Over 2 years later and they are now taking Codeweavers’ Agile methods and experiences out into the community and suppliers through events such as AgileNorth and XP2010, and by publishing on their blog, website and twitter feed.

Since late 2007 the software development teams at Codeweavers UK have been incrementally improving their ability to deliver motor finance and insurance web services. This two-year journey has taken the company from chaos to kanban-style single-piece flow, including Scrum briefly along the way. This presentation charts that journey, showing clearly the benefits gained from a simple "inspect and adapt" cycle in which the teams tackled their biggest problem at each stage. Using an “observation” and “response” pattern we will outline the some of the key changes we made, how we identified the problem, and how we introduced the change.

Register now to make sure you don't miss Paul and Craig's presentation.