Agile Pune 2014

Action Precedes Clarity

Nov 21-22, Hyatt Regency, Pune

The Agile Pune 2014 is a volunteer-run, non-profit event organised by the Agile Software Community of India (ASCI). The goal of the conference is to bring together Agile enthusiasts from around the world to share ideas, socialise, and work together on advancing the state of Agile/Lean Software development.

Simplicity, quick feedback cycles, systems thinking, mistake proofing, transformational leadership, building quality in, relentless improvement via inspect and adapt, evolutionary design, cross-functional collaboration, sustainable pace, self-organisation and safe-fail experimentation are some of the core tenants of the Agile and Lean mindset. They help teams embrace uncertainty and make them more change resilient. This conference is dedicated to deep-dive on these topics.

Agile Pune 2014 is a two-day conference, starting on Nov 21st (Friday), where experts and practitioners from around the world will share their experience on topics related to our theme, "Action Precedes Clarity". The conference will host 3 parallel tracks. We also plan to host pre-conference workshops to help you get world-class training directly from our international experts at affordable rates.

Conference Program

Pre-Conference Workshop - Nov 19th & 20th

Sl. No. Timing Workshop
1 Nov 19th & 20th
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky
2 Collaborative Product Discovery by Naresh Jain
3 Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas by Linda Rising

Agile Pune Conf - Day 1 - Friday, Nov 21st

Time Ball Room 1 Ball Room 2 Ball Room 3
08:30-09:00 AM Registration
09:00-10:00 AM Anzeneering – a Journey to Humility, Safety and Excellence
Keynote by Joshua Kerievsky
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10:00-10:15 AM Welcome Address by Naresh Jain
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10:15-10:30 AM Coffee/Tea Break
10:30-11:15 AM Agility at Scale - Platform versus Product Concerns
Howard Deiner
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Applying Gamification Techniques in Agile
Archana Joshi
Senthilkumar R
The Power of Retrospection
Linda Rising
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11:15-11:30 AM Break
11:30-12:15 PM Skype goes agile: don't repeat our mistakes
Alexey Ilyichev
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Sufficient Design
Joshua Kerievsky
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The Power of Retrospection...
Linda Rising
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12:15-01:30 PM Lunch Break
01:30-02:15 PM To Deploy or Not-to-Deploy - decide using TTA's Trend & Failure Analysis
Anand Bagmar
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Lightning Talks The Tao of Transformation
Dhaval Dalal
Naresh Jain
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02:15-02:30 PM Break
02:30-03:15 PM Architectural hiccups (and you really shouldn't bother with sprint-0)
Srinivas Chillara
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Research paper on 'What happens to Engineering Manager in Agile world'
Naveen Indusekhar

ScrumBan Recipe – A pinch of this, a handful of that
Vinaya Muralidharan
Sutap
The Tao of Transformation...
Dhaval Dalal
Naresh Jain
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03:15-03:30 PM Coffee/Tea Break
03:30-04:15 PM eXtreme Programming for ETL and Data Analytics
Prafulla Girgaonkar
Naresh Jain
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Getting A Partner To Adopt Agile
Sunil Mundra
The Lean Machine
Sneha Kadam
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04:15-04:30 PM Break
04:30-05:30 PM If not now, when? If not you, who?
Improving Education and Learning in India and beyond
Keynote by Julian Harty
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05:30-05:45 PM Break
05:45-07:00 PM Panel: Predictability and Productivity - Does Agile Help?
Linda Rising, Joshua Kerievsky, Julian Harty and Gaurav Mehra
07:30-10:00 PM Dinner and Networking

Agile Pune Conf - Day 2 - Saturday, Nov 22nd

09:00-10:00 AM Science or Stories?
Keynote by Linda Rising
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10:00-10:10 AM Important Announcements
10:10-10:30 AM Coffee/Tea Break
10:30-11:15 AM Taming the Dragon
Karthik Kamal Balasubramaniam
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Agile Coach Camp - Open Space Conference Agile Mobile Testing
Workshop by Julian Harty
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11:15-11:30 AM Break
11:30-12:15 PM Techniques to Speed Up your Build Pipeline for Faster Feedback
Ashish Parkhi
Naresh Jain
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Agile Coach Camp - Open Space Conference Agile Mobile Testing...
Workshop by Julian Harty
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12:15-01:30 PM Lunch Break
01:30-02:15 PM Application Security - The Agile Way
Shirish Padalkar
Agile Coach Camp - Open Space Conference Product Ownership is a Team Sport
Shane Hastie
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02:15-02:30 PM Break
02:30-03:15 PM Inverting Test Pyramid - A First Hand Experience Report
Sachin Natu
Naresh Jain
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Agile Coach Camp - Open Space Conference Product Ownership is a Team Sport...
Shane Hastie
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03:15-03:30 PM Coffee/Tea Break
03:30-04:15 PM Enterprise Agile Adoption: An Organizational Change Management Journey
Zaheerabbas Contractor
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Agile Coach Camp - Open Space Conference Promiscuous Pairing - Yes it works !!!
Ankur Sambhar
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Does your Design Smell?
Tushar Sharma
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04:15-04:30 PM Break
04:30-05:30 PM Fish Bowl
05:30-06:00 PM Closing Talk by Naresh Jain

Register

Conference (Nov 21st & 22nd) Registration

Slab Start Date # of Seats Conference Pass
1. Super Early Bird June 24th 25 3,500 Rs.
2. Early Bird July 15th 50 5,000 Rs.
3. Smart Oct 1st 100 7,000 Rs.
4. Regular Nov 1st 50 7,500 Rs.
5. Late Nov 15th 25 8,000 Rs.
6. Last Minute Nov 19th 25 15,000 Rs.

Each slab has a fixed number of seats. Once they are sold, next slab is active.
Online registration page clearly displays the number of seats left for the current slab.

For name change, cancellation/refund policy, please check the online registration's terms & conditions.

Speakers

Call for Proposals

Interested in presenting at Agile Pune 14? The public proposal submission system is live now!

REVIEW PROCESS

Interested speakers are requested to submit their proposals directly on our proposal submission system. All proposals will be public. Registered user of the submission system will be able to comment on your proposal. Submitters may also post comments on reviews or public comments of their own proposals to provide clarifications, explain revisions and respond to questions. Comments by public users are information that can be utilized by both the submitter and the review team. Ultimately the decision to accept a session resides with the program team, the program chair, and the conference chair.

Your proposal stands the best chance to be selected, if it's unique, fully flushed, ready-to-go. Ensure you provide links to:

  • * previous conference or user group presentations
  • * open source project contributions
  • * slides & videos of your (present/past) presentations
  • * your blog posts or articles on this topic
  • * and so on...

Compensation for speakers

Speakers will be compensated as follows:

60 or 90 minutes session 1 Free Conference Registration + 2 Hotel Night
45 minutes session 1 Free Conference Registration + 1 Hotel Night
20 minutes session 1 Free Conference Registration
< 20 minutes No Compensation

Speakers can contact [email protected] for discount code to register for the conference.

Compensation listed above is only for primary speakers. Co-presenters can avail a 50% discount on their registrations. Hotel nights are capped at 3 nights for speakers with multiple accepted sessions. They cannot be accumulated beyond the cap or transferred to another person. Free registrations cannot be accumulated or transferred.

Supported By

Organising Team

Ravi Kumar

Ravi Kumar

Pramod Sadalage

Pramod Sadalage

Naresh Jain

Naresh Jain

Tathagat Varma

Tathagat Varma

Dhaval Dalal

Dhaval Dalal

Anand Bagmar

Anand Bagmar

Conference Venue

Official Host for Agile Pune 2014 Conference

Hyatt Regency, Pune, is one of the most renowned 5 Star hotels in Pune. Conveniently located on Nagar Road with landmarks such as Gigaspace and Weikfield IT Park, the hotel is only 2.5 km from Pune's Lohegaon International Airport. The hotel is in close proximity of the city's entertainment areas of Koregaon Park and Kalyani Nagar, which makes it a really good venue for our conference.

Hotel Address

Hyatt Regency Pune
Weikfield IT Park, Nagar Road, Pune, India, 411014
Tel : +91 20 6645 1234
Fax : +91 20 6645 1235
www.pune.regency.hyatt.com

VISA for Entering India

We recommend all foreign delegates (speakers & participants) apply for a tourist visa. This is the safest, cheapest and most hassle-free visa. All you need is your confirmed flight tickets and hotel confirmation to apply for this visa.

Current citizens of Twelve countries - Japan, Singapore, Philippines, Finland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia and Republic of Korea can get a "Tourist Visa On Arrival". Its valid for 30 days, for single entry and is available only at the international airports at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Kolkata. More details: Tourist Visa on Arrival Scheme.

Citizens from other countries are required to apply for the visa before hand. Give at least 3 weeks for the visa process. Some agencies that can help you:

Please do not apply for Conference Visa. This visa is only applicable for government run conferences.