Declan Whelan

The session will be about nurturing a learning culture on Agile Teams. I plan to add more information on dispelling learning myths and using informal learning environments and language.

This session will be on using executable specifications or automated acceptance test to help ensure you're building the right thing. I'll talking about the value proposition of executable specifications and introducing tools and technique for getting it going.

This session is called Reforming Billy the Kid Programmer - How the Best was Done and promises to be a hoot. I will be teamed up with Bryan Beecham, aka Bill, and Alistair McKinnell in helping Billy overcome his coding cowboy ways and adapt to a new agile reality.

Together with Communitech I have founded an agile user group. We meet on the third Tuesday of each month in Waterloo. We plan to rotate the location using the Accelerator Centre as our home base.

I spoke about building a learning culture on Agile Teams. I have now added five interactive exercises in the session that make it a lot more fun. You can download the presentation here.

This was similar to the building a learning culture with the addition of a simulation game for some hand-ons learning.

I will be speaking about learning on Agile Teams with specific emphasis on learning from an tester's perspective.

I spoke about building a learning culture on Agile Teams. You can read the abstract here and download the presentation here.

I spoke about User Experience Practices an Agile Teams. The presentation will focused on using and adapting user experience practices for effective UX design within an agile iterative development model.

I spoke about Agile Testing and the Role of a Tester on an Agile Team. The emphasis in this presentation was on building teams of specialized generalists where testers need to be fully engaged team members infusing quality throughout the agile project life cycle. There is some good introductory information on agility and agile testing in the presentation.

I also participated in a panel discussion on Quality Opportunities and Challenges with Agile with Lawrence Ludlow and Alistair McKinnell.

In this one-day hands-on workshop Jeff Patton and I provided practical insights and practices for delivering valuable products in a fast, agile environment. Attendees learnt how to combine the best of agile, user experience, and product design practices. They learned how to build story maps that clarify the product vision and help teams plan and deliver incremental releases that deliver value to both stakeholders and users.

This was an Open Space conferences and the depth and breadth of the attendees was absolutely amazing. I convened a session on the intersection of Web 2.0 and Agility and you can read about it in my blog.

I presented on Agile Testing and the Role of a Tester on an Agile Team. You can download my presentation here.