Registration for XPDay 2007 is now open. The number of places is limited and XPDay sells out rapidly each year, so we advise you to book as early as you can.

Programme announced

The conference programme is now available. This year we’ve expanded the conference to nearly 50 sessions in 6 tracks, covering the broadest range of topics to date:

• Introduction to Agile
• Peopleware
• Customer Community
• Developer Community
• Advanced Sessions
• Master Classes & Break-out Sessions

We also offer low-cost masterclasses with Jeff Patton and Michael Feathers.

Keynote speakers

We’re pleased to announce our keynote speakers Jeff Patton and Yvonne Rogers.

Jeff Patton has designed and developed software for the past 13 years on a wide variety of projects from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records. Jeff has focused on Agile approaches since working on an early Extreme Programming team in 2000. In particular Jeff has specialized in the application of user centered design techniques to improve Agile requirements, planning, and iterative product design and development. Some of his recent writings on the subject are found at www.agileproductdesign.com, Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal Clear, and his regular StickyMinds.com and IEEE Software Magazine columns. His forthcoming book “Agile Development Outside-In” will be released in Addison-Wesley’s Agile Development Series and gives tactical advise to those seeking to deliver useful, usable, and valuable software using Agile methods. Jeff is the founder and co-moderator of the Yahoo agile-usability discussion group.

Yvonne Rogers is a professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the Open University. From 2003-2006, she was a professor of Informatics and Information Science at Indiana University. Before, she was a Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the former School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (now the Department of Informatics) at Sussex University, UK, where in 1997 she co-founded with the late Mike Scaife the Interact Lab, an interdisciplinary research center that was concerned with the possible interactions between people, technologies and representations. She has also worked as a senior researcher at Alcatel Telecommunications company and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Apple Computer Inc., and the University of Queensland.

Yvonne is internationally renowned for her work in human-computer interaction, interaction design, computer-supported cooperative work, UbiComp and interactive learning environments. Her research focuses on augmenting and extending everyday, learning and work activities with interactive technologies that move beyond the desktop. This involves designing user experiences through appropriating and assembling a diversity of pervasive technologies. A main focus is not the technology per se but the design and integration of the digital representations that are presented via them to support social and cognitive activities in ways that extend our current capabilities.

Yvonne has always had a passion for theory and has written extensively and critically about its role in HCI, in particular, distributed and external cognition.

To book your place visit the registration page.

Duncan Pierce