About Sessions

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Sessions

Why Organise a Session?

Organising a session is the best way to learn from the conference. It provides an opportunity to share your experiences, to get feedback on your ideas, try new session formats. It's your opportunity to shape the conference to your interests. Session organisers will get free admission to the conference.

Format

We believe that the best way to learn is through hands-on experience, and therefore encourage sessions that involve interaction and audience participation. We are also looking for some real life experiences (both good and bad) of applying agile techniques. Successful sessions from previous years have been tutorials, workshops, simulations and games. Sessions will be organised into four tracks over two days. A session may be 1, 2 or 3 hours in duration.

A session can address a topic that involves any stakeholder or aspect of agile development. E.g. customers; business users; analysts; managers; developers; deployment; support; recruitment. We are looking for sessions that draw on real-life experience, with ideas that can be applied in the everyday business of software development. The broad areas we would like to cover are:

• Introduction to Agile Development
• Experience reports from different areas (software houses, financial institutions, bespoke development, product development), both successes and failures.
• Technical topics
• People and process

Other possible session topics include, but are not limited to: contracts for agile software projects; continuous process improvement; transitioning to an agile process; the economics of agile software development; techniques to improve pairing; scaling agile development processes; agile free software and open source projects; developing mission critical software; agile project management; tools and techniques. Above all we are looking for new sessions with fresh ideas. If you've never presented a session before, or have had an idea for a session in the back of your mind for a while, write it up and submit it to XP Day 6.

If you'd like some advice before submitting, please feel free to contact the programme chairs at [email protected]