Dear CHOOSE and SWEN friends,

Don't forget:

============================================================= Agile Development in Practice - for managers and - for developers ------------------------------------------------------------- Conducted by: Kevlin Henney, Software architect and pragmatic agilist. =============================================================

10. and 11. December 2009 At Technopark Zurich

Target Audience - Project Manager, R&D Manager, CEO of sme's who want to know what agile development means from management perspective and how it is done in practice. - Software Developers who want to learn best practices of agile software development and how to implement them in their projects.

About Kevlin Henney: Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant and trainer based in Bristol, UK. He has variously developed and delivered training courses, consultancy and software across a number of domains ever since getting involved in professional software development in the late 1980s. Kevlin's work focuses on software architecture, patterns, development process and programming languages. He has been a columnist for various magazines and online publications, including Better Software, The Register, Java Report and C++ Report. With Frank Buschmann and Doug Schmidt, he is coauthor of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series: A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages. Kevlin is the editor of the "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know" project.

About the Workshops Agile development promises a more reactive and responsible approach to development. But what does this mean in practice for managers and other non-developer roles or developers? There are many misconceptions about what agile development entails for project management, ranging from no management to extreme management and also for day-to-day programming, ranging from a lack of discipline to a straitjacketed and rule-driven regime. These issues will be tackled in the two separate workshop days:

WS1: Agile Development in Practice for Managers The goal of the Agile Development in Practice for Managers workshop is to present a sample of many of the process ideas that agile development encompasses (including XP, Scrum and Lean Development), and also many of the practices individuals, teams and companies find beneficial, addressing questions of decision making, development activities, planning and requirements.

WS2: Agile Development in Practice for Developers The goal of the Agile Development in Practice for Developers workshop is to present a sample of many of the practical ideas that agile development encompasses (including XP, Scrum and Lean Development), and also many of the practices individuals, teams and companies find beneficial, addressing questions of decision making, testing, coding style, incremental design and refactoring.

The workshop language is English

Info and registration ---------------------- You find more detailed information, the flyer for download and the registration on our web site http://www.swen-network.ch/veranstaltungen/ws2009-2/

The number of participants is limited to 20 per workshop

Registration Fees: ------------------ The workshops are free for SWEN members For Non-Members 150.- CHF per workshop (or become SWEN Member :-) )

Your Software Engineering Network SWEN Martin Kropp www.swen-network.ch

-------------------------------------------------------- Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz Hochschule für Technik Institut für Mobile und Verteilte Systeme

Prof. Martin Kropp Dozent Steinackerstrasse 5, CH-5210 Windisch -------------------------------------------------------- T: +41 56 462 4735(direkt) martin.kropp@fhnw.ch www.fhnw.ch