Agile Open Space Austin

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[edit] What

An Open Space conference hosted by Agile Austin for the purpose of discussing any and all aspects of Agile software development and project management.

Learn, teach, share, grow. Satisfy your curiosity or expand your knowledge and skills about Agile.

A weekend event for Agilists and those who are interested in Agile Development and Agile Leadership.

If you have never been to an open space conference, you'll find it is much different than a traditional conference. First, there is no detailed scheduled set ahead of time. The first session will form the schedule for the rest of the conference. Conference attendees suggest sessions and volunteer to facilitate them. Sessions can be presentations, chalk talks, or even walks in the park if that's what the attendees want. Also, there is no obligation to attend any sessions or stay for a complete sessions. You can move from session to session as your heart desires. Come with an idea for a session or just with an open mind.

Our Open Space Facilitator will be Steven "Doc" List.

View the Agenda and Proceedings created by the participants. If you are a convener, click on your session name so you can enter your proceedings.

Go write on The Wall

[edit] How

Some planning is being done off-line, and there are some interesting Pre Event Discussions that are taking place.

If you want to learn more about how Open Spaces work, please read this one page introduction

[edit] When

Friday, May 30th
6:00pm - 8:00pm Conference Planning (refreshments & snacks - included)

Saturday, May 31st
   8:00am - 9:00am Catered continental breakfast (included)
   9:00am - 9:30am Welcome and Opening Session
   9:30am - 12:00pm Conference Sessions
   12:00pm - 1:00pm Hot catered lunch (included)
   1:00pm - 4:30pm Conference sessions (afternoon refreshments - included)
   4:40pm - 6:30pm Dinner (on your own)
   6:30pm - 8:00pm Engineering discussion
         Jeffrey Palermo facilitates a discussion with:
         John Heintz
         Kevin Hurwitz
         Jeremy Miller
         Blake Caraway
         Eric Hexter
         Scott Bellware
   8:00pm - 9:30pm Management discussion
         Dale Schumacher facilitates a discussion with:
         Peter Morowski – Sr. VP of R&D and Technical Operations, Borland
         Israel Gat, Vice President of Distributed Systems Management BMC
         Dustin Wells, CEO of Headspring Systems
         David Douglas, President, Innovel
         Beth Weeks, Vice President of Engineering, Zilliant
         Michael Hayes – President / CEO HayesSoft
         David Thomas – VP of Products, Mirage Networks
   9:30pm - 11:30pm Conference happy hour (drinks & hors d'oeuvres included)

Sunday, June 1st
   9:00am - 12:30pm Catered continental breakfast (included)
   9:00am - 12:30pm Conference sessions
   12:30pm - 2:00pm Thank you and closing session

[edit] Cost

$25 per attendee. This cost will include breakfast and lunch on Saturday. Thanks to our wonderful sponsors, the remainder will be subsidized.

[edit] Where

St. Edward's Professional Education Center

Directions

[edit] Registration

For managers, developers, executives, testers, and anyone with an interest in the techniques and business concerns of agile software projects, t]he conference will feature a weekend of discussions about agile project management and engineering practices.

[edit] Out of town participants

We expect to have Rich Mironov of Enthiosys flying in from California.
Also Robin Dymond and David Douglas of Innovel.net are flying in from Richmond Virginia. Robin Dymond's Blog Post on the Agile Austin Open Space
Ian Culling CTO of VersionOne is flying in for a day from Atlanta.
We expect Rally to bring representatives to town as well.