About
The first 2012 Open Agile conference will take place in Iasi, on 31 March and the theme is Agile & Lean: What We’ve Learned. The speakers will share from their experiences practical lessons that can be applied by your teams in your own projects.
Audience
The conference appeals to programmers, testers, managers, and professionals involved in the software industry, as well as software business representatives and people from marketing industry. We received positive feedback from both Romanian and international audiences, including participants from Republic of Moldavia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary. Because the organizers enjoy smaller, more intimate conferences where attendees can mingle comfortably, only 80-90 seats will be sold at this edition.
The Open Agile Romania Conference
Open Agile conferences are produced by the Agile Works Romania community in collaboration with the Mozaic Works company . Open Agile started in 2009 and it always brought together international speakers and practitioners striving for quality, results, and technical excellence in agile and lean. This conference plays an important role in spreading the word about agile and lean thinking in the evolving software market of Central and Eastern Europe. So far, we had 3 editions with different topics and speakers for all around the world:
- OpenAgile 2009, A global conference about Agile, Lean & Software Craftsmanship, Bucharest
- OpenAgile 2010, Agile & Lean: What We’ve Learned, Bucharest
- OpenAgile 2011, Building a Great Team, Bucharest
Call for Speakers
You can become one of our speakers by sending us your paper here. In our previous editions we included as keynote speakers Ken Schwaber, Jurgen Appelo, David Hussman, Corey Haines, Alexandru Bolboaca, Rachel Davies, Janet Gregory, Andrea Provaglio and many others. We had great presentations about:
- ScrumButs: The Dangers of Customizing Scrum
- How to Use Agile on Fixed Scope Projects
- Coaching Agile Teams
- Lessons Learned Implementing Agile: From a Tester’s Perspective
- The Craftsman Developer in an ‘Agile’ world
- Checklist for the Agile Manager
- The Life of a Tester in an Agile Team
- Effective Self-Organization
- How to Create a Great Technical Team
- Looking Outside the Scrum – Building Cross-Organisational Teams
- How to Change the World
The Romanian Agile Community
In this fourth year, as the Romanian Agile community grew and reached the number of almost 700 members, we are planning 5 Open Agile conferences in 4 different cities: Iasi, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara and Bucharest again. The 665 members of the Agile Works community are grouped as it follows:
- Bucharest, 245 members, 39 meetups
- Timisoara, 244 members, 29 meetups
- Cluj-Napoca, 165 members, 10 meetups
- Iasi, 62 members, 11 meetups
Read more on Agile Works here.
