2010 | Open Agile Romania

Daniel Nicolescu

Daniel Nicolescu is Chief Product Officer within GECAD ePayment and Avangate. He is responsible for product vision and direction, working with business and engineering executives to align product strategy with corporate objectives.

Daniel has more than 12 years of experience in the IT & C industry. In 2002 he joined the GECAD family. He was part of the RAV Antivirus team (technology bought in 2003 by Microsoft).

Daniel took over the CTO position at ePayment and Avangate in 2005, engineering the continuous development of next-generation eCommerce platform features. In august 2008 he became the company’s Business Development Manager in the United States, being responsible for generating new business opportunities and growing existing partnerships.

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Radu Ticiu

Radu is from 2004 the director of Timişoara Software Business Incubator, a business-support organization for high-growth software start-ups, offering a wide range of services in administrative, operational, business and technical areas. He is a strong promoter of openness, multidisciplinary approach and innovation for IT&C SMEs and freelancers as preconditions for entrepreneurial success.

Radu is equally dedicated to the promotion of the local and regional communities like GeekMeet Timişoara, Timişoara Agile Software Meetup, Romanian Drupal Association and to provide support to Timişoara Universities student organizations projects like JobShop (BEST Timişoara), IT School (AIESEC Timişoara), ITFest (OSUT) or “Liga AC Labs” (Liga AC).

Radu is an Advisory Board member of Achieve More, an European project promoting excellence for software incubators and the development of IT&C clusters as well as the use of innovative early financing opportunities for start-ups with high growth potential. He participated as mentor to Mini-Seedcamp Zagreb 2010.

Radu is very active in social media, on twitter (@raduticiu) and as moderator for XING Timşoara/West Romania, the only group officially recognized in Romania by xing.com.

Ciprian Stăvar

Ciprian Stăvar is a well known Romanian Guerrilla Marketing Online Trainer & Consultant. He used Agile methodologies in some of his projects and will share with us his experiences with Agile.

Websites:

Ciprian Stăvar’s Record:

• 10+ years pioneering interactive advertising in Romania
• 9 months for guerrilla marketing training & consulting
• 800+ online campaigns
• seven it’s a lucky number

• 5 for Internetics festival (member of jury in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008)
‏• for you, for people, for industry, for country
• learn, work, love‏
• Marketing 24/7 forum for 2 times in 2008 – preparing 2009…
• working on 1 book about online marketing in Romania‏

Ciprian Stăvar’s Specialties:

Trainings:
• Guerrilla Marketing Online
• Guerrilla Marketing Essentials
• Guerrilla Sales Psychology
• Guerrilla Market Yourself
• Guerrilla Marketing During Tough Times
• Guerrilla Client Service

Consulting:
• Market studies
• Guerrilla Marketing Plan
• Building the GM Calendar
• Launching the Guerrilla Marketing Attack
• Implementing marketing and sales campaigns
• Augmenting and improving strategies, adjusting and re-implementing
• Second opinion

Janet Gregory

Join Janet Gregory’s training in Bucharest: Testing on Agile Projects: A RoadMap for Success, May 17-19

Janet Gregory

Canada, @DragonFire Inc.

Janet Gregory is the co-author, with Lisa Crispin, of Agile Testing: Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). Based in Calgary, Alberta, she specializes in helping teams build quality system, and her greatest passion is promoting agile quality processes. Over the past ten years, she has helped to introduce development agile practices int

o companies as tester or coach, and has successfully transitioned several traditional test teams into the agile world. Her focus is working with the business users and testers to understand their role in agile projects. She has partnered with developers on her agile teams to implement successful test automation solutions.

Janet is a frequent speaker at agile and testing software conferences in North America and Europe. She’s a regular contributor to the North American agile testing community.

Blog: http://janetgregory.blogspot.com/

Articles & Contributions

Agile Projects: 6 Ways to Avoid the ‘Mini-Waterfall’

STP Test and Performance Magazine, January 2010

‘What’s a Tester without a QA Team?‘ co-authored with Lisa Crispin

Agile Journal, March 2010

‘QA vs. Testing in Agile Projects‘ co-authored with Bob Small

Agile Journal, March 2010

Contributed Chapter 92 – When Programmers and Testers Collaborate,

to the book ‘97 Things Every Programmer Should Know’

O’Reilly, February 2010

Public Past Presentations

Seven Key Success Factors for Agile Testing, StarWest 2009

The Tester who Came in From the Cold, Agile 2008

Agile Testing for Beginners, Agile 2008

Focus your Testing Using the Agile Testing Quadrant s, Agile Edmonton, 2009

Automation: Evaluation of Tools and Selling the ROI to Management, SQDG 2008
UAT and Beyond, Agile 2007
Pitfalls and Perils of Agile Testing, StarEast 2007, Calgary SQDG 2008
Preparing your Test Team to go Agile, StarWest 2006
How to Integrate a QA Team into an Agile Development Environment 2005
A Tester’s Role on An Agile Team, University of Calgary 2003, 2004, 2007

David Hussman

David teaches and coaches the adoption and improvement of agile methods as powerful delivery tools. Sometimes he is pairing with developers and testers, while other times he is helping to plan and create product roadmaps. David often works with leadership groups learn to pragmatically use agile methods to foster innovation and competitive business advantage.

David Hussman

Prior to working as a fulltime coach, David spent years building software in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. David now leads DevJam. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products in competitive cycles.

Along with teaching and coaching, David participates in conferences around the world and continuously publishes to a variety of sources. He has contributed to several books as well as helping to create agile curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University.

You can find out more about him at http://www.devjam.com/

Talk at OpenAgile 2010:

Open Space Session at OpenAgile 2010 on storymapping:

Interviews:

David Hussmann “Agile Geek at Large” on Helping Organizations Adopt Agile at InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/interview-david-hussman-agile

Rachel Davies

http://www.agilexp.com/

Blog: http://agilecoach.typepad.com/agile-coaching/

Rachel Davies is author of “Agile Coaching” book and UK’s leading expert in coaching agile teams. She is a internationally recognized and presents at many industry conferences. Rachel has over 20 years experience in software development in a variety of roles from software developer to manager. She has been an agile practitioner since 2000 and utilizes a range of agile methods including XP, SCRUM, Lean/Kanban, and DSDM. She has extensive experience facilitating agile meetings and workshops.

Interviews:

http://www.oreillygmt.co.uk/2010/04/rachel-davies-agile-coaching.html

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Generic-Agile-Rachel-Davies

Presentations:

http://www.slideshare.net/deimos/rachel-davies-agile-mashups

Classes:

http://skillsmatter.com/course/agile-testing/rachel-davies-agile-qa

http://skillsmatter.com/course/agile-scrum/agile-coaching-skills

Articles:

http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=27

Presentations

Speakers

Trainings

Besides the conference, we organize a number of agile trainings in the month of May. All trainings have special offers for the participants to the conference and group discounts. Follow the links for registration.

In Bucharest:

Certified Scrum Master class with Michel Goldenberg, May 12-13

In Cluj:

Certified Scrum Master class with Michel Goldenberg, May 10-11

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Why Should I Come?

It is no secret that the principles of Agile are simple, but applying Agile is challenging. Here are some of the typical issues we learned from Romanian companies applying Agile:

Lack of organization support for applying agile (e.g. daily meetings on IM, teams split in departments, inappropriate spaces for teams)
Lack of an internal Product Owner
Inaccurate product planning (e.g. wrong prioritization resulting in releasing less useful or even useless features first)
Inaccurate estimations
Inefficient testers involvement (e.g. tests done at the end of the iteration, while testers don’t do anything during the iteration)
Sudden drop in velocity after a number of iterations (usually due to technical debt)
“False” teams (e.g. each member works alone on a task with the integration done at the end instead of the team working together towards a common goal)
… and many others

The event will combine the speaker’s with the participants’ experience to provide the best solutions to these issues and to any others raised by the audience. We are sure everyone will find answers, because:

Rachel Davies is the UK’s leading expert in coaching Agile teams and has 20 years experience in software development and 10 years experience as Agile Practitioner
David Hussman has coached pragmatic adoption of agile methods for hundreds of companies around the world. He has been creating software for many years in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few.
Janet Gregory has helped to introduce development agile practices into companies as tester or coach, and has successfully transitioned several traditional test teams into the agile world. She is the co-author of the Agile testing book that everyone needs to read.
Michel Goldenberg is a Certified Scrum Trainer with over 10 years of experience in software development and 5 years of experience working on Scrum teams.
Robin Dymond worked with Fortune 500 clients and regularly achieves 100% increase in productivity for teams he trains and supports.
… and these are only a few of the people who will be part of the conference and that you will have direct access to during the Open Space sessions and not only.

Seeing such experienced Agile Practitioners in Romania is very difficult to repeat. Similar Central and Eastern European events have a price tag of around 150 € without travel and accommodation, while similar Western European events cost around 1000 €.

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Daniel Nicolescu

Daniel Nicolescu

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Radu Ticiu

Radu Ticiu

Ciprian Stavar