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Conference presentations

This page lists conference and other presentations I have done in recent years. Many of these presentations involve audience participation and are better described as workshops. Pattern material that has been presented at PLoP conferences (EuroPLoP and VikingPLoP) can be found on the pattern pages.

British Computer Society (BCS)

Joint event with the International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA)
and Cambridge Assessment
Cambridge, April 2008

• Agile Practices go better with Business Analysis - or: Why Business Analysts and Product Managers are more important than ever for Agile Software Development

ACCU 2008, Oxford, England

Managers: What are they Good for?

This was an interactive presentation looking at the, often misunderstood, role of managers:

• Managers: What are they good for? - presentation
• Managers: What are they good for? - one page handout for participants
• Managers: What are they good for? - post conference notes on the session

The Developer, The Customer and Their Requirements

This session was a collaboration with Liz Sedley. It involved a presentation and some group tasks to investigation how requirements are gathered:

• The Developer, The Customer and Their Requirements - a presentation
• The Developer, The Customer and Their Requirements - a one page handout for all participants

SPA 2008 Bedfordshire, England

• Closing the Knowing Doing Gap

ACCU 2007 - Exposing Problems / Creating Awareness

This session was part presentation and part workshop in which I acted as a facilitator.

• Exposing Problems / Creating Awareness presentation
• Session notes

ACCU 2006 - Changing Your Organization

• Presentation: Changing Your Organization
• Notes from the audience discussion

• Notes from the audience discussion about the presentation.

EuroPLoP 2005 - What do we think of Conway's Law now?

Conference at Irsee, German, July 2005.
A focus group discussion on the subject of Conway's Law.

• Outcome of the focus group, as published in the EuroPLoP 2005 proceedings: What do we think of Conway's Law now?
• The original paper by Melvin Conway

ACCU Conference 2005

• Writing your first Pattern - a presentation with Kevlin Henney
• Software Development as Learning - a presentation with discussion
• Postscript on Software Development as Learning - notes from the discussion

ACCU Conference 2004

• Beyond Methodology

ACCU Conference 2002

• Porting 2002

Other presentations

• Agile development: Where do I begin? - Presentation to ACCU South Coast (Southampton) and ACCU Cambridge November 2007

• Introduction to Agile development - Presentation to a London media company (November 2006)
• Porting 2001 - Presentation to ACCU Silicon Valley (August 2001)

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