ThoughtWorks Experts to Present Latest Agile Practices at Agile Tour '10
Toronto, Martin Fowler to Deliver Keynote

    



    TORONTO, Oct. 19 /CNW/ --

    
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            ThoughtWorks experts Martin Fowler, Farooq Ali, Peter Zhao,
            Tom Alexandrowicz and Patricia Mandarino will present
            practical information for achieving Agile success at the
    WHO:    Agile Tour '10 Toronto conference.
    
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<p>WHAT:  <span class="xn-person">Martin Fowler</span> - Keynote Presentation</p>
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            Fowler is an author, speaker, consultant and general loud-
            mouth on software development. He concentrates on designing
            enterprise software - looking at what makes a good design
            and what practices are needed to come up with good design.
            He's been a pioneer of object-oriented technology,
            refactoring, patterns, Agile methodologies, domain modeling,
            the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Extreme Programming.
    
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           Farooq Ali
            Session Title: We're great at welcoming change but suck at
            accommodating it: The need for sound engineering practices
            in Agile
    
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            For organizations adopting an iterative development approach,
            it isn't enough to constantly re-prioritize backlogs and
            welcome changing requirements. In fact, it can be a recipe
            for disaster if developers and QAs can't accommodate shorter
            cycles and changing requirements. That's why enterprise
            Agile projects can not be successful without sound and
            pragmatic engineering practices. This presentation will make
            a case for and discuss those practices, including continuous
            integration, build, test and deployment automation, test-
            driven development, refactoring, emergent design and
            evolutionary architecture, and multi-layer testing (unit,
            functional, integration and acceptance).
    
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           Peter Zhao
           Tom Alexandrowicz
            Session Title: Best Practices for Enterprise Build and
            Deployment Automation
    
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            Build and deployment automation is more and more critical as
            a health metric in today's fast changing IT projects.
            However, implementing such automation for large projects
            with many dependencies is much harder than for small and
            isolated projects. This presentation will outline several
            key techniques which will greatly increase successes in such
            environments by using an enterprise level build library,
            allowing and encouraging build script refactoring, selecting
            the right deployment style for each project, extracting
            configuration management, deploying automatic database
            deployment strategies and creating project integration
            environments for project teams within a program.
    
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<p>WHEN:  Wed., <span class="xn-chron">Oct. 20, 2010</span> - all day conference</p>
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    WHERE: Toronto Board of Trade
           1 First Canadian Place
           Toronto, ON M5X 1C1
    
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           Patricia Mandarino (separate from conference)
           Workshop: Agile Analysis in Practice
    
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            Agile Analysis in Practice is a highly interactive learning
            workshop that builds on existing software development skills
            and instills specific practices on how to more effectively
            work with business and software development teams throughout
            the lifecycle of an Agile project. This course will help
            participants understand how to gather, express and manage
            changing business and technical requirements in an Agile
            environment.
    
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<p>WHEN:  Fri., <span class="xn-chron">Oct. 22, 2010</span> - full-day workshop</p>
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    WHERE: Toronto Board of Trade
           1 First Canadian Place
           Toronto, ON M5X 1C1
    
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            For conference information visit (the event is sold out):
            (http://www.torontoagilecommunity.org/at2010)
    
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            For more information on ThoughtWorks Studios contact Shannon
            Kay at [email protected]
    
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            For more information about ThoughtWorks services, please
            contact Sean Doran at [email protected]
    
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            Media and analyst queries should be directed to Christie
            Denniston at 303-581-7760 or [email protected]
    
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            For more information about ThoughtWorks Studios, please visit
            us at (http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/)




    

For further information: ThoughtWorks Studios, Shannon Kay, [email protected], or ThoughtWorks Services, Sean Doran, [email protected], or media and analysts, Christie Denniston, [phone], [email protected], for ThoughtWorks Web Site: http://www.torontoagilecommunity.org http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/