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PAST
2011
Lightweight Project Tracking with Burn Up Charts
Carl Erickson & Michael Marsiglia
June 28th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
10 Years in Startup Land
William Pietri
May 18th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
Agile software development for Medical Devices
J.R. Jenks
April 26th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 495
The D Programming Language
Walter Bright
March 22nd, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
OSS tools for embedded development: Unity, Ceedling, CMock, & CException
Greg Williams & Mike Karlesky
February 22nd, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
Joe Stump
January 25th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
2010
The Audience Experience and Other Frontiers
Chris McMahon
October 26th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
The Agile Programming Manager – Organizational Leadership in the Value Driven Enterprise
Dennis Stevens
December 14th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
Stop Being an Idiot
Steve Smith
September 28th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
Google AppEngine::DataStore
Ryan Montgomery
May 25th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
“Becoming an IT Linchpin”
Bob Walsh, 47 Hats
April 27th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
“JRuby in 2010: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going”
Charles Oliver Nutter, Engineyard
March 23rd, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
“Secure Bit: Hardware Buffer-overflow Prevention”
Dr. Richard Enbody, Michigan State University
February 23rd, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
Version Control
Eric Sink
Tuesday, January 26 2010, at 6:00 pm
Work Play Space, 941 Wealthy Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506
2009
“Creative Process as Seen Through Creative Language”
Jon Wettersten, IDEO
“Software Craftsmanship: Raising the Bar of Professional Software Development”
Doug Bradbury, 8th Light
Summer Networking Session #3
HopCat
Summer Networking Session #2
Bar Divani
Summer Networking Session #1
The Green Well
“jQuery”
Karl Swedberg, Fusionary Media
“Software Disasters and Lessons Learned”
Jack Ganssle, The Ganssle Group
“What’s the right level of testing?” And “Pair Parody”
Tyler Jennings, Andy Maleh & Jake Scruggs, Obtivia
“UE and Agile: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together”
Lane Halley, Cooper
Extreme Interviewing: Finding the Right People for Your Agile Team
Tuesday, January 27 2009, at 18:00PM
2008
“The Fall and Rise of Dynamic Languages”
Rick DeNatale, Near Time, Inc.
“Ruby on Rails Testing”
Mike Swieton, Atomic Object
Pulling Your Head Out of Your Budget – Mental Re-tooling for Agile Project Management
David Christiansen
“Agile Software Development and UI Design: a Match made in Heaven?”
Robert Biddle, Carleton University
“From Eclipse to Jazz”
Paul Vanderlei, IBM
2007
“Interaction-Testing: Beyond Classical Unit Testing”
Scott Miller, Atomic Object
October XPwm: Summer Conference Reprise
Atomic Object Developers
“When Will Microsoft Go Out of Business?”
Ken Schwaber, Advanced Development Methods, Inc
An Open Space Meeting – “Increasing Agility”
Facilitated by Dave Limbaugh
You’re Kidding. It Does WHAT in Production ! ? !
Elisabeth Hendrickson, Quality Tree Software
“Agile in Large, Inelastic Organizations”
John J. Cunningham, Band XI International
“Perils and Pitfalls of Agile Adoption”
Carl Erickson, Atomic Object
“Introduction to Scrum”
Doug Shimp, 3Back
“Agile Development in the US Army Research Arm”
Mark Salamango, US Army
2006
“Don’t Follow the Lemmings”
Chad Fowler
Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference 2006
Reprise of Agile 2006 International Conference
Lightning Talks: tips, techniques, tools, and more
“Presenter First: Organizing complex GUI applications for TDD”
Scott Miller, Atomic Object
“Making the Date” and Q&A
Ron Jeffries,
Independent Consultant
“Agile Database Techniques: Data Doesn’t Have To Be A Four-Letter Word Anymore”
Scott Ambler
“Introduction to Agile + Story Driven Development”
Carl Erickson, Atomic Object
2005
“Magic Pixie Dust” + “Systir Test Framework”
Matt Heusser, Karlin Fox
“Preventing Crisis: Project Estimation and Tracking That Works”
Andy Lester
Reprise of the Agile 2005 Denver Conference
Carl Erickson and Panelists
“The Top Six Reasons Software Projects Fail and How to Avoid Them”
Rich Sheridan, Menlo Institute
“Analytical School of Testing” and “All-Pairs: a Closer Look”
Paul Jorgensen, Grand Valley State University
“Two Futures of Software Testing”
Michael Bolton, DevelopSense
“Agile Requirements Gathering”
Dave Limbaugh, Priority Health
“Agile Overview and Acceptance Testing with Fitnesse”
Robert Martin, Object Mentor
2004
“Unit Testing Legacy Code”
Kevin Bradtke and Tom Kubit, Gene Codes Forensics
“Crystal Clear – a human powered methodology for small teams” and “Testing web applications with Ruby-based tools”
Kevin Hykin, Burke Porter Machinery, & Michael Swieton, Atomic Object
“Implications of Delivering Software Early and Often” and “Test Driven Development: Demonstration and Discussion”
Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson
“Better Living through Extreme Programming”
Carl Erickson, Atomic Object
“QA Tester Role” and “Unit Testing PHP”
Bo Roop, X-Rite (part 1) & Atomic Object Personnel (part 2)
“The Planning Game: Living by the Big Board”
Dave Limbaugh
“The Planning Game and Open Source Test Tools”
Carl Erickson, Atomic Object
