Scrum Alliance - Shanghai Scrum Gathering

Join the First Scrum Alliance sponsored Scrum Gathering in China
参加 Scrum Alliance 首次中国 Scrum Gathering

April 19-20, 2010 - Shanghai JC Mandarin Hotel
2010年4月19日-20日 - 上海锦沧文华大酒店

学习 presentations from experienced scrum practitioners from around the world

交流 open space for free communication among all the paticipants

All Presentations can be found HERE

Dates:

19-20 Apr 2010

Venue:

Shanghai JC Mandarin Hotel

Address:

1225 Nanjing Xi Road

Shanghai 200040

Price:

Registration fee:

Member and Non-Member: $200 USD / 1400 RMB

CST/CSC: $150 USD / 1020 RMB

Student/Educator: Student 700 RMB (Must show valid university/school identification at check-in)

Groups of 5 or more may receive a 10% group discount – please contact scrumgathering@scrumalliance.org for group discount code.

If you like to pay in RMB to register to the event, please contact:

Ivie Asia Limited in Shanghai
Ms. Heidi Liu
Tel: +86-21-61659100
Email: Heidi@chinaprintingsolutions.com

Official China invoice (fapiao) is available upon request from this company.
如果你想使用人民币支付以注册参与这次大会，请即联系：

怡捷贸易（上海）有限公司
刘芸小姐
电话：+86-21-61659100
电邮：Heidi@chinaprintingsolutions.com

若你需要，该公司可以开具正式中国公司发票。
人民币汇款信息：
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A mix of keynotes, breakout presentations and open space discussion. Tracks for breakout sessions will emerge as submissions are selected. Some presentations will feature simultaneous translation.

April 19, 2010

Time	Event Details
8:45 am - 9:15 am	Opening speech by Tom Mellor, Chairman of the Board and President (MB I/II)
9:15 am - 10:30 am	Keynote speech by Bas Vodde Scrum doesn't work in China! (MB I/II) Some people exclaim: “Scrum doesn't work in China”. But is that true? How does national culture affect Agile development and Scrum? Bas Vodde grew up in Holland and lived for about ten years in Asia. He has worked with teams in US and most European and Asian countries and agrees that national culture does matter. In this keynote, Bas will start off exploring his own culture and how that influenced his view on what he does. He'll then explore other national cultures by going over different studies, surveys and stories searching for the answer to the question... Can Scrum work in China? [+] expand description
10:30 am - 10:45 am	Coffee Break – Ballroom Foyer Area
10:45 am - 11:45 am	Breakout presentations Breakout presentations (MB I/II, MB III, Lotus/Orchid, Tulip). MB I/II – Mikael Boman – Building a Great Team MB III – Vernon Stinebaker – Healthy Scrum – The Agile Heartbeat Lotus/Orchid – Monica Yap – Product Owner Anti Patterns Tulip – Abel Shen – Scrum with Inexperienced Teams
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Lunch Tatlers – 1st floor & Mandarin Pavilion 3rd floor
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm	Keynote speech by Kane Mar (MB I/II/III) Scrum and XP: Myths, truths and how to do it. Scrum and Extreme Programming are two common Agile frameworks. You may have heard that Scrum is equivalent to XP without technical practices. Or, perhaps you have heard that Scrum is only a project management framework. The presentation intents to explore the truth in these matters and to discuss how to effectively integrate the XP technical practices within the Scrum framework. [+] expand description
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm	Coffee Break – Ballroom Foyer Area
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Open space (MB I/II/III) Facilitator - Tom Mellor & Yang Ge Scrum Clinic session held in Lotus, Facilitators - Steve Mak & Vernon Stinebaker
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm	Social evening reception – Ballroom Foyer Area

April 20, 2010

Time	Event Details
9:00 am - 10:15 am	Keynote speech by Lasse Koskela (MB I/II) Technical Excellence: What Is It and How To Get It? One of the twelve principles in the Agile Manifesto declares, “Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.” The Scrum Guide, however, does not speak about technical excellence but points out that, “Scrum requires Teams to build an increment of product functionality every Sprint,” which implies that whatever the Team does must be sustainable. In this talk we explore what constitutes as technical excellence for a Scrum Team. We ask how it shows in the product and in our process. We also ask how lack of it impacts development and how do we obtain technical excellence. [+] expand description
10:30 am - 10:45 am	Coffee Break – Ballroom Foyer Area
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Breakout presentations (MB I/II, MB III, Lotus/Orchid, Tulip) MB I/II – Brad Swanson & Björn Jensen – Agile Estimating 2.0 MB III – Lv Yi – System Thinking in large-scale Scrum Lotus/Orchid – Julien Mazloum & David Du – How to maximize the agility and innovation potential of Scrum using Opportunity Engineering Tulip – Steven Mak – Driving quality with TDD and friends
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Lunch Tatlers – 1st floor & Mandarin Pavilion 3rd floor
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm	Keynote speech by Mitch Lacey (MB I/II) Agile at Microsoft; Keys to Success In this session, Mitch Lacey, former Microsoft Program Manager, will share withyou the successes and failures he had running and coaching projects at Microsoft. He will share with you four factors that are required for a successful Scrum adoption including stories of teams that succeeded and teams that failed. He will share with you reward structures, team adoption curves and the role of management. Join Mitch for what is to be an enlightening talk on successes at one of the world’s largest software company. [+] expand description
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Breakout presentations (MB I/II, MB III, Lotus/Orchid, Tulip) MB I/II – Paul Culling – Collaborative Chartering: An Introduction MB III –Daniel Teng & Bill Li - Scrum Beyond Software: Successfully Lotus/Orchid – Daniel Gu – Success with Agile Data Warehousing Teams at eBay Tulip – Xu Yi – I Run Out of Silver Bullet – Now What?
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Coffee Break – Ballroom Foyer Area
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Breakout presentations (MB I/II, MB III, Lotus/Orchid, Tulip ) MB I/II – Brian Rabon– Learning to Lead MB III – Sky Jin –Building shared leadership in Scrum teams Lotus/Orchid- Dou Hanzhi – Release Your Daily SW Builds Tulip – Monica Yap – Successful Distributed Teams
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm	Closing (MB I/II)

Shanghai Scrum Gathering 2010 Featured presenters

Kane Mar

Kane Mar is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and Scrum Coach (CSC) specializing in Scrum and Extreme Programming. He has been working exclusively with Agile software development teams since 2001 and has worked with clients such as QPass, Microsoft, Capital One, Progressive, and TransCanada Pipelines. Kane believes that learning is most effective if done through a combination of exercises, games, and discussion. He has constructed his training materials to provide an educational but still enjoyable course.
Kane is also experienced in guiding organizations that are transitioning to an Agile organization. This includes preparing senior management and business partners for changes resulting from the introduction of Scrum.
Prior to his work with Agile software development, Kane had 15 years of experience as a developer and project manager for Waterfall and RUP projects working with Java, Smalltalk, C, SQL and PL/SQL. Kane's recent technical interests have turned towards Ruby primarily because of its similarity to Smalltalk.
Kane's blog can be found at: http://www.KaneMar.com

Tom Mellor

Scrum Alliance President and Chairman of the Board
I “stumbled upon” Scrum after spending time as a new IT Project Manager in a big company (IT workforce of 5,000+ people). I read about Scrum in magazines and online and thus began an adventure/journey in early 2004 of exploration and discovery of a meaningful way of working. Our company is pretty stoic and traditional and operates in a rather conservative industry (insurance and financial services). When I approached Ken Schwaber about using Scrum in January 2004, he invited me to attend CSM training. It was an excellent idea, except that the project on which we would apply Scrum launched and I couldn't get away. Ken's answer - "read the book that I and [Mike] Beedle wrote and apply the concepts. And let me know how it goes." I did just that. Now, over 4 years later, our IT organization is in the midst of adopting Scrum and other agile practices, and embarking on its own journey of continuous improvement. Will it ever get "all the way there?" I don't know (the journey never ends, I bet.) But, it sure is a lot more fun and rewarding, and a lot less frustrating, to work on and with projects, now. And, moreover, our teams are enjoying this way of doing work much more!
I came to our Systems department in 2001 with 25 years of business background, so I can appreciate a Product Owner's challenges and responsibilities. I have found that I can provide value as a ScrumMaster in many ways through servant leadership, teaching and coaching. I enjoy working with and around technology, and working with bright, fun, motivated and interesting people. I get the chance to do that every day now.
Outside of work, I teach scuba diving and travel to scuba dive, officiate high school football, ride my recumbent bike to work and elsewhere, and enjoy my family of 3 daughters (Lindsey 5 yrs, Kristen 3 yrs, and Amanda 1 year) and my great wife, Maryann.

Bas Vodde

Bas Vodde, originally from Holland, has lived in China and Finland. Currently he lives and works in Singapore. In Holland he was working as a developer and always felt a disparity between the development he experienced while working and the development that "the official literature said you should do." This disparity was solved when Extreme Programming was introduced and with the introduction of the Agile Manifesto.
In early 2001, he had enough of the "normal life" and moved to China and started working for Nokia. At Nokia, he worked on very large and traditional projects. This uncomfortable experience convinced him that Agile Development is the best way of developing software product -- no matter how large your development is. After a couple years, he moved to Helsinki with the purpose of introducing Agile Development (and in particular Scrum) in Nokia Networks (later NSN). He watched dozens of product groups adopt scrum and other agile practices. After a while, he moved back to China (Finland is cold) and helped one large product group with its Scrum adoption.
Bas work for a small consulting company based in Singapore called Odd-e specializing in training and coaching related to agile and lean development in Asia.
Bas is interested in Scrum with a special focus on large companies and large product development. But he also enjoyed working on technical practices, especially test-driven development (especially in embedded environments) and continuous integration. He keeps working as a developer because he strongly believes you need a well-factored code base if you want to be fast and flexible. His hobbies are studies in lean production and quality management and, of course, programming.

Bas is the author of the "Scaling Agile and Lean Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum" and of "Practices for Large-Scale Agile and Lean Development," both together with Craig Larman. He is also one of the authors of the CppUTest unit test framework for C/C++.

Mitch Lacey

Mitch Lacey is an agile practitioner and trainer. Mitch has been managing projects for over twelve years and has numerous plan-driven and agile projects under his belt.

Mitch honed his agile skills at Microsoft Corporation, where he successfully released core enterprise services for Windows Live. Mitch's first agile team at Microsoft was coached by Ward Cunningham (creator of the wiki and co-creator of Extreme Programming), Jim Newkirk (creator of nUnit) and David Anderson (Kanban advocate).

While at Microsoft, he transitioned from Program Manager to Agile Coach, working hand-in-hand with groups throughout their transition to Agile practices. After Microsoft, Mitch was the Agile Practice Manager at Ascentium Corporation where he practiced agility on the projects he ran every day while coaching customers on agile practices and lessons on agile adoption worldwide.

As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a registered Project Management Professional (PMP), Mitch shares his experience in project and client management through Certified ScrumMaster courses, Agile coaching engagements, conference presentations, blogs and white papers.

He is the author of “Adventures in Promiscuous Pairing” presented and published at the Agile 2006 conference, “Transitioning to Agile: Key Lessons Learned in the Field” presented and published at the Fall 2007 PMI Global Congress in Atlanta, Georgia and "The Impacts of Poor Estimating - and How to Fix It" presented and published at the winter 2007 SQE Agile development conference in Orlando, Florida.

He has presented at Agile Alliance Agile 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 conferences, the 2008 Better Software Conference and the 2008 and 2009 SQE Agile Development Practices conferences. He was the stage producer for the Organization and Culture stage for Agile 2009 and is continuing that trend by producing the Leadership and Organizations stage for Agile 2010.

Mitch is currently authoring a book targeting new Scrum teams on how to survive the first year of Scrum. The book will be published by Addison Wesley and is scheduled for publication in 2010.

Lasse Koskela

Lasse Koskela works as a coach, trainer, consultant and programmer, spending his days helping clients and colleagues at Reaktor create successful software products. He has trenched in a variety of software projects ranging from enterprise applications to middleware products developed for an equally wide range of domains.

In the recent years, Lasse has spent an increasing amount of time giving training courses and mentoring client teams on-site, helping them improve their performance and establish a culture of continuous learning. Aside from consulting leaders and managers, Lasse enjoys programming and works frequently hands-on with software teams.

In his spare time, Lasse hacks on open source projects, moderates discussions at JavaRanch, or writes about software development. In 2007, he published a book on Test Driven Development and is currently working on his next book. He is one of the pioneers of the Finnish agile community and speaks frequently at international conferences.

He can be reached at lasse.koskela@reaktor.fi

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Title Sponsor

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Presenting Sponsor

OutSofting is a Canadian software development consulting company that provides all the training, coaching and consulting necessary to increase the performance of a software development organization and enable it to become Agile. From OutSofting’s offices in Beijing, its team of consultants provides Scrum, Agile Engineering practices, organizational change and Agile offshoring expertise for any organization anywhere in China.

OutSofting是一家面向于软件开发的加拿大咨询公司，提供敏捷开发的培训、指导及咨询服务帮助软件企业提高并达到高效。在中国，OutSofting在北京设有公司，我们的团队为所有在华企业提供Scrum、敏捷工程实践、组织变革和敏捷离岸顾问咨询。

Presenting Sponsor

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Gathering Sponsor

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Media Sponsor

ScrumCN is a online Agile and Scrum community in China, we provide Agile and Scrum related technical ariticles,e-books and BBS for chinese developers and managers.Our vision is promote Scrum and Agile in China. Right now ,we have about 1500 members. Last year, We joined AgileChina2009 and SoftCon2009(Software Technology Conference of China) as a media parter.On Jan23 2010 we hosted a Scrum salon in Shanghai, more than 80 people attended the salon.

Reserving Lodging

Stay at the Scrum Gathering hotel and enjoy the convenience of being on site and the after hours collaboration and social time available during the Scrum Gathering event.

Please email the reservation department for assistance to book your room at resvn.sjm@meritus-hotels.com or visit www.meritus-hotels.com and select JC Mandarin hotel in Shanghai, China.

Link to Google Maps

1225 Nanjing Xi Road
Shanghai 200040
China
http://www.jcmandarin.com