Agile 2011 Attended Sessions

At this year's Agile 2011 conference in Salt Lake City I attended following sessions.

• Workshop: Fear-Driven Impediments
  by Ralph Miarka and Marc Bless
• Workshop: Introduction to Behavior Driven Development
  by Liz Keogh and Katherine Kirk
• Special Event: The Agile Manifesto 10th Anniversary Reunion: The Big Park Bench
  with 15 of the 17 original authors of the agile manifesto
• Keynote: Why Care about Positive Emotions?
  by Barbara Fredrickson
• Talk: Exploring Enterprise Agile Transformation Strategies
  by Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens
• Workshop: Release your team's intelligent energy through five powerful conversations
  by Declan Whelan and Bryan Beecham
• Tutorial: Scaling Software Agility: Advanced Practices for Large Enterprise
  by Dean Leffingwell
• Workshop: Lean Procrastination - How to Identify the Last Responsible Moment
  by Marc Bless and Dave Sharrock
• Tutorial: Agile Education by Object Game - most HISSATSU way to understand it
  by Tsuyoshi Ushio
• Workshop: Flirting With Your Customers
  by Jenni Jepsen

At the Open Jam I hosted a session to play the "Fearless Journey" game with Linda Rising, Martin Heider, Portia Tung, and two other guys (sorry I forgot your names). The game was created by Deborah Preuss and is based on Linda Rising's book "Fearless Change".

Also at Open Jam I joined the "Lean Flow" card game by Nancy van Schooenderwoert. With a team of 14 people it was a highly interesting experience to see chaotic alpha-male behavior turn into controlled collaboration -- and we could observe that longer planning does not lead to higher performance.

I will write some more details to several of these attended sessions in the next days.

Preparing for Agile 2011

Only 32 hours from now and I will take my plane from Frankfurt to Salt Lake City. Agile 2011 is arriving and I'm really looking forward to it.

There will be two sessions co-hosted by myself.

On Monday morning together with Ralph Miarka I'm going to host a three-hours workshop on Fear-Driven Impediments. Join us to learn and discuss how to recognize fear and how to deal with it in individual, team, and organizational contexts.

The second session will also be a highly interactive gaming session. We're going to play the Last Responsible Moments Game created by Olaf Lewitz and me during the last nine months. Dave Sharrock will co-host the session with me. Join us to play the game and learn some concepts of Lean Procrastination.

See you in two days in Salt Lake City.