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Attend these workshops with leading Agile practitioners to understand what an Agile approach entails. Agile Australia 2010 does assume you know the basics of an Agile approach, so if you are considering attending the Conference but know little about Agile, these workshops are designed for you! Workshop leaders include: Craig Smith | Delivery Coach, Suncorp 
Craig Smith has been a software developer for almost 15 years, specialising in a large number of technologies in that time. He has been an Agile practitioner for the last seven years, is a Certified Scrum Master and a member of both the Scrum Alliance and Agile Alliance. He is currently working within Suncorp's Business Technology division as a Systems Engineer and Agile Coach, fulfilling technical lead, iteration manager and Agile coaching roles on large Java technology projects. He has presented at many international conferences including Agile 2008, Agile 2009 and the Australian Software Engineering Conference. He was also the lead reviewer and technical proofreader on the recently released book from Manning Publications called "Becoming Agile".
Marina Chiovetti | Principal consultant, ThoughtWorks 
Marina Chiovetti is an Experience Architect and Agile Coach concerned with helping organisations transform their software projects by focusing on the human aspects of technology. Her work reflects a particular interest in project-team enablement through iterative development techniques while putting a spotlight on users and their interactions. With over 10 years of industry practice concentrating on Information Architecture and Project Management, Marina spends her days finding new ways to happily marry Agile Development processes and User-Centered Design methods.
She has spent the last two years working as an Agile Coach on a large-scale rollout for a major financial services corporation in Australia. With over 2000 staff embarking on an enterprise Agile journey, Marina actively shares learnings and experience from working in a distributed corporate Change Program. With leading Agile trainers and coaches presenting, these workshops are sure to stand you in good stead to begin or continue your Agile journey. Philip Abernathy | Agile Professional Development Lead, Suncorp (Australia) 
In his current role, as Agile Professional Development Lead and Agile Coach in Suncorp, Philip Abernathy has been instrumental in setting up the 'Agile Academy', thus leading the spread of Agile across the industry as a whole. He now coaches, trains and consults at senior management level to help companies transform to an Agile way of working.
In his own words, "having grown grey on the Waterfall method" in large corporate organisations in the Financial Services, Energy and Telecom sectors, Philip understands the structure and discipline needed by large organisations. Marrying this need with Agile's dynamism is the alchemy he brings to the table. Philip has guided numerous organisations in the use of Agile and Lean based software development methodologies to help them deliver business value faster. Philip has 27 years of hands-on, information technology experience and over 18 years of consulting and management experience with blue chip companies in the IT international arena. He has been practising and preaching Agile for the last 10 years. He was CIO of Shell Markets Middle East and later founded his own IT services delivery company. Philip has extensive experience in the difficult areas of Agile and Offshoring, Agile and Legacy and Agile Governance and Leadership. TUESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2010
9.00am - 12.30pm | First steps with Agile (with morning tea and lunch)
2.00pm - 5.30pm | Agile in Practice (with lunch and afternoon tea)
WORKSHOP DETAILS
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WORKSHOPS
Agile Australia is a SlatteryIT event | agile@slatteryit.com.au | 1300 651 485
