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Introduction to Agile: The Genesis (James Newkirk) Chesapeake 4/5/6Jim Newkirk Tribal Leadership for Agile Teams (Steffan Surdek) National Harbor 4/5Steffan Surdek The Magic Carpet Ride: A Business Perspective on DevOps (Em Campbell-Pretty) National Harbor 6/7Em Campbell-Pretty Navigating the Complexity of Organizational Change (Jason Little, Declan Whelan) Potomac 1/2/3Jason Little • Declan Whelan Government Product Owner: What to expect when they’re expecting (Salah Elleithy, Darren Hoevel) Chesapeake 1/2/3Salah Elleithy • Darren Hoevel

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Going All In: Lessons Learned in Agile IT at Harvard Business Publishing (Elizabeth Ross) Potomac 4Elizabeth Ross Introduction to Agile: An Agile Talk on Agility (Mitch Lacey, Peter Provost) Chesapeake 4/5/6Mitch Lacey • Peter Provost Mentoring vs Coaching: Show Me the Difference (Lyssa Adkins) Potomac CLyssa Adkins Strategy Mapping: Clear path to a successful Agile strategy (Dave Neuman) Potomac 5/6Dave Neuman Scaling Agile: Patterns and Anti-patterns (Monica Yap, David Grabel) National Harbor 3David Grabel • Monica Yap The Customer CAN always be Right  - Business Agility through Customer Collaboration (Aakash Srinivasan) Potomac 1/2/3Aakash Srinivasan

15:45 EDT

Introduction to Agile Development Practice Basics for Everyone (not just Developers) (Tim Ottinger) Chesapeake 4/5/6Tim Ottinger Did We Buy or Just Lease the Agile Car? (Matt Anderson) National Harbor 6/7Matt Anderson The Experimentation Mindset (Doc Norton) National Harbor 4/5Doc Norton

09:00 EDT

Introduction to Agile Testing: Everyone Owns Quality (Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory) Chesapeake 4/5/6Lisa Crispin • Janet Gregory Reflections on an 18-Month Federal DevOps Transformation (Dan Craig) Potomac 5/6Dan Craig Not Doing SAFe? No problem. Not doing these? Big Problem (Al Shalloway) Potomac DAl Shalloway Challenges for Agile in Government - “Culture eats Strategy for Breakfast” (Bob Payne, Beth Miller) Potomac CBeth Miller • Bob Payne How Managers can Nurture Teams to Thrive (Selena Delesie) Potomac 1/2/3Selena Delesie Agile Passionfruits: Growing Agile Champion capability through a Learning Culture (Renee Troughton) Chesapeake 1/2/3Renee Troughton

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Introduction to Agile with Distributed Teams: Working with Remote Team Members (Jutta Eckstein) Chesapeake 4/5/6Jutta Eckstein Agile and Beyond: How Far Can You Go in Embedded Software Development? (Andreas Dharmawan) National Harbor 8Andreas Dharmawan Data Done Right: Applying Agile and XP Concepts To Enterprise Data Integration (Joseph Frazier, Randy Loushin) Chesapeake 1/2/3Joseph Frazier • Randy Loushin Three Things You MUST Know to Transform Any Sized Organization into an Agile Enterprise (Mike Cottmeyer) Potomac CMike Cottmeyer

11:30 EDT

Talk Ain't Easy - Round-the-World Agile Without *ANY* Talk (Gerard Meszaros) Potomac 4Gerard Meszaros

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Introduction to Agile Requirements: User Stories, Backlogs, & Beyond (Ellen Gottesdiener) Chesapeake 4/5/6Ellen Gottesdiener Rewire Your Brain: Practices to Use Brain Plasticity to Become a Better Coach (Sarah Baca) Chesapeake 10/11/12Sarah Baca Reinventing Organizations - Enterprise Agility (Olaf Lewitz, Michael Sahota) National Harbor 3Olaf Lewitz • Michael Sahota Whole-Team Dynamic Organizational Modeling (Raj Mudhar, Catherine Louis) Chesapeake 1/2/3Catherine Louis • Raj Mudhar Is Agile Project Management an Oxymoron? (Michael Nir) National Harbor 13Michael Nir Be More Than a Proxy (Diane Zajac-Woodie) Potomac 1/2/3Diane Zajac

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Facing Fake-To-Fake: Lessons Learned from Distributed Scrum (Vincent Tietz) Potomac 4Vincent Tietz Introduction to Agile Leadership: Recognizing and Removing Impediments (Thomas Perry) Chesapeake 4/5/6Thomas Perry Are We Doomed to Sticky, Tricky, & Icky?: Women and Men Working Together on Agile Teams (Sharon Buckmaster, Diana Larsen) National Harbor 10/11Sharon Buckmaster • Diana Larsen Open Source Patterns of Cloud Native Architectures (Andrew Clay Shafer, josh long) Chesapeake 1/2/3josh long • Andrew Clay Shafer Agile Capitalization: Invest in the Future (Dan Greening, John Horton) National Harbor 12John Horton So what do we do with the architects? (Ryan Bergman) National Harbor 6/7Ryan Bergman Agile Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence: A Disciplined Approach (Scott Ambler) Potomac DScott Ambler Games to Learn Stuff (Michael McCullough, Don McGreal) Potomac 1/2/3Michael McCullough • Don McGreal Agile Contracts: Blast Off to the Zone of Collaborative Systems Building (Drew Jemilo) National Harbor 8Drew Jemilo

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National Geographic: How To Implement Agile Processes In A 127 year old Magazine Tradition (Constance Miller) Potomac 4Constance Miller Introduction to Agile Product Management (Rich Mironov) Chesapeake 4/5/6Rich Mironov Stop “Going Agile”! The three conversations you need to have before you start. (Heather Fleming) National Harbor 8Heather Fleming A Roadmap to your very own Yellow Brick Road (Matt Arena, Bhupendra Ubeja) Chesapeake 7/8/9Matt Arena • Bhupendra Ubeja Using a Design thinking process to approach a shift to Agile culture (Angel Diaz-Maroto Alvarez) Potomac 1/2/3Angel Diaz-Maroto Agile Planning and Estimating Techniques in a Federal World (Brandon Raines, Edric Spruill) Potomac CBrandon Raines • Edric Spruill Waterfall comfort in an agile world: Give Federal Execs the answers they 'used to get' (John Hughes) National Harbor 3John Hughes Agile Testing in the Enterprise (Janet Gregory) Potomac DJanet Gregory

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Introduction to Agile Helpers and Guides: Working with Coaches and Consultants (Ray Arell) Chesapeake 4/5/6Ray Arell The Agile BA: For an Agile team...you complete me! (Robert Woods) Potomac 5/6Robert Woods Entangled: Solving the Hairy Problem of Team Dependencies (Troy Magennis) National Harbor 4/5Troy Magennis The Agile Value Chain — Embracing Agile Throughout the Enterprise (Ken Rubin) Potomac DKen Rubin Taming the Agile Release Planning Beast (Linda Cook, Doug Depew) Chesapeake 7/8/9Linda Cook • Doug Depew

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Organization and Business Agility: Managing the Portfolio Backlog in Large Organizations (Ken Power) Potomac 4Ken Power

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Can you be remotely agile? (Mark Kilby) Potomac 4Mark Kilby Introduction to Agile in Government Agencies (Sujatha Augustine) Chesapeake 4/5/6Sujatha Augustine Sustainable Test-Driven Development (Scott Bain) National Harbor 12Scott Bain Introduction to Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) (Bas Vodde) National Harbor 10/11Bas Vodde The Sprint 3 Revolt - How our large scale transformation nearly failed (Raj Mudhar, Jason Alexander) Potomac 5/6Jason Alexander • Raj Mudhar Value Stream Mapping Workshop (or: Improve your Organizational Efficiency) (Nayan Hajratwala) Chesapeake 10/11/12Nayan Hajratwala Agile Chartering from Strategic to Tactical: Managing Risk & Quality (Ainsley Nies, Elizabeth McClellan) National Harbor 4/5Elizabeth McClellan • Ainsley Nies User Experience Branding: How to build products that create loyal customers (Bill Beard) National Harbor 8Bill Beard

09:00 EDT

Explaining Agility with a Process Theory of Change (Michael Wufka) National Harbor 8Michael Wufka A Gentle Introduction to DevOps - Project Manager Edition (Amye Scavarda) National Harbor 13Amye Scavarda Nine Immutable Principles of Lean-Agile Development at Enterprise Scale (Dean Leffingwell) National Harbor 4/5Dean Leffingwell 50 Shades of Agile: (Joshua Seckel) National Harbor 3Joshua Seckel Agile Leadership Patterns: The Agile Way of Doing (Dan Greening, Jeff Sutherland) Potomac CJeff Sutherland Value Network Mapping - Raise portfolio performance by balancing demand and supply (Bruce Winegarden) Chesapeake 10/11/12Bruce Winegarden

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An Agile Triple Play: Business Process Re-Engineering meets SOA meets Large Scale Agile (Denis Doelling, Edward Goldgehn) Potomac 4Denis Doelling • Edward Goldgehn Confessions of a would-be Org Shaman: How I Learned to Trust the World to Show me the Way (Michael Spayd) National Harbor 4/5Michael Spayd Agile Craftsmanship and Technical Excellence, How to Get There (Steve Ropa) National Harbor 12Steve Ropa Bill's and Aimee's Excellent DevOps Journey: From Roadmap to Rubber On the Road (Aimee Bechtle, Bill Donaldson) National Harbor 3Aimee Bechtle • Bill Donaldson 'Risk' - The final (Enterprise) Agile frontier (Troy Magennis) National Harbor 6/7Troy Magennis Outcome Driven Organizations (ODO): A new operating system for organizational change (Skip Angel, Richard Watt) Chesapeake 10/11/12Skip Angel • Richard Watt

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Benefiting from Conflict - Building Antifragile Relationships and Teams (Jake Calabrese) National Harbor 10/11Jake Calabrese Is there a best practice for an agile transformation? - No! – So what Now? (Hendrik Esser) Chesapeake 4/5/6Hendrik Esser Symbiotic Practices for Agile Development (Michael Feathers) National Harbor 4/5Michael Feathers Leading Global Teams (Todd Little) Potomac DTodd Little The Serious LeAP model: lean-agile for prosperity (Masa Maeda) Potomac 4Masa Maeda

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Agile Architecture - Ideals, History, and a New Hope (Gary Pedretti) Chesapeake 7/8/9Gary Pedretti Docker Enables DevOps (Boyd Hemphill) National Harbor 13Boyd Hemphill Keystone Habits Leading to Sustainable Enterprise Agility (Ahmed Sidky) Potomac CAhmed Sidky Yahoo: Pulling an Elephant out of a Tarpit (Ed Kraay, Stas Zvinyatskovsky) National Harbor 6/7Ed Kraay • Stas Zvinyatskovsky Cards for Agility - Learn, play, and hack this new teaching game (Bob Payne, Beth Miller) National Harbor 10/11Beth Miller • Bob Payne Governance, Phases, and Milestones, are not Agile Dirty Words! (Mark Lines) Potomac 5/6Mark Lines

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Helping Executives Become Agile Leaders: Coaching the Executive Leader (Michael Hamman) Chesapeake 4/5/6Michael Hamman Agile Hiring: It’s a Team Sport (Johanna Rothman) Potomac CJohanna Rothman Does this FizzGood? Improve velocity, predictability & agility by asking a simple question (Jon Terry, Daniel Norton) Potomac 4Daniel Norton • Jon Terry Scaling Agile with Open Space (Daniel Mezick) National Harbor 10/11Daniel Mezick Well Begun is Half-way Done: 'How to' Guide for Organization Assessment Prior to Scaling (Michael Spayd) Potomac DMichael Spayd Achieving transformational agility through enterprise architecture - a Cisco case study (Gustav Toppenberg) National Harbor 12Gustav Toppenberg