Agile 2008

Agile 2008, being held in Toronto August 4 to 8, seems like a long ways away. However, the submission system just went live this week. I’m excited because I have the opportunity to help organize the Developer Jam stage. There are a few changes surrounding the conference for 2008, starting with the submission system, which is wide open to the public. Any session proposed can be reviewed by any registered user, so hopefully we’ll build some great sessions with the level of community involvement we hope to achieve. Because the conference has been a sell-out the past few years, we’ve also secured a venue in Toronto that can host up to 1600+ individuals.

But what’s most exciting for me is the return of agile in the trenches…getting down and dirty with the developer again. My main issue with last years conference was that it seemed to have forgotten about the developer. There was so much “agile in the enterprise this”, and “application lifecycle management that”. So I’m very excited to help build a track (we’re calling them stages) that focuses exclusively on the developer. I know we can all still stand to learn more about unit testing, continuous integration, refactoring, and more. Please, take a look at the Developer Jam, submit a proposal or two, and provide some constructive feedback. We’ve assembled a great review committee consisting of some outstanding professional developers (listed at the bottom of the Developer Jam page). Let us know what you think would be cool to incorporate into the Developer Jam stage at Agile 2008.

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