Past events

Agile 2010 - Orlando, Florida

August 2010
Presenters: Neal Ford, Jez Humble, Martin Fowler, Jeff Norris, Sumeet Moghe, Anupam Kundu, Stelios Pantazopoulos

ThoughtWorks was proud to be Platinum Sponsor at this year's Agile 2010 and had eight ThoughtWorkers scheduled to speak...

Café Ágil em Curitiba

August 2010
Presenters: Daniel Wildt & Klaus Wuestefeld

Venha participar do primeiro Café Ágil em Curitiba, com um papo sobre Métodos Ágeis, Testes e Automação com Daniel Wildt e Klaus Wuestefeld ...

Quarterly Briefing | What's hot and what's not?

August 2010
Presenters: Jim Webber & Erik Dörnenburg

At this briefing, ThoughtWorks luminaries Erik Dörnenburg and Jim Webber explored our most recent Technology Radar...

Agile NYC | Product road-mapping using agile principles

July 2010
Presenter: Anupam Kundu
Materials available: slides, podcast, article

Practitioners of product management find themselves struggling to balance the need for a strategic product roadmap, while simultaneously addressing the budgetary and resource constraints of working within a release and sprint framework. Anupam Kundu extends agile principles beyond the development team ...

Webinar | Technical Foundations of Distributed Agile

July 2010
Presenters: Scott Shaw, Rajesh Tamhane
Materials available: video

The webinar was designed to help architects and managers of distributed Agile teams lay the right technical foundations for successful delivery of their projects ...

Quarterly briefing | Are you building the right thing for the right customers?

June 2010
Presenters: Diana Adorno, Jason Furnell
Materials available: slides

Agility and the customer experience. Agile Customer Experience is about moving beyond ensuring you simply “build it right”… and applying methods for ensuring that what you’re building is “the right thing to build” for the “right customers” ...

Webinar | Practices of high performing teams

June 2010
Presenters: Greg Reiser, Satya Narayan, Kedar Bapat
Materials available: video, slides

Succeeding with Offshore Product Development. This webinar explored how the principles and practices of agile and lean development have been applied by globally distributed teams to enable the collaboration and responsiveness required for successful software product development ...

Women in technology | Bringing diversity and expertise to teams

June 2010
Presenters: Rebecca Parsons, Vedavalli Kanala
Materials available: slides

Attendees had an exclusive opportunity to meet Dr. Rebecca Parsons - Chief Technology Officer at ThoughtWorks, who was recently named one of the 10 most influential women in technology by Fast Company magazine ...

Agile Brazil 2010

June 2010
Presenters: Martin Fowler, Paulo Caroli, Francisco Trindade, Rodrigo Yoshima (Aspercom), Phillip Calçado, Greg Warren, Carlos Lopes, Daniel Wildt, Aleckssandro Tavares (Terra), James Lewis

Agile Brazil 2010 was held in the main campus of PUCRS, in Porto Alegre, from June 22nd to 25th. It featured courses, work presentations and experience reports from around Brazil and beyond.

Webinar | Practical advice for getting started

May 2010
Presenters: Greg Reiser, Chirag Doshi, Satish Viswanathan
Materials available: video

Succeeding with Offshore Product Development.Learn how to conduct a high-value project inception that is ideally suited for offshore product development ...

Panel discussion | Agile transformation - what's in it for you?

May 2010
Presenter: Dave West (Forrester Research Inc.)

Dave West, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc. and an executive panel discussed Agile Transformation, its successes and how to sustain the benefits of integrating Agile into your organization ...

REST in practice

May 2010
Presenter: Dr Jim Webber
Materials available: slides

ThoughtWorks' agitator behind Guerrilla SOA, shows how the Web wins out ...

Quarterly briefing | Rapid, Reliable Releases

May 2010
Presenters: Rolf Russell, Andy Duncan

It's not making money until it's in production. This briefing covers build, release and environment management: a critical, though often underestimated, cornerstone of an effective delivery organization.

Café Ágil em Recife

May 2010
Presenters: Paulo Caroli, Luiz Borba (Pitang), Dr Jim Webber
Materials available: slides

Venha participar do primeiro Café Ágil em Recife. Será uma oportunidade para você conhecer o palestrante internacional, Dr. Jim Webber.

Quarterly briefing | thetrainline.com - scale at speed

May 2010
Speaker: David Jack (CIO thetrainline.com), Mahesh Baxi (MD ThoughtWorks India)
Materials available: presentation, case study

Webinar | Gaining momentum with Agile

April 2010
Presenters: John Townsend (CIO, National Offshore and Petroleum Safety Authority), Ian Crawford (Senior Information Officer, National Offshore and Petroleum Safety Authority), Mike Allen (Senior Project Manager, MLC)
Materials available: slides

Real life experiences - highlights - challenges - lessons learned. This seminar will explore real life experience with Agile in Perth: the highlights, challenges, lessons learned and the benefits ...

Webinar | ThoughtWorks Technology Radar - So What, Now What?

March 2010
Presenter: Neal Ford
Materials available: paper

Emergent design & evolutionary architecture

March 2010
Presenter: Neal Ford
Materials available: video

Executive roundtable | ThoughtWorks Technology Radar

March 2010
Presenter: Rebecca Parsons
Materials available: paper

Quarterly briefing | Does anyone know what this thing even does?

February 2010
Presenters: Mike Mason and Jonathan McCracken; Amit Uttam and Derek Longmuir
Materials available: online presentation

Strategies for effectively managing legacy systems

Business foundations of IT

February 2010
Presenter: Ian S Robinson
Materials available : videos, presentation

Quarterly briefing | guardian.co.uk - Enterprise Agile in practice

December 2009
Presenters: Stephen Dunn, Nik Silver, Stephen Foreshew and Angela Ashworth
Materials available: presentation

Quarterly briefing | The enterprise architecture you always wanted

December 2009
Presenter: Dr Jim Webber
Materials available: presentation

Guerilla SOA

November 2009
Presenter: Dr. Jim Webber
Materials available: presentation

Quarterly briefing | Agile governance - managing the enterprise issues

September 2009
Presenters: Lindy Stephens, Nigel Dalton (Lonely Planet), Josh Melville (Suncorp)
Materials available: video

Quarterly briefing | Innovating information systems

September 2009
Presenters: Scott Conley and Roy Singham
Materials available: slides

Quarterly briefing | Agile adoption - how to stuff it up

June 2009
Presenters: Martin Fowler and Andy Marks
Materials available: video

Quarterly briefing | Making long distance relationships work

March 2009
Presenters: Trevor Mather and Dharmarajan Sitaraman
Materials available: slides

Quarterly briefing | Lean times require lean thinking

March 2009
Presenters: Jason Yip and Paul Heaton (KM&T)
Materials available: video

Quarterly briefing | Reinventing media

December 2008
Presenters: Andy Conroy (Director of Online, Lonely Planet/BBC Worldwide), Mike Van Niekerk (Online Editor in Chief, SMH, The Age Online)
Materials available: video