Presentations

There's one thing to be said for ThoughtWorkers: we've always got something to say and we're always looking for a venue in which to share ideas and engage with other IT professionals. Browse the list below to download presentations, view ThoughtWorks webinars and see us "caught on camera" while speaking at conferences.

Webinars

[ Agile Made Us Better But We Signed Up For Great]
ThoughtWorks Client Principal Ross Pettit focuses on the difference between following Agile practices and being an agile organization. He introduces practical tools and concepts that can make immediate impact on your team and make IT a GREAT delivery partner. Follow along using this PDF slide deck: Agile Made Us Better... (PDF). [ view now ]

Event: Webinar
Speaker: Ross Pettit
Posted: July 18, 2008

Tips and Tutorials

[ Keyboard Tips for Programmers ]
ThoughtWorks "Meme Wrangler" Neal Ford discusses practical keyboard tips for accelerating your development as a programmer. These tips and more are found in Neal's book, The Productive Programmer. In the book Neal discusses how developers can be more productive. [ more ]

Event: Tips Presentation
Speaker: Neal Ford
Posted: June 23, 2008

Briefings

[ guardian.co.uk - Enterprise Agile in Practice ]
Stephen Dunn and Nik Silver from Guardian (the UK's most popular news website) pair up with ThoughtWorks' Stephen Foreshew and Angela Ashworth to talk about the project which saw over a million pieces of content migrated to the new platform, over the course of a 2 year project. They look at the challenges posed by such a large scale project, the path leading to it, the strategy taken and the results.
Download the presentation material here.

Event: ThoughtWorks Briefings UK
Speakers: Stephen Dunn, Nik Silver, Stephen Foreshew and Angela Ashworth
Posted: November 2008

[ Forging a new Alliance - watch presentation on InfoQ ]

Scott Shaw and Martin Fowler talk about the need for a new relationship between the business and IT. Studies have constantly shown that the main culprit for unsuccessful projects lies in miscommunication between the business people and the IT ones. Watch the full presentation on InfoQ.

Event: ThoughtWorks Briefings Canada
Speakers: Scott Shaw and Martin Fowler
Posted: October 2008

[ Engaging Agile Teams QTB - download presentation ]
This briefing explores the expectation gap between management, procurement and legal teams when dealing with Agile software development. It also provides a brief overview of Agile practices to establish common understanding for all stakeholders.

Event: ThoughtWorks Briefings London and Manchester
Speakers: Luke Barrett and Stephen Foreshew
Posted: October 2008

[ Lean Thinking for IT Professionals - download pdf ]
ThoughtWorks' Lean consultant, Richard Durnall, presents the processes, tools and philosophies applied by Toyota Corporation to become one of the most successful companies in the history of the world and it's 7th largest. Using case studies from ThoughtWorks Australia clients he explores how Lean principles apply in IT.

Event: ThoughtWorks Briefings worldwide
Speaker: Richard Durnall
Posted: 25 June 2008

[ Distributed Agile - an Oxymoron? - download pdf ]
ThoughtWorks' consultants, Pat Kua and Liz Keogh present on the challenges, rewards and frustrations of real distributed Agile projects to a Butler group audience.

Event: ThoughtWorks presentation at Butler group
Speaker: Pat Kua
Posted: 23 July 2008

[ Agile Primer - download pdf ]
ThoughtWorks' consultant and coach, Pat Kua, walks through software engineering practices, the Agile manifesto and what it all means, a practical guide to Agile principles, practices and realities.

Event: ThoughtWorks geek night Manchester
Speaker: Pat Kua
Posted: June 2008

[ Quality without Heroics - download pdf ]
ThoughtWorks' Global Test Practice Lead, Kristan Vingrys and Senior Consultant, Jason Yip discuss techniques to improve quality in your organisation.

Event: ThoughtWorks Australia QTB
Speaker: Kristan Vingrys and Jason Yip
Posted: August 2008