There are plenty of good tools out there - the trick is to get them all to play together well. In this session, we will go through the full process of setting up an automated software development infrastructure, from code changes and version control right through to automated deployment to staging and production. We will go through the key steps involved in automating a typical Java project using Maven, Hudson and a large cast of other supporting tools. We will see not only how to automate the build itself, but also how to improve code quality, manage releases, and improve team communication.

Those who attend conferences or read books and articles discover new ideas they want to bring into their organizations—but they often struggle when trying to implement those changes. This session offers proven change management strategies to help you become a more successful agent of change in your organization. Learn how to plant effective seeds of change, and what forces in your organization drive or block change. Come and discuss your organizational and personal change challenges.

When it is achieved together, the combined benefits of both Agile and Offshore software development, can be multiples greater than either approach alone. During this interactive session, we will simulate a distributed project with some participants being onsite and the others offshore. With 4 teams of upto 8 people each, this game will draw out learning around the challenges of Distributed Agile and different methods to communicate successfully on such projects. The rules of the game help illustrate how to deal with travel, different timezones, delayed communication and other such hurdles.