Clear your calendar for Wednesday, October 20, 2010. You’re invited to this year’s only full-day Agile conference in Toronto, hosted by the Toronto Agile Community at the prestigious Toronto Board of Trade.

Why Should I Come?

This year's conference will be bigger and better with more speakers and attendees. The program will feature four concurrent streams with interactive sessions, workshops, lightning talks and plenty of opportunities to network. Those new to Agile, practitioners and managers will learn about the latest developments and methodologies in Agile. You’ll become part of a growing influential network of Agile practitioners and make many new contacts. You’ll learn about new tools and the companies who are embracing Agile.

Keynote

We are excited to have Martin Fowler of ThoughtWorks as our keynote speaker. "Martin Fowler is an author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development. He concentrates on designing enterprise software - looking at what makes a good design and what practices are needed to come up with good design. He's been a pioneer of object-oriented technology, refactoring, patterns, agile methodologies, domain modeling, the Unified Modeling Language (UML), and Extreme Programming. For the last decade he's worked at ThoughtWorks, a really rather good system delivery and consulting firm. "

Your Hosts

Agile Tour Toronto is being organized by the Toronto Agile Community. With many years of experience in Agile environments, this team of professionals is committed to bringing the latest developments and most valuable content to the Toronto software community.

Location

This year's conference will be held at the prestigious Toronto Board of Trade, which is located in First Canadian Place in the heart of Toronto's financial district with easy access via TTC and GO Transit.

Toronto Board of Trade 1 First Canadian Place Toronto, ON M5X 1C1

How to Register

Registration will be opening soon. Registration fees have been set at very reasonable levels to maximize accessibility of the conference to all:

• Early Bird - $75
• Regular Fee - $100
• Students (with ID) - $25

Posted 06/08/2010

Clear your calendar for Tuesday, October 20, 2009. You’re invited to this year’s only full-day Agile conference in Toronto, hosted by the Toronto Agile Community at the prestigious Hyatt Regency On King, in partnership with AgileTour 2009.

Featured speaker and author, Scott Ambler (Practice Leader for Agile Development, IBM) will discuss strategies for scaling Agile software development in the Keynote Presentation and many other long-time Agile practitioners will share their expertise and tips.

In the spirit of inclusion, the cost will be only $50 ($30 for early registrants!), including lunch.

Why Should I Come?

-You’ll learn the latest developments and methodologies in Agile

-You’ll learn about new tools and the companies who are embracing Agile

-You’ll become part of a growing influential network of Agile practitioners

-You’ll make many new and useful contacts

Your Hosts

Agile Tour Toronto is being organized by key members of the XPToronto and Toronto Agile user groups. With over 30 years combined experience in Agile environments, this team of professionals is committed to bringing the latest developments and most valuable content to the technical community.

Event Format

The one-day event will run from 8:30am – 6:00pm with four concurrent sessions (New to Agile, Advanced, Management, Open Space).*Seating is limited and going fast, so register now and don’t miss out!To register or learn more please go to http://www.torontoagilecommunity.org or email us at register@torontoagilecommunity.orgSee you there!

Posted 08/27/2009

At the end of the June 16, 2009 meeting we spent some time brainstorming possible topics for the next season of XPToronto meetings.  We haven't assigned any of these topics to a specific date yet, if you're at all interested in presenting any of them please let me know - mailto:xptoronto@intelliware.ca.

• Topics left over from the June 16th meeting - Lean - Hype vs. New Paradigm and Engaging The Customer
• Open Space - various topics
• Lightning Talks
• Workshops - Training Games, Paper Prototyping
• Coding Event/Pairing
• Other Agile Methodologies - FDD, DSDM, Crystal, Agile Unified Process
• Business Cases
• UI Panel Discussion (possibly with IxD group)
• Alistair - previous proposal to present Coding Adventure
• Automation Tools - Open Source
• Vendor Face Off

Posted 06/23/2009

Please note that we've bumped the March 2009 meeting date back by 1 week. The usual date would the 17th, which is the 3rd Tuesday of the month, but that week is March Break plus the 17th is St. Patrick's day so it makes sense to move the meeting to the next week, which would be March 24th.

Posted 03/10/2009

We've revamped the look of the site, and plan to add some other nice features in the coming months. Any suggestions? Let us know by e-mail - xptoronto@intelliware.ca

Posted 10/16/2008