Organizers
Chair: Elisabeth Hendrickson and Laurent Bossavit
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: January 26, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: April 2, 2007
Overview
Tutorials are instructor-led interactive 90 or 180 minute classes designed to provide participants with
practical knowledge they can use right away on Agile projects. Each tutorial covers a self-contained topic
relevant to Agile software development such as: software design, coding, or testing; project steering;
teamwork/collaboration; release planning; metrics; deployment; facilitation; organizational change, etc.
Tutorials have clear learning objectives that focus on teaching specific skills or techniques.
Topics that represent a work-in-progress or that are still being 'mined' for practical knowledge are not
suitable for tutorials; however, please consider submitting such topics as a Discovery Session or bringing
your ideas with you to the Conference-within-a-Conference.
Tutorial presenters can make their sessions interactive in a variety of ways. Examples of past tutorial formats
include simulations, lectures with facilitated discussion, and lectures with hands-on exercises.
We encourage session proposals from experienced practitioners of Agile software development methods, such as
Adaptive, Crystal, DSDM, Feature-Driven Development, Lean, Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP).
Tutorial presenters should consider how to scale their presentations. Tutorials typically draw audiences of
50 – 100 participants. Popular tutorials may draw even more participants. As a result, the conference committee
may need to repeat popular sessions, and may not be able to accept tutorials with strict participation limits
into the program. We appreciate your agility in adapting to a variable audience size.
Submission Guidelines
To propose a Tutorial, please create a submission. The submission form requests basic information about your
proposal including title, topic, abstract, etc. In addition, the submission form allows you to upload a file
with a detailed description of your proposed session.
To increase the chance of having your proposal accepted, please include a PDF file that provides more details
about your session. The detailed proposal should include:
- A restatement of the title, author(s), and abstract
- The Key benefits for participants: a bulleted list of concrete benefits such as skills or concepts participants will learn
- Content outline: topics covered and in what order
- Timeline: the sequence of events and approximate time spent on each
- Any other information or supporting content you think reviewers might find significant
Please do not submit your entire slide deck as a proposal.
However, please do note that as a presenter at Agile 2007 you agree that the material (e.g. slides, hand-outs)
you're using in your session will be published by the conference either online, on a CD and/or in print.
Our decision-making process
For Agile2006, we had 153 submissions for 51 tutorial slots. Every one of the submissions we received was a
strong candidate and would have been a fine addition to the program, making it extremely difficult to choose
which tutorials would make it into the final program.
Your proposal will be evaluated by a team of reviewers. The conference committee then makes the final decision
based on input from the review team.
Factors we consider when evaluating individual tutorial submissions include: relevance, timeliness, importance,
and audience appeal; suitability for presentation in a tutorial format; effectiveness of proposed teaching
methods; and qualifications of the presenter(s).
When making our selections, we look at the needs of the overall program as well as the merits of each
submission. We strive for a balance of content that will serve participants ranging from beginners to experts,
using various different Agile methods, and in various job roles.
Tutorial Reviewers:
Kent McDonald, Independent
Mark Striebeck, Google
Steve Freeman, M3P Limited
Ellen Gottesdiener, EBG Consulting
Jim Highsmith, Cutter Consortium
Joseph Little, Kitty Hawk Consulting
Joseph Pelrine, MetaProg GmbH
Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat Software
Alan Francis, Independent
Bill Kleb, Nasa
Marc Evers, Piecemeal Growth
Jim Newkirk, Microsoft
Carl Erickson, Atomic Object
Andy Tinkham, Independent
Emmanuel Gaillot, Octo Technology
Rachel Davies, Agile Experience Limited
Submissions for Tutorials are now closed.
Tutorial presenters may distribute the following among two presenters in any way they wish: $500 (for 180 minutes)
or $250 (for 90 minutes), 5 hotel nights, one free conference registration.
