August 26, 2010 3:00 PM. 75 attended.

Agile Latvia Evening

Event programme:


  • 15:00 - Introduction - ENG - Dmitry Buzdin, C.T.Co
  • 15:20 - Srcum adoption in Estonia - ENG - Alek Kozlov, Scrum.ee
  • 16:00 - Personal Agility - ENG - Dmitry Lebedev, Idea Port Riga
  • 16:35 - How I learned to stop worrying and start love TDD - ENG or LAT - Raimonds Simanovskis, TietoEnator Alise
  • 17:15 - coffee break
  • 17:35 - Unit Testing in practice - RUS - Denis Udod, C.T.Co
  • 18:15 - Agile Myths - ENG - Dmitry Buzdin, C.T.Co
  • 18:55 - Break
  • 19:10 - Distributed Scrum - ENG - Stanislav Vasilyev, Ignite.ee
  • 19:50 - Conference closing speech - ENG - Dmitry Lebedev, Idea Port Riga

To register for this event RSVP or send an email with your name and status (yes/maybe) to agilelatvia(at)gmail(dot)com

  • Dmitry Lebedev
    Dmitry Lebedev

    For those who RSVPed with Maybe, please clarify your status until end of the day.
    For others, starting from 14:00 registration will be closed.

    Posted August 25, 2010 at 1:47 PM
  • Rinalds Graudins
    Rinalds Graudins

    Very short notice for closing registration -13min :) No more chairs left?

    Posted August 25, 2010 at 3:36 PM
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75 attended

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4.50 4.5023 (23 ratings)
  • Event Host
    Dmitry Lebedev
    Software development enthusiast, Organizer
  • Erik Bonder
    Great event with good speakers. Excellent starting point, but I believe there is space to improve. Good coverage of technical aspects but lack of discussion on management and organization. Audience could be involved more with some kind of workshops and so on. Probably those should be separate events: organization oriented, practices oriented, workshops, free talks, etc.
  • Jevgenijs Rogovs
    Scrum.lv guy
    This was fun, need to do it again! I'd prefer more of specific case studies, war stories, etc. - as opposed to general thoughts and theoretical discussions, which prevailed this time.
  • Martins Leitass
    For the first time - very good event. For further events I would appreciate more specific or detailed information about Agile practices and methods. Also suggestion - If it's acceptable to audience presentations and discussions should occur in speakers native language (latvian, russian), for guest speakers - english. Sometimes presentations were not so "smooth" because of language.
  • Peter LV
    I liked intro from Alek about how things are going in Estonia with agile. I'm manager and topics didn't cover my interests in full scope, but anyway was interesting to listen. Responsibility is good, unit tests, yes, required for programmers, but it is not my field, TDD - also is meaningful for CTOs and technical staff. Would attend PO and SCRUM master course if it will take place in Latvia.
  • Armands Valdmanis
    This was useful. For me the main finding was that a personal responsibility of each team member is a critical precondition for agile to work.
  • Atis Straujums
    Recap: agile is being responsible as a team (even if distributed) about the quickly and often delivered product and backing your words with tests. :)
  • Raimonds Simanovskis
    Co-Organizer
    Organization and content was very good, looking forward to next event.
  • Dmitry Ivanov
    That was nice.
  • Roman Ribalko
    Very good first step for Agile popularisation in Latvia.
  • Juris Kalinovskis
    Most of presentations was useful. Maybe next time it's not important, to make all presentations in English, because language aspect for some of presenters (and attenders too) makes some inconvenience.
  • Rustam Arslanov
    It was interesting for me find out that I'm team member of separated team :-). I liked "Distributed Team" presentation - it is helpful for me
  • Eduards Sizovs
    +1 guest
    I was really excited with organization quality and homelike atmosphere. Well done!
  • Vitalij Krjacko
    I liked the presentations held during the evening. It's nice that content varied from technical to almost philosophical. Q&A sessions where as interesting as the topics, and with the surplus of questions the organizers did a great job of staying within the time frame. A big thanks to them. Personally, for someone who had no practical experience it was a great experience to get the knowledge vicariously, from someone who already had done it before and knew what he was speaking about. What I didnt get from this meetup is, if someone could share real life (a real case study if possible) agile implementation/usage in various situations, e.g. a company that develops and delivers one or more products and continuously improves it vs what was already spoken about - a contractual basis. But this is probably oustide of the subject of thoughts and feedback about the evening. The evening was really great, again thanks to the organizers and participants! *10000 lines of code done
  • Ieva Jonova
    The meeting was wonderful. It was great to see that there are people doing wonderful things with Agile. Especially I loved the "Distributed Scrum" presentation :) That was something I should have tried out :)
  • Leonid Maslov
    Great meeting, interesting presentations, nice people & place. Actually I'm very excited and awaiting for the next @agilelatvia meetup. Hopefully some sort of monthly events will be organised. It's a shame I didn't make for the afterparty though. Hope will be ready for next time to discuss agile-related topics for a couple of beers :)
  • Vadims Kuznecovs
    +1 guest
    In whole it was nice, The presentation about where Agile can be usedd, and examples where it was used were not very interesting, since it can be used in a lots of places in different variations, also presentation about Myths was strange (did not understand it), but rest presentations, especially about responsibility and Testing were great. Also since some people still were new to Agile (maybe), it would be nice to tell a bit about standard Practices that are used in Agile (we have covered some of them) and also you could shown to us an 1 Iteration of how Agile is used (Where goes User Stories, where Estimates/Design etc..) as example.
  • Dmitry Buzdin
    Java User Group Organizer, Co-Organizer
  • Gundega Lazdane
    +1 guest
  • Denis Udod
    Co-Organizer
  • Hussein Zubaidi
    +1 guest

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