Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Agile Frontier Stage announced for Agile 2009

Thanks to everyone who contributed with comments to my open letter to Johanna and Ahmed. It worked! A new stage has been added to the Agile 2009 program. Olav Maassen and Eric Willeke will coordinate the Agile Frontier. It will be the home for out-of-left field, discontinuous innovations, dissenting voices, unfashionable ideas and slow burning concepts that are developing slowly in our community. Here is an extract from the CFP…

This is a stage for pioneering Agile thoughts, practices, models and questions. It is a place to share emergent, intriguing, minority interest and innovative ideas. It is a home for unfashionable concepts, unpopular ideas and dissenting voices.

It is fertile ground for slow burning, long term ideas, where they can grow and thrive. Ideas like Agile Contracting, which appeared in Breaking Acts last year but is still a minority interest activity very much in its infancy.

The Agile Frontier stage accepts proposals that are new and do not fit into the existing categories. It is the home of every idea for which “people” say “it is not Agile” or “it is just wrong”. It is the double black run for your new ideas as a speaker where the audience will challenge you on every aspect. Performances on this stage may illuminate new approaches that will make you question your beliefs or inspire you to try something new. Whatever the specific content is, each session will challenge you to think hard about what you do, whether you’re presenting or attending.

Performances on this stage may or may not impact the future direction and maturity of Agile processes. At the same time, it is the place to visit to see what could become hot in the next five years. Technorati tag: Agile+2009, Agile+Chicago, Agile+Alliance, David+Anderson, Eric+Willeke, Olav+Maassen, Johanna+Rothman