An agile team is first and foremost "a team". When that gets lost in the rush to get a product out the door, the people suffer as well as the products. It's bad for the company, but even worse for the team members. We'll learn how to defuse some of the more common problems you'll run into on dysfunctional teams.

Restoring trust and providing visibility is hard once you've been burned. It's not always possible, but we'll examine concrete steps you can take to start rebuilding your trust and your team.

We're always under pressure to do more with less. More features with less developers. More product in less time. More work in fewer hours.

There are several Agile techniques you can use to ensure you and your team and making the most of your days. We'll review several team optimization techniques and discuss their practical applications.

Agile is wildly popular in some circles and hated in others. How can the same ideas cause such different reactions? Sometimes it's the definition of "agile" and other times it's company culture, but there's usually a good reason when Agile ideas are thrown out on their collective ears.

In this talk we'll discuss what works about Agile, how advocates have tainted the word in many companies, and how you can move great ideas forward successfully on your team.

There are a number of great techniques you can use across technologies and projects. Come hear some of my favorite ways to move "beyond" and contribute a few of your own. We'll discuss topics ranging from glue languages to ditching your IDE to building your brain.

In this session we'll discuss:
- Move beyond tools - Glue languages - Inbox Zero - Learning to learn - Not being a cog anymore - Macro Object Orientation - Clean code - Looking smarter than you are - Open source tool stacks - Tighter feedback loops - Scripted deployments - Scripting databases - Virutalization And more...