[Agile2009news] Agile 2009 news: Countdown to Aug 24

[Johanna Rothman]

Hi all,

No matter who you are or where you are in the organization, you can  
learn something at the Agile 2009 conference. Take a look at the  
personas, http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/personas to see which  
sessions might be right for you. If you're like me, you might  
personalize the program, by choosing multiple personas. When I tried  
that, I saw sessions not just in Leadership and Teams, but in  
Distributed Agile, Agile & Organizational Culture, Manifesting  
Agility, Agile Frontier, and Customers and Business Value.

The one-on-one consulting at Agile will start in LiveAid, where you  
can participate or see a project being built in an agile way. It will  
finish wherever the participants desire.

The job fair will be in Open Jam, where we will have a place to post  
open positions, and a place to post resumes. Bring plenty of job  
descriptions or resumes, depending on what you're looking for!

If you're not sure what Open Jam is: it's a place to share questions  
and quandaries, talk to the experts, demonstrate software and  
techniques, and experiment with emerging Agile practices and ideas.  
Sessions are informal. Anyone can convene a session at the Open Jam  
stage based on a passion and a commitment to make the session happen.  
Place a sticky describing your session at a particular time at a place  
in the Open Jam schedule. You'll have fun and walk away with valuable  
new insights.

Take a look at the main program page to select sessions whatever way  
you like, and send them to your calendar. See http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/programOverview

We are almost out of Early Registrations--grab one while you still  
can. Or, organize a group of 5 people and split a 5-pack. See http://www.agileregistration.org 
  for registration.

I hope to see you in Chicago, Aug 24-28, 2009. It will be a blast!
Johanna Rothman, Agile 2009 Conference Chair
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Join me at Agile 2009: http://agile2009.agilealliance.org