Agile Tour Lithuania 2012 organizers are very pleased to introduce world-class Agile professionals, who come to share their highly valued experience with Lithuanian Agile community and foreign guests.

No matter if you are novice or experienced in Agile, we guarantee all roles of Agile practitioners and leaders will find their topics in the variety of Master Classes offered by this year’s Tour.

Those, who are not able to attend Master Classes, will have unique opportunity to hear our guests giving the speeches during the conference (please refer to Conference agenda).

Our well known Agile evangelists come from United States, UK, Finland and Ukraine.

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Dr. Alistair Cockburn

Advanced Agile Development I: High-Performance Agile

October 9^th-10^th (2 days)
Price: 2800 LTL
Where: Crowne Plaza, Malachite A hall

In this 2-day discovery-filled course,

Learn how agile works, in software or outside of it,
Learn how to articulate and deal with the weaknesses in agile development,
Test yourself and your partners with the Test-Driven Carpaccio exercise.
Learn to reduce risk and maximize results by viewing design as a Knowledge Acquisition activity.
Practice backing up your recommendations with solid theory, not just an appeal to authority,
Learn how to plan and track larger, more complicated projects using Project Mapping or Blitz Planning (time permitting),

… and most of all

Come face-to-face with yourself, your strengths and your weaknesses, as you confront one situation after another with equally inquisitive classmates.

Who should attend? This is the course for you and are ready for a deep dive into what agile development is all about. If you have been doing agile development for 1-5 years and want to amp up your capabilities to the next level. It is not an intro to agile, basic of Scrum, CSM or project management, this is a course for those who want to inquire and get themselves ready for whatever comes next. This is the advanced course in agile development from industry guru Dr. Alistair Cockburn.

Gojko Adzic

Specification by Example: From User Stories to Acceptance Tests

October 9^th-10^th (2 days)
Price: 2800 LTL
Where: Crowne Plaza, Coral A hall

Specification by example is the corner-stone of any successful testing and requirements strategy with agile and lean processes, such as Scrum, Extreme Programming and Kanban. This two day workshop teaches you how to apply specification by example to bridge the communication gap between stakeholders and implementation teams, build quality into software from the start, design, develop and deliver systems fit for purpose.

Who should attend? This course is aimed for testers, business analysts and developers or for anyone serious about delivering software that matters. This course helps you understand how successful teams implement specification by example, agile acceptance testing and behavior driven development.

Alex Krivitsky

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

October 9^th-10^th (2 days)
Price: 3600 LTL
Where: Crowne Plaza, Saphire C hall

In this 2-day ScrumMaster Certification course we will cover the fundamental principles of Scrum, qualifying the participants as Certified ScrumMasters. Rather than plan, instruct and direct, the leader of a Scrum team (ScrumMaster) facilitates, coaches and leads.

Lasse Ziegler

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

October 9^th-10^th (2 days)
Price: 3600 LTL
Where: Ratonda, Opus hall

This 2-day course highlights how strong Product Ownership is key to a successful agile transformation.

The CSPO course gives you just enough information to understand how Scrum works, but focuses mainly on functioning as the product owner, or customer, for a Scrum team. You will learn about activities such as managing stakeholders, ROI, backlog grooming, creating effective stories, acceptance criteria for stories, defining done, and so on.