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If there were any doubt that agile software development, agile project management and agile project leadership are here to stay, then Agile 2006 offers some convincing facts. The conference and exhibition which ran from July 24 through July 28, 2006 drew a record-breaking crowd of agile vendors and practitioners to the upscale Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis.
Up 60 percent in attendance from last year, a sellout crowd of 1,100 conferees from 29 countries packed Agile 2006. Many of the 100 sessions drew standing room only participation from among software developers, technical leaders and project managers.
Included in the conference was the Leadership Summit organized by the Agile Project Leadership Network. APLN, a non-profit organization and a partner with the Agile Alliance, is dedicated to creating great agile project leaders by focusing on business value, teams, context, customers, individuals and uncertainty.
The Leadership Summit attracted both new and seasoned agile leaders who joined together in interactive sessions to learn about and discuss such topics as leading with no power, leading agile in a non-agile environment and how to be an agile leader.
The roster of agile industry luminaries who presented sessions at Agile 2006 reads like a who’s who in the world of agile software development and project management. Among them included Mike Cohn, author of …
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