Scrum Unconference at Hyderabad was a resounding success. A large proportion of signatories actually turned up and a day of intense discussions using Open Space Rules saw everyone carrying back at least something new. The Unconference was organized at Hotel Central Court and discussed various topics like Metrics, Fixed price projects, Effort Estimation and Distributed Teams. We will post the recommendations or key learnings as soon as we can lay our hands on it. Meanwhile, here are some images from the day [thanks to Scrum India group]:

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The first Agile Conference in National Capital Region, India would be held on 8th March 2007 (Saturday) in Gurgaon. The venue is Ansal Institute of Technology, Gurgaon. It will be a day program and will intersperse technical, management and experience reports in the presentation slots of 60-70 minutes.

The tentative program for the conference is as follows:

• 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM: Registration and Opening
• 10:00 AM to 11:10 AM: Keynote Presentation
• 11:10 AM to 11:20 AM: Tea Break
• 11:30 AM to 12:30 AM: Presentation-1
• 12:40 PM to 1:40 PM: Lunch
• 1:40 PM to 2:40 PM: Presentation-2
• 2:50 PM to 3:00 PM: Presentation-3
• 3:00 PM to 3:20 PM: Tea Break
• 3:20 PM to 4:20 PM: Presentation-4
• 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM: Presentation-5
• 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM: Panel Discussion and Closing

You can send the title and the abstract of your presentation in not more than 600 words by 10th January 2008 to: agileconference@gmail.com

Here are the important dates:

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 10th January 2008
• Notification of Acceptance: 20th January 2008
• Submission of Final Presentations: 10th February 2008
• Delegates Registration Starts from: 1st February 2008
• Conference Date: 8th March 2008 [Saturday]

The following are likely speakers:

• Pete Deemer, ex-Yahoo, as Keynote
• Naresh Jain, ex-Thoughtworks, ASCI
• Vikas Hazrati, Xebia

If number of speakers/ presentations increase, organizers may opt for unconference style post Lunch.

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