April 3-4, 2007
Radisson SAS Slavianskaia Hotel
Moscow, Russia

Track 2: People, Projects & Teams

The most important success factor for any development project is the people that comprise the development team. Classes, panels and roundtable sessions in this cutting-edge track will explore such topics as: Agile estimation and planning, Coaching your Peers and Staff, Hiring and Retaining Top-level Talent, Managing Global and Distributed Teams, Project Economics and much, much more!

(Tolstoy Hall)

April 3, 2007
9.00-10.00 Registration and welcome coffee
(Exhibition area)
10.00-10.15 Welcome Comments from Dr. Dobb’s, RUSSOFT and IBM 
(Conference Hall)
10.15-11.15 presentation Keynote Visionary: Jim McCarthy, the author of Dynamics of Software Development
"Software for your head - How to create corporate genius"
(Conference Hall)
11.15-11.30 Coffee Break
(Exhibition Area)
Track 2 Session 1: Managing Customers Satisfaction
11.30-12.15 presentation Siegfried Langer (Relationship Executive Research & Development Russia, IBM)
"Managing successful collaboration between cultures"
12.15-12.45 presentation Dan Rawsthorne (Senior Consultant, Danube Technologies) 
"The Customer Team in Agility"
12.45-13.30 Lunch 
(Glinka & Mussorgsky Hall)
13.30-14.30 Keynote Visionary:  Theresa Quatrani, IBM
"Best Practices for Innovative Software Development"
(Conference Hall)
Track 2. Session 2. Applied Project Management
14.30-15.30 presentation Valentin Lopatin (Motorola)
"Measuring the Organizational Process Performance"
15.30-16.00 Alexey Harybin (key-adviser, Epicor|Scala)
"ESA: full control of your project based service organization"
16 00-16.30 Coffee Break
(Exhibition area)
Track 2. Session 3
16.30-17.00 presentation Alexander Babkin (Motorola)
"Customizing Process" means "Not Compromising Quality"
17.00-17.30 Andrew Denisov (consultant, Hay Group)
"How to make your strategy happen with your people?"
17.30-18.00  
18.00 Gala - Evening.



(Conference Hall)

April 4, 2007
9.00-10.00 Registration and welcome coffee
(Exhibition area)
10.00-11.00 Keynote Visionary:  Bruce Eckel, MindView, Inc.
"The World is Dynamic"
Track 2. Session 4. Agile Programming
11.00-11.30 presentation Simon Monk (Co-founder and Technical Director of Momote Ltd)
"Applying Agile Software Engineering Processes to Software Consultancy"
11.30-12.15 presentation Dan Rawsthorne (Senior Consultant, Danube Technologies)
"Storyotypes for Agile Development"
12.15-12.45 Coffee break
(Exhibition area)
12.45-13.45 Round table - CMMI/Agile
Moderator - Vladimir Polutin, Motorola.
Participants:
Sergei Andrzeevski (ProjectManager, StarSoft Development Labs/ Exigen Services)
Sergei Belov (ProjectManager, StarSoft Development Labs\Exigen Services)
Alexander Babkin (Motorola)
Alexander Lesnevsky (CTO, Artezio)
(Conference Hall)

13.45-14.45 Lunch 
(Glinka Hall)
14.45-15.45 presentation Keynote Visionary: Bertrand Meyer
"Towards completely automated testing"
15.45-16.00 Coffee Break
(Exhibition area)
Track 2. Session 5. Best Practices
16.00-16.45 Vyacheslav Borilin (SPIRIT)
"Íîw to get a world recognition in software business: the techniques, tools and group interactions that make for successful software development in the sphere of VoIP"
Track 2. Session 6
16.45-17.30 presentation Sergei Andrzeevski (ProjectManager, StarSoft Development Labs/ Exigen Services)
"Practical XP (Extreme Programming) basics"
17.30-18.00 presentation Sergey Belov (Project Manager, StarSoft Development Labs/ Exigen Services)
"Guerilla XP: A Case Study"
18.00 Closing Session
Closing note: Theresa Quatrani, IBM