Track overview

Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Architecture	Architecture	Java
.NET	.NET	Agile
Java	Agile	Smart phone
Smart phone	Excellence	Excellence
Excellence	Test	Test
Collaboration	User Experience	Cool Languages
Web	Entrepreneurship	Web
Xtra(ck)	Xtra(ck)	Windows 8

Track: Keynote

Thursday

08:30-09:45

Embracing Uncertainty - the Hardest Pattern of All

Agile calls for us to embrace uncertainty, and we are desperately uncomfortable with uncertainty. So much so that we will replace it with anything, even things we know don’t work.Over the last year or so Dan has been studying and talking about patterns of effective software delivery. In this talk he explains why Embracing Uncertainty is the most fundamental effectiveness pattern of all, and offers advice to help make uncertainty less scary. He is pretty sure he won’t succeed.

Dan North

Dan has been writing software for over 20 years, and was a principal consultant with technology consultancy ThoughtWorks. Now a recent transplant to Chicago, he spends his time helping teams become more effective at delivering software, and presents at conferences such as JAOO, Agile and OOPSLA on topics ranging from learning theory to behaviour-driven development. He has published articles in the Java Developers' Journal and Better Software, and for CIO newsletters and the DSDM consortium.