First-ever agile conference to be held in Sri Lanka

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The Colombo Agile Conference, the next phase of the Colombo Agile Camp is to be held on 23 January 2013 at BMICH, Committee Room A. The objective of this conference will be to spread knowledge on agile practices within the Sri Lankan ICT landscape. This is an initiative taken by the Colombo Agile Community, an independent association with the objective of enhancing and improving skills of local professionals towards these methodologies.

The international speakers for the event are Ilan Goldstein and Colin Tan. Goldstein is a globally recognised Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and has extensive experience working with start-ups, market leaders and public companies to improve their agility through the implementation of Scrum. He is one of only five global CSTs approached by Pearson Publishing (under the Addison-Wesley brand) to author his own Scrum-focused book as part of the critically acclaimed and popular ‘Cohn Agile Signature Series’.

Along with being a founder of AxisAgile (an agile training and consulting company in Sydney, Australia), he regularly speaks at many conferences, contributes to industry publications and blogs on Scrum related matters. Ilan is also on the board of Scrum Australia, organisers of Australia’s National Scrum conferences.Colin Tan, the second international guest speaker, has worked with publicly listed companies, media companies and software start-ups to create memorable user experiences and build products that users fall in love with.

He has held the roles of Senior Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Product Manager and User Experience Manager before finally arriving at his true calling and passion, the role of Scrum Product Owner. Furthermore, he is the illustrator of ‘Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners’, a Scrum-focused book in the popular ‘Cohn Agile Signature Series’ published by Pearson Publishing.

Along with being a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Scrum trainer, Colin is also a Director of AxisAgile, a Scrum training, coaching and consulting company based in Sydney, Australia. He is also a Director of Scrum Australia, a not-for-profit organisation charged with running Australia’s first Scrum-focused conference.

At the Colombo Agile Conference, Goldstein will express his views on ‘Agile Attitudes and Abilities’, highlighting a new way of working that requires a deep understanding of the innate attitudes and abilities that are required rather than simply focusing on the operational roles and responsibilities. Tan will present his findings on ‘Agile Matrices’, sharing some practical real life metrics that practitioners could use within their teams. Furthermore participants will also have an opportunity of experiencing real-life agile practices from Sri Lanka’s leading industry experts. For those who are interested in participating in Sri-Lanka’s first-ever Colombo Agile Conference, please visit www.colomboagileconference.com.