David Hussman

Agile Prague 2025

The next year of Agile Prague Conference is going to be Sep 15-16, 2025.

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Wouldn’t it be great to go to a conference that included all of the topics that are most interesting to you? A conference that addressed your most pressing questions?
That’s what the Open Space sessions are for. It’s the part of the conference that you get to design.

Join the lunch Open Space and deepen your learning experience.

David Hussman

David has lead software for many years in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, government, legal, security, financial, retail, and education to name a few. David now spends his time coaching and leading agile project communities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Along with presenting and leading workshops / tutorials at conferences in the U.S. and Europe, David is the creator of the video series Cutting An Agile Groove, and has contributed to several books (“Managing Agile Projects” and “Agile in the Large”) as well as contributing to agile curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University.

David leads DevJam, a Minneapolis based company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on using agile to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products.

For more information, check out the DevJam website www.devjam.com

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Creator of the video series Cutting An Agile Groove by The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Contributor to Managing Agile Projects

Contributor to “Agile in the Large”< Contributor to Curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University.

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Keynote: Shut Up and Play Ya Guitar

Description: History repeats itself in the form of people once again addicted to process. Ground hog day thinking calls for a renaissance of agility. We need to draw from the past as we reinvent the future. More value lies in intentional and contextual selection of the many tools in the agile community. Many people are striving to “do the process” or practice “pure Agile”, working under the named (or unnamed) assumption that following a process will lead to success. It is time to replace process thinking with outcome based thinking. Leading adoption of new tools and ideas by naming the expected outcomes helps people work toward success that is contextually significant and shows real value and promotes meaningful learning. Intentional agility is the source of our renaissance of agility, blindly following empty rituals will lead us back into the Dark Ages of software development (or lack thereof).

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Coaching is More than Telling People What to Do

Once upon a time, the idea of a team coach did not really exist. Today, many people are coaching but many are confused. This session will speak to and challenge the most common questions I hear on a daily basis: How is an agile “coach” the same or different than a scrum master or technical lead? What’s the role of an agile coach and how is it the same or different than a project manager? Does an agile coach focus only on the dev team or do they get involved with coaching product owners and testers too? What does an agile coach do besides running meetings?

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