I skipped the Toronto Agile 2008 conference this year in  August. But when the call for proposals was out back in January I heard from Portia Tung that she’d read my article on Personal Agility and wished I would present Responsibility Redefined™ in Toronto. I appreciated that since I’d presented at the 2004-2007 conferences. Alas, I told her we’d have to sync up somewhere else.

So as I’m heading into the London conference center last Wednesday to give the closing keynote for Agile Business Conference 2008, I pass a pub where my friends Ole and Jenni of Go Agile, a consulting group in Copenhagen, are hanging out with another gentleman and an oriental woman breaking out in a huge smile of recognition and waving at me. Then, an hour later, there she is again in the audience smiling and nodding and grinning at everything I said. (I do so play to such full-of-positive-feedback audience members.)

Yep, it was Portia.

Portia blogs in Challenge Your Personal Agility about that talk. An excellent writer, Portia describes my work well. Thanks Portia!

But wait there’s more

Portia sent me home with a deck of cards from her Agile Fairytales games which you can access, download, and use! How kind is that of Portia?! Read about some folks playing the game last week at the conference.

The organizers sent out the following release today announcing the availability of early bird registration.

Early Bird Savings – offer closes 6th June

2008 programme: www.agileconference.org/programme.asp

For remaining sponsorship packages – email: sponsors@agileconference.org

The Agile Business Conference enters its 5th year with a richer and more varied programme than ever before. Whether you are relative newcomer to Agile needing to know what the options are and how to implement them – or a battle hardened expert wishing to develop your techniques – this is for you.

Throughout the programme you will find sessions based on real experiences from a wide range of contexts – all from organisations and individuals who are world class in their field.

Hear first-hand Agile experiences from Borland, E.ON, BT, Yahoo and Standard Life.
Find out how the leading Agile techniques compare – which to use and where.
Gain expert guidance on specific Agile techniques such as estimating.
Learn how to get boardroom support for Agile and how to implement Agile

Put lie to the myths…
Agile can’t be used in safety critical applications
Agile can’t be used for large projects
Agile can’t be used with distributed teams
Agile can’t be used in rigid governance environments

We are delighted to have the Agile Alliance supporting the conference for the second year running and to welcome back speakers who received exceptional reviews last year – Roger Leaton from BT, Christopher Avery from Responsibility Redefined and Derrick Murray from Munich Re.

Challenging economic conditions make efficient and effective project delivery imperative – come and see how Agile Works!

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And stay tuned as I may soon have more news to share about the Responsibility Redefined™ September 2008 European Tour…