Colombo Agile Conference 2014 a resounding success

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Sri Lanka’s largest gathering of ‘Agilists’ unfolded last month as the Colombo Agile Conference 2014, held for the second consecutive year, brought together over 400 IT professionals to dissect the latest trends and best practices in Agile software development – one of most popular development concepts in the world today.

With a stellar line-up of some of the world’s most renowned Agile experts coupled with local professionals in Agile methodology, the symposium proved to be incredibly useful to the participants as the speakers covered a diverse range of topics, sharing real-life examples in differing business environments and cutting-edge systems. These were followed by four highly technical tracks sessions during which conference-goers were given the chance to interact with the speakers.

The conference took place on 26 June at the Cinnamon Lakeside and was a highly successful follow-up to its predecessor in 2013. The flagship event of the Colombo Camps Community, the full-day event consisted of keynote speeches delivered by some of the international speakers in the morning. This was followed by technical tracks on ‘Agile QA’, ‘Dev Ops’, ‘Scrum Shortcuts’ and ‘Agile Metrics’ held parallely during which several Sri Lankan Agile practitioners presented their white papers.

“Agile is not a way of doing, it’s a way of doing better. It’s not about software – it’s about business success,” stated former Yahoo!Vice President of Product Development and GoodAgile CEO Pete Deemer in his keynote address, a message expounded throughout the conference.

The line-up of speakers also included Crisp Agile and Lean Coach Henrik Kniberg, AxisAgile and Scrum Australia Director Ilan Goldstein, GoodAgile CEO Pete Deemer, Evolve Beyond Managing Director and Scrum Foundation Co-Founder Gabrielle Benefield, Evolve Beyond CTO Robert Benefield andAxisAgile and Scrum Australia Director Colin Tan.

The local presenters represented several leading companies in Sri Lanka’s IT sector and consisted of 99X Technology Senior Quality Assurance Lead Janith Gunasekera, VirtusaSenior Consultant – Process Janani Liyanage, Netstarter Senior Delivery Manager Harsha Kapilarathna, 99X Technology Software Architect Samudra Kanankearachchi, IFS Lead Software Engineer and Agile Coach Hiruna Dissanayake, 99X Technology Senior QA Engineer – Test Automation Kishan Navaratne, Pearson Lanka Program Manager Rukshan Jayaratne and 99X Technology’s Technology Manager Hasith Yaggahavita.

As in 2013, the participants of this year’s conference rated the conference highly and were very impressed by the calibre of the speakers as well as the content of the presentations. The organisers, the Colombo Camps Community, were praised, not only by participants but also the international speakers, for the initiative taken on by them to host such events in the country which benefit local IT professionals greatly.

The Colombo Camps Community is an independent community of software developers, with a common goal of improving the competencies of members of the Sri Lankan IT community. This concept of forming the community from technical personnel of the local IT industry, in an effort to bridge gaps prevalent in the IT sector in terms of knowledge and skills. This initiative is a collective attempt to place Sri Lanka on the global map as a hub for IT knowledge services.

The Colombo Agile Conference 2014 was sponsored by software product engineering company 99X Technology, Scrum Alliance, certified Scrum trainer GoodAgile, Tickets.lk as official ticketing partner, ReadMe.lk as digital media sponsor and was supported by the ICTA.

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Comments - 22

Amila. G Sunday, 21 September 2014 04:22 AM

Well done law of the land . You won once again .

M.O.A.Careem Sunday, 21 September 2014 03:19 PM

since 20 yrs UNP lost - now - without cost - scored in Uva even in southern by 283,000 compared to 2009 p/c poll - natural growth - a steady growth with logic

Dickie Bird Sunday, 21 September 2014 11:29 AM

Democratic politics have divided the masses.
How does one expect a country to move forward so badly divided with so many political parties.

Ponil Sunday, 21 September 2014 07:18 AM

Guinness losing record! Let's

Casper Sunday, 21 September 2014 06:35 AM

[quote name="Ceylonese"]I can't understand...UNP or UPFA or JVP or whatever every candidate is from Sri Lanka (in other words all are South Asians) how can they make a difference with similar corrupt political attitudes....??? please explain[/quote]
Stupidity at it's best, When a family of children living together have different attitude, how do you expect all pepole in a country to be the same. people differ from each other...grow up.

Expert Sunday, 21 September 2014 06:19 AM

[quote name="sakvithi"]This is a victory for UNP.
If ranil leave the party surely UNP will come to power.
Please you can go home now Ranil.
Then sajith can defeat this injustice beast government.[/quote]

Ranil not need to go home. He need to ask for next presidential election and Sajith need to be deputy leader. Sajith need to be more mature for stand for presidential elction.

tony Sunday, 21 September 2014 06:06 AM

REJECTED VOTES. A GUINNESS BOOK WORLD RECORD

Sidath Sunday, 21 September 2014 05:52 AM

Rejected votes must recount and see.. UNP made a giant step forward and this is a big win for UNP ... Expect Ranil to lead the country in near future and surely a lovely time ahead .... God Bless mother lanka

Ceylonese Sunday, 21 September 2014 05:39 AM

I can't understand...UNP or UPFA or JVP or whatever every candidate is from Sri Lanka (in other words all are South Asians) how can they make a difference with similar corrupt political attitudes....??? please explain

Gayan Sunday, 21 September 2014 05:34 AM

Thousands of rejected votes. Why? And 50.000 Tamil workers could not vote or where not allowed to. Awkward

sakvithi Sunday, 21 September 2014 05:27 AM

This is a victory for UNP.
If ranil leave the party surely UNP will come to power.
Please you can go home now Ranil.
Then sajith can defeat this injustice beast government.

myraspi Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:49 AM

Looks like people are getting fedup of all the lies and nonsense. should be a wake-up call to all those responsible.

Amila. G Sunday, 21 September 2014 04:16 AM

How funny ,it is evident Sri Lankans like corrupt leaders.

sg Sunday, 21 September 2014 03:50 AM

In general red signal for the government, specially Badulla electorate fake politiceans of the government.

Ajjaa Sunday, 21 September 2014 03:33 AM

Wake up call to government.Its time to reduce the jumbo cabinet,respect the citizens by listening to their thoughts,do not waste tax payers money,give them a feeling to their stomachs by reducing high cot of living.If not next time they will chase you.z

ordinary man Sunday, 21 September 2014 03:17 AM

In real terms has lost Badulla. Evan with Panchaudha Pacha Wimal Govt does not have the 50%.

Don Don Sunday, 21 September 2014 03:13 AM

The wind of change has started.....
There is a clear message in the air.....
The government has to go.......
Time for a change........

UVA peoples Mind Sunday, 21 September 2014 02:48 AM

People decided right thing..but still this results are not sure, something fishy specially in moneragala

ANTON Sunday, 21 September 2014 02:34 AM

AS EXPECTED , IT IS DIFFICULT TO DEFEAT UPFA AMIDST THE WAR VICTORY AND BEAUTIFICATION OF THE COUNTRY, WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT IS THE REDUCTION OF POWER.

The counsellor Sunday, 21 September 2014 02:32 AM

There's something not right about the rejected votes. It's fishy!

myraspi Sunday, 21 September 2014 02:21 AM

Although they have won the election the margin is pretty thin. If the opposition works together they sure can put up a good fight. eventually the peoples are going to get fed-up of all the lies.

IMS Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:51 AM

Is this a victory? after all the thuggery, reducing of oil prices and bribing voters. People have rejected "miracle mockery" SAMAYANG. Report seat results.

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