Postpone/reschedule, go digital, or cancel outright—these have been the choices many convention organizers confronted in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. And plenty of of those organizers are nonetheless making an attempt to determine how one can stage their 2021 occasions.
However whether or not organizers maintain their agile and lean improvement conferences in individual or on-line, you need to nonetheless attend. You’ll be able to join with and be taught from one of the best lean and agile practitioners within the area, kind new relationships together with your friends, and share your data with different contributors.
Right here is TechBeacon‘s shortlist of the most well-liked agile and lean software program improvement conferences for 2021. (And take a look at TechBeacon’s other 2021 conference guides, which cowl software program engineering, cloud and IT operations, safety and extra).
February
OOP 2021
Twitter: @oop_conference, #oopmuc
Net: oop-konferenz.de/oop2021/english.html
Date: February 8-12
Location: Digital
Cost: €595 to €695
OOP payments itself because the convention for software program structure. The motto of this yr’s occasion is “Again to the Future.” Contributors can expertise the OOP with all its practice-oriented program content material and interactive trade within the consolation of their properties or residence places of work. Tracks embrace trendy enterprise structure, DevOps, testing and high quality, and enterprise agility.
Who ought to attend: Architects, analysts, software program engineers, agile group members, agile coaches, Scrum masters, dev/IT managers, administrators, program managers, and builders
DeveloperWeek
Twitter: @DeveloperWeek / #DEVWEEK2021
Net: developerweek.com
Date: February 17-19
Location: Digital
Cost: $595 to $995 (time-sensitive reductions obtainable)
Every year, DeveloperWeek welcomes over 8,000 builders, engineers, software program architects, dev groups, managers, and executives from greater than 70 international locations to find the most recent in developer applied sciences, languages, platforms, and instruments. DeveloperWeek 2021 features a hackathon, a tech hiring expo, and a collection of workshops, technical talks, and keynotes.
Who ought to attend: Builders, entrepreneurs, and enterprise capitalists
Agile Open Northwest
Twitter: @aonw
Net: agileopennorthwest.org/
Date: February 22-24
Location: Digital
Cost: $59 (plus Eventbrite charges)
Agile Open Northwest is an annual convention about agile practices and strategies. Utilizing Open Space, contributors create the convention they wish to attend. Attendees are invited to return ready to share their newest concepts, challenges, hopes, experiences, and experiments. The convention is proscribed to fewer than 250 contributors.
Who ought to attend: Skilled, collaborative, dedicated agile practitioners and learners, together with builders, testers, and enterprise individuals
LeanAgileUS
Twitter: @LeanAgileUS
Net: leanagileus.com
Date (2020): February 24-26
Location (2020): Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Cost (2020): $299 to $699 (time-sensitive reductions obtainable)
This three-track convention provides one thing for everybody serious about lean and agile practices. It has a mix of all flavors of agile, with audio system from across the globe and tracks that cowl every little thing from introductory to superior agile subjects from quite a lot of views.
Who ought to attend: Builders, challenge managers, product homeowners, Scrum masters, group leaders, managers, and executives
March
Agile Open San Diego
Twitter: @LeanAgileUS
Net: agileopencalifornia.com/san_diego.html
Date (2020): March 11-13
Location (2020): San Diego, California, USA
Cost (2020): $150 to $225
This convention is sponsored by a coalition of practitioners and advocates intent on advancing agile. It organizes its periods utilizing Open Area expertise so that everybody has an opportunity not solely to be taught but in addition to contribute. Attendees can take part in periods run by seasoned professionals or host a session of their very own.
Who ought to attend: Skilled, collaborative, and dedicated agile practitioners and learners, together with builders, testers, and enterprise individuals
Enterprise Agility Convention Vienna (now international)
Twitter: @BizAgilityConf
Net: businessagility-vienna.com
Date (2020): March 22-26
Location: Digital
Value: TBD
Sponsored by the Enterprise Agility Institute, this occasion focuses on firm tales and deep dives that permit conference-goers to debate what they’re studying, share insights, and brainstorm with others in all issues associated to enterprise agility.
Who ought to attend: Agile coaches, line managers, and HR professionals
DevOps Speak Convention
Twitter: @DevOpsTalks
Net: devops.talksplus.com/au/devops.html
Date: March 25-26
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Cost: A$878.90 to A$1,013.63
This convention brings collectively DevOps leaders, engineers, and designers who’re implementing DevOps ideas and practices in each startups and in main enterprise corporations. Attendees sometimes run technical and cultural DevOps advanced transformation for giant and medium organizations.
Who ought to attend: DevOps leaders, engineers, and designers
April
DevOpsCon London
Twitter: @devops_con / #DevOpsCon
Net: devopscon.io/london/devopscon-london-hybrid-edition/
Date: April 20-23
Location (hybrid): London, UK, and digital
Cost: Varies
That is one in a collection of conferences by Re-Assume IT specializing in steady supply, microservices, containers, cloud, and lean enterprise. Classes cowl subjects comparable to CI/CD with GitHub actions, DevOps throughout COVID, and overcoming limitations in containerized purposes. Workshops embrace exploring Go for microservices. Along with the London convention, occasions may also be held in Berlin, Germany (June 14-17), and New York City, New York (fall 2021).
Who ought to attend: Agile practitioners and learners, together with builders, testers, and managers
Crew 2021 (previously Atlassian Summit)
Twitter: @Atlassian
Net: atlassian.com/company/events/team
Date: April 20-21
Location: Digital
Value: TBD
Crew 2021 is Atlassian’s reimagined consumer convention. Previously often known as Summit, Crew 2021 is now meant for all groups and people searching for product data or insights on the way forward for work. Contributors can get along with business specialists to discover the intersection of teamwork, humanity, and expertise in addition to methods to unleash the total potential of each group.
Who ought to attend: Members of the Atlassian consumer and companion group, builders, creators, innovators
Might
Agile Manchester Digital
Twitter: @agilemanc, #agilemanc
Net: 2020.agilemanchester.net
Date (2020): Might 15
Location (2020): Digital
Value: TBD
Organizers describe this occasion as sensible agile improvement convention that enables contributors to attach and be taught from their friends and from leaders within the business. The convention has a robust sensible focus and attracts business practitioners and resolution makers who wish to enhance their success with agile and lean strategies.
Who ought to attend: Agile practitioners in search of a small convention targeted on hands-on coaching and studying
DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) London (now digital)
Twitter: @ITRevDOES
Net: events.itrevolution.com/virtual/
Date: Might 18-20
Location: Digital
Value: $650
DOES is greater than only a convention about technical and architectural DevOps practices. The occasion additionally covers the strategies wanted to guide widespread change efforts in massive organizations. The aim is to present leaders the instruments and practices they should develop and deploy software program sooner. Attendees can count on to see audio system from many massive corporations and likewise have interaction in advert hoc discussions inside an incredible group and studying atmosphere.
Who ought to attend: Leaders of enormous, advanced organizations implementing DevOps or agile ideas and practices; builders; IT operations specialists; CxOs; software program architects; and programs and community admins
Path to Agility Convention
Twitter: @cohaainfo
Net: thepathtoagility.com
Date: Might 26-27
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Value: TBD
At this convention, each nationwide and regional agile thought leaders present session content material targeted on a mixture of enterprise, technical, and administration subjects. Occasion organizers say that, no matter whether or not a conference-goer is properly alongside the agile path or is simply beginning out, this discussion board will assist information them in the best path. Session subjects embrace realizing enterprise agility with adaptive administration, nitty-gritty practices of agile teaching, and documentation in agile improvement.
Who ought to attend: Agile group leaders and coaches, Scrum leaders, product managers, software program engineers and designers, builders, and programmers
June
Agile + DevOps West
Twitter: @TechWell / #AgileDevWest
Net: agiledevopswest.techwell.com
Date: June 6-11
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Value: Free to $999
Agile + DevOps conferences supply the most recent in strategies, processes, expertise, instruments, and management ideas to assist newbies and seasoned professionals ship software program with better pace and agility whereas assembly high quality and safety calls for. Regardless of your stage of agile or DevOps adoption, organizers promise, you will discover thought-provoking keynotes, deep-dive coaching courses, participating tutorials, and session subjects that may information and encourage you.
Who ought to attend: Agile groups and management; digital transformation groups; automation, builders, testers, and launch workers; product homeowners; and managers
XP 2021
Twitter: @XPConf / #XP2021
Net: agilealliance.org/xp2021/
Date: June 14-18
Location: Digital
Value: TBD
This agile software program improvement convention combines analysis and apply. It helps agile researchers, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers to get collectively to current and talk about their most up-to-date improvements, analysis outcomes, experiences, issues, challenges, and traits. Whether or not you’re new to agile or a seasoned agile practitioner, XP 2021 will present an off-the-cuff atmosphere to each be taught and set off dialogue.
Who ought to attend: Agile researchers, practitioners, coaches, managers, scrum masters, and builders
Agile Testing Days USA
Twitter: @AgileTDUSA
Net: agiletestingdays.us
Date: June 20-24
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Cost: Convention, $2,095 to $3,390 (time-sensitive and group reductions obtainable; all costs will rise with time)
This convention is aimed toward all software program engineers and testing professionals. Based on convention organizers, the discussion board provides a enjoyable platform to attach and community with the agile group by means of tutorials, workshops, keynotes, talks, and social occasions.
Who ought to attend: Anybody concerned with software program testing, plus software program architects, utility builders, IT managers, CIOs, CTOs, and software program engineers
July
Agile2021
Twitter: @AgileAlliance / #Agile2021
Net: agilealliance.org/agile2021/
Date: July 19-22
Location: Digital
Value: TBD
Agile2021 will mark the twentieth yr that the Agile Alliance has hosted this worldwide convention. On the occasion, attendees can discover the most recent strategies, practices, and techniques in agile software program improvement from the world’s main specialists, change brokers, innovators, and thought leaders.
Who ought to attend: Software program challenge managers, product homeowners, builders, testers, and mainly anybody with a major curiosity in agile practices
September
Agile Prague Convention
Twitter: @AgilePrague
Net: agileprague.com
Date: September 13-14
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Value: TBD
Greater than 30 audio system from around the globe will seem at Agile Prague in 2021. The convention, which is carried out in English, is working in two parallel tracks over two days. You’ll be able to select from quite a lot of talks for managers, Scrum masters, and product homeowners. Along with talks, there can be a number of case-study shows about agile adoption and sensible workshops the place attendees can check out agile practices.
Who ought to attend: Managers, Scrum masters, testers, builders, and product homeowners
ACE 2021
Twitter: @aceconf
Net: aceconf.com/home
Date: September 16-18
Location: Krakow, Poland
Value: €350, plus 23% VAT (time-sensitive reductions obtainable)
Organizers say that is the biggest convention of its form in central Europe. In 2021, two conferences are being mixed into one two-track discussion board. The “Constructing Higher Software program” monitor covers subjects comparable to agile, lean, scrum, and Kanban. A “Constructing Higher Merchandise” monitor is for anybody concerned in creating merchandise.
Who ought to attend: Agile, Scrum, and Kanban practitioners; product managers; UI and interplay designers; and UX researchers
October
Mile Excessive Agile
Twitter: @agiledenver / #milehighagile
Net: milehighagile.org/
Date: October
Location: TBD
Value: TBD
Agile Denver, the town’s nonprofit group for agile and lean strategies, sponsors this convention, which has offered out practically yearly because the inception of the occasion. The discussion board goals to raise the state of agile practices, educating a large viewers from novices to gurus and from technical professionals to enterprise executives.
Who ought to attend: Agile practitioners, technical professionals, group leaders, managers, executives, and organizational change leaders
Agile India
Twitter: @agileindia
Net: 2020.agileindia.org
Date (2020): October 11-18
Location (2020): Digital
Value (2020): Convention, Rs15,000 to Rs45,000 (four-day go); workshops Rs5,000 to Rs30,000
Agile India payments itself as Asia’s largest convention about modern software program improvement strategies. It is hosted by the Agile Alliance and arranged by the Agile Software program Group of India. The discussion board consists of an agile coach camp and workshops earlier than the beginning of the occasion and extra workshops after it is completed. Every day focuses on a theme, together with agile mindset day, enterprise agility day, design innovation day, and steady supply and DevOps day.
Who ought to attend: Builders, agile practitioners, consultants, software program engineers, thought leaders, DevOps group members and leaders, line-of-business managers, challenge managers, enterprise analysts, programmers, testers, Q&A practitioners, and UX designers
DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) Las Vegas
Twitter: @ITRevDOES
Net: events.itrevolution.com/virtual/
Date (2020): October 13-15
Location (2020): Digital
Value: TBD
DOES is greater than only a convention about technical and architectural DevOps practices. The occasion additionally covers the strategies wanted to guide widespread change efforts in massive organizations. The aim is to present leaders the instruments and practices they should develop and deploy software program sooner. Attendees can count on to see audio system from many massive corporations and likewise have interaction in advert hoc discussions inside an incredible group and studying atmosphere.
Who ought to attend: Leaders of enormous, advanced organizations implementing DevOps or agile ideas and practices, builders, IT operations specialists, CxOs, software program architects, and programs and community admins
Agile-Lean Eire
Twitter: @AgileLeanIrl
Net: alicon.org
Date (2020): October 29-30
Location (2020): Digital
Value: TBD
This community-led convention mixes open-space periods with conventional convention workshops, shows, and lightning talks.
Who ought to attend: Agile/lean coaches, Scrum masters, product homeowners, leaders, and builders
Spinnaker Summit
Twitter: @SpinnakerSummit
Net: events.linuxfoundation.org/spinnaker-summit/
Date (2020): October 19-November 12
Location (2020): Digital
Value (2020): Free to $50
This convention attracts worldwide customers of Spinnaker, an open-source, multi-cloud, steady supply platform for releasing software program adjustments. Spinnaker was created at Netflix and is utilized by Google, Armory, Field, Cisco, Samsung, and others across the globe. It combines a strong and versatile pipeline administration system with integrations to the foremost cloud suppliers.
Who ought to attend: Builders, architects, leaders, and anybody sustaining mission-critical purposes
November
Agile + DevOps East
Twitter: @TechWell / #AgileDevEast
Net: adceast.techwell.com
Date: November 14-19
Location: Orlando, Florida, USA
Value: Free to $999
Agile + DevOps conferences supply the most recent within the strategies, course of, expertise, instruments, and management ideas to assist newbies and seasoned professionals ship software program with better pace and agility whereas assembly high quality and safety calls for. Regardless of your stage of agile or DevOps adoption, you will see that thought-provoking keynotes, deep-dive coaching courses, participating tutorials, and session subjects that may information and encourage you.
Who ought to attend: Agile groups and management; digital transformation groups; automation, improvement, take a look at, and launch workers; product homeowners; and managers
International Scrum Gathering Lisbon
Twitter: @ScrumAlliance
Net: events.scrumalliance.org/sglis20
Date: November 17-19
Location: Lisbon, Spain
Value: TBD
The occasion goals to supply scrum practitioners with an progressive and actionable expertise. Previous boards have coated a mixture of introductory and superior subjects and audio system have targeted on how one can amplify the advantages of Scrum throughout all industries, with an emphasis on progress by means of shared data.
Who ought to attend: Scrum and agile practitioners, agile lovers, and enterprise leaders and managers
That concludes our record. For a extra dense record of Agile Alliance-related workshops and occasions, take a look at the Agile Alliance event calendar, too. And see TechBeacon’s complete list of tech conferences here.
Word: We have listed all of them, though not all dates, areas, and pricing have been obtainable at publication time, particularly for these occasions happening later within the yr. In these circumstances, we now have supplied historic details about the occasion to present you a style of what to anticipate, and what you will get out of attending. And preserve checking again. We’ll replace this information as extra data turns into obtainable.
Evaluate the choices and make your decisions quickly: Costs could range based mostly on how early you register. Additionally, keep in mind that resort and journey prices are typically separate from the convention pricing.
Photograph courtesy of Mark Kilby.
