Agile Alliance Announces Full Program for Agile 2009 Conference

Largest conference on Agile software development to feature more than 300
sessions presented by industry luminaries and peer experts

PORTLAND, Ore., May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Agile Alliance,
(www.agilealliance.org) a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the
concepts of Agile software development, today announced the full conference
program for its Agile 2009 Conference, set for August 24 - 28 in Chicago
(http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/). In its eighth year, the Agile
Conference is the premiere event for the growing Agile community, providing
software professionals with the latest knowledge and shared experiences to
help foster successful Agile development programs.

This year's conference will feature more than 300 sessions presented by 329
leading Agile experts and practitioners, based on a record number of speaking
submissions gathered during the past six months. To review the latest schedule
of Agile 2009 sessions, encompassing all levels of experience, please visit
(http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/).

"Agile 2009 gives attendees unique access to the latest knowledge in the
industry and brings together the community to meet, exchange ideas and share
best-practices," said Johanna Rothman, Agile 2009 conference chair. "This
year's program is the best ever - as the best and brightest minds in software
development put forth current, compelling and actionable content that
attendees can leverage within their organizations."

This year's conference theme is "Making Agile Real," with an aim of broadening
the scope of Agile topics to meet the varying knowledge needs of the
fast-growing and diverse Agile community. The conference program builds upon
the success of last year's event, with an impressive number of tutorials,
workshops and experience reports offered. Attendees of Agile 2009 can choose
among more than 300 practical, interactive sessions led by industry experts
and practitioners. This year's conference includes the following 15 stages:

-- New to Agile
-- Agile & Organizational Culture
-- Agile Adoption
-- Agile Frontier
-- Agile Product Management
-- Coaching
-- Customers & Business Value
-- Developer Jam
-- Distributed Agile
-- Leadership & Teams
-- Main Stage
-- Manifesting Agility
-- Testing
-- Tools for Agility

-- User Experience

In its eighth year, the Agile Conference provides independent software
vendors, software consultants and in-house corporate development teams with
the knowledge and shared experiences that lead to successful Agile programs.
Agile 2009 connects attendees with the foremost leaders in the Agile domain,
enriching the collective body of knowledge and influencing the line of thought
in the field. It encourages debate and fosters innovative ideas based on
real-world implementations for executives, managers, software development
practitioners and researchers from labs and academia.

For more information on Agile 2009 visit, http://agile2009.agilealliance.org
and to register for the conference, visit http://www.agileregistration.org.

About the Agile Alliance
The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the
concepts of Agile software development, as outlined in the
(http://www.agilemanifesto.org/). With nearly 6,000 members located around the
globe, the Agile Alliance is driven by the principles of Agile methodologies
and the value they deliver to developers, organizations and end users. The
Agile Alliance organizes the annual Agile Conference, the industry's leading
event that attracts practitioners, academia, business and vendor-partner
community members from around the globe. The Agile 2009 conference
http://agile2009.agilealliance.org is set for August 24-28 in Chicago. For
more information about the organization, visit http://www.agilealliance.org/

Agile Alliance Media Contact:
Catapult PR-IR
Christie Denniston
Office: 303-581-7760 ext. 13
Cell: 303-827-5164
cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

SOURCE Agile Alliance

Christie Denniston of Catapult PR-IR, +1-303-581-7760, ext. 13, cell:
+1-303-827-5164, for Agile Alliance