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Hello Community members,

You have probably missed the AgileDC conference over the last two years as much as we did. Today, we are excited to announce that we are inviting members from across our local and national Agile Community to submit a potential presentation for this year’s conference… a conference that will be somewhat different than in years’ past.

First and foremost, the physical conference will have a smaller footprint and we will only be accepting 36 presentations (roughly half of prior years). 

Additionally, this year’s selection process is based on the work of Adam Cronkite, of Democracy Research,  and Mike Lauer, of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), explored in the Revisionist History Podcast: The Powerball Revolution. Rather than rely exclusively on the organizing committee to determine who should be part of the program, this method randomizes the selection of submissions, which removes the potential for bias in the selection decision. 

The process works as follows:

• First, the organizing committee will review submissions against the following criteria:
  • Is the proposal related to Agile Software Development or the use of Agile principles in other fields?
  • Does the proposal abstract and title sell the audience on attending your session?
  • Is the proposal outline/structure clear and detailed enough including a description of the content, concrete examples, good time management, and balance theory and experience?
• Then, all submissions that meet the minimum proposal criteria will be added to a lottery for random selection;
• The randomly selected speakers will be asked to interview with one or more organizing committee members before the final schedule is determined.

The podcast is available here: Revisionist History Podcast: The Powerball Revolution.

All proposals submitted after July 26th and before August 24th will be considered for the final schedule. Each presentation timebox is a 45-minute session of which at least 10 minutes should be set aside for Q&A with session participants.

Speakers will be notified whether their presentation has been selected on or about September 2, 2022.

Good luck!