Conference Prep

I'm thinking of pitching a couple ideas to the Agile 2009 conference this year in Chicago.

Since my day job is called "Agile Coach" and not only do I coach but I'm also deeply involved in training other agile coaches, I'm guessing I might have something to say that the folks at the conference would want to hear.

I hope so, anyway.

I went through about 20 topics over the weekend, scoring them and narrowing them down, trying to find something that the most people would want to hear about.

The top two?

Soft Skills: Sales, Negotiation, and Mediation techniques you and your teams can use to turbo-charge your practice.

Specialist Roles and Agile Teams: How to integrate enterprise specialists.

Agile Doesn't Work for us: Applying Agile in Non-Traditional Teams

Next up: building up some material around both topics so that I can make a presentation. Wish me luck!