I am fortunate to have worked (and continue to work) with many excellent companies that have come to know, live and breath agility. This year, two of them are speaking at the Agile 2009 Conference in Chicago.

Salesforce.com has been well played on the public scene over the past two years, but this year we have a couple of new topics to explore from Catherine Connor and Eric Babinet. I highly recommend their talks from the experience they have had in growing their agility practice from just over 200 people in 2007 to well over 800 today! That includes agile transitions for IT and Technical Operations in addition to the growth in Research and Development.

• How Product Management Must Change to Enable the Agile Enterprise by Catherine Connor
• Improving the Quality of Your Dialogs - Eric Babinet

• The Amazing Team Race – A Team-Based Agile Adoption by Gabino Roche and Belkis Vasquez
• Scrum 911! Using Scrum to Overhaul a Support Organization by Bhaven Sheth