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They have gathered together the ‘best bits’ of various styles and methodologies they have been directly involved with, and combined them into a practical approach with the focus on delivering a pro...
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.. it is a really special feeling when you give someone a book and it changes the way they think and act. So I'm really pleased to have just finished reading a book that I know I'll be handing out ...
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I was amazed that these five chapters only take about 160 pages and yet tell you all you need to know about successful projects. I’ve experienced a lot of these problems myself, and so did/do you, ...
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(Jul 1)
The Agile It! Experience (aka Agile ITX) finished up this weekend and was a great success. The speakers were all top rate. The audience was educated and engaged. We had great interactions and great questions. I brought my daughter Hannah along and she walked the fine line between entertaining the audience without annoying them. Other than me bashing my head into the side of the swimming pool (ouch!) and having too many managers (and not enough management related talks), I can't think of a thing that wasn't stellar. Next time I'll bring goggles to the pool, and I can guaranty we'll have the management track topped out next time around.
Here are a few related links summing up the conference:
David Bock from a speaker's point of view:
Agile IT Exchange Conference
And Mike Witter's attendee point of view:
Agile IT Experience… 5 closing thoughts
Here's our expert panel discussion. I got to emcee a blue ribbon panel taking questions from attendees. It was late in the evening and I ended it about 8 pm, but it's good stuff.
Agile IT Experience 2008 Panel Discussion - Agile Marketing, Culture, Jokes
The entire conference went extremely well... and you'll be seeing more of them in the future.
Category: Agile
(Jul 1)
For those of you who are wondering if Ruby is enterprise worthy, then eRubyCon is for you. The speaker list is a "Who's who" of Ruby development and a stellar slate for any conference.
If you're into Ruby or Rails, I strongly encourage you to check out this event.
eRubyCon.com
Category: Ruby
(Jun 30)
Jennette Mullaney was kind enough to attend my talk Continuous Integration, The Cornerstone of a Great Shop talk in Las Vegas. We spoke for a bit afterwards and she put it all together into a nice interview.
Continuous integration reduces bugs, increases productivity
Enjoy!
Category: Agile
(Jun 3)
Ken, one of NFJS's best speakers, speaks tonight at Agile RTP. He'll be giving his well-known Iteration Zero talk.
I may not be there (my wife's under the weather), but Ken's a great speaker. If you're in the RTP, NC area, I'd encourage you to come out.
Category: Agile
(May 27)
Joe Armstrong's blog entry has some great quotes and insights. This type of thinking is exactly why you need to learn another language.
The Road we didn't go down
If you don't learn to think in a language like Erlang, you'll never be able to fully bring those idioms and paradigms back to your day job language. I'm simply repeating the advice of the Pragmatic Programmers from nearly a decade ago, but learn a new language every year.
And as any weightlifter will tell you, if you're not sore when you're done, you weren't working out. You were coasting. No pain, no gain applies to your brain as well as your back. So if you pick a new technology too close to what you already know, it might feel too easy. If so, back up and adjust your technical workout plan. Hit the muscles you haven't used in a while.
Feel the burn! ;)
Category: Erlang
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NFJS in Austin. I haven't done the Austin show in a while.
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