Grigori Melnik: Thoughts on Agile Software Engineering and Beyond : talks

Video on what’s coming in EntLib 5.0

gmelnik — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:01:11 GMT

In this channel9 video, Chris and I give a 10,000 ft view on what’s coming in EntLib5.0. For details, consult our product backlog.

Where to find useful stuff from the Agile conference?

gmelnik — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:31:55 GMT

Agile conference traditionally publishes proceedings (that’s where you find all research papers and experience reports).

Attendees also receive a CD or a memory stick with tutorial materials (decks, handouts, demos etc.).

Several main stage talks are available as webcasts.

What about workshops? A workshop is really an opportunity for attendees to learn more from each other as opposed to from a lecturer/facilitator/presenter. Thus, typically, there is not much material produced ahead of time, when the proceedings and conference cds are being assembled. However, a good wealth of knowledge has been captured in workshop summaries that we encouraged workshop facilitators to publish on the conference public wiki after the conference: http://agile2008toronto.pbwiki.com/Agile2008+Sessions

Take a look!

Agile Perspectives PDC Workshop

gmelnik — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:14:00 GMT

As promised, here’s the deck Mary Poppendieck and I used during the workshop. We hope it was worth the attendees’ time. We encourage you to try new techniques we talked about and let us know how your agile adoption is going. For more information, visit Mary’s site.

Agile PreCon at PDC 2008

gmelnik — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:38:57 GMT

Mary Poppendieck and I are set to run a pre-conference workshop on Agile Perspectives: Industry and Microsoft.

In it, we will provide our observations on what works, what doesn’t in the world of agile, and why (we call this segment of the workshop “Reality of agile”). The objective is to provide pragmatic advice, recommendations and actions that you could use tomorrow to improve the way your teams produce software.

Mary, the author of popular Lean Software Development and Implementing Lean books, will provide her lean perspective from many years in the industry (if you want to find out more about Mary, check out this really good interview that Scott Hanselman took with both Mary and Tom Poppendieck, in which they challenge the notion of success in software industry). In turn, I am going to share my experience from several projects at Microsoft patterns & practices. Several other colleagues from Microsoft will join our panel at the end of the day to debate hot issues of agility. The floor will be open to audience participation. Mary and I identified several hot issues to bring up. However, it would be really good to know what kind of stuff you’d prefer us to touch upon. Please post your At-Issue suggestions in response to this post or simply email me. Thanks and see you in LA!

Empirical Evidence of Agile Methods: ce que nous savons, ce que nous pensons savoir et ce que nous voulons savoir

gmelnik — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:37:00 GMT

I gave two versions of my talk on the Empirical Evidence of Agile Methods : What We Know, What We Think We Know, and What We Would Like to Know at the patterns & practices summit in Québec City, Canada and the Agile Québec user group last week. Here’re the materials of the talk I promised to post.

As a side note: I’ve noticed that the Quebec audience mainly interacts with their eyes. They are so polite that they don’t interrupt the speaker, they even turn off their cell phones.