August 2007 - Posts

Tuesday @ Agile 2007
Tuesday saw the opening keynote by Susan Ershler, as well as the beginning of the vendor talks that I organized this year. Here's the full list of sessions I attended: Reaching New Heights: Learning to Adapt by Susan Ershler Agile Tooling: A Point, Counter-point Read More...
Posted 21 August 07 02:26 by aridle | 0 Comments   
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Agile 2007: The First Thing to Build - Trust on Agile Teams
Diana Larsen is a special sort of nut. She's an organizational development and communications expert, not a technologist. Her sessions touch on many of the softer skills necessary to thrive on a team (any team, not just an Agile team). I've been seeking Read More...
Posted 21 August 07 02:12 by aridle | 1 Comments   
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Agile 2007: Having Fun with Rails & Agile Development
In 90 minutes, Garg, Matt and David built a working web photo sharing web site. Garg played customer. David played whip-cracker (um... PM), and David did all the heavy lifting with Rails. This talk was a high level introduction to the speed and power Read More...
Posted 14 August 07 11:46 by aridle | 1 Comments   
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Monday @ Agile 2007
The conference is organized a bit differently this year. The only thing going on this morning is registration. So, I checked in and scanned the program guide for sessions I'd like to attend. There are too many good looking talks, this year! I hate that! Read More...
Posted 13 August 07 10:04 by aridle | 0 Comments   
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Agile 2007
I will be attending Agile 2007 in Washington, D.C. next week. In my capacity as Vendor Talks Chair, I will be moderating the vendor talks in Meeting Room 3 on both Tuesday and Thursday. Drop me a note if you're attending the conference. I'd love to meet Read More...
Posted 09 August 07 06:50 by aridle | 1 Comments   
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Update: Iterative and Incremental Development
I am enjoying the copy of Visual Studio Team System: Better Software Development for Agile Teams by Will Stott and James Newkirk that I picked up the other day. So far, it is doing a good job of both explaining Agile and how an Agile team might use VSTS. Read More...
Posted 01 August 07 11:04 by aridle | 0 Comments   
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