I while be attending Agile 2007 in a few weeks and thought it might be fun to write down some of things I’m hoping to discover:
In the large (department/company wide issues):
- Finding executives and other senior people at large companies who are (or have) adopted Agile. I would like to find people we can ask occasional questions of (and they can ask us).
- Find out what issues people have coordinating projects in a tiered environment. In our cases some of our stack is 10 layers deep
- What issues do people have coordinating many related projects running in parallel? Consider a as many as 30+ teams working on 15+ projects all of which must be released as one platform. How do we handle dependency and risk management?
- Key lessons learned: critical success factors and pitfalls to avoid when doing agile in the large
- Hearing others Agile adoption experience (there are several sessions on this subject) in particular what went wrong, what would they do differently?
In the small:
- How do others do acceptance testing for Rich Clients? Is anyone doing acceptance testing with Eclipse?
- How others are keep Continuous Improvement alive on Agile Teams? Some teams I’ve seen find a plateau and don’t move on from there.
- What are other people’s experiences doing Agile development with distributed teams – sometimes with each team member in a different location?
BTW here is the complete list of conference events:http://www.agile2007.com/index.php?page=sub/ (keep in mind: it’s sold out already)
Whats on your mind? What do you want to get out of the conference? Tell what your goals are and I will blog about what I learn.
Look me at the conference – let’s have a chat and perhaps a pint. Leave a comment so I know who to look for.
BTW I (and this blog) are on vacation for the next two weeks so your comments won’t approved until I get back.
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