Agile 2008 Post Roundup

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I keep on stumbling across posts about Agile 2008 and thought it might be worth sharing.

Karl Scotland: Agile Business Conference 2008 Review, Agile 2008 - Wednesday, Agile 2008 - Thursday, Agile 2008 - Friday

Lyssa Adkins: Deep Learning at Agile 2008

Eugene Nizker: 7 Agile Leadership Lessons for the Suits

Jeff Sutherland: Agile 2008 - Money For Nothing and Secret Sauce for Distributed Scrum

Gerry Kirk: Money For Nothing: Deliver More Value For Your Client (And You); We do Agile, but Where is the Quality?; Effective Pairing: Good, Bad and the Ugly and Challenges Distributed Agile Teams Face, and Ways to Overcome Them

Luke Hohmann: Agile-08 Repeat Performance and Slides

David Anderson: Future Directions for Agile (from Agile 2008)

Machiel Groeneveld: Agile 2008 - ideas and inspiration

Ryan Shriver: Thoughts on Agile 2008

Richard Durnall: Reflections on Agile 2008

Artem Marchenko: Trends in the world of Agile: Notes after Agile 2008

Kent McDonald: Agile 2008 – Starting out With The Best of Intentions; Agile 2008 - Solving problems requires asking the right questions.; Agile 2008 – Define Roles as Who Decides What, Not Who Does What; Agile 2008 – What simulations can teach us about our decision making process and Agile 2008 – Clearing the bridge on the move to agile – how to apply focus to removing obstacles.

Jason Mawdsley: Agile 2008 - Part II, Agile 2008 - Part III, Agile 2008 - Part IV and Agile 2008 - Part V

Agile Tools (no name?): Agile 2008 - Day 2, Agile 2008 - Day 3, Agile 2008 - Day 4 and surprisingly: Agile 2008 - Day 5

Lisa Crispin: Back from Agile 2008 - what did I learn?

Clinton Keith: Agile 2008 Conference

Gojko Adzic: James Surowiecki: The Wisdom of Crowds, Henrik Kniberg: 10 ways to screw up despite Scrum and XP, Marry Poppendieck: The elephant in the room, Robert C. Martin: Quintessence, Marcus Evans: the FrAgile organisation

Mishkin Berteig: First Day of Agile 2008 Conference

Ade Miller: Agile 2008 - Distributed Agile, Agile 2008 - Conway’s Law and Distributed Teams, Agile 2008 - Industrial Logic’s Agile eLearning, Agile 2008 - Something is wrong but why?, Agile 2008 - Scrum and Kanban, Agile 2008 - One Hundred Days of Continuous Integration

Pascal Van Cauwenberghe: Agile2008 - Opening, Agile 2008 - Tuesday sessions, Agile 2008 - Wednesday morning, Agile 2008 - Wednesday afternoon pt. 1, Agile 2008 - Wednesday afternoon pt. 2, Agile 2008 - Thursday, Agile 2008 - Friday pt. 1, Agile 2008 - Alan Cooper keynote, Agile 2008 - Final sessions, leaving Toronto, The Business Value Game: v1.0 released

Dave Hoover: Uncle Bob On Craftsmanship At Agile 2008, Craftsmanship over Heroics

Damon Poole: Deep Agile 2008 - Not as Easy as You Thought!

Josh Sherwood: Agile 2008 - Agile Skeptic?

Johannes Link: Sleepless in Toronto

Eric Lefevre: The Pomodoro Technique: can you focus - really focus - for 25 minutes?, Craftsmanship over Execution

Valtech French Blog

Danilo Sato: Learning Kaizen from Toyota, New Product Development @ Toyota, Starting a Kanban System for Software Engineering with Value Stream Maps and Theory of Constraints, Come and Take it! Lean Pull Applied, Expanding Agile: the Five Dimensions of Systems, Coding Dojo @ Agile 2008, My Agile 2008

David Starr: My Life in a Bush of Legacy Code – Michael Feathers and Value Stream Mapping.

MSDNRSS (clearly wants to remain anonymous): A summary of an Agile 2008 summary

Gatorxero (why can’t people use their real names?): Questioning Agile with Scott Barber

Eric Babinet and Rajani Ramanathan: Dependency Management in a Large Agile Organization

James Shiell: Agile 2008, The Wisdom of Crowds, Agile Game Development, Hiring for an Agile team, XP - J. B. Rainsberger’s Greatest Misses and Embrace Uncertainty.

Michael Tardiff: Feeling Agile

Raghav Ramesh: Agile2008

My own efforts:

Agile 2008 a Personal Retrospective and on InfoQ: Agile Alliance Functional Test Workshop

Coaching Self Organizing Teams and Part Two (Joseph Pelrine)

Touchy Feely Impediments to Agile Adoption (Amr Elssamadisy)

Beginner’s Mind - An Approach to Listening(Jean Tabaka and David Hussman)

Overcoming Resistance to Change (Dave Nicolette and Lasse Koskela)

I’m sure there’s lots I’ve missed - but after crawling through the top 200 results on google et al, I’ve had enough.

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