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 […]
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Agile 2008 a Personal Retrospective
This was my second Agile conference and I was pleasantly surprised at just how well it went. For a gathering of 1600 people I was pleasantly surprised at how intimate it can be, I kept on running into many of the same people again and again. I already wrote about my top sessions for InfoQ […]
Meeting Ground Rules Updated
At Agile 2007, I attended Jean Tabaka’s session “Why I don’t like Mondays.” She recommended establishing ground rules for team meetings. We came up with these.
Coaching Self Organizing Teams
In the best session I’ve attended at Agile 2008 Joseph Pelrine talked about some of the ideas and science around self organization teams. The talk has an excellent subtitle “Hard science for soft skills”. I’ve already covered some of the presentation and exercises on InfoQ so I won’t repeat that here. Instead I will focus […]
Multiple Returns from a Single Method
A response to objections about multiple return statements in my recent post on Minimal Coding Style, covering the history and my thoughts on methods.
Minimalist Coding Style
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away” – Antoine de Saint Exupéry. If you’ve ever invited me do some pair programming with you, you probably have a good idea what this quote is all about. I often wind up asking questions like: […]
Agile and Scrum Smells
Smells are a series of simple patterns in Scrums that describe a problem, which can then lead to potential solutions.
Mythbusting – Collective Code Ownership
While researching “Are there weaknesses with Collective Code Ownership?” for InfoQ, I was struck by the number of myths around Collective Code Ownership.