XP Day {Day 1, Monday} (London 2005)
"One man's terrorist is another mans freedom fighter...."
Today and tomorrow I booked the annnual leave off work and paid for myself to go to the London XP Day 2005, organised by The eXtreme Tuesday Club, amongst others.
When I told work about this, they considered stumping up the cash and even time, which was a massive and pleasant surprise.
I went to the morning sessions on Moving To Agile - What Worked Well And What Didn't,
by Gavin Hope and Lindsay McEwan, and Case Study - Bootstrapping Agile by Daniel Poon.
Myself and many others were lifted by others tales of woe and hardship for fighting the good fight. Buy it can be done and we must have hope and faith and drink lots of coffee. Daniel, above, has been a pioneer for this for 5 years where he is and they're just making bits of progress - better and better all the time. Kinda puts the rest of our struggles in perspective.
The highlight of the day was Sam's The XP Lego Game. A brilliant and insightful introduction to many of the key concepts, and a wonderful refresher to those of us who made a bad move, for our sins, and are desperate to stay in the loop. I think Simon will be especially chuffed that the use of Bananas as the measure of project velocity got a mention from the man himself ;-)
Of course I had to miss all the other threads running at the conference, but the evenings work continued in what, where I work, we call "meeting room 3".... the pub.
More on that tomorrow, after going to a gig in the evening as well.... full day again....
Today and tomorrow I booked the annnual leave off work and paid for myself to go to the London XP Day 2005, organised by The eXtreme Tuesday Club, amongst others.
When I told work about this, they considered stumping up the cash and even time, which was a massive and pleasant surprise.
I went to the morning sessions on Moving To Agile - What Worked Well And What Didn't,
by Gavin Hope and Lindsay McEwan, and Case Study - Bootstrapping Agile by Daniel Poon.
Myself and many others were lifted by others tales of woe and hardship for fighting the good fight. Buy it can be done and we must have hope and faith and drink lots of coffee. Daniel, above, has been a pioneer for this for 5 years where he is and they're just making bits of progress - better and better all the time. Kinda puts the rest of our struggles in perspective.
The highlight of the day was Sam's The XP Lego Game. A brilliant and insightful introduction to many of the key concepts, and a wonderful refresher to those of us who made a bad move, for our sins, and are desperate to stay in the loop. I think Simon will be especially chuffed that the use of Bananas as the measure of project velocity got a mention from the man himself ;-)
Of course I had to miss all the other threads running at the conference, but the evenings work continued in what, where I work, we call "meeting room 3".... the pub.
More on that tomorrow, after going to a gig in the evening as well.... full day again....
posted by MRM at Monday, November 28, 2005
1 Comments:
Not me - using 'bananas' was Dan's idea. A good idea it certainly is - wish it *was* mine.
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