Again, I attended this talk for the same reasons as Venkat’s: to gain more breadth in how Agile is talked about and communicated. This talk links to some good resources:
The design in software development is the source code
Building Bridges
Software Design
One of the key enablers for being able to gather metrics is its repeatability. […]
A couple of days ago I assumed that a regurgitation of an agile talk on a blog as no value. Today I’m not so sure. There seems to be much less adoption of agile practices than what I had thought, and Venkat is a great speaker who has a wonderful ability to put […]
Venkat’s talk as not started yet, and the keynote questions are droning on. I’m attending the talk because for as much noise as Agile has made there has not been a proportionate level of either criticism or adoption. Instead my perception of what is happening is that most shops (> 50 percent) are […]
Erich Gamma spoke on Eclipse and transitioning it from closed to open source. One if the initial concerns was that competitors would see the bugs in the application. However, Erich believes that there is an upside to this, because there is nothing more motivating than to have your competition pointing out how bad […]