An fun privilege for me as a Softhouse employee was the opportunity to make a short interview with Andy Hunt, of Pragmatic Programmer fame, about his latest book Pragmatic Thinking & Learning and the Øresund Agile workshop with the same title.
Tag: Øresund Agile
Øresund Agile 2009 web site is now open!
I’m not sure if I can make it to Øresund Agile 2009 on May 12-14, but I sure would like to participate in Pragmatic Programmer Andy Hunt’s workshop on Pragmatic Thinking and Learning! I’m close to the end of my first reading of the book with the same title.
Nordic Agile in Stockholm on December 1-4
Øresund Agile goes Nordic Agile! Scrum for team members is a workshop directed to the developers and testers in an agile team,, an obviously very important component in an agile project but maybe not so much the primary target for conferences and the like. I liked Jim Coplien’s Agile Architecture session on Øresund Agile 2008… Continue reading Nordic Agile in Stockholm on December 1-4
Øresund Agile 2008 Conference Day
(Continued from Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008.) After two days of workshops, Wednesday was the conference day. Two sessions specifically addressed distributed Scrum: having teams, or part of teams, in different geographic locations. The presentation by Scrum co-creator Jeff Sutherland was great but also a bit utopian while the other, by Arto Vihavainen and… Continue reading Øresund Agile 2008 Conference Day
Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008
Yesterday I participated in the Accelerated Agile workshop at Øresund Agile 2008. It was attended by both developers and non-developers. Some parts of the workshop were common for the two groups and others were separate. Me and another developer actually did both TDD and pair programming! BestBrains, the company that organized the workshop, had prepared… Continue reading Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008
Agile Architecture on Øresund Agile 2008
Today, on the first day of Øresund Agile 2008, I attended the Agile Architecture workshop held by Jim Coplien. He is a really great speaker! Some things that stuck in my head: Don’t use TDD, it destroys architecture because it makes the programmer focus on individual methods, losing the bigger picture on the way Don’t… Continue reading Agile Architecture on Øresund Agile 2008