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Fun and interesting. 850 people on a single floor was a bit overwhelming at times, I think we needed some sort of quiet(er) breakout area.
Dr Fiona Wood gave the opening keynote speech When the stakes are high. She's amazing and inspirational and talked about a lot of good stuff. In particular: Don't waste energy on people who don't have the scientific, moral or ethical grounding to meaningfully engage with you - I used to have a bumper stick for that - never go into a battle of wits with an unarmed person ;p
Craig Smith - Suncorp, Nigel Dalton - REA Group, David Joyce - ThoughtWorks and Simon Bristow - SEEK did a whirlwind tour of the history of agile and agile con. Looking back, looking forward: adapt, innovate, collaborate & deliver.
Break
Jay Rogers - Atlassian talked about Design Bottlenecks: from my notes I find stuff about navigation was standing out - discoverable versus 'tips' so that you don't stack everything under 'settings' but still make things visible to users.
Kurt Solarte - IBM talked about having an Agile Sales team and how it was set up - would like to hear more about the impact / results and whether it sticks..
Tref Gare - Aconex, Shane Morris - Automatic Studio, James Ross - Aconex, Andrew Green - Cogent, Robert Postill - C3 Business Solutions and Leon Messerschmidt - Aconex did a debate called UX: marriage made in heaven or staying together for the kids? Hilarious but low on content - lots of commentary about known issues in Agile.
Lunch
Victor Rodruigues - Cochlear and Craig Langenfeld - Rally Software presented on Agile practices proven in highly regulated environments: interestingly waterfall methodology not recommended by FDA. Not an 'expert' panel but solid presentation on process.
Have nearly hit my limit for being addressed as 'guys' and slides featuring men doing things. Yay men, we're so lucky to get to hang out with them.
Nish Mahanty - MYOB presented on Building high-performance teams to deliver awesome business outcomes. Lovely presentation about team dynamics, I will do some follow up reading on this.
Introduced to Prezi.com which was a pleasant change from powerpoint, I have been totally judged for not knowing about it.
Kate Linton and Jason Furnell - ThoughtWorks talked about Continuous Design: Collaborate, balance team, collocate, empathise, continuous design + continuous delivery. Work in vertical slices (spikes). The build is the design.
Break
Tom Sulston - ThoughtWorks presented Failure: A Love Story - Tour of big projects that failed - included google wave, NHS (11.7 billion pounds...) and many more. Presentation on normalizing the experience of failure and fear of failure. Funny and charming - fail cake has many advantages, pay for your failure with cake and court feedback while they're in a sugar coma.
David Joyce - ThoughtWorks presented Lean/Agile PMO versus Traditional PMO Aim to build the right thing (effective) and build the thing right (efficient). Don't ask can it be done, ask should it be done. Product backlog management: we're poor at multitasking and context switching - system becomes flooded with work. Need to identify vital projects we want to work on and work on them. Also, darn projects, what about continuous improvement!
Visited ThoughtWorks open house and chatted a bit then took some valuable down time.
Dr Fiona Wood gave the opening keynote speech When the stakes are high. She's amazing and inspirational and talked about a lot of good stuff. In particular: Don't waste energy on people who don't have the scientific, moral or ethical grounding to meaningfully engage with you - I used to have a bumper stick for that - never go into a battle of wits with an unarmed person ;p
Craig Smith - Suncorp, Nigel Dalton - REA Group, David Joyce - ThoughtWorks and Simon Bristow - SEEK did a whirlwind tour of the history of agile and agile con. Looking back, looking forward: adapt, innovate, collaborate & deliver.
Break
Jay Rogers - Atlassian talked about Design Bottlenecks: from my notes I find stuff about navigation was standing out - discoverable versus 'tips' so that you don't stack everything under 'settings' but still make things visible to users.
Kurt Solarte - IBM talked about having an Agile Sales team and how it was set up - would like to hear more about the impact / results and whether it sticks..
Tref Gare - Aconex, Shane Morris - Automatic Studio, James Ross - Aconex, Andrew Green - Cogent, Robert Postill - C3 Business Solutions and Leon Messerschmidt - Aconex did a debate called UX: marriage made in heaven or staying together for the kids? Hilarious but low on content - lots of commentary about known issues in Agile.
Lunch
Victor Rodruigues - Cochlear and Craig Langenfeld - Rally Software presented on Agile practices proven in highly regulated environments: interestingly waterfall methodology not recommended by FDA. Not an 'expert' panel but solid presentation on process.
Have nearly hit my limit for being addressed as 'guys' and slides featuring men doing things. Yay men, we're so lucky to get to hang out with them.
Nish Mahanty - MYOB presented on Building high-performance teams to deliver awesome business outcomes. Lovely presentation about team dynamics, I will do some follow up reading on this.
Introduced to Prezi.com which was a pleasant change from powerpoint, I have been totally judged for not knowing about it.
Kate Linton and Jason Furnell - ThoughtWorks talked about Continuous Design: Collaborate, balance team, collocate, empathise, continuous design + continuous delivery. Work in vertical slices (spikes). The build is the design.
Break
Tom Sulston - ThoughtWorks presented Failure: A Love Story - Tour of big projects that failed - included google wave, NHS (11.7 billion pounds...) and many more. Presentation on normalizing the experience of failure and fear of failure. Funny and charming - fail cake has many advantages, pay for your failure with cake and court feedback while they're in a sugar coma.
David Joyce - ThoughtWorks presented Lean/Agile PMO versus Traditional PMO Aim to build the right thing (effective) and build the thing right (efficient). Don't ask can it be done, ask should it be done. Product backlog management: we're poor at multitasking and context switching - system becomes flooded with work. Need to identify vital projects we want to work on and work on them. Also, darn projects, what about continuous improvement!
Visited ThoughtWorks open house and chatted a bit then took some valuable down time.
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