Agile 2011 Sessions, Notes and Links

MONDAY

Fluency over Proficiency: Accelerating Agile Learning and “Hunting Language”, Willem Larsen
Also known as who I crashed and burned at learning American Sign Language

The Transformation Priority Premise, Robert C. Martin
Bowling score game : designed 400 lines, test driven 14 lines

TUESDAY

Fluency over Proficiency again, as an Open Jam session. I moved on a little bit.

Powerful Questions, Carlton Nettleton

Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Organizational Agility, Jim Highsmith

Lightning Talks including Michael Feathers on limits of agile

WEDNESDAY

Creating an Environment by Making, Keeping, and Amending Agreements, Amr Elssamadisy

Continuous Integration, Jez Humble

Agile Game Incubator, Michael McCulloch and Don McGreal
Zhong Zhi, a one-handed agile game invented and refined

Making Hard Choices about Technical Debt, Nanette Brown, Robert Nord
Board game fun, and yay I beat Elisabeth Hendrickson
See Ward Cunningham's OOPSLA 92 presentation

Lightning Talks including www.prezi.com

THURSDAY

Creating Customer Delight, Stephen Denning
Net Promoter Score = Reichheld’s single question to customers. How likely are you to recommend us? 0 No – 10 Definitely. Count 9s +10s less 0-6s. Positive territory is good.

Experimentation: a Missing Agile Practice, Arlo Belshee

The Kata In The Hat, Emmanuel Gaillot & Jonathan Perret

Slackers and Debtors: Meet Commitments, Reduce Debt, and Improve Performance, James Shore

FRIDAY

Code, Kevlin Henney
The Agile Mindset, Linda Rising

QUOTATIONS ETC

WILL TEACH CLOJURE FOR FOOD
I think middle management gets a bad rap [applause] Jim Highsmith
Without exception, all of my biggest mistakes occurred because I moved too slowly. John Chambers, CISCO CEO, quoted by Jim Highsmith
“It’s not an act, is it Bob?” friend of Robert Martin, on finding him playing with his laser pointer in a mirrored bathroom
As TDD developers, after doing a design, the first thing we do is ignore it RCMartin

“What’s the chance of changing my wife?”
“I divorced mine”
“You gave up on changing your wife”
“No, she gave up on me”

SUGAR HOUSE

Wildflowers Bed and Breakfast
Sugar House Coffee
Omar's Rawtopia
Wasatch Jazz Project