McGray;s Tower

That is my AgileEE conference second day impressions. First day article is here.

Presentations:

1. Jurgen Appelo “How to Change the World”

Jurgen presented some of the main ideas of his book “Management 3.0“. Once again “it’s all about the people“. Jurgen described 4 main facets of social change. I’ll try to get the book soon. Recommended.

2.  Danny (Danko) Kovatch @DankoAgile “Motivation 3.0 and Agile”

Danko told us about what does modern science think about the motivation and what companies are doing about it. The difference is HUGE. Recommended. Not a new topic for me, I was bored a little in the middle of the presentation.

3. Lasse Koskela “Agile Workflows for Version Control”

I liked the content of the presentation where two approaches to the Agile branching strategies was compared, but I don’t get the why it was given so much time for arguing. Could not find the slides.

4. Lightning talks

5. J.B. Rainsberger “The Extreme Decade: Progress, Pain, Paradox”

Probably the best Agile presentation EVER. Recommended. And the final slides about post-Agile is probably the best thing a I’ve ever seen. Thank you JB! The final video (on “What we’ve done with the Agile?“). Could not wait till I see the video.

Books:

• The Lean Startup (mentioned about 20 times at least)
• Specification by Example (author was presenting)
• Management 3.0 (author was presenting)
• Innovation Games

Things to try or think about:

• Get a web camera
• Some ideas for my presentation about he Code Review problems in the teams
• Try Reflection workshop’s
• Read more about PDCA cycles
• Try to get live feedback from team members on my current project
• Try Cucumber or JBehave