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Posted by Deborah Hartmann Preuss on Aug 20, 2007
Again this year, Google sponsored a reception for Agile 2007 participants. Nothing gets conference people together like free food and drink (not to mention the chance to win coveted electronics). This year's reception featured the top 5 videos from the AgileAdvert contest, aka: So you want to be a famous Agilist?
Regaining control of the data centre
Technical Debt and Design Death
Agile Development: A Manager's Roadmap for Success
VersionOne is recognized by Agile practitioners as the leader in Agile project management tools. Companies such as Adobe, BBC, CNN, Dow, HP, IBM, Sony and 3M have turned to VersionOne to help deliver greater value to their customers.
After attendees made quick work of the food and gobbled up all the Google swag the top 5 videos (as ranked in earlier YouTube voting) were shown on large screen projectors. Finalists were determined through audience enthusiasm - the crowd rated the (very sad) Thoughtworks recruiting clip "Developer Abuse" as the number 1 video, making "Matthew" (name changed to protect the innocent) this year's AgileAdvert famous Agilist. Emcee Paul Culling of VersionOne pointed out the irony of a ThoughtWorks recruiting video winning the video contest at a Google sponsored event, providing a good laugh.
The runner up was also by ThoughtWorks: the Singalong Sound of Music parody, "Being Agile is our Favourite Thing" featuring singing and dancing developers! Honorable mention went to (in no particular order) "The PiMP" from the people at Sixth Sense Analytics (the story of a misguided and self-important software development manager); "Feedback?" from outsystems.com in which A. Giles and Walter Falls have a conversation in a familiar format (Mac vs PC); and a late entry from Intridea, "Get Agile: Agile vs Waterfall" in which Agile and Waterfall are charmingly portrayed by two talented children, also in Mac vs PC style.
After VersionOne presented raffle draw winner Todd Miller with his new 42" LG LCD TV and Google raffled their 30GB video iPod, the crowd wanted to see more videos, so the evening continued with Agile ideas and comedy on the big screens in the ballroom. Some of the videos were hilarious, others thoughtful, and everyone appreciated all the work the entrants put in. Look for AgileAdvert to be bigger and better next year - plan your video now! Thanks to this year's AgileAdverts, you now know how to plan: find your whiteboard, get out those index cards...
Here are this year's top 5 - they'll play one after the other, below. We've also included a special mention, the venerable "High Moon Studios: A Portrait – Scrum" (arguably the granddaddy of AgileAdverts).
All videos can still be seen at AgileAdvert.org.
PS: "Matthew," we hope you're getting the help you need.
AgileAdvert 2007 was sponsored by:
Brian Marick takes us through a quick tour of the most important values and challenges to adopting Agile successfully (they aren't the typical challenges and values we hear in the community).
The line between development and architecture is tricky. Does it exist at all? Is an ivory tower actually needed? There's a balance in the middle, but how do you move from developer to architect?
The word 'authority' sometimes produces an allergic response in hard-line agilists. Freedom and authority – both are bad if misused and both are good if used in right spirit for a noble cause.
"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?
Those familiar with only ITIL V2 often scoff at the thought that ITIL could serve as a governance framework for SOA. With ITIL V3, the focus of the framework shifted towards service-orientation.
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer discusses AspectJ, SpringSource's dm Server and tc Server products, OSGi and Scrum.
Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about Rails, Background Jobs, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.
For Grady Booch the foundation of a good architecture is patterns, SOA being just one of many patterns. In this Second Life presentation, Booch attempts to bring more clarity on what architecture is.
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