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Presented by Kent Beck, Keith Braithwaite, Steve Freeman, Chris Matts and John Nolan on Apr 16, 2009
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"Agile propagandists"? WTF?
I haven't checked out the presentation yet so I might be missing something, but I would think that we're a little beyond name-calling by now. Perhaps I'm naive (or possible a closet "propagandist"), but I find that term rather offensive.
Dave Rooney
Mayford Technologies
Hi Dave :)
This is directly from the presentation abstract. Given that the panel is full of the so-called propagandists, it was meant to be a little self-mocking and in jest.
Amr
DAMMIT!! How do you expect me to be reactionary and uninformed?! Can't a guy just tee off without having to watch a bloody presentation?! :)
Sheepishly,
Dave Rooney
Mayford Technologies
Panel member here.
I paraphrase Sheryl Ross's characterisation of "propaganda" as communication with the intent to persuade a group of people to favour one set of idea over certain others. She contends that the purely negative sense of the word is too narrow.
I'm a consultant, and if Weinberg is right that consulting is influencing others at their request, then propaganda is my job.
I think, "we the agile propagandists", underestimate the extent of mindset change required by "non-agilists" to adopt agile. I have highlighted some of the key issues here - setandbma.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/agile-adoption/
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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