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XP2008 – Day 5

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June 16, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
The final morning of the conference was faily quiet again. I did go to “The Agile Technique Hour” which was fun and interesting. David Parsons has posted the materials online, but in brief, we were split into teams in order to deliver features, which were drawings on functionality on overhead [...]

XP2008 – Day 4

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June 14, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
An excellent workshop by Mary and Tom Poppendieck today entitled “Stop Thrashing: Pull Schedule Techniques for Level Workflow”.  It really left me buzzing, for two reasons.  Firstly, Mary talked about her real experiences implementing a kanban system at 3M which was fascinating, and secondly, I [...]

XP2008 – Day 3

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June 12, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
Dave Snowden‘s keynote was entertaining and interesting, although quite a lot of it went over my head.  Dave talked about the need to understand why something works in order for it to scale, with reference to agile development.  His work covers Complex Adaptive Systems, Cognitive Systems and [...]

XP2008 – Day 2

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June 11, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
I went to Jeff Patton‘s tutorial on User Story Mapping this afternoon.  I first met Jeff in London last year at XP Day and the Scrum Gathering.  We talked about kanban, and his ideas, and the two seemed very compatible, so I was keen to see how they matched in more detail.  Jeff has also been [...]

XP2008 – Day 1

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June 10, 2008
by Karl Scotland in
I’m at XP2008 in Limerick this week. Today was pretty quiet as its all tutorials for the first couple of days, which cost extra, so I didn’t actually go to anything. However, I did hang around and catch up with some old friends. In particular, I had an interesting chat with Tom Poppendieck about [...]
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