XPDay 08 started today in London. XPDay is an insiders’ conference on agile development, held yearly in London and organised by the Extreme Tuesday club. Last year, there were quite a few interesting new ideas presented so I’m really looking forward to the sessions today and tomorrow.
This year, most of the programme is decided on the spot. There are just a few planned sessions, and the rest is going to be organised in the open space format. During the first day, a lot of openspace topics are focuised on soft skills and improving agile teams, including making money by rescuing scrum teams, discussing Yagni + Wisdom, aspects of software craftsmanship, and identifying qualities of agile developers. Tomorrow’s topics are focused a lot more on practical topics such as pair programming, acceptance testing, code quality and architecture.
As at the last Alt.Net UK openspace conference, there are quite a few sessions dedicated to acceptance testing which seems to be gaining a lot of momentum in the agile development community.
I’ll be covering the conference in detail on the blog, so keep reading. All posts will be tagged with xpday08.
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