Dec 11 2008
XpDay 08 open
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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