Agile Prague 2014 Notes

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It’s been almost a week since Agile Prague finished. It was a great time of interesting discussions and meetings. I had the privilege to talk with Linda Rising about patterns, their history, and current state (still under development). She also gave wonderful talks about the Agile mindset and trust.

It was also a pleasure to discuss with Paul Klipp and take part in his talk about communication—a subject I am always interested in.

Another two interesting subjects I listened to were:

  • Vasco Duarte’s talk on the NoEstimates approach, which, in my opinion, is not exactly about not doing estimation, but extremely simplifying the way you do it. In short: estimate an item with 1 point. If it is too big (should be more than 1), split it.
  • Louis Goncalves’s talk about getting rid of performance appraisals.

I also had the privilege to give my talk about the Natural Course of Refactoring. You can find slides here.

I received very nice and positive feedback.

See you soon at Warsjawa.

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