Turku Agile Day 17.-18.3.2010
Second iteration of Turku Agile Day already broke one convention. The conference is now two days with workshops preceding the main event. Despite being quite student driven conference the speakers are nothing but juniors.
From my point of view these three talks rose above others.
Flow where you can, pull where you must - a practitioners guide to Kanban
by Joakim Sundén
Very practical landing to Kanban. Most of the samples were delivered contra Scrum.
Get real — keynote
by Elisabeth Hendrickson
Truly inspiring and vivid keynote. I tweeted hastily right after the talk so let me clear what I meant. I love it when people admit they’ve failed. I hate when they say they succeeded because x and y were just randomly aligned right this time. Mrs. Hendrickson gave an example where success wasn’t random but actually dependent on rarely acknowledged factor z, the customer.
Train your customer
by Petri Heiramo
Petri’s talk answered most of the questions I had for this conference. Agile practises don’t help much if you don’t know how to sell the project to your client without excessive use of better and faster. I’ll write a follow-up on this subject after I’ve gathered more experience.
I hope to see slides on Turku Agile Day site soon and link them here. Thank you for great conference and see you next year!
