Agile Base Camp conference has been held on January, 23th.
Information introduced is known by majority of attendants basically but the value of conference was to view it from different perspectives. Info regarding past and future conferences can be found at http://agilebasecamp.org/.
Topics I liked the most:
1. Ashat Urazbaev: Agile on different stages of company life. Well, this lecture was based on the book “Managing Corporate Lifecycles” by Ichak Adizes. Actually it was the most interesting lecture I heard that day especially from perspective of people who want to become entrepreneurs and start their own business in IT.
2. Ashat Urazbaev: Useful metrics in Agile (how and what to measure). New features that I’d like to employ:
a. Technical Debt Points.
b. Sprint Burn-up Chart.
3. Igor Luzhanskiy: Learn to see wastes (Agile from perspective of Lean Development):
a. Don’t reserve too much (specs, code, frameworks, refactoring, etc.) – it loses value and may become a big waste.
b. Address labor organizational issues: simplify, make straightforward, automate.
c. Many other interesting sources of possible wastes. They can be found in books regarding Lean Development focused on IT.
4. Evgeniy Companiyets: Secrets of Good Developers. Well, this lecture was also very interesting. Speaker seemed not to be professional speaker but professional developer with 15 years of experience. That fact added special spice I’d say :). Main ideas:
a. What does “customer-oriented” mean from perspective of developer?
b. All people who are engaged in development should consider main vision of what they are doing globally (in terms of project).
c. Developers should prioritize and tune their tasks always thinking about “how much does it cost to customer?”, “what value and benefits does it provide for customer?”, “is it needed by customer now?”.
