XP Afternoon

So not quite a live blog, but here’s the lowdown so far.

After google’s keynote, there was a session by New Bamboo about practical agile tools.

* They constantly ask if there is a better way

* Use low tech solutions (Sword of integration made from rolled up newspaper)

* Scrum master task list, which looks like a handy way for someone to manage multiple agile projects

* Heatseeking actions – A good way to well define actions from retrospectives (we need to start doing more retrospectives “back home” and this is a good practice to follow)

Anna’s session on When Agile might not be the best solution provoked a lot of helpful debate. there will be a followup OpenSpace at somepoint. Lots of good feedback

After lunch there was another experience report coding dojo by Emmanuel Gaillot. I’ve picked up quite a few good tips from this and will be applying them when I start some internal dojos.

Finally there was a session by Gojko Adzic (still have to finish reading his book!) on Building software that matters. It’s good to hear that some of our practices with building user personas is something that loads of people are trying to do.