(see me 8/11 at 3:30pm Mountain time at the Little America’s Idaho Room, or in Venuegen).
I remember my first taste of Agile 10 years ago. Dr. Max Maximilien gave a brown bag at IBM about JUnit. He said it was part of this thing called Agile, and by the way, there was a conference in my city that year. I went and felt Agile was great because it gave details on what programers do during each day. So many other methods talk in depth about planning, but not doing.
10 years later I saw 15 signatories of the Agile manifest sit on stage and take questions from the audience. What was interesting is they agreed that they “nailed” it 10 years ago. Some meeting magic happened, and there is no way to improve upon it today.
I wandered the halls from session to session, but was particularly interested in topics related to distributed teams. Lots of folks use webcams, webex, phones, and Skype. Very few knew about spatial tools like Sococo (http://www.sococo.com). (yes, I am inventing the term Spatial UI for the conference). Some folks feel the avatars are information overload. but judging by the lines at the Sococo booth, they may be onto a good mix of simplicity and function.
Thursday your pain with distributed teams will soften, as you will see new tools for your teams. We can help you choose and succeed with the right tool for you.
