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I was pretty excited about the “Architectures you’ve always wondered about” stream for day 3 of the conference. It started off horribly. Dan Pritchett of MySpace was up first and basically took the change to showoff his personally little project that allows events from their thousands of servers to notify them what’s going on within [...]
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As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I was expecting more from the conference today than I experienced yesterday. What I’m expecting at a tech conference is to talk tech such that the speaker presents their expertise or lessons learned. I didn’t get much of that yesterday but today was another story. We kicked off [...]
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Coming into this conference I have some very high expectations due to the calibre of the speakers at the conference. That being said, it started off with a bang, the opening keynote featured Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons of ThoughtWorks on the topic of how an architect and the agile process are complementary and not adversaries as many many think.
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I was fortunate enough to partially attend the Much Ado About Agile Conference held recently in Vancouver, and was immediately drawn to the session “Database Development in Agile World” led by Marc Munro. This was a very timely session as we have recently begun a project that involves refactoring a legacy database and developing a [...]
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I had the pleasure of attending the third annual Much Ado About Agile conference hosted by Agile Vancouver. As a good example of our organizational agility, we divided up the conference sessions amongst ourselves and tag-teamed between attending sessions and working back at the office (or remotely). Ken Schwaber, one of the founding fathers of [...]
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