Agile India Goa 2005 Distributed Agile Presentation
I gave a presentation at XPToronto late last year on distributed agile, and how we went about transforming one of our own projects that had stagnated. This was an interesting project, not least because it is a large (at its peak about 40 developers, 35 in India, 5 in the US) long-running (5 years) agile project.
Goa Presentation - Even More Agile
This is a presentation that Deven Tolia and I gave at and Agile conference in Goa, India in 2005. Originally we did it with 2 projectors, one showing the photographs, and one the slides. We found then, and it was re-inforced when I did it in Toronto, that the photos are the most interesting aprt of the presentation. Many people haven’t seen an Agile project, and talking about theory is no substitute for seeing it done, even if the images are still.
And (re)-reading Tufte’s excellent The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint reinforces the observation that bullet points are not content. The content is in the conversation and the talking that accompanies the pictures, or the whitepaper that expands on the discussion. Deven and I plan to write this paper up in more detail this year, hopefully to present it at one of the Agile conferences this year. When we do that, I hope we will be able to rework it to address those issues.