id username date time status 2928165946 iwmwlive 30/07/2009 11:46 For #p6 we used a pre-recorded slidecast... did this work as a format for the session? #iwmw2009 2911099840 mikeywil 29/07/2009 16:21 @dfflanders We'll be doing more and more agile development at Kent, but I wonder: is there such a thing as agile maintenance? #iwmw2009 #p6 2910989097 dfflanders 29/07/2009 16:15 would rather have everyone talk amongst themselves and take advantage of F2F <- am mostly getting good advice from others! #iwmw2009 #p6 2910972688 nettpar 29/07/2009 16:14 Scrum workshop photos - http://bit.ly/TWhYN #iwmw2009 #p6 2910943662 BenShowers 29/07/2009 16:12 Rather than Gaant, @dfflanders uses burndown charts http://www.controlchaos.com/about/burndown.php #iwmw2009 #p6 2910935396 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 16:11 We now have a couple of minutes for questions to Dave via the #iwmwp6 tag #iwmw2009 #p6 2910915054 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 16:10 Agile sits somewhere between Cowboy (developer orientated and Waterfall (manager oriented) development, and is user-centered #iwmw2009 #p6 2910887856 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 16:08 Agile is often in conflict with Open development #iwmw2009 #p6 2910887587 dfflanders 29/07/2009 16:08 I really want to start using burndown charts just for my own personal productivty projects more #iwmw2009 #p6 2910871155 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 16:07 Responding to change is more important than following a plan in Agile #iwmw2009 #p6 2910845142 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 16:06 You should not be obsessed with the process of Agile, care about the individual users and their interactions #iwmw2009 #p6 2910840838 dfflanders 29/07/2009 16:06 @netpar please do tell more about timebox spikes, havn't come accross these yet?! #iwmw2009 #p6 2910835576 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 16:05 Moving to burndown charts instead of gaant charts #iwmw2009 #p6 2910819726 nettpar 29/07/2009 16:04 #iwmw2009 #p6 What about time boxed spikes? We can then figure out how we can deliver in the next sprint. 2910817108 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 16:04 Sprints are quick, achievable work packages for >2 weeks that get things done quickly #iwmw2009 #p6 2910796894 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 16:03 Scrum is about binding a team together - daily 3 sentence daily stand up, doing work package in 2-3 then releasing #iwmw2009 #p6 2910762751 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 16:01 Setting is effectively the additional team member -put the paper prototypes and wireframes on the wall so the user is in focus #iwmw2009 #p6 2910718964 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 15:58 The best architectures and designs emerge from self-organising teams #iwmw2009 #p6 2910714916 ttso 29/07/2009 15:58 So IT units in UK are still allowed/funded to develop software? Interesting. Not here. Or at least, that's extremely rare #iwmw2009 #p6 2910705818 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 15:57 Face to face is the way things are achieved, so borrow teams from those within the institution who want to innovate #iwmw2009 #p6 2910694718 garethjms 29/07/2009 15:57 I'm currently prototyping (spiking) something using Blueprint CSS and jQuery right now! #iwmw2009 #p6 #agile 2910642613 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 15:54 Paper-prototyping is a quick, cheap way of getting an iterative design process going with user involvement #iwmw2009 #p6 2910614538 dfflanders 29/07/2009 15:52 @benshowers well spotted Mr. Showers we've been discussion the same thing in an agile-open OSSWatch expert group #iwmw2009 #p6 2910551563 dfflanders 29/07/2009 15:48 Have heard good things about balsamique for paperPrototyping: http://tinyurl.com/mz93r6 #iwmw2009 #p6 2910507097 dfflanders 29/07/2009 15:45 #iwmw2009 #p6 user cases, storyboards and wireframes (user artefact) creation is a good way to bind a disparite team together. 2910493402 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 15:44 Agile welcomes changing requirements, even late in the process. Ask what setting the user lives and storyboard their situation #iwmw2009 #p6 2910462091 dfflanders 29/07/2009 15:42 #iwmw2009 #p6 I think a lot of ppl talk about #Agile but few have had time to look over them and ask how they work for them. 2910451428 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 15:41 User cases are essential to discover the problems of users and to improve tools through the development process #iwmw2009 #p6 2910431216 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 15:40 Dave is now taking us through the Agile Manifesto principles- organised as they apply to users and teams #iwmw2009 #p6 2910412270 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 15:39 Software should be inherently intuitive to the user #iwmw2009 #p6 2910399026 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 15:38 Agile, as a methodology, is what successful companies like Microsoft, Apple and Facebook use deliver services to end user #iwmw2009 #p6 2910376857 iwmwlive 29/07/2009 15:37 Dave asks: are we in an innovation recession? Are ideas spent faster or not? #iwmw2009 #p6 2910362792 yeldon 29/07/2009 15:36 #iwmw2009 #p6 has gone all bbc - its pre-recorded..