Agile 2009 - The Distributed Agile Game (My session!)

Today was a great day! I had heaps of fun running the Distribued Agile session with Jonathan today at Agile 2009. We were competing for attention with many other great sessions running in the same slot, we were a 3 hour session and we were also on the last day and last slot of the conference. That said, we had 18 great attendees and to look back and see that everyone stayed glued to the workshop right till the end, except Jeff who had previous commitments makes me feel we really engaged our audience. That too with an audience that tends to vote with their feet! We've had some great feedback from our audience and I'm truly grateful to Agile 2009 for hosting my session and to everyone that attended.

Jonathan and I did a lot of running around to create the right atmosphere for this game. In the end, what we had was not ideal, but was much better than what we would have had if we hadn't tried. I must especially thank Jeff Norris of the ThoughtWorks Agile iPhone App fame, Pramod Sadalge of Refactoring Databases fame and Ken Kolchier, developer/ tech lead/ facilitator from ThoughtWorks, for pitching in and helping us run the game, by playing customers and backup email server respectively!

Thanks all our attendees - and for those that couldn't attend, drop Jonathan or me a line to know more about what we did. Thanks everyone who I met at the conference for your time and for the privilege of knowing you - I truly enjoyed knowing each new person at this event.