AgileTestingDays…a beautiful experience
The past week, Emanuele and I were in berlin to attend the agile testing days conference.
We made a speech about Continuous Integration, from theory to practice. It was my first “international” speech and it gone quite fine.
In those days I saw and I spoke with a lot of “agile-guru” like Tom and Mary Poppendieck and it was a beautiful experience.
The percept I had is that the rest of Europe is much more advanced than Italy about agile methodologies and theirs adoption.
For example, Sometimes when we go to our customers and suggest some agile practices, they look us in a strange way…I don’t know why? Some other speaker, instead, told me that in UK or in Germany, for example, the adoption of agile methodologies is almost a standard-de-facto and with their customers they speak about user stories or continuous integration in a natural way. I hope it will be like this also in Italy.
In conclusion, many thanks to Jose and all his staff for the great organization and…see you the next year!
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Hi Alessandro,
Glad you enjoyed Berlin. Agile Testing Days was a very good conference and I’m looking forward to next year.
As for agile adoption in the UK. I wouldn’t truly listen to all you hear. Sure, there are lots of team trying agile, but there are also hundreds and thousands of teams who are still working in traditional methodologies.
Those that are trying agile are generally getting on really well, but there are a number that are failing and some claiming agile is pointless.
Many teams do run CI but it doesn’t mean to say they are agile. CI is a good technique many teams employ here to help reduce the bug burden. Many people we speak to don’t know what user stories are and still work from up front specs and test cases.
I think the audience at Agile Testing Days were down at the far end spectrum of agile. Especially as only 2 people in the audience were still using traditional processes. Some conferences here in the UK only have about 2 people using agile…..
As for Italy – well it sounds like you’ve got a great chance to convert more teams to agile ways of working. Good luck.
Glad your presentation went well too and it was a pleasure to meet you and Emanuele. Hope to see you again at future conferences.
Rob..