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..