Hot on the heels of last week's JavaOne conference is this week's IBM Academy of Technology Agile @ IBM conference. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I submitted an abstract for a poster at this conference and it got accepted. I don't know whether or not it is IBM confidential so I won't post the slides here. But the poster is titled "Agile by any Other Name" and is about the 1 week iterations that we created for WebFountain. The abstract basically says that back when we did it we did not know that our iterative development cycle was indeed agile (by today's definition) and it listed lessons we learned along the way. So for all the WebFountain alumni out there, thanks for being agile before agile was cool. The conference goes from today through Thursday, and the cool thing about it is that all the slides are available online ahead of time and the sessions that I want to see are video streamed live and recorded. So I was at Almaden for the morning half but I'm back in my office for the afternoon half which allows me to get at least some work done while the conference is going on. That got me wondering if there have been any conferences held in SecondLife yet. I bet once you can do more video, slide shows, and audio it would be a great medium for doing that. But one of the best things about conferences is the total immersion in the subject, and do to that in SecondLife you'd have to leave that up to the attendees. But I could definitely see that happening in the near future if it hasn't happened already.
Posted by troutm8 at May 15, 2007 02:22 PM