At the Agile 2006 conference, we were sitting around a table discussing Agile within organizations, I believe with some people from Capital One. One of them talked about trying to go Agile, and my coworker Marc said: Being Agile is like being pregnant. You either are or you aren’t. You just have to work it…
Month: August 2006
Pictures from around Agile 2006
Finally got the photos uploaded. Here some shots from around Agile 2006. I figured out that by next year I need to find out what type of lens Tom Poppendieck is using, since I shot several photos in the same room as him and his came out much better. Scott Ambler, talking about his survey…
Retrieving the first node from an XML descendant list
File under “Things I’ll go searching for in about 2 years and won’t be able to find” We’ve been doing a lot of crazy things with Oracle at work. Our team has been using some Advanced Queuing features to pass XML data down, and then shredding the XML into tables. It’s great fun. Today we…