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I’m Speaking Today at Microsoft Virtual TechDays, India

Somewhat to my surprise it turns out that I’m speaking at the Microsoft Virtual TechDays, India. Also surprising is that “today” turns out to be a bit of a vague term. That’s 11:30pm Pacific time or 12:00 noon in India. Yes that’s right a midnight speaking engagement, not a great excuse for a trip to India. On the plus side it’s a virtual event so the link above takes you to a web page. Just install Live Meeting to attend.

Here’s the talk abstract:

Agile Patterns & Practices at patterns & practices

Microsoft’s patterns & practices group uses an agile software development approach to rapidly deliver guidance to our customers worldwide. Ade Miller, the Development manager at patterns & practices, discusses how we chose this approach. Ade will also cover some of the challenges when adopting agile and how patterns & practices overcomes these. Using agile on distributed teams is something patterns & practices deal with a lot and this will be covered in some detail as it is a common challenge effecting many teams today.

Turns out that this will be similar to the talk I gave at the p&p Summit and put online yesterday. I places more emphasis on distributed development based on the audience and some writing I’ve been doing for a white paper on distributed agile development. Once I’ve finished the deck I’ll try and re-post it if I make significant changes from the existing one.