Agile Israel May meeting summary
We had a fun time at the last
Agile Israel meeting. (FYI -
slides are already online for download, audio coming soon).
Two things bothered me a bit:
- We had the stroke of luck to be side by side with conference about "delivering the message" : for people in the room next to you this means "loud and vocal presentation near by, making the current presentation stop every once in a while when the people on the other side applaud the presenter". It wasn't that bad, but we did have to stop a couple of times.
- The turnout wasn't as great as I expected. about 15-20 people. I guess that's OK for a user group's 3rd meeting ever, but since we've already had meetings with 40 and 50 people I was starting to wonder what's up? Perhaps it was the topics. Why you tell me why you didn't show up :)
Overall the sessions went pretty well. My session was about testing legacy code and the various problems this presents. I presented the case for legacy code testing and some legacy refactoring patterns from the most excellent book "
Working effectively with legacy code".
Gadi's session was about MSF Agile and was very very interesting.
Gadi is a great presenter with a lot of knowledge.
Both sessions were recorded and will be hosted on the site when the audio work is done as mp3.