--- title: "Agile Israel May meeting summary" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/2/agile-israel-may-meeting-summary.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/2/agile-israel-may-meeting-summary.html" published: "2005-06-02T07:35:00" updated: "2005-06-02T07:35:00" tags: ["Agile Related"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "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…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Agile Israel May meeting summary By Roy Osherove June 2, 2005 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related) **Historical article** · Originally published June 2, 2005; technical details may be outdated. We had a fun time at the last [Agile Israel](http://agileisrael.com/) meeting. (FYI - [slides are already online for download](http://www.agileisrael.com/LinkClick.aspx?link=58&mid=362), 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](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131177052/iserializable-20)". Gadi's session was about MSF Agile and was very very interesting. [Gadi](http://www.idag.co.il/) 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. ## More in Agile Related [All posts in Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related) - Jun 5, 2005 ### [Agile Linux? Linux Kernel gets nightly build & Test](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/5/agile-linux-linux-kernel-gets-nightly-build-amp-test.html) - Jun 5, 2005 ### [MSF Agile, Testing Legacy code: Latest slides and audio from Agile Israel meeting online](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/5/msf-agile-testing-legacy-code-latest-slides-and-audio-from-a.html) - May 29, 2005 ### [May at Agile Israel: Legacy Code Testing and MSF Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/5/29/may-at-agile-israel-legacy-code-testing-and-msf-agile.html) - Apr 25, 2005 ### [2 exciting announcements from yours truly](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/25/2-exciting-announcements-from-yours-truly.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/