---
title: "Agile Rejection Letter"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/5/12/agile-rejection-letter.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/5/12/agile-rejection-letter.html"
published: "2008-05-12T16:51:51"
updated: "2008-05-12T16:51:51"
tags: ["Agile Related"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "\"Dear Roy, Thank you for your submission to the Developer Jam stage, entitled \"Advanced Unit Testing Patterns, Tips and Tricks with examples in .NET\". We received a number of great submissions for the stage--more than…"
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 Rejection Letter

By Roy Osherove May 12, 2008 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 12, 2008; technical details may be outdated.

"Dear Roy,
Thank you for your submission to the Developer Jam stage, entitled "Advanced Unit Testing Patterns, Tips and Tricks with examples in .NET".  We received a number of great submissions for the stage--more than could fit in the space & time available, of course.
To select sessions for inclusion, the Developer Jam review committee (see [http://www.agile2008.org/stage-developers.html](http://www.agile2008.org/stage-developers.html)) used a ranking system to indicate which sessions they would most like to see as part of the stage.   We averaged the numerical rankings from all of the committee members to select the proposals with the most interest.
Unfortunately, your submission was not ranked highly enough to be included in the final program."

When will I cross the glass ceiling?

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## 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.

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