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Must see Tuesday
By admin | September 29, 2008
Not quite sure what you should attend? Maybe these three talks will be something for you.
Tuesday, 10:30 – 12:20: Java History and Outlook by Eberhard Wolff
Good story telling is always exciting, and here should be a good opportunity to hear some good anecdotes. At least, that’s what I’m hoping for. This is also one of the new JAOO concepts where a talk is spread over 2 slots.
Tuesday, 13:20 – 14:10: Not your Grandfather’s Architecture: Taking Architecture into the Agile World by James O. Coplien
You don’t drive a car like your grandfather, do you? Why, then, would you build an architecture like him? Coplien will provide the answer.
Tuesday, 14:40 – 15:30: Successfully applying REST – Integration, Web-style by Stefan Tilkov
So, this might be a career choice, but so what? After living with the SOAP Inquisition for a couple of years, anything will do, and REST is an obvious and compelling choice. Tilkov knows his REST, and I want to know more.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I’m going for the retrospective talk by Linda Rising. We’re only just now started including retrospectives into our projects so I’m hoping to get some pointers on how to distribute the facilitator role…otherwise I’m stuck on it from now and until that Cern thing sucks us all into nothingness
September 29th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
The Duchess BOF!
Duchess is a worldwide network for female Java programmers. I’m the only confirmed member running around here, so there should be plenty of ladies out there who might not have heard about Duchess (as we have no members from Denmark yet and only two from Norway, and no members from Sweden either).
So if you want to know more, come and ask me about it. I’ve claimed the 5 o’clock spot in room C103 I believe. (Check the board beside the information stand.)
I’ve got a small presentation about Duchess, though I don’t know if the beamer will work during the BOF’s, but mostly the BOF will be about meeting you.
And yes, if you’re a guy who is interested you may come by too. You can’t become a member though.
September 30th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I am standing outside the “Store Sal” writing this. I had planned on attending the talk “Taking Architecture into the Agile World by James O. Coplien”, but it was full and did not allow any more attendants. A large crowd of JAOO-delegates were standing outside the room hoping that someone would leave the lecture so that an additional listener could me admitted. But so far after 40 minutes no one has left the room. This proves my point that this year’s JAOO conference is too technical. I work as a Project Manager and I was here three years ago for JAOO 2005. As I remember the 2005 conference, there was always a track which related to generalistic stuff such as Methodology, Development Practises, Requirements Analysis and the latest trends in Software Development. For me yesterday, Monday, was the low-point of JAOO 2008. Not a single project management/scrum-master/methodology-related topic during the entire day. Even the key notes of Monday and Tuesday were full of code examples (I know that us Project Managers are considered obsolete by XP and Scrum, but fact is that the clients need us and we can fulfil the role of Scrum Master). I freely admit that it gets better as the week goes on, I did came here after all, but if this trend continues this will have to be my last JAOO-conference.
I would also like to point out that I attended the Scrum Master class here three years ago. Now I am taking the same class again for repetition’s sake, but there is no way I can do that next year again.
At my office we are five project managers. I am the only guy. Just consider how many more women would attend the conference if it catered just a tiny bit more towards Project Managers? Also I am not asking for JAOO to become a Project Management Conference. That would be boring. What I am asking for is that there through every day should be a track relating to project management practises and the latest trends in that area. Since there are six tracks each day, the main focus would still be the latest trends in Software Development, but you would have a more balanced crowd.
September 30th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
The Coplien talk did have code examples too. However, that didn’t make it technical as such. I find it strange, that this talk was moved “backstage” with a lot less room for listeners, since it should be obvious, that this would be a fairly popular talk.
It was a good and interesting talk with a punch in the face for the Java people thrown in
Coplien likes being provocative and it keeps people on their toes.
If you weren’t there, you missed something!