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Freakonomist: Craig Larman

In  Agile India 2006 conference, Craig Larman, presented an interesting keynote on History Evolution and Agile vs Waterfall. With a great amount historic data, he showed the hidden side of Waterfall methodologies. He almost traced back the traditional software development approach to the very first document on waterfall methodologies, and shown how it has evolved from a personal view of Dr Winston Royce. 

Great work, Graig.

Related Links:
Agile 2006: Another Perspective/Story

Agile India is Back

After a big success in 2005, Agile India 2006, one of Asia's premier conferences on Agile/ Extreme Programming is back. When we started ASCI (Agile Software Community of India) in a corner of a Bangalore restaurant, I never realized, this would turn into one of the biggest community driven moment in the Indian software industry.

As a founding member, I am glad to see what we have achieved as a community.

We have an impressive list of talks scheduled for 2006 conference; I will be speaking on “Bringing Innovation and Design”

Other confirmed speakers are

Craig Larman, Chief Scientist, Valtech
Ravi Mohan, CTO, ExpertCraft
Dakshinamurthy Karra,Managing Director, Jalian Systems
Steve Messenger of DSDM
Hubert Smits,Rally Software
Naresh Jain,ThoughtWorks
Paul Hammant,ThoughtWorks

Also see an interesting update by Naresh on Making of Agile India 2005 Bangalore Conference

 

Design Driven Development

I will be launching the concept of Design Driven Development(D3) at Pune Agile Conference. This is organized by Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR) and Agile Software Community of India (ASCI).

We are in the process of setting up the website for D3, its already up with a Blog and D3 manifesto.  Andrew has put almost 2 months on developing a java based Content Management System for the same. 

Also, We have a Yahoo User Group, if you are interested in participating, some great discussions about creating innovative products and solutions, you can subscribe and join the group.

Agile 2005, Goa

I have spoken at Agile 2005, Goa on Art of Designing, the event was a great success. 55 plus delegates, which includes 30 computers science lecturers from 12 different universities from all over India, 25 plus software professionals has participated in the event.

AgileIndia2005

I have spoken at AgileIndia2005 event on User Centered Interaction Design in Agile Environment, 300 delegates from 70 different software companies participated. Prominent speakers across the world shared their thoughts on Agile.