http://agilehongkong.com Introducing Agile to Hong Kong Tue, 13 May 2008 16:07:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thank you to all who came along to the presentation held this evening entitled "Will Agile work for you?". While the question was never directly answered I hope I was able to provide some insight into what an Agile environment should be like. I covered a number of aspects on Agile ... http://agilehongkong.com/2008/05/14/does-agile-work-for-you/ Hot on the heels of the "Will Agile work for you?" presentation is our second code jam. In this session, Tom and I will dust off the projector and give a short demonstration on pairing with particular focus given to Test Driven Development. We'll also try working under time constrained ... http://agilehongkong.com/2008/05/09/code-jam-2/ When people are told about Agile they often walk away saying "That sounds good in theory but couldn’t possibly work in the wild". In out next event we will explore what it takes to be Agile. I’ll identify projects for which Agile is suited and those where it will be ... http://agilehongkong.com/2008/04/27/will-agile-work-for-you/ Recently we called a Code Jam in which the aim was to give people the opportunity to practice Pair Programming and Test Driven Development. The event also gave people the opportunity to share ideas about how to solve the problem. Most people solved the problem in Java or .NET though ... http://agilehongkong.com/2008/04/07/code-jam-anagrams-code-kata/ Agile Journal is hosting a webcast entitled "Making Distributed Software Development Work". The webcast is due to start on Tuesday April 8, 2008 at 1800GMT. That time makes for a rather late broadcast here in Hong Kong. Incidentally that is one of the things that makes distributed agile interesting, the ... http://agilehongkong.com/2008/03/20/webcast-distributed-software-development/ On Wednesday we held our second meeting. There was a lot of energy, it was great to see so many people getting involved! Tom and I pair presented a high level overview of Agile and Extreme Programming. We talked about the history of Agile, The Manifesto and even compared or contrasted ... http://agilehongkong.com/2008/03/18/agile-101-summary/ On Wednesday March 12th Tom Scott and I will be giving an introductory overview of Agile. We will cover as broad a range of the Agile and Extreme Programming spectra as time will allow. This will be a session exploring the various aspects of Agile and Extreme Programming. We will ... http://agilehongkong.com/2008/03/03/agile-101/ Agile Hong Kong is a new group, so it is fitting that one of the first informational postings be an introduction to Agile, related methodologies and principles. Here is a list of books, articles and websites containing information on some of the practices. This list is not definitive as there ... http://agilehongkong.com/2008/02/24/agile-at-10000-feet/ Our kick off meeting was held on Tuesday. I'd like to thank all for coming along and making this an informative and enjoyable evening. If you didn't make it this time, then please come along to our next meeting (to be announced). There was a good crowd of people, with ... http://agilehongkong.com/2008/02/11/our-first-meeting/ Please note that we have changed address for our Q&A session with Martin Fowler. The new address is: Where: Le Rideau Theatre Address: 1st Floor, Hilltop Plaza, 49 Hollywood Road, Soho, Hong Kong Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/34w5kj When: 6:30pm onwards, Tuesday 5th of February 2008 http://agilehongkong.com/2008/01/29/qa-with-martin-fowler-change-of-address/