Gary Pollice is a Professor of Practice, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He discusses his use of project simulation to bring "Real World Challenges" into an academic setting. While he does not specifically teach Agile Methods in the class, many of the processes and practices that emerge will look shockingly familiar to those of us in the agile community. Plus he has fun with it ... I wish he had been one of my professors so that I could have learned some of the hard lessons in the classroom rather than on the job.

-bob payne

Tom and Mary Poppendieck talk with me about their new book: Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash

Since the interview I have read a draft chapter from the book.  It looks like it will be another great book.

-bob payne

Sanjiv and I talk about his book Managing Agile Projects and his work.  He is on the board of the APLN and active in the local DC chapter of the APLN.  I've worked and published with Sanjiv and was glad to get a podcast wtih him at last.

-bob

Boris and I talk about his work with Product Owner Teams and the state of Agile in Europe.  Working with multiple customers is always somewhat problematic.  Boris talks about several strategies to unify them into a single voice.

-bob

Diana kicks off OpenSpace at the conference.  If you have never attended openspace you will find the most fulfilling sessions there.  At least I do.

-bob

Peter Coffee delivered a keynote that was both informative and inspiring.  A combination that is sometimes hard to come by at a conference.  His keynote tied four of his favorite books back to the Agile Manifesto. 

Listen and Enjoy...

-bob

Todd kicks off the conference with a Top 10 List and the news that the conference has nearly doubled since last year.

Jaraed is one of several authors that I met at the NFJS conference here in the DC area.  He has a book out called Just Ship It and I believe that you should take a look at it.  It offers advice that can allow nearly any shop to make there process more Agile.

Enjoy.

-bob payne

Are you ready for Aspect Oriented Programming, if not give this a listen and hopefully you will learn a bit more about the topic from Ramnivas.  I met him at the NFJS here in the DC area and he was kind enough to teach me a thing or two about AOP.

It's not just for security and logging anymore.

-bob payne

Another in the NFJS series.  A conversation with Brian Sletten aobut NetKernal and the Semantic Web.  Brian is a DC area consultant that I have run into on projects and I am glad I ran into him at this conference. 

Enjoy the podcast

-bob payne