Yesterday Jesper and I was doing an agile workshop as part of the Öresund Agile 2008 conference in Malmö, Sweden. I have to admit we had set out being pretty ambitious about the content of the workshop. We stuffed everything from Release planning, charting, coding, test-driving, continuously integrating, doing reviews, retrospectives, scrum meetings, planning poker, and discussing engineering practices and process improvement into just one day. I think we can conclude the workshop fully lived up to it's name -- Accelerated Agile!

With Malmö filled with swedish football fans, students celebrating final exams, and of course a lot of skilled people from the agile software community, we had some great days. Not only was it cool doing the workshop itself, but being at a smaller software conference where you actually get a chance to chat with most of the attendees I think is really valuable. I hope everyone else enjoyed it as much as we did (in time the feedback forms will tell!).

As promised during the workshop, we have of course put the latest (and hopefully greatest) version of all the slides online. You can download them from here.

After browsing through the pictures that was taken during the day, I selected some that you'll find below.

Notice the red and green lava lamps in the background. These were controlled by the CruiseControl CI server! I personally think that this was actually more than just a gadget. It brought great visiblity into the project. With these lamps connected to the build system, everyone who entered the conference room (or even looked through the door) could immediately spot if there was currently a problem. Now that is TRULY surfacing problems fast!

The self-organizing team working towards a common goal?

Some laid back discussions of interesting engineering practices.

Our one-day iteration ended with a retrospective, that judging from the smiles were rather positive.

All sorts of important stuff on the wall. Tasks, burn-down, WIP chart, and standard work sheets.

A big thanks to all the dedicated attendees, conference coordinator Gustav Bergman from Softhouse who invited us in the first place, and also Sonny, Lars and Thomas Lundström who assisted us during the entire day!