PHPBenelux Conference 2015
23 - 24 Jan 2015
at Hotel Ter Elst
Talk comments
Very nice mix of personal anecdote, sprinkles of wisdom and an actual point. Plus Margaret Hamilton who was a boss. Keynote material :)
Great to see the Xhgui! In the past I experimented with Xhprof, buts it's still hard to recognize the valuable data that comes from Xhprof. Will test it soon with the Xhgui hoping for more results.
Enthusiastic much :) I love lists too now
Although opinions don't seem to matter that much, this was a very nice "soft skills" talk with some insightful points :) I got some handy tips that will be tried out in our team come Monday
Very nice, loved the step by step improvements that took an example from bad to good.
I have very mixed feelings about this talk. On the one hand I'm a very big fan of almost any form of agile and I like Kanban a lot. On the other hand Josh promoted Kanban by comparing it to scrum. My problem with that is that he took the most horrible, hideous and obviously incorrect implementation one could ever come up with and led us to believe that this was “the scrum way”.
I'm certainly convinced there will be lot of people doing what Josh said and are calling it scrum. But it simply isn't. Terms like scrumbut and waterscum exist with reason. Full disclosure: at Procurios we do scrum for all our client projects. For any internal process or internal product development we use kanban however. Both have very good reasons for fitting in certain situations. All in all I feel Josh sold Kanban short by putting it up against an unfairly pictured opponent. Kanban doesn't need this, it is very much good enough on its own merits.
It was mostly funny laughing at a lot of examples that you know you once did. Maybe not very helpful in getting ahead for me personal but having a laugh every once in a while is important too.
This was a talk that was enjoyable mainly because of Alvaro's energy and obvious comfort of being on stage. As often I would have liked to have heard about experts reasons for using RabbitMQ or the problems they've ran into during implementation.
A very good talk, very inspiring. Every developer working with scrum will recognize the problems that kanban solves. But with Josh's real live tips and lessons it makes it even more interesting.
Josh also takes the time to answer your questions after the talk. I really appreciated your kindness. Please do more talks like this!
I need more thumbs ;-)
Very well organised as always. Thanks to the sponsors as well!