Stir Trek: Iron Man Edition
7 May 2010 at Marcus Crosswoods Theater

This was my favorite session by a hair (sorry iPhone guys). I would love to get my hands on the slides if that were possible. Does Bill speak at conferences on a regular basis? His anecdotal, straightforward information was a nice change of pace. Thanks.

I'll certainly be able to use some of the info from this talk. Not sure I'd want Jon to organize my team, though. :) I like the idea of multiple boards, but 30+ seems totally over the top. I liked "Stop approving crap which will never be implemented." Scrum references didn't seem very "Scrummy" to me; not sure if covering "Scrumban" was a goal, but I didn't learn much from the talk in this area. Would have liked to see more about interacting with/supporting business goals. As with many methodology talks, it was very development-focused. "What to do when development isn't the bottleneck" is an under-served topic.
Overall it was more than worth the time I spent, so good job.

Fun and practical, though I would have liked to see more than the sort of demos already on the jQuery UI site.

Liked: Informality, sense of fun, voice of experience, informed speculation.
Disagree: The speaker seemed to treat browser==web. "Native" apps can be web apps. Browser apps can be local. Web app doesn't necessarily mean "in the browser." HTML/JS isn't necessarily a web app, especially in the mobile space.
Disliked: Tiny text on slides.
Overall: Enjoyed this a lot, though I'm not sure I'm going to take practical info home with me. Fun, though.

Really enjoyed this. I plan on sharing the pattern catalogs with others at my company. Examples were good.