Ed Yourdon
I've been reading this stuff all week - and I'm starting to get really bored with agile
Two years after I attended Agile2010 in Orlando (photos of which you can see in this Flickr set), I ventured down to Dallas, Texas for Agile2012. There were about 1,500 attendees in Orlando, and someone said that 1,800 people signed up for this year's conference -- so "agile" has certainly become a mainstream concept in the computer field.
If you don't work in the computer field, and have no idea what agile software development is all about, this Wikipedia article provides a good summary and overview. And if you've never heard of the Agile conference, it's easier for me to point you to the conference website than trying to provide my own feeble explanation.
Photographing this conference is a little frustrating -- partly because there's no point trying to be the "documentary photographer" of the event, when a guy like Tom Poppendieck (co-author, with Mary Poppendieck, of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit) does such a good job of capturing hundreds, if not thousands, of images of the various speakers and attendees (which I'm sure he'll upload to his website soon after he returns from the conference), and also because the entire conference takes place indoors, with artificial lighting that's often too bright or too dim, and too hard to control. For the most part, I wandered around during various parts of the conference and concentrated on the attendees themselves. You'll see them hunched over lots of laptop computers (the overwhelming majority of which turned out to be Mac Air laptops), as well as lots of iPhones, Androids, iPads, and other gadgets.
I set myself the objective of taking some photographs that would make it clear to the viewer that he/she was looking at something specifically related to "agile computing" … but that turned out to be impossible (at least for someone with my limited skills). Do "agile" people look any different from other computer people? And, these days, how would you tell a computer software developer from a rock musician or a truck driver or a biophysicist? As for agile development itself, everyone was here to talk techniques and practices for this particular approach to software development -- but there really aren't any "agile" machines or gadgets that you can see. The convention floor was filled with vendors who were selling "agile tools," but most of that was software, too -- so, aside from the booths and the posters and the sales reps in their colorful t-shirts, there wasn't much to see …
But there were a few people wearing cool agile t-shirts, and there was an agile "Dummies" book, and a few other things worth capturing. That's what you'll find in this Flickr set...
I've been reading this stuff all week - and I'm starting to get really bored with agile
Two years after I attended Agile2010 in Orlando (photos of which you can see in this Flickr set), I ventured down to Dallas, Texas for Agile2012. There were about 1,500 attendees in Orlando, and someone said that 1,800 people signed up for this year's conference -- so "agile" has certainly become a mainstream concept in the computer field.
If you don't work in the computer field, and have no idea what agile software development is all about, this Wikipedia article provides a good summary and overview. And if you've never heard of the Agile conference, it's easier for me to point you to the conference website than trying to provide my own feeble explanation.
Photographing this conference is a little frustrating -- partly because there's no point trying to be the "documentary photographer" of the event, when a guy like Tom Poppendieck (co-author, with Mary Poppendieck, of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit) does such a good job of capturing hundreds, if not thousands, of images of the various speakers and attendees (which I'm sure he'll upload to his website soon after he returns from the conference), and also because the entire conference takes place indoors, with artificial lighting that's often too bright or too dim, and too hard to control. For the most part, I wandered around during various parts of the conference and concentrated on the attendees themselves. You'll see them hunched over lots of laptop computers (the overwhelming majority of which turned out to be Mac Air laptops), as well as lots of iPhones, Androids, iPads, and other gadgets.
I set myself the objective of taking some photographs that would make it clear to the viewer that he/she was looking at something specifically related to "agile computing" … but that turned out to be impossible (at least for someone with my limited skills). Do "agile" people look any different from other computer people? And, these days, how would you tell a computer software developer from a rock musician or a truck driver or a biophysicist? As for agile development itself, everyone was here to talk techniques and practices for this particular approach to software development -- but there really aren't any "agile" machines or gadgets that you can see. The convention floor was filled with vendors who were selling "agile tools," but most of that was software, too -- so, aside from the booths and the posters and the sales reps in their colorful t-shirts, there wasn't much to see …
But there were a few people wearing cool agile t-shirts, and there was an agile "Dummies" book, and a few other things worth capturing. That's what you'll find in this Flickr set...