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I while be attending Agile 2007 in a few weeks and thought it might be fun to write down some of things I'm hoping to discover:

In the large (department/company wide issues):

1. Finding executives and other senior people at large companies who are (or have) adopted Agile. I would like to find people we can ask occasional questions of (and they can ask us).
2. Find out what issues people have coordinating projects in a tiered environment. In our cases some of our stack is 10 layers deep
3. What issues do people have coordinating many related projects running in parallel? Consider a as many as 30+ teams working on 15+ projects all of which must be released as one platform. How do we handle dependency and risk management?
4. Key lessons learned: critical success factors and pitfalls to avoid when doing agile in the large
5. Hearing others Agile adoption experience (there are several sessions on this subject) in particular what went wrong, what would they do differently?

In the small:

1. How do others do acceptance testing for Rich Clients? Is anyone doing acceptance testing with Eclipse?
2. How others are keep Continuous Improvement alive on Agile Teams? Some teams I've seen find a plateau and don't move on from there.
3. What are other people’s experiences doing Agile development with distributed teams - sometimes with each team member in a different location?

BTW here is the complete list of conference events:http://www.agile2007.com/index­.php?page=sub/ (keep in mind: it’s sold out already)

Whats on your mind? What do you want to get out of the conference? Tell what your goals are and I will blog about what I learn.

Look me at the conference – let’s have a chat and perhaps a pint. Leave a comment so I know who to look for.

BTW I (and this blog) are on vacation for the next two weeks so your comments won't approved until I get back.

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