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Agile Open Florida is a conference organized by leaders and volunteers from the Agile Florida community who are passionate about building community and advancing all things Agile. Adam Sandman, whose company was also sponsoring Agile Open Florida 2016, has written his personal report about some of the sessions. Author: Adam Sandman, Inflectra Corporation, http://www.inflectra.com/ The 2016 Agile Open Florida conference in Orlando, FL was a welcome escape from the chill in DC, especially after a long and taxing 2016 election season. The event, co-sponsored by Inflectra, brought together the Agile community in Florida and showcased products and services offered by Inflectra, as well as its partner – OAT Solutions / Brazil. For those who could not make it to the conference, here is an official write up of the conference. OpenSpace Unlike more traditional conferences that feature keynote speakers and breakout sessions, the OpenSpace format of 2016 Agile Open Florida allowed for vastly more meaningful interaction between the participants. The central premise of this conference – that the real value is in the side conversations instead of the scripted presentations – was on-point and made those side conversations the main attraction. For a Sapient alumnus like myself, OpenSpace is not an entirely new concept, but a variant of Sapient’s “facilitated client workshops” called Fusions and RIPs. I found sessions on using agile in public schools, the role of testers and manual testing, and agile methodologies in hybrid hardware/software communities particularly stimulating. The key take-aways from these sessions were: Testers vs. [...]
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