Agile @ JAOO 2007 #2

I should actually call this post; SCRUM @ JAOO because that was what the track was called. But anyway it was not only information on scrum that I am left with after the second day of the conference.

Key elements
Rythm is important. - Let it be the heartbeat of the team.
Roadmap is still important even you are doing agile.
Do not overload the experts, especially on multiteam environments.
Architecture is allowed! Abstractions and interfaces are a very good way of doing this. (Coplien had some really nice slides on this)
TDD is both good and bad (according to Coplien its only bad, but there where alot of discussions on this).
Domain is important. -It creates the bridge between developers, customers and users.
Retrospectives - Important for learning and communication (Prime Directive)

Wish I had more time to go in to detail on all the issues, but I will have to do that at a later time.