created on Fri, 2008-05-23 13:51

Here's the crib notes of the first 1.5 days of VIDfest. {Links coming at some point ...}

Wednesday night

Kick off party at the Vancouver art Gallery with the Krazy exhibit. This will take another look to digest the walls of graphic art and manga mania but the free drink ticket and VIP pass helped kick start the conversations on the busy night of Vancouver techie-related events (Launch Party 4 sounds like another noteworthy fest of interconnectivity). Krug and I represented at the party and chilled with presenters Darren Barefoot and Rebecca Bollwitt among other social media super-heros.

Thursday morning

created on Thu, 2006-07-20 13:42 Workshop on the process of creating and managing iterative projects and applications with speaker Kelly Goto.

"Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming, feedback is the treatment"
- Kent Beck, Extreme Programming

Thoughts:

This was a great overall approach at breaking the traditional cycle of workflow to a more iterative approach. This workshop helps to determine new ways of reorganizing the development process into manageable phases that optimize customer value, business value and technical feasibility. Interaction with others in the workshop through an example process, helped participants to discover new ways of scoping project.