Open Space Topics

Suggested topics for OpenSpace discussion.

All who are registered for the conference are very welcome to submit a topic for consideration in the Open Space.

If you have a topic you would like discussed, please create a child page of this one describing your idea, and link to that page form this one. 

If you plan to introduce your idea in a lightning talk (you don't have to) then please describe your talk here (you don't have to do that, either).

As an experiment, you might also want to pose a subject for discussion and vote on it via this Moderator topic

• Keith Braithwaite would like to discuss what it means that folks are making money from "rescuing Scrum projects" 
• Matt Wynne would like to hear people's ideas and experiences of encouraging teams to spend more time pairing with each other.
• Douglas Squirrel would like to discuss internally selling agile practises and answering the question, why aren't they typing more?
• Fabrizio Cannizzo would like to exchange ideas and experiences with people who have worked on big and complex projects and if/how they have managed to adopt, adapt and make agile practices work.
• Laura Plonka is doing doctoral research on the psychological aspects of pair-programming, and on using retrospective techniques to improve the quality of the pair-programming experience.
• Rob Bowley would like to know if anyone else thinks that estimating can be harmful?.
• Gojko Adzic would like to discuss collaborative specifications and specification workshops.
• Matt Wynne wonders whether anyone is interested in seeing the BDD Acceptance Testing tool Cucumber in action. Please add a +1 to the topic if interested, and I'll prepare something.
• Mehul Shah would like to discuss whether rotating pairs are a blessing or a curse.
• Karl Scotland would like to hear opinions on the evolution of the agile model
• Simon Woolf would like to hear about people's experiences with Agile Development Using Django and other modern MVC Frameworks
• Matteo Vaccari would like to discuss with other coaches about how to sharpen design skills
• Koen Van Exem would like to discuss DimensionalPlanning.
• Gojko Adzic wants to demonstrate and discuss Slim - the new Fitnesse test runner.
• Fabrizio Cannizzo discusses his experience on writing effective executable documentation for a REST API
• John Daniels ran a goldfish bowl on software craftsmanship.
• James Lyndsay ran an open space session on Testing, and Testers.
• Stuart Ervine and Nat Pryce started to build an XP day voting application during the open space session Let's Build a GWT App.