Got a bit sidetracked, but I want to come back to the Agile Tour Toronto 2009 with a bit of a wrapup of it.

  • I really like ‘small’ conferences. ‘Small’ with ‘big’ names is a pattern to success I think.
  • Apparently I know a whole bunch of people in the local Agile community.
  • The wireless, ummm, not-so-good. C’mon.
  • The facility in general, really nice. Including the lunch.
  • Sessions were filled by people with ‘Kanban’ cards. Don’t have a card, don’t get in the room and when the cards are gone, they’re gone. The use of cards was nice, but calling them ‘Kanban’ cards was hokey.
  • Putting the feedback form on the back of the card is brilliant. I got my feedback lighting quick.
  • At the beginning all speakers had a minute to promote their talk. CAST does this as well and it makes a lot of sense.
  • But along the same vein, at the end of the day there was an open ‘share what you experienced in the session’. I suspect it was supposed to be retrospective-ish, but retrospectives need to be ‘safe’ and it didn’t feel like it was. And everything that was said was pretty positive. So it wasn’t a very useful, in my opinion.
  1. Here are my individual session write-ups