Comments on: CITCON Europe 2008 – Less is more http://www.bitwalker.nl/blog/citcon-europe-2008-%e2%80%93-less-is-more agile software development Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:45:31 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Harald Walker http://www.bitwalker.nl/blog/citcon-europe-2008-%e2%80%93-less-is-more/comment-page-1#comment-1032 Harald Walker Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:59:15 +0000 http://www.bitwalker.nl/?p=54#comment-1032 Maybe the session planning could be done just like we do it in software development. Make a backlog list (all sessions), estimate and prioritize (how many attendants interested per session). Merge or split sessions where necessary (and this process must involve the session owner) and then do the planning. Once the planning is done, it shouldn't be touched. Maybe leave some space for spontaneous new sessions. I think with a small number, you can keep the process very open and flexible but with a growing number a little bit tighter process might be necessary. Maybe the session planning could be done just like we do it in software development. Make a backlog list (all sessions), estimate and prioritize (how many attendants interested per session). Merge or split sessions where necessary (and this process must involve the session owner) and then do the planning. Once the planning is done, it shouldn’t be touched. Maybe leave some space for spontaneous new sessions. I think with a small number, you can keep the process very open and flexible but with a growing number a little bit tighter process might be necessary.

]]> By: Jeffrey Fredrick http://www.bitwalker.nl/blog/citcon-europe-2008-%e2%80%93-less-is-more/comment-page-1#comment-1031 Jeffrey Fredrick Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:05:30 +0000 http://www.bitwalker.nl/?p=54#comment-1031 Hi Harald, from my perspective this was an interesting conference in several ways. Not only were there more people than the previous CITCON Europe but I believe I higher percentage of people proposed topics as well. The result, as you said was a very large number of sessions and the schedule refactoring, honestly, did not go as smoothly as I would have liked. I think there should have been fewer combined sessions and more topics removed. Perhaps if the reception Friday night had been at the same location as the schedule, as we've done for all previous events, things would have gone smoother. Of course I'm sure there is something we can do to improve this. Aslak Hellesøy twittered today that they are expecting 400 people at Smidig 2008 and that they had 300 last year. I'm hoping to get some advice from him about how to scale open space events. Hi Harald,

from my perspective this was an interesting conference in several ways. Not only were there more people than the previous CITCON Europe but I believe I higher percentage of people proposed topics as well. The result, as you said was a very large number of sessions and the schedule refactoring, honestly, did not go as smoothly as I would have liked. I think there should have been fewer combined sessions and more topics removed.

Perhaps if the reception Friday night had been at the same location as the schedule, as we’ve done for all previous events, things would have gone smoother.

Of course I’m sure there is something we can do to improve this. Aslak Hellesøy twittered today that they are expecting 400 people at Smidig 2008 and that they had 300 last year. I’m hoping to get some advice from him about how to scale open space events.

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