More agile cowbell at Serena TAG
I just returned from Serena's annual user conference called "TAG". The "TAG" is a bit of play on words. Its a mixture of TAG as in an XML TAG and TAG as in graffiti. The conference had both great content and production quality. The highlight for me was the unveiling of Serena Agile On Demand (AOD). AOD is a SaaS offering that enables agile development at the enterprise scale. I gave a couple main stage demonstrations of the new product, and we had several conference presentations on agile development. Part of our AOD offering includes transformational services that will be delivered by Valtech. My favorite main stage session was Agile Mythbusters. This was a tongue and cheek panel discussion that was MC'd by Jeff McKenna Serena's Chief Agile Evangelist and another co-creator of the Scrum agile method. Jeff presented 10 Agile myths that were debated by the panelists. The panelists were Al Goerner (Valtech), Tim Walker (Valtech), Paul Dupey (Serena) and me...