Agile Kerala 2013: An Awesome Experience

It's only once in a while, we meet people who inspire us. In the last three days, I could meet many of them. We were at Technopark, Trivandrum to attend Agile Kerala 2013. It was the first ever Agile and Lean software development conference in Kerala. Truly speaking, I registered for the conference only because I would be able to visit Kerala and meet some of my friends. Learning was only my second priority.

But after going there, everything changed. It was an unexpected and awesome experience, I must say! Main talks were delivered by Venkat Subramaniam, an Agile Developer and Naresh Jain, Tech Startup Founder & Agile Coach. Both of them, and all other speakers were really good and gave us a memorable experience to cherish. The talks helped all three of us to have a better insight into Agile. 

We were not learning agile, but were experiencing it live!

The best among them was the live pair programming session by Naresh & Venkat. Unlike all other sessions, it was truly unplanned. This helped everybody, even for those who were new to pair programming and Test Driven Development (TDD), to understand the real power and use of these practices. They showed us how TDD helps us to detect and correct problems long before compiling the code...

There are more things to tell than a single post can contain. I'll be posting about the sessions soon.

Thanks to Vinod Purushothaman and Manoj Vadakkan for organizing such a beautiful event. Thanks to all other speakers...

I am quite sure that +Arun Prakash and +Vaishnavi M K experienced the same.. Happy to have you both there...  :-) 

And this is my first personal post other than the summaries. Please do comment and criticize.. I always love to hear feedbacks from you...


All good, all the time,

Yedhu Krishnan