Today was the annual Agile North conference held in Preston, Lancashire. It was a one day event with three different session tracks going on at once. Obviously there were lots of sessions that I wanted to attend but the ones that stood out the most were "Dealing with Customers" and "Storytelling with FIT". The day started with a keynote speech from Rachel Davies who is a member of the Agile Alliance. It was great to finally meet a "face" of the Agile Alliance and to hear about how they formed and what their focus was. Rachel was a good presenter and kept the audience captured for the duration of her talk. There was also a good amount of discussion in the Questions & Answers part at the end of her talk. I had two key "take aways" from her talk: Don't stick rigidly to the process if situations are changing Get hold of a copy of "Waltzing with Bears" book Dealing with Customers by Charles Weir of Penrillian Charles held t
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