Well.. that was a decent time. I managed to catch up with several more folks.. and met plenty of new ones. A band, caricature artist, balloon animal “artist”, tarot reader, food, and drink. Not bad. And lots of people. It was fun.

I started off the day with a breakfast meeting with my editor at Prentice Hall. For those interested, I’ve finally gotten started on my Behaviour Driven Development book.

Registration opened promptly at 11:30.. with an anxious group waiting. The lines formed immediately but they moved quickly.

After registering I spent some time hanging out meeting people, and chatting. Then it was a quick lunch and off to the afternoon “Engineering Practices of Agile Teams” tag team talk. The talk started off with Gerard Meszaros started it off with a talk on user stories, followed by Mike Cohn on estimating and planning.

During the break I caught up with various people, as shown in the gallery.

After the break Jim Highsmith carried it on with a talk on agile project management. Ward Cunningham and Rick Mugridge finished the afternoon off in style with a talk on Fit and FitNesse. This talk was in a rather large room.. which was packed as can be seen in the pics.