I don't really have many qualms about re-editing blog posts. I'll flesh these out later. Monday 20th June - Keynote - Ian Sommerville: Extreme Programming for Critical Systems? Ian Sommerville presented his view of the challenges of Critical Systems Programming, and where he felt XP fell short. It was an interesting talk, though he seemed to misunderstand aspects of XP. He particularly misunderstood the XP concept of Customer, confusing Customer with user- this is not surprising as it is quite a nebulous concept. Other areas really fell outwith the area that XP (specifically) dealt with. Bar Panel session. Well not really. I sat in the (closed) bar with Mike Hill, Charlie Poole, Brian Swan, and Alan Francis listening in on the chat. It was an educational experience. Lightning Writing Workshop - Laurent Bossavit, Emmanuel Gaillot That was fantastic. I'm quite fired up about writing now, hence the sudden rush of blog entries and revisions. The technique practices was simple - a timeboxed (10 minute) session of continues writing of anything. It's a great technique, but I'm tired of blogging just now. More later. PS Laurent wrote on of my favourite papers on XP, The Unbearable Lightness of XP.

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