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Getting Real on Ciklum PM Camp

 I had very nice few days in Ciklum PM gathering, a lot of useful workshops and discussions. One of the event was Speakers Corner, idea borrowed from UK, but in this case it was more about free talk of PMs with clients. There was some people from Holand and Denmark that took initiative and presented their own  vision about how outsourcing should work, how to grow trust and keep communication on the high level. Very useful experience when you see how it feels from other side of outsourcing. Also I wanted to say that we with Yuri Tukhnin presented "Getting Real" methodology of crafting the project. I'm in love with "Getting Real" it keep you tuff and realistic. We didn't managed to finish all slides by 30min, so we was about more than "real" :) at least we managed to tell about main stuff like code less and cut the features. I hope this seed will grow with in the company, at least I see that company decided to move in agile development way.
 Today, Tim Yugrashen, made workshop about basic principles of Scrum. All the way I've had a feeling that this is something very close to my subject, something very close to "Getting Real", so I was excited that everything progressive moves to this agile direction. Basing the software development on real business needs, not just flying in the clouds and writing useless specification that will retire in half a year. So in near future I will posts photos and other content in my blog.

P.S. we didn't had camera to record all workshop, I think I should buy one to change this situation. Too much stuff happening lately that should be recorded.

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