That’s right, folks: Yours truly got word earlier this month that his proposal for a session was accepted for delivery on August 6, 2008 at 16:00h here in Toronto on the topic of post-secondary agile course availability. My topic is tentatively titled, “Who's Teaching Best Practices? A review of Canadian CS/SE curriculums and how to improve integration of agile/best practices” and is based in part on my two-part post series from September 2007 on the same topic.
I’m both surprised and excited to have been given approval becuase I really took a drubbing from some proposal reviewers who weren’t happy with my idea at all. I wasn’t exactly sure what was motivating the dissent, but the effect was essentially like tossing cold water on the whole premise of questioning the curriculum development process for Computer Science and Software Engineering schools. Given the philosophy of transparency that is supposed to underpin agile practices, it seemed contradictory to be stonewalled on this basis.
In any event, enough reviewers must have agreed to get me the pass for my 60 minute session which will be broken into two parts, with the first detailing my findings from the blog entries, and the next engaging participants to develop their own ideas on how agile/iterative/lean practices can be better positioned in Computer Science/Software Engineering schools.
See my original series that inspired the session here: Part 1, Part 2 And be sure to see the Agile 2008 Conference Site for more information on other speakers, stages and events.
See you there!
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