Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Engaging externally - Kudos to the team!

 2009 was a great year for us when it came to engaging with external world. We were more porous than previous years. It facilitated two way learning....as we learned from the external world, and external world learned from us. Great job team!

Some highlights....

- We hosted our own first Application Development conference
- Our folks presented at major industry conferences (like Agile 2009 and RailsConf)
- We continued to engage with great external coaches and other thoughtleaders in the industry (some on pro bono basis)
- Many of us have continued, or started blogging externally
- Our developers contributed code to opensource
- Our folks took lead in starting new meetup groups, and also contributed to many
- Outside firms (including non-profits) continued to reach out to us to learn about our agile transition success story

...and many more.

Considering that our budget situation did not allow our folks to attend any conferences, or bring in external experts in '09 .... that is an awesome start... miles to go though...

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