Total responents 40
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Would you attend an Agile Charity Day (there will be a Ruby one anyway)?
| Answer | Count | % |
| No | 5 | 12.5 |
| Yes | 35 | 87.5 |
Would you prefer a one or two day conference?
| Answer | Count | % |
| Two | 11 | 27.5 |
| No preference | 14 | 35.0 |
| One | 15 | 37.5 |
Would you like to be on a panel for a balloon debate?
| Answer | Count | % |
| Yes | 2 | 5.0 |
| ? | 5 | 12.5 |
| Maybe | 13 | 32.5 |
| No | 20 | 50.0 |
Would you attend a post conference Ruby or Agile Dojo?
| Answer | Count | % |
| No | 2 | 5.0 |
| Yes | 38 | 95.0 |
Would you or your company be interested in sponsoring Magrails?
| Answer | Count | % |
| Yes | 1 | 2.5 |
| ? | 4 | 10.0 |
| Maybe | 14 | 35.0 |
| No | 21 | 52.5 |
Would you like to help with the organisation of the conference?
| Answer | Count | % |
| ? | 2 | 5.0 |
| Yes | 7 | 17.5 |
| No | 12 | 30.0 |
| Maybe | 19 | 47.5 |
What Agile topics would you like to see and discuss?
| Answer | Count | % |
| Is coaching really necessary to make the transition? | 9 | 22.5 |
| Can you resolve the tension between YAGNI and flexibility | 10 | 25.0 |
| Theory of Constraints | 13 | 32.5 |
| YAGNI means YAGNI | 15 | 37.5 |
| Ideas are cheap – a discussion of “Rework” and “Linchpin” | 18 | 45.0 |
| Combating blame culture | 19 | 47.5 |
| 10 years on – what have we achieved, what mountains are still to climb? | 20 | 50.0 |
| The trap of the Agile Waterfall | 23 | 57.5 |
| Be honest, Agile doesn’t always work | 23 | 57.5 |
| Lean and Agile – the same soup or different cuisines | 23 | 57.5 |
| Agile planning | 28 | 70.0 |
What Agile topics would you like to see that weren’t in the list?
- agile v fragile – when to say no. It’s a fine line between being flexible and being stressed and overworked with constantly shifting directions or new features.
- How to start off
- Estimation
- CEO ACME org. Take 2 Agile pills a day for 6months. SWOT for the CEO.
What Ruby/Rails topics would you like to see and discuss?
| Answer | Count | % |
| What’s this Rack thing? | 14 | 35.0 |
| The predictable talk about writing DSL’s | 15 | 37.5 |
| Useful things in Active Record for fun and profit | 16 | 40.0 |
| Ruby makes me smile | 18 | 45.0 |
| Does No SQL mean non-Relational? | 21 | 52.5 |
| BDD is all very well, but I think in code | 23 | 57.5 |
| What’s so good about Rails 3? | 25 | 62.5 |
| Ruby 1.9 for fun and profit | 28 | 70.0 |
What Ruby topics would you like to see that weren’t in the list?
- Building cross-platform mobile applications with Ruby – introduction to Rhodes
- Better Rails application design
- transition to rails 3 – routes
- bundler
- unobtrusive js
- Ruby 1.9 v 1.8
- which editor – textmate, vim, eclipse… maybe textmate etc. hints and tips
- improving productivity (I use textmate but I’m sure I’m not using a tenth of what it can do for me)
- Setting up an agile rails project – the plugins
- test frameworks etc you should use (ie do it at the start cos retrofitting things like cucumber etc is painful)
- Rails deployment strategies – phusion v mongrel etc. (I use passenger as it comes on a single box but there must be better ways)
- Event Machine – writing truly evented systems
- Making stuff work quickly with quality.
Suggested Balloon Debate topics
| Answer | Count | % |
| YAGNI vs flexible | 8 | 20.0 |
| ready, aim, fire or ready, fire, aim? | 10 | 25.0 |
| Following processes makes you stupid | 12 | 30.0 |
| Strong typing is for weak minds | 15 | 37.5 |
| XP/Scrum/Kanban – throw them out the basket | 17 | 42.5 |
| User stories are a bad idea | 18 | 45.0 |
| Test driven – bad idea, good idea, what are these test things? | 27 | 67.5 |
What Balloon debate topics would you like to see that weren’t in the list?
- IDEs make you dumb
- what’s really happening under the hood
- Cucumber’s wonderful, really