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