I went out the agile user groups first meeting last night. Vlad (who started the group) did the first presentation which was a good overview of Agile and then Scrum and XP. For me I found that very valuable as I have never worked on a project using agile techniques.  I got a lot of good information from his presentation

The meeting was quite open and informal with people asking questions and contributing experiences of their use with Agile techniques. I found that to be good as well showing some of the tradeoffs and risks of using these techniques. The big issue seemed to be people turning a technique into a process and getting stuck trying to follow "rules" when agile is meant to be open and adaptive.

I look forward to more meetings and more talks around this. It seems that lots of people have things to contribute and lots of things to debate so it should be a good group if not only for fights to the death. Insert fight music: