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This is the intro to agile presentation from Agile Chennai 2007. It was done jointly by Bala and myself, although Bala did most of it. I just spoke for five minutes at the end of slide 83 about how agile is not a set of techniques.

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The November meetup of the Chennai Agile User Group will be held on Saturday, the 17th of November at Gaea Global. For the complete address and map to the venue, check out the ChennaiAgile wiki. If you are interested in attending, do add your name to the list of participants on the wiki. If there is any specific topic that you would like to talk/hear about, then add that as well.

Dont worry if you missed Agile Chennai 2007 because Azagappan has a fantastic round up of the event.

Also, the presentations from the event have been made available for download.

Read/Write Web, one of the most popular Web 2.0 blogs has a post today titled “The Future of Software Development.” Guess what? It’s about agile software development. The article talks about refactoring and developer testing. Although there is much more to agile software development than that, it is still interesting to see how agile software development is going more and more mainstream. Read the full article here.

See also: Agile in the May Issue of CIO Magazine

Update: This offer is now closed. Many thanks to all those who provided feedback. I hope you find the fifty user license useful

If you’ve been following this blog, you would have known that Silver Catalyst v1.5 was released a few days ago. You would also have known that the free version of Silver Catalyst comes with a three team member license. This is perfect for use with small teams and for evaluation purposes.

But wouldn’t it be cool to use the tool on a real project with the actual team? I know a lot of people would love that.

So I’m doing an experiment. Till the end of this month, I’m giving away a free upgrade of the trial license than can be used by fifty team members. This will probably cover your entire team, so you can use it on a real, live project. It is a license with no time limits and no feature limits. The only thing is that it’s still a trial license so it won’t be eligible for ‘official’ support. Not that it matters, because you can shoot me an email anytime nevertheless.

How do you get this upgraded license?

Download the latest version of Silver Catalyst, use it and then review it on your blog with a link back to the Silver Catalyst homepage. The latest version of Silver Catalyst is 1.5.1 released today (October 15), so if you’ve got an older version, you might want to download the latest one. There are no conditions on the review. It can be positive, negative, whatever. Just keep it unbiased and write what you really think about Silver Catalyst.

Then email me at siddharta@silverstripesoftware.com with the URL of your blog post and I’ll reply with the upgraded license.

Sounds simple? It is. I’m looking forward to reading the reviews!