Johannes Brodwall has a good article about SOA and what it claims to deliver. They claims are appealing theories, it’s just too bad it’s doesn’t work. The only thing I wish to extract and use from SOA is the governance, but you don’t need an ESB to do that. 🙂
Passing the Nokia test does not mean you are good at agile. 🙂 Don’t stop when you can say yes to the tests, that’s when the action begins. That’s when you passed the basics, and start to learn. You still have a long way to go, so don’t stop improving. 🙂
My old boss for a summer internship has a good listing of what goes on in Oslo, Norway and the programming community. We acutally have the largest XP-meetup in the world, and rank 1st and 3rd (XP and Lean) on the agile-meetups as well. Being able to listen to and talk to people like Alistair Cockburn, Mary Poppendieck, Jeff Sutherland and Mike Cohn that bring years of experience into the game of agile is really inspiring and helpful. A lot of people attend these meetings on a regular basis, and bring the ideas back with them into their company and projects. Many of these speakers are here courtesy of Programutvikling, which also holds some excellent courses with the speakers.
I feel privileged to have such and active community, and also a lot of bright locals to learn from. I just have to find the time to attend everything. 😉
If you’re in Oslo and interested in the programming community check the many groups, it is likely that something is going on right now.