After the GIDS 2008 last year, me and one of my colleague at Xebia expressed our interest in attending Developer Summit this year.  Great Indian Developer Summit(GIDS) took place from 23-25 April 2009 at Bangalore , India.

Our journey started with witnessing a huge chaos at the airport. Their systems had gone down so everything was haywire. We joked of representing Xebia here as well to present them a better software solution 

@Bangalore , India

The first day saw a huge number of people. A lot of buzz and enthusiasm among the delegates. Big sponsors like Microsoft, Adobe , Red hat , JBoss , IBM , Yahoo , Sony Ericsson were associated with this event. Everyday there were five parallel tracks going on at five different halls.

In this blog I would briefly cover the highlights. (more...)

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My initial 100 days @ Xebia?

I'll say it takes something “extra” to be here. It calls for the people with perseverance and "ready to take on any challenge" kinda attitude . (more...)

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Recently held workshop on Agile Awareness in Xebia India was a great learning experience for all  the newbies into Agile way of working. The delegates who made up for the event  were from a wide range of portfolios starting from Team Lead, Project Manager to Software Developer. So, this made the whole stage quite interesting.

It started from "The Problems that we face generally in Software Development". And the answers that we had were quite unanimous.

• Unrealistic Deadlines
• Poor Estimation
• Surplus Documentation
• Inadequate Testing

and the most stressed point by all of us was "Changing Requirements". (more...)

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