It was last Saturday that I got an invitation to be the speaker on a very friendly and informal meetup named, Cafe com Rey. It’s a small community of Brazilian Agilists scattered between Rio de Janeiro and Joao Pessoa.
My biggest take away from this moment is: if you are open and willing to help amazing things happen.
And why is that? It was on the previous Saturday before the meetup that I got a LinkedIn message from Rey asking me if Agile was really dead. When I got the message I had three options:
- Ignore
- Reply without being open to continue the interaction
- Reply with openness to continue the interaction
If you know me by now, you know that I went for the third option, and so that’s how I got to meet Rey (an amazing person) and the rest of the group, and I also had the change to refresh my Agile is Dead presentation.
After 3 years of delivering my first “Agile is Dead” presentation, I updated the title of the talk to “Agile is still Dead” and I revisited some slides.
And so this is it. Even today I’m still amazed how replying back to a LinkedIn message, open to interact, with genuine interest, led me to make another talk, meet new people and have a good time on a Saturday. A lesson for life. 🙂
Here is the talk Agile is still Dead in case you are interested in peeking the slides.
See you soon!
It was amazing my friend! You have to put the vÃdeo here. Keep in touch! We have so many subjects to treat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyrgPWsAOxU