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The agile community/movement is growing and changing faster every day. As the initial agile flavors blend, the community continues to reach out, gathering new ideas from other communities and disciplines. One such practice, retrospectives/reflections, is an example of the agile community embracing an idea that harmonizes with the core principles of agile. As retrospectives and reflections are now a mainstay for many agile communities, this session is a way for the community to share in this practice. Using the fishbowl format, the session will start with a discussion among long time players in the agile community. Once the conversation is rolling, anyone interested may join the discussion, sharing their experiences or opinions. The moderator will be gathering questions for the fishbowl and keep the conversation flowing through the many topics present at the conference and during the session. Over all, this is a place for the community to meet and reflect on where we have been, what we have learned, and discuss topics and paths for the future.

One of the problems the agile community is currently facing is how do we encourage the things that are agile and discourage those that are not? As agile software development has grown in popularity we discover that some people claim to “do agile” and yet “do not”, and no one calls them on it. The principles of the Agile manifesto and the practices within each of the methods becomes diluted and lost. Is certification the answer? Tom DeMarco comments that “ though the rationale for certification is always societal good, the real objective is different: seizure of power. Certification is not something we implement for the benefit of the society but for the benefit of the certifiers ”. So certification is clearly a complex and interesting area and ripe for debate. This panel brings together industry practitioners with differing perspectives and experiences of certification; the audience should come prepared to both ask and answer questions.

What constitutes a software best-practice and what are the best strategies to become aware, learn, adopt and adapt such practices? This fishbowl will bring together seasoned professionals who will meld a mix of academic and industry perspectives with an agile flavor.