Conferences to attend this year - I love lists

What you write down you don't have to remember
I love lists!
Or as my girlfriend says to me: "Don't you have a list for that?"

Indeed, I have a list for almost everything:

  • Things to read
  • Things to buy
  • Things to blog
  • Presents for Christmas 2012
  • Tools to play with
  • Lap times with my bike
  • ...

This comes back to:
#1 What you don't measure, you cant improve -> Continuous Improvement
and
#2 What you write down, you don't have to remember -> Free up your mind

The other good thing is:
#3 "A list is a data structure" #wootwoot #DoubleGeekW00t

 

Back to the list that I wanted to bring up:

Conferences to attend 2012

This list is highly customized to my needs: Central Europe based, Developer Focused, Agile+Scrum related, No SharePoint, Easy to get to, Heaps of coffee there and maybe even Free?

 

How keen am I?
In number of rainbows
Name, Date and URL

RainbowRainbow

QCon London
March 5-9
http://qconlondon.com/

Rainbow

Microsoft Windows TechConference
12. März 2012 | Trafo Baden
http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/msdn/de/windowsconference/default.aspx

Rainbow

Swiss testing day
14. März 2012 in Zürich
http://www.swisstestingday.ch/

RainbowRainbowRainbowRainbow

Excellence in Software (David Starr and Elizabeth Woodward)
http://eseconf.com/

24-25 April, Zürich

Rainbow

XP2012
May 21-25 2012 in Malmö Sweden
http://xp2012.org/

Rainbow

NDC 2012
June 6-8
http://www.ndcoslo.com/

Rainbow

TechEd 2012
June 11-14 in Orlando US
http://northamerica.msteched.com/

RainbowRainbow

JAZOON'12 Zurich, Switzerland
June 26 to 28
http://jazoon.com/2012/Conference

Rainbow

TechEd Europe
June 26-29, Amsterdam
http://europe.msteched.com/

RainbowRainbow

Scrum Day 2012
July 6, Walldorf, Germany
http://www.scrum-day.de/

Rainbow

Build 2012
Couldn't find an official date yet...

RainbowRainbow

ALE2012 Unconference
29-31 August 2012, Barcelona
http://alenetwork.eu/blog/2012/01/10/ale2012-dates-and-place-announced/

RainbowRainbow

Lean Agile Scrum
http://www.leanagilescrum.ch/
12. September, Zürich

RainbowRainbow

iqnite - Software quality and testing
25. September Konferenz. Zürich
http://www.iqnite-conferences.com/ch/index.aspx

RainbowRainbowRainbow

Oredev
http://oredev.org/
I guess in November. Same as last year

 

More conferences can be found here.
Wow! This year is overwhelming!!!!

Scrum.org has a nice list with Agile events
http://www.scrum.org/events

Great list, run by Jean Pierre
http://www.scrum-events.de/

lanyrd – the social conference directory
http://lanyrd.com/calendar/

Swiss tech meetups can be found here
http://techup.ch/

 

Which conferences are you going to? And I should as well???

9 comments:

Unknown said...

I'm be probably @ QCon. Already looking forward to :)

Peter Gfader said...

Have you signed up already for QCon??

John Liu said...

no SharePoint? BOOO!!!

Unknown said...

@Peter Yes, yesterday our participation was confirmed.

Anonymous said...

More conferences in Switzerland can be found here
http://www.zuehlke.com/de/zuehlke-group/events/aktuelle-events.html

Anonymous said...

Kind of related.
Nice article from Atul Gawande about checklists and the importance of following them

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

Unknown said...

Btw, if you like lists, you might like https://workflowy.com/

Peter Gfader said...

Yep workflowy is great.
But it is another place where a list goes lost (although email reminders and daily recap emails from workflowy help)

ATM: I use a combination of
- emails
- evernote
- text files (sync dropbox)
- exchange tasks
- workflowy
- trello
- physical boards (2 of them)
- physical post-its
- paper

yes it is a little bit messy

Unknown said...

hehe :) me too.

Tried to dismiss Evernote and SpringPad however and focused more on Trello (especially for project-related tasks) in order to reduce the mess at least a bit.

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