Ryan McMinn on building a successful business with Rails
When I started adding links to great Agile videos ([1], [2] and [3]) I thought that it would just be a single occurrence, but I keep finding videos that are informative, educational and inspiring. So, while the videos keep coming I’ll keep referring to them. The last few that I posted were very educational. They’re insightful and very interesting, but not the most passionate.
This video [4] is of Ryan McMinn from Unspace doing a talk on building a successful business with Rails. He talks about freedom, working closely with customers and passionate developers; all things which are important to Agile Software Development. The passion that he feels for great software is clearly evident and quite infectious. It’s a great “call to arms” video; to get stirred up and excited about software development.
A quote from the talk:
… there is a big divide between the people that create software and the people that use software … we really feel that this method actually creates shitty software!
References
[1] Ken Schwaber – Scrum
[2] Mary Poppendieck – Competing on the basis of speed/
[3] Dave Astel – Behaviour driven development/
[4] http://unspace.ca/innovation/speak/
