Last week we attended the Web Innovation 2008 Conference which was held at the Grand Hyatt. The conference focused on Web 2.0 and had 3 tracks directly related to its evolution, namely Business, Enterprise, and of course the Technology Track.

Bhavin and Naresh were invited as speakers, and held an interactive session that described their experiences in adopting Agile development philosophies and practices at Directi; titled ‘Our Journey Down the Yellow Brick Road (Agile Devlopment practices)‘. This presentation covered the importance of Agile, the different practices we have adopted at Directi, as well as an insight in to the road ahead. Some of the practices that Bhavin and Naresh discussed were Daily Standup Meetings, Weekly Iterations & Monthly Releases, and eXtreme Programming. Just before their session they alsoparticipated in a BoF discussion on REST vs. SOAP.

The conference was conducted smoothly, but somehow the information and knowledge shared seemed to be restricted to application demos only. Having said that, some of the demos were fantastic, and very useful for the software development community.

We will also be participating in the Great Indian Developers Summit. In the meantime, you could also check out Web Innovation snaps on our Flickr stream.