Next week, I will be speaking at VS Live! at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington. I will be doing two talks.

Wednesday, on the data track, I will be following Chris Selles’ Entity Framework and OData and Database Projects and Jon Flanders’ Building RESTful Services Using Windows Communication Foundation talks with my own: Building RESTful Applications with the Open Data Protocol, so I will skip the “What is REST” slides up front and just start coding. ;)

On Thursday, they lumped my “The Daily Scrum” talk on the Visual Studio and .NET track. While the title is The Daily Scrum, I will give some Scrum overviews and then open the floor to Q&A. All levels of participants will benefit from the talk. There will be zero discussion on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. Actually, there will be no code at all.

In addition, I will be addressing the recent rift in the agile universe between the “pure” Scrum folks and the “Scrum, butters” which Ken Schwaber labels me. At the end of the talk, I will also address the rise of Kanban, an alternative agile methodology originating at Toyota in Japan. Kanban is quite popular here in Hong Kong where I live and I have seen it work at some very large global organizations as well as startups. Living in Asia over the last year has changed my perspective on agile and Kanban: I have seen how this Japanese invention works and can compliment a flexible agile strategy. I’ll weave this experience to my presentation. You won’t want to miss out.