Yesterday Joel and I did our “Agile Buffet Table” session at GIDS in Bangalore, India.

We talked about XP, Scrum, and Kanban and how you can build your own methodology by mixing and matching the features from each of these agile brands. We had *great* audience interaction, the best I have ever had in India. We wrapped up the session by opening Excel and designing a unique process with the audience. Our exit was also very funny, there was no break between sessions(!), so the next speakers came in and were ready to start when we ended. So I impersonated the next speaker, very agile.

The slides are available here (via slideshare.) In addition we talked about a lot and have recommended the following resources:

• The Agile Manifesto: read this over, it has all the values of Agile
• Mike’s blog on his reflections on the past 10 years since the Agile Manifesto, a must read!
• The concept of seven, plus or minus two
• Slack, and how great it was in the 1980s and early 90s. 
• Certified Scrum Master certification
• The Toyota Production System and Lean

Also had some books to take a look at, they came up at various points in the discussion, check out any one of them:

• Succeeding with Agile-about implementation
• Scaling Agile well, it is about scaling
• Scrum in business from Harvard Business Review (1986)
• Kanban by David Anderson
•  Psychology of Computer Programming (remember Joel wanted to study Psychology)