Every so often, one of our offices around the world hold an internal conference, that in the UK’s case is called thee Away Day. Just like many other conferences, you get a whole heap of people together and you find out some interesting things. Since our office is so large and we had quite a number of visitors, you also end up doing a bit of networking.

Sessions I attended included Marco Abis’ sessions on “Back to People”, Erik Dorenburg and Nick Drew’s presentation on “Software Visualisation”, Angela Martin’s “Customers are from Mars, Developers are from Venus”, my own presentation about “Lean at Large: The Value Stream Map”, and then a brief session with Martin Fowler on a summary from a small gathering he had on DSLs.