Alexandre Martins’ Blog

This night we officially inaugurated our new office in Sydney, much more spacious, pretty much double size of the previous one and located on the CBD, close to the Circulay Quay. The thing that I most liked is that almost all the walls are made of white boards, so any spot is a place for discussion and notes. They continued adopting big tables where there are no fixed seats, allowing people on the beach to pair and develop things together. The kitchen is equipped with a fridge where you can get cold drinks, beers, wines, etc. and also has a huge LCD TV hooked into Wii console with lots of cool games! The party, as all the other ones, was plenty of food, drinks and interesting discussions. Kristan Vingrys presented some of the Twist features, the new functional testing platform developed by ThoughtWorks and Nick Carrol showed one of his Wii experiments, today, Mingle (projected on the wall) navigation using an infra-red pen. To see photos of the party, click here.

Next week (June 2-4) I’m gonna attend the JAOO Conference here in Sydney. ThoughtWorks is sponsoring the event and I’m very happy that they chose me to be one of the attendants. It’s quite exciting to have the opportunity to catch up with professionals that influenced me, such as Robert Martin, Rod Johnson, Martin Fowler, Jim Webber, Gregor Hohpe and also with Erik Dörnenburg who has been off the Sydney office for a while.

I will also be attending the Scrum Master training, which is an extension of the JAOO Conference. Martine Devos is going to run it and I’m really excited, because I wanted to attend it since I was in Brazil, and now I’m gonna be able to do it.

Will post updates of the Conference here soon!