Challenging Assumptions At Unspace
June 2nd, 2008I met Pete Forde of Unspace at E-Tech a couple of years ago. At the time they were Canada’s first Ruby On Rails shop and boasted their own flavor of agile development.
I was interested enough in their angle on agile to make a trip to Toronto to see how they worked, managed projects, selected clients, etc.
Today, Unspace is Canada’s First — capital F — Ruby On Rails shop and the organizers of the upcoming RubyFringe conference (where I’m speaking).
What’s more, they’ve refined further their development process. Coming the point of this post: you can see some of what they do captured in this blog post by Daniel Haran, who spent a couple of weeks working along side them.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:21 am
I just had to share this moment of serendipity with the world. I’m sitting at home, pounding my head on my desk trying to connect to my company’s terrible VPN. I went to put some dead batteries into my bag to bring in to work tommorow to recycle. I put the batteries in a little inside pocket and notice there’s something in there. I pull out two business cards that I picked up at the conference where I got the bag — ETech. I decide to visit the websites on the cards to see if they are still around. The first card is Dan Grigsby, unpossible.com. I land on the page to read this post… this post that mentions ETech the very same conference I got the card. What a coincidence!
Then, I look at the second card. You guessed it, Pete Forde, Unspace. What are the odds?