Saturday, September 09, 2006

My Trip To Taipei

In my tradition of bringing you old news in an untimely fashion, here are a few shots of my trip to Taipei. I was there from August 12th to 17th and on the 16th I was part of a Software Engineering day event organized by the local Microsoft office. The event at the Grand Hyatt in Taipei attracted 450 visitors. I gave the keynote speech and then appeared on a panel with some local experts to talk about CMMI, agile and software engineering in general. You can read all about it in this press release (PDF, traditional Chinese).

This is me opening the proceeding in the morning with the keynote speech.

And later on the panel session with Nien Chen (NC) Liu and Peter Hu from Microsoft to my left and the panel of local experts to my right: Professor Cheng, Professor Chou and Mr. Hu (the first CMMI Lead Appraiser in Taiwan.)

A few empty seats in the front row but otherwise it was a full house at the Grand Hyatt.

As you can see better from this angle.

We got quite a few questions from the floor.

Here I am giving a press interview earlier in the week. Everything involved eating. I put on 5 lbs over the 3 week trip to Asia. So lots of biking to work for me to take it all off again, now that I’m back in Seattle. Technorati tag: Agile, David+Anderson, Taipei, MSF, Microsoft, Software+Engineering