PHRUG and Pivotal Labs at Proudcloud HQ

Proudcloud hosted the Philippine Ruby Users Group (PHRUG) last night where the highlight of the meetup was a talk given by Carl Coryell-Martin, Managing Director of Pivotal Labs Singapore.

Carl was introduced to us by Terence Pua, founder/CEO of insync and curator for the Manila edition of The Startup Digest.

Carl Coryell-Martin sharing the Pivotal development methodology, cerveza in hand.

A few months ago, I posted a video of Carl’s talk at Echelon 2010 on Real World Agile Development. I’ve been following Pivotal Labs for a while and am intrigued by how they’ve evolved their work methodology throughout their organization. Highlighted by pair programming, work-life-balance, and of course Test Driven Development, Agile the Pivotal Way has been borrowed and adopted by many Rails Development firms.

They’ve even publicly shared Pivotal Tracker, their SCRUM project management tool which (through a quick survey) was being used by roughly 80% of the RoR developers in attendance that night.

PHRUG listening to the talk with rapt attention

It’s no surprise then that Carl’s talk was eagerly anticipated and well received by the philippine Ruby community, which also welcomed Carl’s colleagues including Mike Mazur. (I forgot your business card at the office @amir, and no-joy on googling you so i’ll have to edit this post later