The family medical issue has been resolved happily, so I’m free to go back on the road. We’ve thus rescheduled the events I was supposed to do last month in Texas.

• On February 23rd I’ll be speaking at DFW Scrum in Dallas.
• On February 25th ThoughtWorks is organizing a technology forum in Austin.

As is usual for me, I haven’t planned exactly what I’ll talk about yet, but it’ll revolve around my usual topics of software design and agile methods.

Here's a common misconception about agile methods. It centers on the way user stories are created and flow through the development activity. The misconception is that the product owner (or business analysts) creates user stories and then put them in front of developers to implement. The notion is that this is a flow from product owner to development, with the product owner responsible for determining what needs to be done and the developers how to do it.

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Time for another update on my DSL book's progress, since I've not been writing anything else recently.

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I’m afraid I’ve had to cancel my speaking events in Dallas and Austin next week due to a family medical problem. As I write this, it’s not clear how serious the problem is going to be, but there is a good chance that I won’t be able to travel to Texas next week. As a result we felt it was best to cancel the events, while we still have a few days notice. We do intent to reschedule as soon the as dust settles. My Texas ThoughtWorkers are very keen to have me come out and do these talks, so we want to do them as soon as we reasonably can.

My apologies for this, and I hope you understand. In particular I want to thank the various collaborators in organizing these events for being very understanding under the awkward circumstances.