Although the Omaha Team System User Group has not met in several months we had a great meeting tonight. As always, our meeting was hosted by Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica). This time, however, we had the privilege of meeting in the brand new building that just opened last month. The new building is outstanding and the meeting space for after-hours events just can’t be topped! Thanks again to FCSAmerica for sponsoring our user group!
Tonight’s topic, Kinban, was presented by Jeremy Novak (side note: Jeremy presented once before for the OTSUG about two and a half years ago). Kinban is a product that was born out of an internal initiative at FCSAmerica called GeekFest 2011. Kinban adds life to your planning meetings and morning stand-ups by allowing the project team members to move user stories around with hand gestures – via Microsoft’s Kinect device. Jeremy covered how the Kinect SDK, Reactive Extensions (Rx), AutoIt, and the TFS APIs were all combined to give the project team members a hands off experience with TFS. He also covered various lessons learned along the way providing some helpful insight for those who might be thinking about integrating the Kinect device into their own applications.
You can download Jeremy’s presentation here. The code for Kinban is available on CodePlex here.