I want to talk about one last thing that sometimes prevents us from being open-minded, and that is becoming too loyal to any one brand of Agile. If we want keep learning and growing, we cannot become too strongly attached to a single brand Agil. A few years ago, I was witness to an online discussion involving Ron Jeffries. At the time, Ron was considered much more of an extreme programming advocate than a Scrum guy. And Ron, was in a discussion with some Scum folks. The discussion started to shift into the direction of XP versus Sc rum. and Ron had a perfect comment about the brands. He said, I'll drop mine if you drop yours. For many years, i've said I consider myself an unbranded Agilist. Sure, I get associated with Scrum because it's largely what I do, and it was what started with many years ago. But I like to pull ideas from everywhere. I'm pretty much known as an advocate of user stories and story points, both ideas that come from extreme programming, but ideas I started using on Scum projects. Like Ron Jeffries said, ''I'll drop mine if you drop yours.'' I'm anxious for everyone to drop all the brands someday. I don't even want what we do to be called Agile anymore. i just want it to become software development again. So while you're at the conference, would you do me a favor? Go to at least one session on a topic you've completely dismissed. If you are a Scrum person through and through, go see what Kanban has to say. if you firmly convinced that Kanbon is the only way to go, Open your mind to the possibilities of safe. If you're a hardcore techie, go to a session on softer skills like facilitation or retrospectives. And when you do, remember the things we can do to stay open-minded. Question your assumptions, exhibit intellectual humility, and let go of brand preference, even if only for a moment. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.