I will have the opportunity to address the Agile India 2010 events in Mumbai and Bangalore this month on a simple topic:

What silly thing do you want people on software projects to stop doing in 2010?

I’d love your help. A number of people have already responded on Twitter with the hashtag #StopIt2010, but I invite you to go one step further. Voice your opinion, with video if you can, and audio if you don’t have a camera handy, answering the question I’ve asked above.

Please introduce yourself, say “Hello” to our audience, and give the 20-second version of your rant. You can practise by writing your rant out in 140 characters first, then reading it.

If you can record video, then please simply upload the video somewhere (youtube.com, vimeo.com, dropio.com), add a comment to this entry, and tweet your link with the hashtag #StopIt2010.

If you can only record audio, then please package the audio and a nice, big picture of you, and upload it somewhere, like dropio.com, add a comment to this entry, and tweet your link with the hashtag #StopIt2010.

I’ll pick my favorites and include them in my keynote.

So please… go for it. Rant away. Submit more than one, if you like. You can use this template, if it helps you:

Hello to everyone at Agile India! My name is J. B. Rainsberger and I want programmers to stop insisting that writing the tests after the code is just as good as writing the tests first. Stop it!

Thanks!