Agile software development
Interesting things happen when you put the words “Agile” and “Architecture” in the same sentence. Some would say that they have nothing to do with each other, others would say that effectiveness in one precludes effectiveness in the other. Still others would say “look, a squirrel”, but we’re not going …
Who needs managers? Aren’t good developers enough? Should Agile projects have project managers? Is the Coach a manager? And Product Owner? Allan will look at the different types of manager we find in software development teams and explores what they do, what they should do and why they don’t do …
ALT.NET represents a community of thought leaders with a call to action of improving the status quo of how software is developed in the Microsoft developer ecosystem. ALT.NET encourages very strict adherence to agile practices such as BDD (Behavior Driven Development) and tools that map to those practices fairly closely. …
In a quick survey, 17 of 20 programmers said they didn’t know how to slice feature requests to the sub-day level. In contrast, top programmers easily take them to 15-30 minute programming episodes. What does it take for people to make the transition? In this workshop, analysts and programmers will …
The starting point of all Agile engineering practices is reproducibly building from source code. If software is delivered on servers, and those servers can’t be reproducibly deployed from bare metal to running services, how Agile can you be? The definition of ’shipping’ software has changed dramatically in the last decade. …
Managers at many levels are often afraid to let go of the reins in fear that they may lose control of the project. This interactive presentation will display the benefit of managers letting go, and will outline the expectations of a responsible, empowered agile team. Through presentation of multiple real-world …