Based on a real project experience, this presentation covers all dimensions that make great teams: hiring, communications, methodology, environment, culture, and community. Producer : Lone Star Ruby Conference
Your application is slowing down and you can’t seem to speed it up. The code is a mess, and changes are taking longer and longer. You’re afraid to release new features for fear of introducing bugs throughout the system. The marketing and sales teams are frustrated by how long new …
Everybody likes to talk about best practices, tips, and tricks, but often it is by analyzing failures that we learn from our own and others’ mistakes. In this session, Steve Smnith describes various anti-patterns and worst practices in software development that he has encountered in his own experience or learned …
The Crystal 3-step model consists of practices, principles, and personalization. The practices are what you know or learn how to do. The principles are the laws of design that inform you as to what works better, when. Personalization is adapting yourself to your situation, and your practices to your personality. …
Signal is an integration server written in Rails and integrated with metric_fu, rspec, cucumber and maven. It is easy to install and easy to use. [vimeo 7318013 480 300] Video producer and more information
In our enthusiasm for the incredible wealth of useful practice for delivering software that’s emerged from the agile community, we seem to have lost the plot. We’ve become the next wave of people enamored with our process and believing it cures all software development ills. This is the Achilles-heel that …
