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Kent Beck: Trends in Agile Development

Presented by Kent Beck on Jan 19, 2009

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Agile
Topics
Adopting Agile ,
Business
Tags
Trends ,
QCon ,
Patterns ,
QCon London 2008 ,
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Summary
In this presentation, Kent Beck, the father of eXtreme Programming, shows the synergies between business and Agile development. The reason Agile is becoming more popular every day is because it responds to the business needs as they evolve.

Bio
Kent Beck's contributions to software development include patterns for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and Extreme Programming.

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nothing beats programming at night.. by Richard Kucera Posted Jan 21, 2009 3:40 PM
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    nothing beats programming at night..

    Jan 21, 2009 3:40 PM by Richard Kucera

    well, not exactly nothing. Programming at night beats not getting it done due to spillover during the day. Everyone is asleep at home and at work.

    Another trend: Work At Home. What this is really for older programmers is "Work And Home", that is, Maximum Spillover.

    That means More Programming At Night, yay!

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