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Applying Agile to Ruby

Posted by Fred George on Aug 02, 2007 02:15 PM

Community
Agile,
Ruby
Topics
Dynamic Languages,
Programming
Tags
Lean,
Ruby on Rails
Summary
In this presentation, we discuss how to keep that productivity while reducing the risk that chaos often brings. We examine key agile practices, that when applied judiciously to Ruby, retain the amazing productivity, improve the quality of the code, and still let the programmers have fun.

Bio
Fred George is a consultant with over thirty-eight years experience in the industry. A veteran of the IBM-Microsoft wars, he did early work in computer networking,LAN's,GUI's and objects for IBM. An independent consultant from 1991-2003, he counted HP, Morgan-Stanley, American Express, IBM, and USAA among his clients. He joined ThoughtWorks in 2003, delivering more projects using agile processes.

About the conference
JAOO is the premier European developer conference on software technology, methods and best practices. The conference presents in-depth presentations and tutorials by researchers, engineers and trend-setters in software engineering and technology.

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