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Behaviour-Driven Development - a road to effective design and clean code

Presented by Dan North on Jul 17, 2009

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Summary
In this talk, Dan contrasts the traditional top-down and bottom-up approaches with a proven "outside-in" approach based on real life experience - engaging with and listening to our stakeholders. He shows how this can allow us to stay firmly on track, leading to clean code and effective design that provides maximum value to our stakeholders, not just the famous Scrum Product Owner

Bio
Dan believes in putting people first and writing simple, pragmatic software. He believes that most problems that teams face are about communication, and all the others are too. This is why he puts so much emphasis on "getting the words right", and why he is so passionate about behaviour-driven development, communication and how people learn.

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seems to fail after about 4 minutes by Hal Arnold Posted Jul 19, 2009 5:09 PM
Re: seems to fail after about 4 minutes by Hal Arnold Posted Jul 19, 2009 5:11 PM
Video stops after 13 mins by Nilanjan Raychaudhuri Posted Jul 19, 2009 10:43 PM
Re: Video stops after 13 mins by Diana Plesa Posted Jul 20, 2009 2:20 PM
Getting the words right. by John Reynolds Posted Jul 21, 2009 2:35 PM
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    seems to fail after about 4 minutes

    Jul 19, 2009 5:09 PM by Hal Arnold

    seems to fail after about 4 minutes

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    Re: seems to fail after about 4 minutes

    Jul 19, 2009 5:11 PM by Hal Arnold

    reloaded, working now [so far]

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    Video stops after 13 mins

    Jul 19, 2009 10:43 PM by Nilanjan Raychaudhuri

    I am not sure why this presentation suddenly stops after 13 mins? Could we re-post this video again.

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    Re: Video stops after 13 mins

    Jul 20, 2009 2:20 PM by Diana Plesa

    Hello Nilanjan,

    I just checked and the presentation works fine until the end.

    Diana (InfoQ)

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    Getting the words right.

    Jul 21, 2009 2:35 PM by John Reynolds

    When someone asks you to build something - you need to understand the "words" that they are using to understand what it is that they want you to build. When you ask someone to build something for you - you must use "words" that the potential builder understands or they won't understand what it is that you want them to build.

    Of course it's more than just "words" - but Dan's on to something here.
    If you don't understand them - and they don't understand you - then you're doomed.

    Reply

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