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Measure for Measure
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by Keith Braithwaite on Jun 16, 2009 | NOTICE: The next QCon is in New York Jun 10-14, Join us!

Summary
It is possible to measure certain properties of code, and on the one hand, correlate them with project factors known to have economic merit and on the other, with programmer-pleasing practices. This session surveys emerging evidence that we can measure the effect of the technical practices of Agile development, and explores what we might be able to do about it to our benefit.

Bio

Keith Braithwaite is a Principle Consultant with Zuhlke Engineering, and leads their Center for Agile Practice in London. He provides Agile training, consultancy and mentoring to development teams in the wholesale finance and mobile telecoms industries.

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Some thanks and two BIG suggestions by Ibon Urrutia

Thank InfoQ for publishing presentations like this! I think that agile community (apart from some stupid discussions about "being agile") is setting the basics of the future REAL computer science. Maybe it will be compound by a mixture of mathematics, sociology and programmers' psychology ;-)


But please, please, please, tell the guy that is recording those kind of presentations to FOCUS in WHAT they show in THEIR SCREEN. Keith Braithwaite is a clever programmer, but I prefer to see what is showing than how is looking he while showing it ;-).

And, another one, is it possible to record the questions and comments from attendants? I suspect that some of them are very interesting but I can't hear anything.

Thank you InfoQ

Re: Some thanks and two BIG suggestions by Keith Braithwaite

Ibon,
Glad you found the talk interesting.

What was on the screen is shown immediately below the video

Keith

Re: Some thanks and two BIG suggestions by Keith Braithwaite

No, I take that back. You can't see the code examples. Sorry.

Re: Some thanks and two BIG suggestions by Ibon Urrutia

Yes, I also love to see the code ;-)

Congrats for your presentation, I found it very interesting. I think that Kent Beck made some comments about the same here at the end.

Only to play devil's advocate, maybe we need some double-blind trial to assure that we aren't selecting the projects we think present some slope, don't we? Maybe you have said something about it in the presentation, but I'm a spanish guy that sometimes don't understand well english speakers.


Thanks!

I had to try this myself by Thomas Tarnow

Thanks Keith for your presentation.

I did the math on two defence projects here at Systematic A/S to confirm your experiment:

Codebase Slope Automated unit tests?
Project 1 2,4 Yes
Project 2 2,9 Yes

Thomas

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