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Navigating The Rapids:Real-World Lessons in Adopting Agile

Presented by Sam Newman on Mar 10, 2010 Length 00:40:29     Download: MP3
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Summary
This talk investigates technical issues encountered when moving to an Agile process. How will your codebase react to an increasing level of change? How can you get your software into production more frequently? What kind of tools can you use to make the transition as smooth as possible? How can you merge frequent releases with other, less agile teams? These and other questions are addressed.

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Sam Newman is a technical consultant at ThoughtWorks. He has written articles of O'Reilly, presented at conferences, and sporadically commits to open source projects. Principally a Java developer, he also spends lots of time with Scala, Python, Javascript, and build systems that hate him.

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