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March 10-12, 100
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Presented by Michael Feathers and Steve Freeman on Aug 18, 2009
Agile Development: A Manager's Roadmap for Success
Right Collaboration Architecture Drives Business Transformation
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Got to the word "refactor" -- then quits. Maybe related to spotty hotel internet, but it happened three times in a row.
--mj
It is clear that software building has changed over the last ten years. Test driven development makes it possible for us to adapt codebases to the needs of our customers and thus oursevels. "Legacy systems are systems that do not have any tests", then surely legacy systems will diminish over time.
Thanks Michael and Steve for a very good overview of the field.
Great presentation...
One thing that is missing, I think, is the "discussion/socialization" part of the TDD, designing the tests first - boils down to validating the requirements (as well as drafting the design) before starting implementation. TDD forces you to think and discuss about the requirements (as well as the implementation). That's also a reason why its consistent application brings more quality to the product.
The first sentence/title summarizes it all, I think. It is about professionalism... Some people proofread their emails before hitting the Send button, others don't. Some people think about what message they want to convey in an email, others still don't even do that (and it may be because of the context rather than the individual). Still others will think about what they want to say and reflect about the best way to do that, it might be an email, it might be a conversation, but they know that even if they can craft the best wording, it is less important than conveying the message (what) rather than focusing on the phrasing (how)... However, isn't it the case that it takes years focusing on the how and becoming an expert at the how, only to realize that the what is, in the end, the most important...
Brian Marick takes us through a quick tour of the most important values and challenges to adopting Agile successfully (they aren't the typical challenges and values we hear in the community).
The line between development and architecture is tricky. Does it exist at all? Is an ivory tower actually needed? There's a balance in the middle, but how do you move from developer to architect?
The word 'authority' sometimes produces an allergic response in hard-line agilists. Freedom and authority – both are bad if misused and both are good if used in right spirit for a noble cause.
"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?
Those familiar with only ITIL V2 often scoff at the thought that ITIL could serve as a governance framework for SOA. With ITIL V3, the focus of the framework shifted towards service-orientation.
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer discusses AspectJ, SpringSource's dm Server and tc Server products, OSGi and Scrum.
Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about Rails, Background Jobs, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.
For Grady Booch the foundation of a good architecture is patterns, SOA being just one of many patterns. In this Second Life presentation, Booch attempts to bring more clarity on what architecture is.
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