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Venkat Subramaniam's Pragmatic Factors for Agile Success

Presented by Venkat Subramaniam on Mar 27, 2008 Length 01:24:12
Sections
Process & Practices,
Development
Topics
Debugging ,
Agile ,
Agile Techniques ,
Delivering Quality
Tags
Coaching and Mentoring ,
Complementary Practices ,
No Fluff Just Stuff Symposiums ,
Interpersonal Communication
 

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Summary
At NFJS Venkat Subramaniam, author with Andy Hunt of "Practices of an Agile Developer," shared his pragmatic approach to some of the important technical and non-technical factors contributing to project success, including: coding, developer attitude, debugging, mentoring and feedback.

Bio
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of www.agiledeveloper.com, has trained and mentored over 3000 software developers internationally. He is a frequent conference speaker, a university lecturer, and teaches the Professional Software Developer series at Rice University. He is author of ".NET Gotchas" and coauthor with Andy Hunt of "Practices of an Agile Developer".

About the conference
The No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Series is designed to cover the latest in trends, best practices, and newest developments in Enterprise Java, Java/Groovy, ESB/SOA, Ajax, Web Services, Agility, and Architecture. Our commitment is to provide the very best in terms of speaker quality and overall conference experience.
Great presentation on Agile programming by Pawan Kumar Posted
I'm converted :) by João Vieira da Luz Posted
Very good talk by Marcos Oliveira Posted
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    Great presentation on Agile programming

    by Pawan Kumar

    Venkat,
    I really enjoyed your presentation and most of the things said in the presentation. It will help me a lot in changing the way I am working right now and also my team members.
    Thanks
    Pawan

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    I'm converted :)

    by João Vieira da Luz

    Nice talk in an agile style. Trying to keep the feedback loop short. It's very clear Agile in Venkat words.

    Thanks for talk João

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    Very good talk

    by Marcos Oliveira

    Venkat, this is the best talk I've seen on how to make a team work. Thank you very much.

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