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Venkat Subramaniam's Pragmatic Factors for Agile Success

Posted by Venkat Subramaniam on Mar 27, 2008 08:00 AM

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Agile
Topics
Delivering Quality,
Agile Techniques,
Debugging
Tags
Coaching and Mentoring,
No Fluff Just Stuff Symposiums,
Complementary Practices,
Interpersonal Communication
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".

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Great presentation on Agile programming by Pawan Kumar Posted Apr 1, 2008 4:24 AM
I'm converted :) by João Vieira da Luz Posted Apr 4, 2008 6:57 PM
Very good talk by Marcos Oliveira Posted Apr 8, 2008 10:04 AM
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    Great presentation on Agile programming

    Apr 1, 2008 4:24 AM 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 :)

    Apr 4, 2008 6:57 PM 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

    Apr 8, 2008 10:04 AM 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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