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The Rationale for Continuous Delivery (or What Does ‘Good’ Look Like?)
Dave Farley looks at a history littered with inefficient processes resulting in poor quality and failed projects, wondering how we got here, what can be done and what does good really look like?
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The Rationale for Continuous Delivery (The culture and practice of good software development)
Dave Farley discusses the problems raised by inefficient processes creating poor quality output, too late to capitalise on the expected business value, and proposes solutions to them.
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Naming Things
Ian Barber discusses the importance of behavior, domains and clarity of the names used when writing software or building systems.
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Reducing External Risk
Donald Belcham presents design patterns and development concepts that protects one’s code from external systems that may change in uncontrollable ways.
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Groovy and Grails Puzzlers - As Usual - Traps, Pitfalls, and End Cases
Baruch Sadogursky and Fred Simon discuss the Groovy version of the epic Java Puzzlers.
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Treat Your Code as a Crime Scene
Adam Tornhill teaches how to predict bugs, detect architectural decay and find the code that is most expensive to maintain, how to evaluate knowledge drain in a codebase, and much more.
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Tiny
Chad Fowler attempts to convince people that keeping things "tiny" –small iterations, small methods, small teams - is the best thing one can do for himself and his team.
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Integrating UX – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Ellie Kenwood discusses some of the challenges of integrating user experience into an Agile delivery model, including a case study.
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The Road Less Travelled
Mike Atherton keynotes on aligning work with values to get most benefits from it, to be proud of the results and to make a difference.
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Workflows of Refactoring
Martin Fowler keynotes on the need for refactoring and different ways to approach it. You can view here part 2 of this presentation: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/healthy-social-environment.
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Property-based Testing for Better Code
Jessica Kerr shows the charm of autogenerated test data, the beauty of expressing only what matters, and the challenge of stating what you need without repeating the code under test using ScalaCheck.
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Enterprise JavaScript Architectures–With Some Vanilla Topping
Adam Rocska discusses how to approach an enterprise web front-end architecture, including quality assurance, code documentation, deployment, architectural planning and task delegation.