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Behaviour-Driven Development - a road to effective design and clean code
Dan describes a proven "outside-in" approach based on real life experience - engaging with and listening to our stakeholders. .
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Artisanal Retro-Futurism and Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism
The Agile movement gave unconventional people cover while they sneaked odd and productive ideas (like Ruby) into projects. Today, Agile is sick and this FutureRuby talk shows what’s gone missing.
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Three Years of Real-World Ruby
Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years.
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Realistic about Risk: Software development with Real Options
This session introduces Real Options and shows how it can help in running your project. Real Options is a decision-making process that can be used to manage risk.
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Time to Live
This presentation explores lean software development principles for the build, run, and manage cycle, how they can be applied to various deployment models and how Spring technologies are supportive.
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Lean Concepts for IT Professionals
This presentation provides background for Lean principles and introduces the idea of using those principles as a foundation for "Lean Thinking" and show how this can be applied to IT development.
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Beyond Agile: Cultural Patterns
Willem and Marc introduce cultural patterns that can be found in software organizations. By understanding the cultural patterns then you can better adapt your practices.
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Born To Cycle
We know that small increments that produce progress toward a goal is a way for teams to work successfully. Does it work well because the individuals on the team are hardwired to work in cycles?
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Agile Mashups
This talk highlights what's on offer in the different agile methods, where different agile practices add value and how to go about blending them into your current approach.
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Agility: Possibilities at a Personal Level
Is it time for a truly agile approach to how we work and live our lives? What would that mean? What are the real penalties we are paying for force fitting Industrial Age living into agile development?
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Transparency: A Great Leap Forward or Exposed Artery?
Agile propagandists make great claims about the advantages of being transparent about the state of their projects. But is this true? Surely Transparency is just not pragmatic?
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Executable User Stories with RSpec and BDD
An introduction to BDD and how to make plain text User Stories executable with RSpec's Story Framework, which is written in Ruby, but runs against production code written in any programming language.