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Better is Better
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Summary
Steve Freeman talks about environments he worked in, learning that being in a really effective environment changes what you can do, opening new possibilities, and it is a qualitative experience.
Bio
Steve Freeman was a pioneer of Agile software development in the UK, he has given training courses in Europe, America, and Asia. Previously, he worked in research labs, software houses, earned a PhD, and wrote shrink-wrap software for IBM. Steve also teaches in the Computer Science department at University College London. He is co-author of the JMock framework.
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
Oct 19, 2011
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Very strange talk... But that would be a compliment!
Definitely not what I expected. I expected something about the book, with "recipes" to do TDD well.
What I got instead were a series of metaphors and networks of ideas that would persuade someone to get interested into why TDD is a good idea. :-)
Lots of knowledge nuggets. A food feast for the brain -Tapas, actually.
Steve talked about his career, feedback loops, fear and experimentation, utopia, cited Kent Beck and a few others...
This got me into deep thinking.
The only thing I missed was a transcript. Not being born in the UK, I missed some words just because of the accent. A full transcript would be great.