Twin Cities Software Symposium: Spring - March 12 - 14, 2010 - No Fluff Just Stuff

Agile Practices Review: A Tactics Retrospective

Twin Cities Software Symposium: Spring

Minneapolis · March 12 - 14, 2010

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About this Presentation

Increasingly, people are adopting Agile practices a la carte, and some are even talking about “post-Agile” methodologies. If things are going to be changing, let's take a moment to review Agile development practices, the problems they were trying to solve, what worked, and what difficulties these new methodologies are responding to. With this information in hand, we can make an intelligent decision about the development methodology for our team.

This interactive session will review the why's, wherefore's, and why not's of test-driven development, continuous integration, iterations, “point”-based estimation, retrospectives, scrums, and other Agile practices.

Robert Fischer

Java Concurrency Specialist and GORM Expert; Principal, Smokejumper Consulting

Robert Fischer is a multi-language open source developer currently specializing in Groovy in Grails. In the past, his specialties have been in Perl, Java, Ruby, and OCaml. In the future, his specialty will probably be F# or (preferably) a functional JVM language like Scala or Clojure.

Robert is the author of Grails Persistence in GORM and GSQL, a regular contributor to GroovyMag and JSMag, the founder of the JConch Java concurrency library, and the author/maintainer of Liquibase-DSL and the Autobase database migration plugin for Grails.