Andy Painter
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · November 27 - 30, 2012
Agile Technologist
Andy Painter is the Co-Founder of Institute Success and Institute Agility. Institute Success focuses on helping leaders become an Engaged Company™ by developing their leaders and teams. Institute Agility focuses on helping organizations ignite the spirit of agility in one heart, one team, one organization at a time.
Andy has over 25 years of software development experience as a developer, architect, tester, manager and executive. Over the two decades, Andy has coupled deep technology experience with Agile practices to create teams and environments that are hyper-productive. Over the last decade, Andy has added a focus of developing leaders and organizations to unlock their potential to achieve new levels of success. Andy helps and inspires leaders to take a people-first approach to both leadership and agility.
Presentations
Reducing Technical Debt with Sonar
Technical Debt can creep up on a project very quickly and ultimately create a technical crisis. Sonar can help you see how far gone your project may be and if you are continuing to head toward a crisis.
Extending the Range of Sonar
Sonar has strong roots in measuring, visualizing, and reporting code quality in Java projects. We will quickly recap our seven axes of code quality from the “Reducing Technical Debt with Sonar” talk.
Unit & Component Testing: Accelerating the Feedback Cycle
Unit testing is one of the most fundamental activities of a testing strategy by introducing testing at the lowest levels and highest frequency.
Inspections & Technical Metrics: Accelerating Change by Measurement
Where do defects come from? Technical debt is often one of our biggest challenges as poor design and defects are built up over time by cutting a corners here and there. We will discuss some key technical metrics that can shine light on these defects before they get out of control and find those that are out of control and worth your attention now.
Automated Acceptance Testing: Redefining the Users Role in Acceptance Testing
We will discuss how to rethinking the User's role in Acceptance Testing. Traditionally this is a manual process that can cause significant delays in the software lifecycle.
Testing the 4th Quadrant: When things go Non-Functional
Some of the hardest things to tests are those non-functional requirements around security, reliability, performance and scalability. We often post-pone these activities until too late in the software lifecycle.
The Executable Specification: an Agile Team's Best Friend
The Executable Specification is a result of implementing a set of practices that allow frequent change in software products to ensure that the right product is delivered economically. We'll explore how mature Agile Team's go from User Stories to Executable Specifications by implementing practices that foster collaboration, shared understanding and liberal automation to achieve living documentation that supports the team.