Jared Richardson
Greater Atlanta Software Symposium
Atlanta · October 21 - 23, 2005

Agile coach and co-author of Ship It
Jared Richardson, co-author of Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful
Software Projects, is a speaker, consultant, and mentor with NFJS One. Jared has been in the industry for more than fifteen years as a consultant, developer, tester, and manager.
Jared can be found online at Agile Artisans.
Presentations
Pragmatic Tracer Bullets
Are your product designs hit or miss? Do you have trouble building a loosely coupled system? Is your code incestuous? Refactoring not an option with your code base? Tracer Bullets help keep your project out of the fire.
Tracer Bullet Development:
* helps you create great software
* lends itself to an iterative cycle
* can be used for demos early and often
* is easily refactored
* allows your teams to work in parallel
* makes a very testable system
Software Tools That Make Life Easier: Part One
a.. Do you spend more time fighting your tools than writing code?
b.. Do you avoid merging your code with your teammates because of “Integration Hell”?
c.. Do the same bugs keep sneaking back into your product?
d.. Do your builds depend on the roll of the dice?
A good set of infrastructure tools can go a long way toward smoothing out these and other problems. Come see how to make your toolset work seamlessly in the background so you can Just Work. We'll cover source code management (SCM), build scripts, automated test harnesses, automatic builds, feature tracking and issue tracking.