Jared Richardson
Central Ohio Software Symposium
Columbus · June 8 - 10, 2007
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
Gradual Agile: The Secret to Introducing Agile Practices
Agile practices are popular because they work, but getting people to take that first step can be tricky.
Continuous Integration with Cruise Control
Continuous Integration is increasingly recognized as a vital practice in an Agile software shop. Traditionally it's been difficult to set up and administer. Today, that's no longer the case.
Shippers Unite!
An overview of the Agile software approach from the book Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects.
Agile Software Testing Strategies
Creating and maintaining a solid automated test suite is critical to an Agile strategy, but often we're just told to “Do it.” In this talk we'll look at several pragmatic strategies for creating and building your suite.
Subversion: A Quick Start Guide
Subversion is a free source code management system that's very powerful.
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