Agile Development
Track: Fundamentals
Tags Novice, Fundamentals
Presented by David Verba (Adaptive Path). It's difficult to talk about development these days without coming across references to Agile. We'll explore the broad landscape of Agile and Agile-inspired development going into detail about specific practices, and take a look at where these approaches came from, discuss why they're important, and how you can start taking advantage of lessons learned.
Comments
Good speaker. Waterfall development has never really worked in our environment. If a project is scheduled for longer than 4 weeks, I guarantee that a new fire will come up and your project will be scrapped or changed so radically that it might has well have been. At least agile lets some common sense be included. And, it weeds out incompetent developers who can't think on their feet or work without someone looking over their shoulder.
I enjoyed and learned from the presentation, but it focussed on the scenario of a multi-developer team. What if you have ONE developer? Is agile useful in these environments too? Obviously pair coding wouldn't work, but what about the rest of it?
very informative specially for those not using Agile or not familiar with SCRUM and LEAN, see you in June!
Useful talk, we do scrum already and I got several fresh ideas what to improve, and also some background why particular techniques are important (bugfix immediately for not creating internal debt).
Excellent introduction.