Responsive Design

Published June 17th, 2009 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

Purpose and intent are just as important as skill in effective software development. Skill allows you to deliver value in difficult technical circumstances. Clear purpose and positive intent allow you to deliver value in difficult social and business circumstances. Kent Beck shares his design technique which involves both intent and a small set of strategies he uses when designing.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/responsive-design

Kent Beck: Trends in Agile Development

Published January 20th, 2009 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

In this presentation, Kent Beck, the father of eXtreme Programming, shows the synergies between business and Agile development. The reason Agile is becoming more popular every day is because it responds to the business needs as they evolve.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Agile-Trends-Kent-Beck

Kent Beck Keynote at RailConf 2008

Published September 11th, 2008 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

Kent Beck is the founder and director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI). His career has combined the practice of software development with reflection, innovation, and communication. His contributions to software development include patterns for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and Extreme Programming.

Kent Beck on Implementation Patterns

Published February 21st, 2008 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

Kent Beck is interviewed about his new book, “Implementation patterns”, the relationship between these patterns and XP, problems when adopting agile and the current status of design patterns.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/beck-implementation-patterns