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

Embrace Uncertainty

Published December 30th, 2008 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

In this original presentation from the Communitech Agile Event, Jeff Patton, winner of the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award, explains why one needs to embrace uncertainty in order to succeed with his/her Agile project and how to avoid some of the common mistakes leading to project failure.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Uncertainty-Jeff-Patton

10 ways to screw up with Scrum & XP

Published October 1st, 2008 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

Scrum & XP may sound deceptively simple. But once you get down to the everyday practical stuff there are many subtle traps hiding about. Common mistakes that are easy to make and hard to detect, mistakes that cancel out many of the benefits that Agile methods were supposed to give. In this talk I’ll go through the most common mistakes, how to detect them, what the effect is, and how to address them. This talks assumes that you have basic knowledge of Scrum and XP.

Best Speaker Award at Jfokus 2008 – Henrik Kniberg is a consultant at Crisp in Stockholm, specializing in Java and Agile software development. He takes a holistic approach and enjoys adopting different roles such as manager, developer, Scrum Master, teacher, or coach. He is passionate about helping companies build excellent software and excellent teams, taking on whatever role is necessary. His interests and twelve years of experience cover most aspects of the art of software development including team leadership, development, architecture, requirements management, configuration management, and quality assurance. As cofounder of several Swedish IT companies he has spent many years experimenting with agile processes in teams of up to 45 people. In late 2005 Kniberg was contracted as chief of development at a Swedish company in the gaming business. The company was in a crisis situation with urgent organizational and technical problems. Using Scrum and XP as a tool, he helped the company out of the crisis by implementing agile and lean principles at all levels in the company. This is described in the popular book “Scrum and XP from the trenches”.

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.

Joshua Kerievsky about Industrial XP

Published September 3rd, 2008 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

In this interview taken by Sadek Drobi of InfoQ, Joshua Kerievsky, founder of Industrial Logic, talks about Industrial Extreme Programming which extends XP by including practices dealing with management, customers and developers.

Joshua Kerievsky has been programming professionally since 1987, and is the founder of Industrial Logic, a company specializing in Extreme Programming (XP). Joshua has been an active member of the XP and patterns communities, he wrote a book called RefactoringToPatterns and he created Industrial Extreme Programming.

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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

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