Agile Richmond Monthly Meeting - Measuring Software Craftsmanship

ABSTRACT: It's only when your employees care about the quality of their work and when your organization rewards quality over speed that you'll make a lasting impact. To improve the quality of your deliverables, a lasting solution is to instill a cultural change. It starts with developers, but it is reinforced and encouraged by leadership.

In this session you will learn where to start and how to measure your progress.
- Fallacies of Software Craft
- The metrics that matter
- Which techniques/activities impact which metric
- How to start a Software Craft initiative

BIO: Ben earned a B. S. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech and started a career as a software developer. After being introduced to Scrum on a client project, he became an avid agilist and spearheaded his company's transition from Waterfall to Scrum.

He is now working as the Head of Software Engineering at Ippon Technologies where he leads Consultants in providing solutions to our clients primarily in Fintech.