Five Developer Practices for Agile Teams

Schedule
6:30 Food and social time (food sponsored by Plaster Group)
7:00 Main Program - Five Developer Practices for Agile Teams
8:15 Retrospective
8:30 Adjourn

Description
This session focuses on the five development practices that are often overlooked but are essential to iterative software development. These five practices include automating the build for continuously integrating software as it is written, collaborating with team members through pair programming, practicing agile design skills that enable testability, using test-first development to drive design, and refactoring code to reduce technical debt. Together, these five technical areas are proving to be essential for sustained success with software development. But many teams have not been exposed to the benefits of these practices or how to use them effectively.

In this session, we explore why these engineering practices are essential for Agile software development and how to use them to reduce risk and build quality in at every level of the development process. We make the business case for these technical practices by showing how they address the inherent risks and challenges in building software. We then look at how these practices help mitigate the core issues of software development and help us drop the cost of maintaining and extending software in the future.

Bio
David Scott Bernstein is the author of the book Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software. It’s an insider’s view of the software industry drawn from his decades of hands-on experience as a software developer, trainer, and consultant to some of the biggest players in the business. David’s continuing passion for software design and construction has led him to train more than 8,000 developers since 1990 at hundreds of companies around the world including Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft. His consulting firm, To Be Agile (http://ToBeAgile.com), helps developers adopt Extreme Programming practices such as test-driven development, continuous integration, and refactoring.

This meeting is brought to you by: Plaster Group & Zonar

Q: Is the space ADA accessible?
A: Yes
Q: Will there be gender neutral restrooms?
A: No
Q: Will there be food and drinks at this event?
A: Yes
Q: What is the easiest way to get to the venue?
A. Any bus that comes close to 2nd and Columbia in downtown Seattle.
Q: How do I enter the building?
A: Enter building from 2nd Avenue. Zonar is on the 5th floor. There should be somebody in the Lobby to let you in.